Anyone here try Huperzine A?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huperzine_A

I tried 200 mcg for the first time a few hours ago and I'm starting to have strange effects from it. Such as my typical stimming is mostly leg movements and I'm getting micro-movements in various places in my body. I want to lightly tap my teeth together. Touch my finger tips to each other. Basically large muscle group large movements have been replaced by small muscle group micro-movements.

Anyway I'm taking huperzine A to improve working memory. Will report more on it later.

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I've tried it, though not by itself and I forget how much. My stims are subtle and often would leave me wondering if I had any. Oddly, the only thing that gave me an odd effect, and I never had that effect before, was GABA. It made my brain tingle! NOT a bad feeling, even pleasant, but disconcerting non the less.

It wouldn't first come to mind that I would try it because my guess is that it has stimulant-like properties. I, usually, am not interested in anything that is involved with the stimulation of NE or the glutamine sensitive receptors.

I don't mean to change the subject or anything but chemical reactions and chemistry is something that I might want to learn in college someday.

2ukenkerl, GABA is a vasodialator(The tingling and face-flush sensation I beleive is from its ability to release prostoglandins), is said to have weak penetration through the blood-brain barrier but can affect the peripherial nervous system, and has metabolic pathways that can lead to the break-down of its structure into succinate acid + something else.

Does not seem to have classical stimulant action to me. It
improved my sleep greatly to. I took a second 200 mcg
dose several hours later . It made me have strange vivid
dreams which is usually something I experience when
starting or stopping a drug that effects mental processing.

I'm feeling no real negative effects and I'm getting some real
hints that it has infact improved working memory. I can do
some spatial manipulations in my head alot easier which has
help with 3-d modeling.

KingdomOfRats, it is not the same as Gabapentin. GABA is an amino-acid and an inhibitory neurotransmitter. GABA is sold as a supplement.

Gabapentin is a modification of the structure of GABA and, therefore, its called a "GABA derivative". It is, an essence, synthetic i.e man-made chemical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabapentin

Gabapentin has a site of action at the voltage-gated N-type calcium ion channels but its mechanism of action is unknown.

The abstract below mentions a potential problem. The low half-life and "U" shaped response curve may make taking the medication difficult. I think I will break the tablets in to segments and take them every few hours.

Hey Tm1 you aren't really leaving
Please

I have really bad executive functioning problems & while I generally recommend
'Say no to drugs,kids' I'm a hypocrite
& I recognise that medication can be life-saving
I get lost in 'streams of consciouness',compose beautiful lyrical stuff
& then can't remember the begining or the initiation
I'm only going to try this stuff on your recomendation
So where do I get it here in Aus.?
A pharmicist or back to the psychiatrist?
Do you have a link to a site on the net?

I found this:

>while I generally recommend
>'Say no to drugs,kids' I'm a hypocrite
>& I recognise that medication can be life-saving

One helpful thing to remember through this kind of struggle is setting goals. Without goals, our lives can seem to be just pointless. In addition, there should be satisfying relationships: not people that just smother you with their opinions of you.

So whats life-saving about drugs if drugs were made to look more superior than what I have explained above in this message?

400 mcg Huperzine A is clearly way too much for me in 24 hours. I
had alot of the side effects at that dose blurry vision, complete loss of appetite and dizziness. So I'm scaling back to 100 mcg every 8 hours. This is a powerful drug clearly but not sure how it will turn out.

Be careful with Huperzine. Some people have seizures on it.