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Pramipexole
It's used for Parkinson's and restless legs, I use it for restless legs. I've suffered with this condition as far back as I can remember, I've always referred to myself as a part time insomniac because this would keep me up a lot of the time.
I had a period of mental health problems and was prescribed Metazapine for it, which kicked up the RLS a notch. Despite being off them now for nearly a year, the Restless Legs are still kicked up.
Pramipexole, when taken at the right time, sorts the RLS out, I can finally sleep and when I do sleep I don't kick my wife up the arse.
Side affects include hypersexualality and compulsive gambling, but I haven't experienced this yet. I have warned my workmates that it could come up in the future though so if I ever say "I bet you a fiver you can't wank me off" they know why.
Edited to bold Pramipexole
Have you noticed any issues with induced impulsivity from med, there's crazy stories of folks getting on dopamine agonists like that who go wild and end up with gambling and porn addictions, criminal charges, etc. Really wild stuff
From my reading on Pramipexole it's about 10% of people that have these side effects. It worried me when I started taking the pills.
I read the documentation that came with them and it had in bold DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION WITH ALCOHOL AS THIS CAN MAKE SIDE EFFECTS WORSE so I read the side effects and it was compulsive gambling and hypersexuality.
So I gave up my nightly rum for a few weeks. Then I thought "Meh, let's see what happens" and reintroduced my nightly rum and coke before bed. Honestly I've not had anything noticeable.
Nothing compulsive. But I can spend an hour or more solving Rubik's cubes or playing the guitar without even noticing. I had that before the pills though.
Just be careful yo. I wonder if its always either an immediate development or it in sets over time. It could also be that your dopamine receptor destruction/loss over time could attenuate the motivating aspect of the meds I would conjecture.
I shall! Gambling has never been my thing anyway, I lucked out finding my Wife at the age of 17. Hypersexuality? Well I may have been with her for over 20 years but she still puts out, so I should be fine with that. Drugs? I have a rule that I don't buy em unless I can afford em after all my bills have gone out, it's a spare change rule.
I think I'll be fine.
Unexpectedly wholesome personal drug policy. This is how rec users can be functional and living best life.
As an aside, I wish more people would calculate total monthly expenses and set aside 1/2 that amount every paycheque. Over time they would always be saving substantially without even knowing/missing it and always have a bit of cushion float to accomodate them at any point
I'm weekly paid and have monthly bills, so I saved up a month's worth of bills money and set up a second account. Then I worked out what each monthly bills costs me a week, added it all up and set a direct debit from my main account on pay day every week. That way I always have a month of money for bills as a buffer in case anything stops me getting a pay check.
Then I set up a little bit into a savings account every week too.
Now when I get paid I know that money is for food, petrol and fun because my bills are deducted before I even get out of bed.
When I run out of weed I go "Oh no I can't afford weed" then look at my savings account and go "Oh yes I can!"
This shit should be taught in schools.
I got myself debt free at the beginning of the year for the first time in a while. Slipped into my overdraft last month (cars suck!) and I've been hitting the overtime to whittle it back down. Goal is to start the new year debt free again.
I use my drugs policy for me-time too. Jobs get done before me-time. I'm trying to teach this to my kids then I can hit them with the Drugs Policy when they're older and just tell them it's the Me-time policy for money.
I have zero fucking idea how I would ever approach drugs if I had kids... Like, I would be so worried about setting them on a bullshit path that I really shouldn't have even survived lol. But its something they need to be educated on and exposed to at the right dose because its so crazy out there
Edit: k, I sort of want to back up on this and say that I would likely develop a Dexter-style
Drugtaking CodeAbsolutely, "drugs are bad mmmmkay?" is still how schools teach it.
I remember smoking weed for the first time and not even having a hangover. It me question EVERYTHING about drug policy.
I don't want my kids to question it, because they'll already know it's bullshit. I want them to ask their Dad.
My kids already know that "Drugs" means all the bad shit plus all the good shit. Cocaine, alcohol, paracetamol, ibuprofen, all drugs.
If you take too much paracetamol you can die. You can get addicted to coffee.
I heard in a film "If it comes out of the ground it's probably ok, pills and powders are bad news" and I couldn't agree more when it comes to recreational, so that's the line I'm gonna take.
Personally I think it's human nature to get off your box once in a while, I think it's what's shaped humanity into what it is today. I believe most religions probably came from a dude doing psychedelics and writing shit down.
Tell me Buddha never got fucked up. Jesus' holy oil was probably made from cannabis. Santa Claus is actually the Fly Agaric mushroom, it's red and white, and if you drink the piss of reindeer that have eaten it you can get fucked up and not die, a gift. Mead was originally magic mushrooms preserved in honey, until some started fermenting and they realised you don't need to put the mushrooms in there to get wasted.
So my kids will probably want to get off their box in the future. I need to educate them well enough that they get off their box on the safer stuff, not blindly take that pill their mate offers them.
I would definitely have them know to check out Erowid + Wikipedia + Lemmy/Reddit and do their "homework" before engaging with anything and to not hang around any kid who shits on their Drug Code (like Dexter's murder code ๐)
Isn't the Internet amazing?