Posted by Elizabeth on February 8, 2002, at 23:52:42
In reply to Piracetam and Other Bits » Elizabeth, posted by IsoM on February 8, 2002, at 14:43:49
> I'm doing some reading on piracetam. Not enough solid information to make any decision right now.
I was interested because Keppra, an anticonvulsant labeled for adjunctive therapy (surprise) of partial seizures, is levetiracetam. I was thinking of asking for it when I see a neurologist.
> I may just let the adrafinil do what I want - enhanced memory - but I'd still like to learn more about piracetam, find if there's any interaction between it & adrafinil.
I don't know of any, but it's a good idea to check into that stuff.
> If I could get my memory working well, how knows what I may do? What an on-top-of-the-world feeling that would be!
Feeling grandiose today? :-)
> With the absessed tooth I had, I was taking lots of codeine painkillers & Ativan to dull it. I felt so thick - couldn't think, let alone remember.
Heh -- just shows how different we all are. Opioids (not just buprenorphine, but also morphine and hydrocodone, and presumably the rest too) help me think more clearly. And benzos at least don't make me tired at normal doses (even normal doses for me, which is already quite a bit higher than the usual normal doses).
Why were you taking Ativan for a tooth abscess, BTW??? Benzos don't generally help with pain, AFAIK.
[re taking Xanax before the driving test]
> So do you think it helped you with being more relaxed during the test?*shrug* It certainly didn't hurt.
> I found with myself, mistakes I made were due to "the evil one" watching every move I made to such an extent I felt so shakey. I wonder if they figure you can drive well under such adverse conditions, you can handle anything. :-)
No, I think Satan probably sent them up here for some other purpose. :-}
> Where you're living now (at family home, I think), can you still continue some sort of studies or such on-line?
You can't really do that with the stuff I need to learn -- virtual chemistry and biology labs just aren't the same as the real thing!
> Elizabeth, can you tell me if there's any practical applications of knot theory?
Sure there are, I think it has applications in chemistry, even.
> Also another question, if I wanted to learn more about fractal math (geometry), do you know what areas of math leads to it?
Actually understanding that sort of thing takes a lot of background. I'm not sure what it is ("fad math" never excited me < g >), but I think at the very least you'd need a good understanding of abstract algebra and real and complex analysis. Knots are more up my alley (I did a lot of topology and then branched out into differential geometry). But honestly, I haven't done much of this stuff in years. I sort of burned out when I tried to go to grad school. A life lesson: if you really love doing something, don't go to school in it. < g >
-elizabeth
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