Thanks for the warning. This is the type of thing that I was concerned about. I’ve talked to some people who said they took it safely, but it sounds like kind of a serious drug. I didn’t realize it could cause death. I should probably read up on it some more and talk to a doctor about it before considering taking it. It doesn’t sound like too many people on this forum have taken it. I’d be interested to hear more stories about people’s experiences with it.
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I had a strange day on Friday. I took melatonin and pregnenolone before I went to sleep. This gave me way worse sleep than I normally have. I usually have very unusual euphoric, LSD-like dreams, and sweating and some mild convulsions when I wake up. I get very cold, and start shaking, but after a half hour or so it goes away, and I continue the day with brain fog and pressure in the head.
But the night I took the melatonin and pregnenolone, it was way worse, and I had very shallow breathing and had to keep waking up because I wasn’t breathing enough. Well, anyway, I really felt like shit when I woke up, and I had to go to work on top of it. But I said fuck it, and went back to sleep for 45 minutes. That sleep was a deep, sound sleep. When I woke up I felt totally NORMAL! Like, the way I felt before the crash. And I felt that way all day long pretty much.
It was very strange to me to feel normal again. I thought that feeling normal again wasn’t even in the cards because I figured I had irreversible brain damage. So, that got me thinking, maybe there is a chemical in my brain that my brain just can’t process, and that’s why I feel like this all the time. Maybe it’s just a chemical brain imbalance and not necessarily permanent brain damage.
Then, of course, I started thinking about cortef more, because if there’s something like cortisol in my brain from stress and my brain can’t process it, then a drug like cortef might be able to suppress the creation of it, and give me the ability to feel normal again. This is all speculation on my part. I’m not condoning taking it. I’m just in the process of trying to figure this out.