I did indeed.
Just had antiseizure and pain meds, cimetidine, and a few sips from a bottle of robitussin dry cough mixture (I decided recently to trial it for the purpose of working on lessening my tolerance to my pain meds, as the active metabolite of the cough remedy, dextromethorphan, something called dextrorphan is an NMDA receptor antagonist, and many other such compounds possessing like activity, have strongly suppressive effects on development of opioid (and amphetamine too, although I am in no likelihood of developing any tolerance to that, I don't use it nearly so frequently as for that to be possible; a useful and not unpleasant tool now and again but thats all it is, a means of things getting done, although I'd like to give low dose (something like between 5 and 15mg rac-amphetamine, 20 at most) 3xdaily, or less if at the upper extent of that dose range.)
Considering it, in low-end therapeutic dose range for my awful attentional span, which is really making it difficult to concentrate, always have been that way to some extent but its been making itself felt more, the older I get. Although it'll take a bit of calculating to get things right, in that I both arrive at a dosage which is sufficient to provide benefit, but that doesn't interfere, or prove too in-your-face, or give me any uncomfortable peripheral adrenergic side effects, jitteriness etc., the calculating would be because I've sod all chance of even SEEING anybody about it, or being taken seriously, much less getting a script for dexamphetamine, although I'd prefer that, whats available to me is racemic (D/L-amphetamine, both isomers in a nominally equal mixture) and its the dextrorotatory isomer which possesses pretty much all the focus-enhancing properties with the peripheral effects on noradrenaline largely due to the laevo-rotatory isomer ; although separation of the two is possible, by virtue of the fact that D- and L-isomers of amines like that selectively crystallize with the corresponding stereoisomers of chiral acids, such as the one usually used for such enantiomeric resolution, D-tartaric acid, dexamphetamine would form a salt with D-tartaric acid, and L-amphetamine with L-tartaric acid, and the naturally sourced, most easily available tartaric acid is chirally pure, as are many natural products, so in this case baking supplies (for the tartaric acid) would actually be the superior option, surprisingly enough; I've heard quite a few reports of large chemical supply houses supplying tartaric acid STATED to be either dextro- or laevorotatory, and in fact sometimes it not even been optically active at all, I.e the advertised D-tartaric acid, which scientists and chemists of all stripes would be wanting to, often as not, use for such chiral resolution, which depends on the optical properties, and which enantiomer of tartaric acid one has, either one would work, D- or L-tartaric acid, by either removing the D-tartrate from the D/L racemic mixture and leaving behind the laevo-amine, or doing it the opposite way around, but supplying a racemic mixture of BOTH isomers makes it utterly and completely useless unless somebody wanted to go over it grain by grain with a polariscope, fine tweezers and a microscope (or a microscope with a polarizing filter built into the lens. Wouldn't mind something like that as an option for my microscope, not that I plan on tweezering out crystal by tiny crystal, D- from L-tartaric acid from an unsuccessful crap-shoot at a commercial product from a chemicals supply house using a crossed pair of polarizing filters from a calculator liquid crystal display)
As for the laevo crap, that can just go, or be recycled somehow. Made up into a dilute solution and used as nasal decongestant/to dry out running noses as drops since it is good for little other.
In the meantime....time for my steak prescription, as written by Dr Lestat, and handed over by his secretary, a Mr.Emptystomach, who, for some reason, seemed most insistent that I collect my prescription quickly and start taking my medicine as soon as possible.
