Posted by JohnL on January 21, 2001, at 6:04:22
In reply to Provigil for ADD, posted by Ignatz on January 20, 2001, at 15:19:43
> My p-doc prescribed Provigil for ADD for me. (I take 187.5 a day Effexor XR; have been Effexor, and Zoloft before that, for 8 years for depression. I've never tried ADD meds before... figured I could deal with it without them.) I've taken it 5 times. The first time I felt great, very spirited and focused. (Placebo?) The second time, I felt strung out. The next 2, I felt tired. And today, I feel tired and nauseous. With this trajectory, it's hard to get up a lot of enthuasiasm to try it again tomorrow!
> I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this stuff for ADD and with what results.Hi,
Wow, your experience was exactly like mine. I tried Provigil for depression, not ADD. But still, my reaction was just like yours. It was good the first day, but turned into serious tiredness, lethargy, and lack of appetite. I thought I was coming down with the flu. But it was the Provigil. And even though I felt like crap, I could feel a craving to take another dose, very much like an addiction thing. Anyway, after a week of this garbage I said no way, and weened off it in a few days.Though you would have to mailorder it, a far better drug is Adrafinil. It is the ancestor from which Provigil was invented. Regardless that Provigil is supposedly better and a heck of a lot more expensive, I find Adrafinil to be a great drug. Provigil is a very close cousin, yet is dramatically different. They aren't at all similar in any way, in my experiments. Adrafinil by the way is easy to get, gentle, and costs about $25 a month.
John
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