Posted by awake at last on August 22, 2002, at 9:13:16
In reply to Re: Provigil and the Ancient Mariner, posted by Temoigneur on August 21, 2002, at 20:24:38
I've been on provigil for 6 months., and I as well felt the way you did on day 1 and 2. Just give it a week or two. It will take at least 4 days for it to become stable in your system. The fact that you did react positively on day one is a good sign. Provigil will only help make you close to equal with others, it's not a super-energizing drug. So if you sleep less than you should or over-exercise etc. you are going to feel the fatigue just as would someone without the disorder.
And I know for me this was hard to do at first. When I found that I wasn't tired all the time and had my motivation back. I wanted to stay up and do the things I hadn't been able to do in years. But if I don't maintain my sleep schedule, I was still tired the next day even with the provigil. I take 200 mgs every morning. Sometimes another 100 mgs helps at noon if I'm getting sluggish, sometimes it doesn't.
I always take it just as I get up on an empty stomach, then I don't eat anything for at least 1 hour. It says that if you take it with food it still works but is delayed for an hour. For me - I found it's not delayed, it doesn't work. So - stick with taking it before eating.
*************************************************> > Not weird at all, Zo, just so nice.
> > I love that expression "lights up a whole new part of the brain" - it does, doesn't it? Have you found that it boosted your over-all mood & outlook too? How about short-term memory?
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> > Zo, could you do me a favour? You mentioned Dawna Something-or-another in PB earlier. I'm still curious. Maybe I'm just thick but I didn't get the connection. What was the connection?
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> > You know if you don't tell me, this'll hang around my neck (or mind, in my case) like the albatross the Ancient Mariner carried. Dreams of Dawna Something-or-another will haunt my dark hours. Please, I beg you - put me out of my misery. ;-)
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> Hi Zo - I'm glad you've been helped so much by the provigil, wish I had the same confidence in it. I only started it yesterday, and yesterday I felt great I was motivated, not 100%, but feeling better, able to think, my OCD wasn't so bad, but today my second day on 200mg is no good, I'm really tired, I have none of the initial energizing effect I felt yesterday - can there be an initial period where it doesn't work - I guess I'm just posting this to hear what I want to hear, because so many drugs do countless different things for different people, but if you have any insights that would be great
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> Ben
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