Posted by pelorojo on June 10, 2003, at 13:59:02
In reply to Re: What does PROVIGIL do? Experiences wanted!, posted by jemma on June 10, 2003, at 11:10:46
thanks for your post jemma. I thought I was mistaken because my intuition tells me that my Provigil has been actually improving in effect over time. Most seem to say it wears off after a few weeks. I think my cognition and memory are improving (I've been on it 3 months) and that it's of the continuous subtle improvement type. So it's easy to take it for granted but if I weren't taking it my cognition, memory, and to some extent mood would be worse.
So for me the beneficial effects have been: cognition (ability to "think straight"), memory restoration (had been malfunctioning, presumably from the depression), increased physical and mental endurance, mild mood improvement.
That said, I agree that it doesn't have much effect on what I most hoped it would: getting me off my butt to do things in the first place. It feels like I still need a "jump start". If I can manage to get going, I'm able to keep going. It's the starting that was, and still is, the problem. As a non-doctor, I can't recommend this to others, but I occasionally take a 12 hr. Sudafed if I'm desperate. For some reason it's enough of a "spark" to get me going some days. It doesn't work for more than a day or two at a time, however, and it probably wouldn't be a good idea to take continuously (if it's a good idea to take at all) because the long-term psychological effects are unknown and if there's an interaction with other things the longer you take it the higher your risk is.
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