Posted by King Vultan on June 23, 2004, at 7:59:20
In reply to Re: Provigil - King Vultan » Dinah, posted by Racer on June 22, 2004, at 15:12:35
When my pdoc suggested I try Provigil, he did say that he thought it was an extremely safe drug, which agrees with that you've seen also. At some point, I do hope to gain an understanding of why it had the opposite effect on me and made me so sedated and sleepy. Zeugma mentioned that it may work on hypocretins; there happened to be an article in my local paper Monday reprinted from the NY Times on a recent study on the the roles of sleep chemicals. The focus of the article was serotonin, norepinephrine, and histamine, but they did mention hypocretin. They said that narcolepsy "appears to be caused by damage to structures that process another neurotransmitter, hypocretin, that in turn leads to lower levels of histamine." As the primary role (and only FDA approved use AFAIK) of Provigil is to treat narcolepsy, this hypocretin thing seems to tie in pretty well.
Todd
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