PROVIGIL Reviews (MODAFINIL)Average Rating: 3.6 (619 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare PROVIGIL with similar:
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RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PROVIGIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
1 | narcolepsy | Works great - keeps me alert and awake. After 8 months I am trying to get off it. It has changed my personality, destroyed my marriage, changed my relationship with my family. Would I recommend it - ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! | My physician put me on this but did not take into consideration the fact that I had experienced a severe head injury several years before. Talked to another physician said the head injury is an indicator that I should not have been prescribed this meciciation. IT HAS RUINED MY LIFE!!! | F | 29 | 8 months 30 MG 1X day | 8/19/2010 | 5 | Hypersomniq r/2 to chronic pain t | Sometimes unable to fall asleep if taken after 6 pm | This drug is a lifesaver. I suffer from chronic pain related to 2 failed back surgeries to fix compression fracture in my spine. I have to take large amounts of oral narcotics along with an implanted pain pump giving Dilaudid into my spine. If it wasn't for Provogil, I would fall asleep any and everywhere. I don't get europhic from the drug and have been taking it for 8 years now. | M | 42 | 8 years 200mg 2X day | 8/18/2010 | 3 | Extreme fatigue and daytime sleepin | Poor concentration, easy distractibility, irritatability andminor tremors. Also drey mouth and throught. Bad muscle pains and anxiety when missed a dose. | Very good for hypersomnia. I can stay awake even when tired. Once I decide to go to sleep i can still fall asleep relatively easily. If I wake up and decide to work it doesnt take long for me to be lucid again. I find that iam thinking about sex a lot. dont know if this is just me? | F | 31 | 3 weeks 100 1X day | 8/12/2010 | 3 | Narcolepsy | Question about alcohol warning and drug holidays: Does anyone know why you are not suppose to drink alcohol while taking provigil? Are drug holidays recommended with Provigil? | Today is my first day of taking Provigil, so I am hopeful that it will help me. I noticed the alcohol warning but can find no explanation for it. Prior to this I have been taking 60 mg Ritalin daily to stay awake. Ritalin comes with an alcohol warning as well but the pharmacist told me I could have a glass or wine or beer once in a while. The concern is mixing large amounts of alcohol with amphetamines. Drug Holidays: Like any other drug resistance was a concern with the Ritalin. To counter this drug holidays were a routine exercise. Essentially one day a week, or a few days in a row every couple of weeks with no medication so that you don't become resistant to the benefits and can stay on a lower dosage. My dosage was pretty high (the max. recommended). I am wondering if the same thing is common with the Provigil. If it isn't it might help with when the effectiveness seems to fade. | F | 45 | 1 days 200 1X day | 8/10/2010 | 4 | Attention/concentration issues | Gouging my wallet. This drug costs more than street drugs, it's criminal what they charge. No negative side effects from the drug other than the occasional nervousness, usually remedied by consuming less caffeine. | I started Providgil 3 months back to treat my ADD/concentration issues. I was originally put on Ritilan in 5th grade and then went on Adderall and Dexedrine in high school and college. I had substance abuse problems that were exacerbated by these meds and eventually had to come off everything and get clean. Now, 6 years later, still clean and sober I found my attention issues to be an issue again. I first tried Strattera which was a completely bogus drug. It made my symptoms worse, and had *several* unpleasant side effects. I tried Wellbutrin which worked great for a while, but stopped it after the max dose started to lose its effect. I reluctantly started on Providgil 3 months ago, I stayed away from it because it was a controlled substance. Now that I've been on it for 3 months I'm having difficulty understanding why it's controlled. It definitely wakes you up but doesn't provide a ton of euphoria. I honestly felt more euphoric on wellbutrin(which isn't controlled). Bottom line is the drug worked really well for me at first, but it's starting to lose its efficacy; just like everything else...And I'm at the max dose of 600mg a/day. My doctor is suggesting adding Wellbutrin back in to the mix, so we will see. I'm curious if anyone else has had a similar experience, I'm doing whatever I can to avoid anything in the ritian/amphetamine class of drugs. I will also add that regular exercise and a diet low in carbohydrates high in protein have helped a lot too. | M | 30 | 3 months 300 2X day | 7/27/2010 | 4 | Depression related exhaustion | Unexpected mood lift!!!!! | I was prescribed provigil as, after 10yrs+ of extreme exhaustion as part of my recurrent treatment resistant depression, my psych was clutching at straws! The funny thing is I can still sleep through a provigil dose if I want to (although if I do get out of bed I am much more lucid) but I have experienced the most amazing lift in my mood. Within 10 days of taking provigil I genuinely felt like the cloud which has been over my head for 10 years started to get a bit thinner. 9 months later and I still feel it gives me a lift. | F | 32 | 9 months 200 3X day | 7/17/2010 | 4 | Exams / depression / work | Took for exams. Concentration excellent the first 4 days straight on it. Excellent mood, nothing could irritate me. In my own focused world. "Life is great" followed by moments of INTENSE CREATIVITY/INSPIRATION. but: wheezing / lung fluid / chest pain / my eyes were "slow." DAY 5: withdrew to get sleep, unable to. Extreme fatigue, social phobia, depression. ( continue for 2 weeks when I stopped it.) | F | 20 | 2 months 200 2X day | 6/27/2010 | 2 | Excessive Daytime Sleepiness | Stomach Bloating, brain fog about 1/2 hour after taking it which goes away eventually. | I was first diagnosed with Narcolepsy (sp?) over 25 years ago. I was given 5 mg. of Desoxyn at the time. Desoxyn is the best meds ever made in my opinion. I also found out later I have attention deficit. The Desoxyn was my cure all. And , I might add it was , at the time 3 dollars and something out of my pocket. For the whole prescription.NOW, my faithful family doctor retired. So my new doctor prefers to have me take Provigil. THANK GOD I have a prescription card! I only pay 18dollars. Mt poor prescription plan has to pay 1,000 and something a month.!!And all 800mg. doesn't come close to what the 5mg. desoxyn did. I feel like I"m always fighting with the pill.Especially when you get that "Ozzie Osbourne" state 20 min. after you take it. You know. When you walk in a room and wonder why you did? or try to think what for? Or you just sit there ..thinking? After that goes away. Yes, you DO stay awake. But it's like your eyes are just staying open. Rarely , I'll feel decent enough to tackle a "real" job in the house. I called the company and told them , For this price it should jump out of the bottle and clean my house for me.lol! It's better than nothing! Otherwise I would sleep my life away. Also, I take 2 18mg. of Concerta a day to "curb" the "Ozzie" effect which I hate. Personally, I feel the Desoxyn was much safer and more effective and resonably priced. Too much money for a Hi-tech Cappacchino tablet. AND THEY themselves don't kn | F | 46 | 5 years 800mg 2X day | 6/27/2010 | 4 | replacement for adderall | i speed for a couple of hr.s , then like you feel like you want to keep taking them, irritating, but the comedown is not as bad as adderall but if you dont take any more the comedown is horrible it rlly is, i would not reccommend to exceed more than reccommended amt a day unless you want to feel like shhhit | do not take more than reccomended amout you will have the worst comedown ever | F | 19 | 1 years 8 8X day | 6/26/2010 | 4 | Excessive Daytime Sleepiness | I had trouble going to sleep at first but that quickly went away. I have other health issues that are just being discovered so that might be why I got used to it. | I felt wonderful for about 6 months and then I started having major fatigue and worsening of all symptoms regardless of dosage. It wasn't doing anything for me. This isn't typical though. Now I''m finding out I have low cortisol and growth hormone levels due to a pituitary tumor which is probably the reason it has stopped working for me. | F | 31 | 9 months 200mg 1X day | 6/24/2010 | 5 | Mood Disorder/Bipolar/Borderline/ | Increase in motivation,energy,focus: enhanced if taken on empty stomach. Caffeine, etc. can cause tinnitus & irritability. Behaves like an antidepressant. Mood changes, thinking changes, more outgoing personality (occasionally obstreperous/annoying to others). | I took this to help with suicidal thoughts and actions. It has been the only drug that has changed my thinking patterns & increased motivation to create (music). I have done outrageous things on Provigil, which fall into the Bipolar list - like walk out on a performance - or upbraid a priest in public. With experience, and therapy, skills, you can learn to control the "over the top" feelings. If I feel it waning, I may stop it for a few days, or break the pill in half. The withdrawal is like this: falling down a mental staircase. It is not nearly as unpleasant as coming off an SSRI. I have stopped the med many times, and felt fine for up to 1 month. I felt after 1 month that an additional drop occurs, since I've tried this many times. I begin to wonder if permanent changes have been made to my brain chemistry: or long term changes, at least. This is an effective agent to help with suicidal urges. It is sad that so many people feel these urges in our modern age. There is no pill to cure the entire socio-economic trend. | M | 46 | 8 years 100mg 1X day | 6/15/2010 | 3 | tiredness and depression | anxiety, somewhat worsening of my depression | This medication has been very good at relieving the tiredness I felt throught the day. It also has been a great help in helping my ADD symptoms. I may discontinue the medication because of my worsoning anxiety. | F | 45 | 30 days 200 1X day | 6/3/2010 | 4 | Chronic fatigue | EVERYthing has side effects, but if I drink enough coffee to feel reasonably awake, my stomach is a mess. This is like NoDoz without the shakes. I take tiny chips of Provigil only on mornings when I have to be up early for a job or appointment, and I don't recommend taking it every day. When I'm on it, it's the only time I feel OK, except when I'm on vacation 24/7. Otherwise, I'm tired all day, every day. At least with this, I'm only exhausted some days and not others. But yeah, it has drawbacks similar to those of Adderall or any other speed, except that it's not technically addicting and doesn't cause death...that I've heard. | If you have a tendency toward bruxism (tooth-grinding), get a night mouthguard. If it is believed that you have bipolar mood disorder or mania, or a personality disorder, do not take this drug. If you are depressed or chronically fatigued, I recommend this drug on working or busy mornings at critical times only, just to take the edge off the fatigue. Allow your body and brain a weekly or monthly taper-off and cleanout. Use Provigil when it goes generic instead of the more expensive new replacement brand coming out. | F | 54 | 3 months 25-50 mg. 1X day | 6/2/2010 | 2 | As supplement to Prozac and CFS | Inital alertness for about 4 hours followed by extreme fatigue along with muscle aches. Although the initial alertness would wear off in 4 hours or so I still would not be able to sleep for days unless I took at least 10 mg (5 times the normal daily dose) of Ativan along with 50 mg. of Seroquil. Sometimes even with 1 Ambien CR 12.5mg added to keep me asleep. | Needless to say I was not alert most of the time (except during that first few hours in the moring when I first took Provigil.) By noon time I was miserable, aching all over, headach, chest pain and feeling anxious. Just a normal dose of a benzo had no effect nor did a commonly perscribed sleeping perscribed pill. Only Seroquil 50mg to 100 mg would ocunteract the terrible physical feeling from Provigil and eventually allow me to sleep. | M | 60 | 5 years 200 mg 1X day | 5/17/2010 | 5 | Counter side effects of Gabapentin | Seems to works best if not taken every day. I stop taking it Fri-Sun and feel a bit of withdrawals by Sat. Primary withdraw symptom is uncharacteristically irritable. | Background: was prescribed Gabapentin (Neurontin) to address a pinched nerve. Gabapentin had the side effects SIGNIFICANT memory loss and "brain fog" for months after discontinuing use. Provigil was a lifesaver. It got me through this recovery period and kept me functional at work. Note: this short-term use of Provigil is not covered by insurance and the drug costs $$$, but well worth it my opinion. | M | 45 | 60 days 50 4X W | 5/5/2010 | 5 | Idiopathic Hypersomnia | Headache | Headache goes away with Tylenol (1,000 mg). For some reason, Advil and ibuprophen meds don't work. I have Idiopathic Hypersomnia. At times I was sleeping up to 20hrs a day. I would eat, sleep and go to the bathroom. Tired all the time. I was literally sleeping my life away. I had seen around twenty different doctors before I was diagnosed and given Provigil/Modafinil (200mg). My wife says it is like I have come back from the dead. I do not "feel" the effect of this medicine. It is not like drinking a soda pop and feeling the caffine work (or eating a lot of sugar). For me, it does not "kick-in". But it works. I find myself staying awake during the day, and doing things. However, after two weeks, the effect started wearing off. I started taking naps and going for the sugar and caffeine. A month and a half after I started 200mg, the doctor raised the dosage over a number of weeks to 600mg a day. The medicine started working again, but after 400mg I couldn't tell much difference in wakefulness. As the dosage increased (by 100mg a week), I also noticed that I started waking up earlier and earlier. From 9:30am to 8:30am to 7:45am. I expected a lot from this medicine, and it has proven itself. Sadly, it has not been enough. The next step is to add other medications on top of this. Important notes: Around every hour and a half of taking this medicine, I notice a slight drop in its effect. No getting pregnant. | M | 39 | 90 days 400 mg 1X day | 5/1/2010 | 3 | provigil | bad headache for the first 3 days; appetite suppresent; some stomach pain; yawning; irritability; I don't feel my normal "happy" self anymore. :( | The first week was GREAT! I hadn't felt this "normal" for a long time. Week 2: seems to be fading out on me. I'm drinking more and more coffee to try to keep that feeling from week 1. I've napped after work 2 out of 4 days and could probably sleep right now. I don't know what to think... | F | 42 | 11 days 200 MG 2X day | 4/22/2010 | 5 | resistant depression, focus. | little headache, nothing else. | it's the best drug for attention ever taken it increased alert, concentration, without making you high or manic. you may use it such as augument of your antidepressant or alone. great med. | M | 24 | 7 days 100 2X day | 4/19/2010 | 4 | Narcolepsy | No known side effects. | My excess daytime sleepyness has ceased. I am very pleased with this medication. | M | 53 | 4 years 100 mg 2X day | 4/13/2010 | 4 | Night shift worker | Slight jaw grinding and occasional mild headaches. | Thought process is more focused.Mood is elevated, but can turn irritable if the situation provokes it.It does help keep me awake, but have dosed off, if extremely tired for brief moments. I only take when I work night shift, or if I am going to have a very demanding day. | M | 51 | 9 months 100 mg 1X day | 4/10/2010 |