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 |
| 4 | daytime sleepiness | none | F | 47 | 7 months | 6/20/2003 | 4 | Shift work disorder | At first lethargy, headaches, feeling of living in a fog with little to no emotions. | After the initial "trial" period I have enjoyed provigil. The only problem is if you take it daily with no breaks as with any other medicine the effectiveness diminishes dramatically and for some reason now the effects only help me for 4-6 hours after dosing but when I started I could take 100mg and be wired for 15+ hours. | M | 28 | 7 months 200mg | 12/11/2014 | 5 | Stroke recovery | i had a stroke one year and found myself sleeping 12 to 14 hours per day. I felt exhausted. I take 200mg and can get up and get my boys off to school. | The only thing missing would be if Pepsi owned it and bottled it. | M | 36 | 8 months | 1/10/2008 | 5 | severe persistent fatigue | None | This has been a miracle drug for me. Keeps me awake and alert without feeling antsy. Also if I am tired, just because, I can still take a nap in the afternoon. Works great for me, but my fatigue was very very bad. | F | 21 | 8 months | 3/29/2005 | 5 | Shift Work Sleep Disorder | Mild frontal lobe headache, strange smelling urine, insomnia if taken too late in the day. | very helpful if taken 1 hour before my shift as a nurse 11pm-7am. I do not take it on my days off. I LOVE this med. It has been a lifesaver for me as I have worked nights for the last 9 years. | F | 33 | 8 months | 12/27/2008 | 5 | Fibromyalgia and extreme fatigue | Alertness, felt normal for a change, energy level high - first time i took it could not get to sleep, so I take it earlier in the day 200 mg. can't take it daily - have to skip a day here and there. Extreme dry mouth and painful tongue, small price to pay for normal. | Like others, I forgot what normal felt like - love this med, but can't take it all the time; about 3 days and then off for a few or it will "backfire' and I will be exhausted - sleep for 15 hours straight. I couldn't believe the difference it made - me, who would never take even an aspirin! | F | 54 | 8 months | 5/24/2008 | 5 | To help stay alert | None | I work swing shift and was having trouble staying alert while driving home in the morning. I have had no trouble since I started taking Provigil. I only take it 7 times a month while on night runs. | M | 55 | 8 months | 9/16/2009 | 4 | exhaustion depression lethargy | Initially headaches, some dizziness and a slight euphoric feeling, both of which passed within a month or so. Also I cut the dosage in half from 200mgs to 100. I will add that even after cutting back the dose I am still somewhat "edgier" when I'm tense or stressed, which I watch carefully (and the reason I rated this drug a 4 rather than a 5). | I think Provigil has helped me immensely, particularly in relation to my lack of concentration, exhaustion and lethargy. I believe feeling so tired was because of depression, or perhaps a side effect of it. While the Wellbutrin XL along with therapy helped with the depression, I was still somewhat tired a great deal of the time. When I discussed this with my therapist, she suggested Provigil to me and I did some research on it, particularly in combination with an antidepressant. I expressed a concern to her about taking a cocktail of drugs and told her that if I decided to start with Provigil I would start to eliminate the Wellbutrin and she agreed so long as I did not suffer or become depressed again. At first I found the Provigil taken alone at full strength too much for me. I was hyper and even dizzy. So I resumed the Wellbutrin at full dosage, cut back on the Provigil to half dosage and after some months I'm very slowly eliminating Wellbutrin XL in favor of Provigil. But I | F | 60 | 8 months | 5/29/2007 | 4 | Counteract tiredness of other drugs | Minimal Hyperactivity, Insomnia if taken too late in the day | This medication has helped me tremendously in functioning like a regular person every day. I take many drugs everyday for Treatment Resistant Bipolar Disorder and the main side effect of most of them is "tiredness". It gives me the energy I need to get out of bed and go out there and run my company and no one knows I am "sick" this way. I recently had a Vagus Nerve Stimulator (VNS) installed to try to put my BPD in remission. If it is successful, I won't have to take all of the drugs anymore, but for now, I am glad to have the Provigil to keep me awake while I still take them! | F | 32 | 8 months | 4/18/2006 | 4 | EDS, Falling Asleep, Focus | It's hard to know about side effects because of other meds that I know are causing side effects. I do notice the strong urine smell and I think that sometimes it causes me to stay up too late. However, it doesn't keep me awake. I am asleep within minutes of laying down. | I take 300-400 mgs a day. It saved me having to quit my job. I can still take naps and go to sleep at night very easily. However, there are days when I still have sleep attacks. Although this has happened a couple of times in the afternoon, most of the time they are in the morning prior to 10:00 a.m. I take it at 7:00 a.m. It's like it takes that long to reach it's full effectiveness and alot of times I feel awake but still tired. If I don't take it for a day, I fall asleep all day long. I am discontinuing a couple of meds that contribute to my excessive sleepiness and I am anxious to see what happens after that. For the most part, I love this drug and consider it a lifesaver. Oh, and by the way, I tested negative for narcalepsy. | F | 47 | 8 months | 1/27/2006 | 3 | Mixed connective tissue dz/fatigue | Alopecia, itchy scalp, dark, strong colored urine. | I was prescribed a 200 mg tab to take once a day, but had only been taking 100 mg (1/2 tab). I noticed accelerated hair loss (on Plaquenil too, which had already thinned me out considerably), but felt so much more "with it" on the Provigil, that I hung in there. After about 7 months on the 100 mg daily dose, I began to notice the accelerated hair loss (especially thinning at the temples and "crown"), and then unexplained itchiness in my scalp area. The dark strong colored urine was apparent immediately after starting the med. I am afraid that I felt the need to discontinue this medication, even tho it helped (significantly) with my severe day time fatigue. Concerned that I was going to eventually lose all of my hair and the itchiness was bothersome! | F | 39 | 8 months | 3/17/2009 | 3 | Fatigue, mental fogginess | Increased fatigue and depression after crashing in evening, increased OCD behavior (scalp picking), increased irritability, sometimes agitation, insomnia | This worked well to keep me alert for a few weeks then I developed a tolerance. Larger dosages give me worse insomnia without giving much positive benefit. | M | 51 | 8 months 100MG 2X day | 9/8/2017 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 3 | Fatigue | crankiness... and short term alertness. wore off too quick | Taken daily, 400 mg worked great in the beginning. I was energized and industrious. Now, after several months, I get a very (VERY) brief boost of energy if I get a boost at all.. but still get the crankiness. DOn't know if going off a while or increasing dose would help.. | F | 40 | 9 months | 5/31/2002 | 1 | sleep apnea | mood swings, changed personality and way of thinking, made me act inappropriately, RUINED MY LIFE!! | F | 35 | 9 months | 10/11/2009 | 5 | Fatigue related to sleep apnea | Bruxism (grinding teeth), motormouth | Provigil is outstanding if taken correctly. I take 100mg on awakening in the morning and 50-100mg at noon - none after that. 32 years of type 1 insulin dependent diabetes has resulted in constant fatigue and occasional depression for which I use Lexapro 10mg once daily which also causes drowsiness. Last May, my doctor prescribed Provigil. The first two months produced pure euphoria to the point that I looked forward to getting up early in the morning to take it. I gained so much energy and ambition that I built an addition on my house. I am disabled/retired due to diabetes. To avoid insomnia, I don't take Provigil after noon and since it has only a 6 hour half-life, it's at a low level by night. I take 0.25 mg (1/2 tab) of clonazepam before bed for restless leg syndrome (developed many years before taking Provigil) and sleep like a baby. The euphoria is long gone and I'm taking a larger dose than when I started due to some tolerance developing. On occasion, I will stop taking it for 4-5 days without withdrawal symptoms just to clear my system. Bruxism has always been a problem for me and Provigil has made it worse. On Provigil vs. Nuvigil. Provigil will become generic next year and, by making an inconsequential change in chemistry, the blood suckers created a new prescription drug, Nuvigil that will fill their coffers for the next seven years. When Provigil goes generic, buy it instead of Nuvigil and save $. | M | 64 | 10 months 100 mg 2X day | 2/12/2010 | 5 | Sleep apnea, depression, tired all | headache, stomach issues | fantastic medication. I do NOT take daily. I take it in early am as needed. It keeps me awake and focused. It also gives me a sense of well being. | M | 60 | 10 months 100mg | 12/7/2014 |