Reviews for PROVIGIL56 ratings: (taken because of snoring apnea osa)Edit Filter | Clear FilterCompare PROVIGIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR PROVIGIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Chronic Fatigue & sleep apnea | Very useful once I figured out how to avoid stomach cramps by taking lactaid pills 1 hour in advance & not eating breakfast. I realized cramps were merely due to an additive! | I take generic modafinil. It only works some of the time. Works best if I can take it alternate days, but that is rare. Seems to work best if one is already up, out, and moving. | F | 65 | 1 years 200 mg 1X day | 2/6/2021 | 5 | Sleep apnea | Not negative effects | Works very well to keep me alert during the day | F | 58 | 10 years 200 mg | 6/1/2019 | 3 | sleep apnea, grad school | This medication is very peculiar. I think diet affects it, because the side effects and overall efficiency change from day to day for me. I am definitely more alert, and when I "crash" at night, I fall asleep much more quickly. However, I feel more anxious and slightly depressed using this medication. Also, if I am very stressed (say, having a big paper due), the anxious side effects are hightened to the point I am physically shaking. On the whole, I am happy with the medication, I just dislike the frequency of the side effects. | F | 33 | 1 months 200mg | 12/9/2014 | 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 | 4 | Sleep Apnea | Total loss of appetite, and this may be permanant (I go off the drug on weekends, still none) Racing heartbeat On the higher dose, jaw clenching Anger/ rash judgement Temperature sensitivity | I was started out on 100 MG and it was like night and day! I could stay awake, and another lovely bonus was weight loss..no overbearing appetite. However, my body became accustomed to the dosage, so I was upped to 200MG. Now I'm getting the sluggishness, time passage without awareness, and jaw clenching with mood swings. I go off the drug on weekends (It's supposed to leave your system in 8 hours...right!) and the side effects are still present. | M | 46 | 3 years 200 MG 1X day | 6/19/2014 | 5 | sleep apnea, energy & adult A.D.D | I have had no side effects. It works better for me when I break it in half doses - half in the morning and half in the afternoon. I noticed that when I take a whole one in the morning (200 mg) I sometimes feel a slight headache,but quite tolerable and like my body is racing by afternoon - but not in a bad way. | I consider this a miracle drug as it has helped me daily with focusing and energy both as an educator and as a graduate student. When I don't take it, I get very tired around mid morning or noon and I remember that I had not taken the medicine. My doctor thought it was the perfect medication for seniors with no known side effects. | M | 68 | 2 years 200 1X day | 8/31/2012 | 1 | Sleep Apnea | Worked for first couple of days and then felt extremely tired and nothing worked. All I wanted to do is sleep. Could not function. Tried Nuvigil and the same, so it's caffiene for now. | M | 52 | 20 days 200 1X day | 8/24/2012 | 4 | sleep apnea or narcolepsy | When it wears off after about 6-8 hrs, I experience a terrible crash where I find it difficult to do anything. It does help me to stay awake but does affect sleep at night. by the end of the week, I have to stop for a couple of days to get some sleep even though I'm not nearly as functional during the day | M | 46 | 200 2X day | 5/19/2012 | 1 | sleep apnea/borderline narcolepsy | I had severe headache with full dose, but none when I split dose in half. Built up tolerance & used full dose during last yr on drug. Became super talkative had difficult controlling what I said during first few hours of taking dose & I am a very shy person. Drug did keep me alert during the day, but I did not realize until off the drug what price I paid for that alertness. | This drug is addicting! I feel like a different person. Clear of this drug for about 3 weeks now. I suffered extreme withdrawal (flu like symptoms) when I was unable to take the drug. After the withdrawal, depression I did not know I had lifted, my thinking process became clear and short term memory loss improved. I thought I had ADD and sought psyc help a yr ago. I almost lost my job and missed out on two separate promotions I did not feel qualified for at the time, all because of this drug. I was not consistently using my CPAP machine at night, but now I do and I have not felt the initial tiredness that I felt when I first started this drug. | F | 53 | 6 years 200 mg 1X day | 2/28/2010 | 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 | 2 | sleep apnea with daytime fatigue | I started at 200mg for 2 days then cut back to 50mg for 3 weeks. Now on 100mg at 6:30am. Pain and cramping in legs which is getting worse. Increased difficulty in falling asleep due to overall muscle pain. This has increased daytime fatigue, sore eyes and sleepiness. I am in a total brain fog. | I would rate this at 1 but it may be the best drug for some people. That is not for me to decide. This expensive treatment has been a total failure. | F | 63 | 34 days | 11/13/2009 | 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 | 4 | Obst. Sleep Apnea | 'Growling' GI tract | Taking 'Indian' Modalert for 3 months. Works exactly as advertised. 100mg most days is quite enough to stay alert during working hours, 200mg if less than 7 hr sleep the night before. Can remember things that used to escape my memory. Definitely makes me more alert and more confident in my memory. 200mg will stoke me (6'1,235#), more than that approaches drug abuse. Do yourself a favor; lay off it on weekends, monitor your heart regularly, and don't exercise within 6 hr of taking a dose. It works for me! | M | 53 | 120 days | 10/5/2009 | 3 | Fatigue, Possible Sleep Apnea | RASH, loss of appetite, mania, over-medicated feeling, acne, thinning hair | Like many others, the first time I took it was great! I had energy, hyper mental clarity, and a feeling of extreme confidence. After a couple of weeks it wasn't working as well, and then the side effects kicked in. I felt sweaty, it seemed like my heart was racing (I have high BP), and the worst was the late afternoon crash I would experience everyday at 3 pm; I would be so drained I could barely finish my work day, which defeated the entire purpose of taking the medication. I also had a terrible rash on my face (my eye almost swelled shut), neck, and arms. At the time I blamed the rash on possible poison ivy since I had weeded the lawn, but now I'm not so sure. My face was also breaking out severely, and I had alway had a beautiful complexion. I stopped taking it when I ran out after 30 days. In about another month I re-filled it, wanting to give it another try since it did help initially, and I had lost weight as a bonus. This time it worked for only a day or 2 before the negative outweighed the positive effects, not to mention the $50 co-pay. I'm convinced that if a drug is not absolutely necessary to sustain your life, it's not worth taking due to the cost and inevitable unpleasant or even harmful side effects. | F | 44 | 1 months | 7/24/2009 | 4 | sleep apnea/excessive daytime sleep | If taken too late in the day, I experienced difficulty getting to bed at an appropriate time. I have experienced very few other side effects (using 200-300 mg/day). | It's definitely improved the quality of my life. | F | 37 | 3 years | 5/12/2009 | 3 | OSA / SWSD / Excessive Sleepiness | Mild dizziness,headache, at first. Increase in spontineity in speech and thought. | 100 mg/day. To early to tell if effective or beneficial. Im experiencing the stimulant effect/ nothing outragous though. Im somewhat skeptical on the long term benefits. | M | 48 | 3 days | 5/3/2009 | 1 | extreme sleepiness / sleep apnea | hallusinations, hearing voices, constant fear of death/being killed, anxiety, verdigo, sleepiness, depression, shaking, ringing in ears, loss of apitite, loss of weight, incohirent thoughts, inappropriate social behavior, foggy mind, could not stop talking - as if on cocaine but worse, mental addiction. | I CANNOT STRESS MORE TO ANYONE PLEASE NEVER TOUCH THIS DRUG AND IF YOUR ON IT, GET OFF IT. When i first took this pill i was in love with it, i thought i found the missing link to how to live life normally. I was constantly tired, sleeping all day if i could, but then i could not sleep at night. The first few weeks i took as perscribed 200 mg a day, then i felt it was not enough and begged to get perscribed 400mg a day, which is rare for someone to take and the most a doctor legally can perscribe. From then on i was hooked, taking 5- 7 pills a day which would back fire more and more as time went on, but it was impossible for me to stop cause i couldnt get out of bed anymore without it. i eventually had to sleep two days straight to get off it . . i would consider this a legal herion when it comes to how quick a person can get hooked on it. i believe this because being constantly tired all the time no matter who you are, makes a person feel hopeless in life and depressed, we try eveything but nothing works, we eny others who can live life normally, then we find something that can actually give us the enegy we believe everyone else possesses normally - but its a lie. i would take the way i feel now over provigil anyday. i cant even eblieve who i turned into , i almost lost my child. and my home just because of my behavior, i am completely sane and i found myself on easter upstairs at my parents talking to " ghoasts" i could only see through reflextions or shadows, but | F | 23 | 1 years | 4/30/2009 | 3 | OSA treated with CPAP but still EDS | itchiness after taking 50 mg of Provigil... I split a capsule in fourths. I usually bounce out of bed today I did not. | Yesterday, My first day on Provigil I was not as sleepy. I was focused. But reading the side effects and experiencing the itchiness and not bouncing out of bed. I will discontinue and maybe give it another try in a few weeks. I think I would rather be sleepy.... | F | 53 | 1 days | 4/23/2009 | 2 | Sleep Apnea | I have sleep apnea and I am still trying to get a good setup on my cpap machine so until then I am always tired. When I took the sample pack it was wonderful to finally not have to take a nap at work. I had to fight with my isurance for 6 weeks to get it and I still have to pay $50. Now I am on the 4th day of taking it again and I am a walking zombie and almost more tired then before. | I would love to feel the affects I felt the 1st week, I have not changed any medication and it seems that my apnea is actually getting better (cpap is working a little better than before) | M | 43 | 10 days | 4/7/2009 | 2 | sleep apnea/EDS | slight headache and nausea and no real benefit | I also have depression, 3 wks after Psych upped my Lexapro, I became really sleepy, went for another sleep test with MLST, CPAP working fine but had a lot of limb movement, ruled out RLS but no mention of PLMD (Periodic Limb Movement Disorder) which I later found was linked to depression and taking SSRIs, as someone said some times docs just treat symptoms, I didn't need to "stay awake", I needed a good nights sleep! Lowered the lexapro (might stop it) and feel much better | F | 45 | 7 days | 2/24/2009 |
PROVIGIL (MODAFINIL): Modafinil reduces extreme sleepiness due to narcolepsy and other sleep disorders, such as periods of stopped breathing during sleep (obstructive sleep apnea). It is also used to help you stay awake during work hours if you have a work schedule that keeps you from having a normal sleep routine (shift work sleep disorder). This medication does not cure these sleep disorders and may not get rid of all your sleepiness. Modafinil does not take the place of getting enough sleep. It should not be used to treat tiredness or hold off sleep in people who do not have a sleep disorder. It is not known how modafinil works to keep you awake. It is thought to work by affecting certain substances in the brain that control the sleep/wake cycle. FDA Approval Date: 1998-12-24 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)