It does not seem to be anything special people… Infact the days it did not work i have done less work, then normal.

I did 200mg yesterday afternoon about 5, and managed a fitful night’s sleep, but the wakeful spells were OK, as it didn’t bother me lying there awake as I usually do when insomniac.

Today I did 100mg at 9am, and then another 100mg at 11, and feel remarkably focussed

I don’t think I’d continue with this regime for more than 2 or 3 days at a time though – I’m making sure I eat despite not feeling too hungry.

Vaughan

Im sure a pocketful would be useful though, as would a pocket full of cannabis (another substance on the list of “smart drugs”).

I suppose the govt will ban it, and only allow us to have the deathly alchohol and tobacco products which have made the so rich for centuries, but fck em…… !

My advice to anyone who is going to take it is be SENSIBLE and BE SAFE, the people on this thread and in the article who have experienced severe or unwanted side effects are people who in some form have abused this drug by mixing it with alternative stimulants such as caffeine or by trying to stay up for 4+ days on it! This really is idiotic!

I only ever take it before 11.30am (100-200mg) otherwise I will struggle to sleep – which when on it doesn’t feel like an issue as u feel incredibly focused, calm and you produce good quality work very quickly as you do not get the normal distractions for procrastination.

If you do start taking it, I highly recommend splitting it up, try 25mg, then 50mg, then 100mg over different days WITH decent sleep. This way you will be able to measure the effect on your body, how long it lasts and be able to use it sensibly.

Unfortunately the main issue with this drug is that it needs to be moderated because alot of people will and obviously do abuse it by taking excessively unhealthy quantities, taking it for too long without sleep and not eating properly. Remember.. this is a drug. But one that will define me by an entire degree classification no doubt.

And the weird dreams when you don’t sleep fpr long enough. I dream about seriously weird stuff!

Weightloss from lack of appetite: also used as a diet pill in US. Weight loss usually accurs when pill is taken first thing on an empty stomach. However, although you don’t ‘feel’ hungry, you can still eat. And when you eat, your appetite returns to normality: i.e you can eat dinner if you had lunch. But, were you to skip breakfast and lunch because you don’t feel hungry, you’ll probably skip dinner too.

The pill works more efficiently on empty stomach

Do not take with alcohol. I currently take it with Cigs and Coffee = bad idea. messes your concentration. Trick with this medication to reduce side effects are SLEEP. don’t get in the habit of taking sleeping pils though – you’ll feel rotten after a few times.

This medication makes you suicidal after a while. If you take it for 4/5days a week continually (e.g for work), your emotions will be screwed in the evenings. After about 12hours the dug works in reverse. You became very dazed and pause for a long time when having conversations with people while you try and remember what you were just saying to them a few seconds ago. It’s frustrating as people just think you’re weird or have some sort of brain disorder. Unless they’re clever enough to pick up your on drugs.

About the suicide part; there REALLY needs to be more research on this. This medication is a mild stimullant and coupled wth caffeine and nicotine, it gives you a required ‘high’. however, the emotional imbalance experienced regularly at the end of the day is evident in many forms. When you first take it in morning, you feel happy, blissfull etc etc. High emotional state (possitve). After a taxing and mentally druelling day at work, you come home and you are mentally tired but physically awake and unable to sleep. Bring on the high emotional state: negative. I cry all the time for no reason in the evening, i snap at my partner, and I thank the Lord that I don’t own a shotgun. Because if I did, I would be dead. The drug messes with your hormones severly (which is why I also got pregnant twice while I was taking the pill; I didn’t realise this drug was stopping my contraceptive from working). You become paranoid about things, you focus on things so intently that it stops you concentrating on what’s actually important. example: my boss asked me to produce some data on a spreadsheet and give to him before a meeting that afternoon. I spent about 3 hours on and off (no steady concentration) fixing the size of the cells of the spreadsheet and making sure the colour coding of different sections matched correctly and looked nice and ironing out any faults with the borders on the page etc etc. I spent so long concentrating on this that I ran out of time to actaully put the data in the cells. See what I mean? Misplaced concentration. You only seem to be able to concentrate on things that excite you. Trust me. And once you start you loose track of time and become too fixacted on unimportant things. I could go on, but will not. More research is needed on this medications reaction to every day life for smokers, suicidal ideation and coffee.

I’m hoping to get my first consignment of Modafinil before a big recording session I’m having with some old bandmates in a week or two. I want to see what effect it has on my creativity.

after 10 hours I felt still very energetic, my legs kept shaking of their own will and I had a very dull but irratating headache. I think I will skip tommorow and take 50mg the following day.

from the provigil website it states that it could cause steven johnson syndrome, when epidermis and dermis begin to seperate as the immune system turns on you. though was found 1 in 1585 patients so is not overly worrying but should be stopped immediatly if a rash occurs.

there are 4 stages of sleep remember so perhaps the test subjects are not reaching the final stages. if the final stage of sleep (REM) is not reached the neurotransmitters in the brain do not turn off therefore do not rest which will impair mental ability. also physically your body needs rest as during sleep your metabolism slows down considerably allowing muscle relaxation.

was just checking some stuff in the library and thought i’d share though seems to have turned into a mini lecture