Posted by zeugma on December 12, 2004, at 17:37:46
In reply to Re: Should I just cut my losses or what? » zeugma, posted by jujube on December 12, 2004, at 17:10:16
If you don't mind my asking, what side effects, besides weight gain, made you give up on the Provigil? Provigil is something I remain intersted in, particularly if my trials with NADH and DMAE don't pan out.
The Provigil weight gain was actually desirable in my case, as I am underweight and continue to struggle with appetite problems on Ritalin; Ritalin-induced anorexia is considered one of the limiting factors when dosing.
Weird side effects: sweating profusely; feeling overheated in my body while my brain would 'freeze'; constant queasiness (actually, this was similar to, though less severe than, my experience on SSRI's); lymph node enlargement in my neck (this one scared the crap out of me).
The drug made me feel immediately ill, when I took 50 mg the first time. At the low dose, it was the queasiness that reminded me of my days on SRRI's, although I did not experience severe nausea on Provigil. I didn't like it, and it never went away, but I stuck with it, and as I reached 100 mg, the other s/e started to become prominent, and they simply refused to diminish. I finally had to ask myself if the major improvements in my functioning (Provigil was FAR AND AWAY the most effective drug I have ever taken for my ADHD, which is quite disabling, and did not increase my anxiety- only the hepatotoxic pemoline matches Provigil in this regard) were worth these troubling side effects. I decided that it was not, my performance on the job promptly declined, and I have had to deal with Ritalin, whose relative ineffectiveness frustrates the crap out of me, but Rit at least does not come with weird s/e (anxiety and weight loss are very common). So I'm anxious, skeletal, and needing high doses of Ritalin to approximate the Provigil effect, but at least I don't spend every day wondering how many years the meds will shave off my life.
If you try provigil, I certainly hope you have better luck with it than I did.
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