Re: Is it common to grow tolerance? Afraid of long-term high dose use

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sugargremlin – have you ever heard of Debbie Meyer Green Bags? They sound hokey but they really do work. I use them for bananas all the time – if I didn’t, I would only buy one banana at a time from the store (but now I buy 6 at a time). They’re supposed to work well for things like lettuce too. They really do keep things fresher longer. And I get a lot of mileage out of one bag, we do rinse them from time to time.

I have been working with the doseage of modafinil (generic version of provigil) which is a narcolepsy drug. I was told not to take this particular drug past 1:00 in the afternoon, it has a half life of about 12 hours, so it’s still in my system late at night. I was struggling with the single 100mg dose at breakfast not being enough, so I added a second 100mg dose at 1:00. It helped with the daytime sleepiness and I had great alertness, but was still fragmenting my sleep. Someone on a narcolepsy site suggested I take the second dose earlier, around 11:30 or 12:00, and that has helped, basically I am burning it off earlier. I suppose I could try to split the pill and see if half a dose would work too. But my experience with it is that it’s challenging to find the right dose that keeps you alert during the day and then allows you to sleep at night. I am feeling pretty settled right now even though I am still waking up a few times during the night, it’s nothing like it was before, which was every hour, sometimes only 20 minutes of sleep at a time. I totally relate to what you’re going through.

I have found that I am going to have to curtail much of my usual nighttime activities, in order to work with the meds and my new diagnosis. So no computer after 9 pm (or even earlier if possible). No reading when I go to bed (I use the dusk simulation and it’s very helpful). No overstimulating movies or that sort of thing in the evening. No staying late at work to try to keep up or get ahead. When I leave work just after 5 pm, it’s home for dinner and then keep unwinding until bedtime, which is starting to be 10 pm or earlier. Previously I would try to do anything and everything on my massive to-do list at night, working well into the evening and early morning at times, completely wired up and charged with creativity. I figure it’s just not worth it for me.

Hope the dex works for you.

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