Re: stimulants and intolerable insomnia

[Anonymous]

I was going to suggest it, Nellie, but I’ve kind of gone on and on about it like a broken record, I’m glad you are going to look into it.

The difference with taking modafinil: I have found that I am now getting to bed earlier, usually before 10 pm unless I am sucked in by the computer (I try to be off it by 8:30 or 9). I get up regularly at about 7 am with my alarms and wakeup light. I could snooze more at that time (from my sleep study, I’m getting into deeper and REM sleep by then), but I want to take my meds earlier in the day, so I get up and take them. I’ve been experimenting with a half dose at 11:30, but I feel spaced out by late afternoon and really tired in the evening, so I’m going back to a full dose. But I need to take it early so I can burn it off by evening. It does keep me quite alert through the afternoon and into the early evening. No napping required, when I wake up at night I can usually get back to sleep quite easily.

Although I still feel I’m getting used to the meds, life is very different now that the excessive daytime sleepiness and fragmented night’s sleep is being treated. I am working now on the bad habits that I developed as coping strategies to deal with all of that. Attention can still be wild at times, not sure if that was because of the lesser dose or not, but I am taking notes and trying to evaluate it myself.

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