Re: stimulants and intolerable insomnia

[Anonymous]

Sugargremlin, I feel quite normal now, it’s weird 😯

billd, high five for getting a day’s work done! That feels soooooo good, doesn’t it?

For me, starting off on a low dose of the Modafinil (provigil) didn’t help my sleep. I was going to give it a week before upping the dose but gave in after a few days of consistently awful sleep (my usual pattern, knowing that ritalin had helped so well. So things were ok for awhile and I decided to decrease the dose at the midday to see what effect it would have on my nighttime. I was more tired in the afternoon, sleepy early in the evening, but very nervous energy, scattered feeling and the second day I just felt very spaced out in the afternoon, and with each morning after the lower dose I felt tired, sleepy, the meds didn’t kick in right away. So yesterday I went back to two full doses (1 on waking and 1 before lunch) and I feel back to normal – the new normal, that is.

It’s really challenging to experiment with doseage levels because it’s hard to be objective about it, I keep a memo pad log and write stuff down day and night including the times I wake up at night, etc. I’ll give the sleep doc a log and review it at that time too. He told me I shouldn’t count on feeling alert at night but I am finding with the two doses that I’m just dandy at night and sleep is good too. So I’m sticking with this level now, will see what happens over time. I am not opposed to taking a drug holiday in future if I plan it and know that I can go back on and have the same results.

I really recommend checking out the other link that Sugargremlin started – the link about bipolar disorder and light and dark – skip the references to bipolar as what they are saying about light and dark can apply to all of us in this modern society where we have conquered nature’s power over us in terms of light/dark.

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