This thread peaked my attention towards nuvigil again so Yesterday I tried it again. I took my usual 7.5mg adderall instant release in the morning at 6am and the dose of nuvigil at noon. I took half of a nuvigil 150mg and within 45 min I was socializing way more than I usually do at lunch. I had energy without the cutting edge like adderall gives me. Quick thoughts that made sense. I was able to fall asleep at midnight. I got a nice workout in after dinner. Kind of a brutal day at work and I feel like nuvigil helped a bunch. I have name brand nuvigil and provigil. I remember provigil giving me head aches and I never get them otherwise thatās, why I went with nuvigil instead. Iām sure I would stop getting them after my body got used to it. After about 4 hours it felt like it wore off a bit, but, considering Iāve been on adderall for so long and my morning dose wore off around 10am I think it played a part. Itās not perfect but it does help wit any form of sleepiness inattentiveness you maybe having. My biggest issue with it it the half life being so long. The best part is I have no come down Like adderal has. On days I need a little boost in the evening this isnāt the drug to use. For those having long schedules I can see taking this I the morning. I am going t dose the same again today and will report back. Tomorrow I plan to drop the adderal for the day and go with a full dose of 150mg (nuvigil).
Nice! Energy without a crash is exactly what Iām hoping I experience.
So I read again the difference between what you said in the earlier post about nuvigil and provigil. Am I understanding that they are essentially the same just nuvigil is a little stronger on a per mg bases? The reason I ask is I donāt have acess to nuvigil only provigil
Provigil might be a little more edgy than nuvigil, if you could even call it edgy. There might be a slight difference in mode of action. To keep it simple Iād say provigil is about 30% weaker than nuvigil. Very similar other then that. One more thing I will add after revisiting this compound again and after the second day at a low moderate dose is my appetite is definitely suppressed. I find that a little strange since this is not a traditional stimulant. Headache with provigil is common. I had one at a low dose. Most say over a coarse of a few days of use it goes away. No nasty comedown either like you get with Amphetamine.
I placed my order for modafinil. 65$ for 50 200mg tabs from who knows where India il def share my experience in 14-25 days when it arrives:)
have you ever had stomach issues on provigil?
I have a bottle of Provigil in the bathroom. Brand new, havenāt opened it yet. Iāve had a prescription for Adderall for about 20 years. I positively hate it and only use it when stressed. The actual scrip is for 40 mg in the morning, 20 at noon and then half (so, 10 mg) around 3 or 4 PM. It makes me more talkative but sleepy. Tends to lower my BP a little too. I know, that aināt right, but it is what it is. Waiting til Monday to try the Provigil.
update?
Didnāt notice a thing. My wife says I was nicer on it, but I didnāt feel any difference at all. And I have Nuvigil.
Alright, so I have a fair bit of experience with stimulants that spans ~9 years and includes stims freely available, prescribed by my doctor(s), and, unsurprisingly, quite a few prescribed by my very own self.
I used Modafinil daily for a few months a little under 3 yrs ago now, IIRC dosage ranged from 300 mg on the low end to as high as 600 mg, most days Iād be right in the middle at 450 mg. Iām not doing dose recommendations as, at the time Iād already had lots of experience with stims including periods of heavy usage in the years preceding.
I canāt exactly say I was unsatisfied with Moda. I needed to work midnight to 8 shifts 5 days a week and as such, wanted something to keep me awake and it did that job pretty damn well honestly. I did get a surge of focus from 450+ mg but it didnāt last very long and also came with some brain fog. I did not get a crash from it but I did get prominent dysphoria at all doses though part of this is surely due to the fact that I was having a shit year as it was and now had to spend the summer months working graveyard shifts. To my recollection, I did not have any issues when I stopped taking it.
@zeek1414 On the issue of Adderall (and ofc pure dextroamp and even Vyvanse)ā¦itās extremely structurally similar to meth but its effects, desired and otherwise, differ significantly. Neurotoxicity associated with meth is more significant and occurs at much lower dosages and earlier in use than with adderall/d-amp. The crash is worse to the point of being nigh-incomparable, same goes for the paranoia among other sides. Dose meth several times Monday evening and you might just find that Thursday has rolled around and ya still havenāt slept a minute, should you be foolish enough to use low doses of meth to try to stay functional Wednesday morning, youāll likely find that youāre hearing police sirens that arenāt there wherever you go and confusing your jacket on the floor for a panther poised to attack you among other vivid auditory and visual hallucinations. Long term Adderall use certainly has consequences but meth isā¦ a different animal, I was damn reckless with drugs as a 20 y/o but one week of that stuff showed me all I needed to know about it and as an aside, that one week of sporadic low doses and sleeping E3D left me in a funk with lethargy that lasted longer than what I got from suddenly stopping the 80-90 mg daily Addy IR (dosed evenly-ish) that I had been taking for almost a year.
Anyway, Iāve gone off on a tangent here. My experience with Modafinil was so-so but because my mood was already generally bad around the time I was taking it and because I already had a history of heavy stimulant use, the negatives should be taken with a grain of salt and it should definitely be noted, that I did experience some amp in focus (that tapered off at the 3hr mark) and it did keep me awake.