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Modafinil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil
by L_226 8y ago
Modafinil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil
- gadders 8y agoI took some of that once for an overnight deployment at work. It's good stuff. No headaches like I would have got if I'd been drinking coffee all night.
- andai 8y agoI tried Modafinil for a few weeks with some friends. The alertness is quite incredible, although for me made me unable to fall asleep until dawn (even on half the lowest dose). The others have no trouble sleeping even with large doses, but experienced some bad headaches, or personality changes ("I just want to work all day now" -- this may not be bad depending on context). I quit the trial when I developed large purple circles on my skin. Turns out skin problems, including some medically serious ones, are a relatively common side effect. Proceed with caution!
- koboll 8y agoI used to use modafinil daily and though I never got skin side effects, it ended up causing the same sort of quality-of-life-depressing dependence and tolerance issues as caffeine.
- dsego 8y agoI also started getting red patches on my skin after weeks of use. There were some headaches, dry mouth, jaw clenching etc. It did improve bowel movements.
- synthmeat 8y agoIn my case, hydrating excessively (>3 liters per day) mitigated most of the negative side-effects. Jaw clenching still persists. Effect attenuates with regular daily use for me, despite most research to the contrary, which leads me to believe it's caused just by plain old lack of sleep during consumption days. Care to elaborate on the skin issues? Were they planar circles (I know, oxymoron)? And what's "large"? I could maybe correlate some skin issues of mine (up to 1cm, but majority smaller than .5 tumor-like skin bumps, mostly colorless, but some red with darker aureola) to this.
- andai 8y agoIt was a while ago. About 1cm diameter, reddish-purplish. Looked very concerning, intuitively, and reminded me of the horror stories I had read about modafinil occasionally causing life-threatening skin reactions.
- gadders 8y agoYeah, I can't speak to its use for long periods, but for a one off I just felt in the zone and able to concentrate, and then when straight to sleep when finished. I don't think I took a particularly high dose. The second time I took it was for an athletic competition to give me focus. It worked well, but I don't think it lasted the whole day.
- derekdahmer 8y agoI keep Modafinil around for emergencies. For example, after getting caught in traffic driving back from a weekend vacation and now its midnight with two hours left to go and you can feel yourself fighting to keep your eyelids open, it'll get you home safely. However while Modafinil will keep you awake, it doesn't mitigate the downsides of being sleep deprived. At 4am you'll still be irritable, burnt out and not make good decisions. Regular sleep is really the only medicine.
- orasis 8y agoModafinil scares me. I completely lose time and have little memory of the day - like that movie where the guy fast-forwards his life.
- eezurr 8y agoNothing to be scared about. It will keep you awake but does not negate the affects from lack of sleep (which is what you're probably describing).
- chillwaves 8y agoThis is the answer. Works great with caffeine as well.