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I use modafinil regularly. I have (had?) some variant of ADD, and while it does not trouble me as much as it did when I was younger, it can still be frustrating
by woah 14y ago
I use modafinil regularly. I have (had?) some variant of ADD, and while it does not trouble me as much as it did when I was younger, it can still be frustrating, mostly if I am trying to focus on work I don't particularly enjoy.
I use it between a few times a week and a few times a month (my desire to take it at all fluctuates quite a bit). I'll take 10-25mg in the morning and get on with my day. I generally don't really notice it, but looking back in the evening, realize I was a bit more productive.
For me, it's less euphoric than coffee. I'll feel happy and energized after a cup of coffee, but after taking modafinil, just a bit more alert.
What it does seem to do is raise overall energy levels during the day, and increases short term memory (useful for programming).
I think many news stories about it, like this one, blow it vastly out of proportion. Cumulatively, it could make the difference that pushes your work to the next level, but sleep and exercise are a way bigger factor. Still, I am very happy to have it.
For those worried about giving money to big pharma, buy it online from one of the many sites that import from India.
- jimrandomh 14y agoSanity check fail: 10mg is an implausibly small dose, so small you'd have to grind the pills and measure tiny quantities of powder. Are you sure you're not thinking of a different drug, or off an order of magnitude?
- woah 14y agoIt comes in 100mg pills, and I take between 1/4 and 1/6 of one. Higher doses don't seem to have much more of the beneficial effects on concentration and memory, just make me more jittery.
- veemjeem 14y agonot true. I took ritalin in high school, and when I took a whole pill, it made me feel like a zombie. I was able to scale back to 1/5th of a pill and still be able to focus. Those pills were already pretty small, so I'd just smash it and dump approximately 1/5th of the powder in my orange juice.
- wpietri 14y agoA tablet isn't pure active ingredient. "PROVIGIL tablets contain 100 mg or 200 mg of modafinil and the following inactive ingredients: lactose, microcrystalline cellulose, pregelatinized starch, croscarmellose sodium, povidone, and magnesium stearate." [1] The 100 mg pill is a 13 mm oval. [2] So it seems entirely plausible to me to use a pill cutter to cut it into 8 or 10 roughly equal parts. [1] http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?id=14770 http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?id=14770 [2] http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/pillimage/search_results.php?getimprint=&getshape=&getfirstcolor=&getsize=&getscore=0&getingredient=Provigil&submit=Search http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/pillimage/search_results.php?geti...