Posted by JohnL on June 17, 2000, at 18:08:21
In reply to Re: Parnate and Adrafanil? » JohnL , posted by SLS on June 17, 2000, at 9:46:25
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> John - I am still curious if you have decided to return to adrafinil. Did Provigil act upon anhedonia at all? Besides the headaches, what was it about Provigil that you found inferior to adrafinil? Was there a tendency for the positive effects of Provigil to dissipate? You did report a remarkably positive effect from it initially. What dosage did you work up to? Did you find that Provigil exhibited the same biphasic response curve as does adrafinil?
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> I would be grateful for any input. If sulpiride does not prove helpful to me, I would probably want to try adding Provigil or adrafinil to Parnate at some point.
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> Thanks.
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> - ScottScott,
I dumped the Provigil. I couldn't even get past 50mg without feeling like I got hit by a freight train. At first it did seem pretty good. But that was short lived and soon overwhelmed by monsterous totally unexpected side effects. I think Provigil is a wonderful medication, but for some weird reason I was just super sensitive to it. My body just flat out rejected it.Returning to Adrafinil was the obvious move. But I did have some troubling impotence with Adrafinil. So that caused some hesitation. Then I began wondering, what else can I do to both enhance NE function and have a good sex life simultaneously? Surely there must be something. And there is. I found it. But I'll save that discussion for another post.
Anyway, in my lone n=1 trial, Adrafinil and Provigil are completely totally different drugs. I can't even imagine them being in the same class. But that's just me. Oh well. We try, we learn, right? As far as someone else deciding between one or the other, I think it would be wrong to base anything on my n=1 experience. I think a flip of the coin would be about as accurate a guess as we can make. Whatever works. I've never been able to predict in advance how any med would work out. Just have to try it and see. I wish I knew a better way.
JohnL
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