Posted by IsoM on January 24, 2002, at 15:51:53
In reply to Uppers or Downers?, posted by Ponder on January 24, 2002, at 14:15:11
Just going to give my opinion & personal experiences = you may not respond the same.
I use adrafinil. It's not something I get an immediate effect from like a normal stimulant or a tranquiliser does. I take it every day on a regular basis to benefit from it. When I ran out of my supply cause of an ordering mix-up, the benefits I had from it took about a week to fade. Starting up again, it still took the regular time to work again.
The point I'm getting to is that long-term use (greater than 3 weeks) has given me a wonderful calming effect besides the alertness & focus. A drug interaction program I have doesn't mention either an inhibition of an increase of taking benzos or modafinil together. They are thought to work on different pathways of the brain besides. I used alprazolam (Xanax) once with the adrafinil when I had a migraine & wanted to get a good night's sleep. No problem with it. Adrafinil doesn't interfer with my sleep anyway but I wanted to fall asleep quickly.
The different pathways used by benzos & stims don't seem to cancel each other out. When I took exams at university, along with my Dexedrine, I'd take alprazolam. I get psyched up too easily & answers I'd know the night before would otherwise fly out my brain from nerves. I had the focus that Dexedrine brings to me but the calmness of the benzo. Long-term use of adrafinil does that for me now much smoother & better without wearing off. I'm not using Dexedrine or benzos now with the adrafinil.
Has adrafinil/modafinil been useful for you? And do you take it regularly? Different posters here have found different effects. Manowar & a few others besides me swears by it. 3 Beer Effect & some others say it does nothing or had unpleasant side effects for them. I'm sure it has to be used long-term like ADs for proper success with it, not a quick effect like benzos or stims.
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> Sometimes I feel both terribly anxious yet exhausted at the same time. I have PRN Rxs for stimulating drugs (modafinil, ritalin) and also Benzos (Ativan), but sometimes don't know which one I need. Am I correct in assuming that one would counteract the other making it counterproductive to take both?
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