Posted by utopizen on October 14, 2002, at 21:08:03
In reply to Re: What's Provigil like for off-label use?, posted by Seamus2 on October 14, 2002, at 20:44:36
> Have you ever tried curtailing your sleep to 6-7 hours per night for two or three days?
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> I find that while I *feel* better with more sleep, I'm much more active and productive if I get just the MDR (which for me is 6-7, but I'm 42).
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> This especially held true when I was on MAOI's, though I'd often have a 45 minute nap in the afternoon.
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> How's the Desoxsyn holding out? Any noticeable differences between it and Dexedrine?
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> Are you finding the effective doses equivalent mg per mg?I've tried the 6-7 hrs route as well... the severity of the lull seems consistent with 6-7 or 9 hours.
Jury's still out on Desoxyn. It is giving me some freaky dermatoses, which any amphetamine is liable to do... but so far this is the first time one has for me. Anyway, I got these black flakes of dead skin on my face. I fanned them off, it was fine, but weird. It may also be responsible for a few whiteheads, but I do have a history of acne coming and going.
I can't up the dose more than 5mg/wk, or I'm liable to get nausea- not pleasant. I'm still on 5mg (I've skipped a few days).
I'm going to add Vitamin E to the mix- heard meth addict on a newsgroup said it kept her face clean back when she was a junkie of the stuff. For some reason junkies tend to have better solutions to pharmaceutical side-effects than boring squares like us...
I'll actually just titirate a bit faster... but definitely not more than 5mg increase per 72 hrs. Doing that should offset potential nasuea.
Hopefully 10mg will work when I get up to it... in the mean time, it just makes me a bit happy now and then, in an odd way... like a fuzzy feeling in the frontal lobes or something. Yeah, more like fuzzy than happy... but good fuzzy. Sort of like when I first drank a Red Bull I suppose. It doesn't seem to keep me "wired" or "awake."
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