Posted by jemma on July 1, 2003, at 11:11:39
In reply to Re: Provigil Vets - A Question, posted by utopizen on June 30, 2003, at 18:16:47
Sorry you're having such a tough time. I respond the same way to stimulants, even ritalin sr - I've decided they just aren't worth the crash, which for me involves muscle pain, irritability, and extreme scatteredness. Provigil - or Alertec, as it's called here - is much gentler and more even. But my pdoc isn't perfect. He won't prescribe klonopin, which I'd like to try.
In fact, looking at your cocktail, I'd suggest a trial of just provigil in the morning and klonopin at night (plus the antibiotic - you may not need the saliva stimulant if you stop the meth). You'd have to give it a couple of weeks for the antidepressant properties of the provigil to kick in, but it might work really well. Just my opinion, of course, and I'm no pdoc.
- Jemma
> I envy you. I'm in an out-of-state internship. And trust me, enough drug fiends envy me for it, but I don't envy myself for it-- the Desoxyn (methamphetamine HCL) I take for my ADD leaves me crashed and depressed by the end of the day, tired during the day, so crashed by the time I leave work I cry. And I'm 19, with absolutely no history of depression. It doesn't happen on days I don't take it.
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> I have fatigue during the day, even after 10 hours of sleep. So if I don't take it, I'll be tired. And can't concentrate. But if I do take Desoxyn, I'll feel painfully tired in a few hours after taking it, and depressed by the end of the day.
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> It's not Desoxyn, it's me on Desoxyn. Desoxyn was, and still is, a great med. I even suggest people try it if they've had too much from side-effects of others (but try Dexedrine first). But for whatever reason, Desoxyn has me crashing on it these days, and this just started a month ago. It was fine when I started taking it in December. Even Ritalin did this to me after a few months, I can't stay on the same med for too long or it causes dysphoria.
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> But getting back to Provigil, I envy you because my p-doc won't return my calls, and my GP here won't prescribe it because he feels overwhelmed with all my meds (oh no, a saliva stimluant Evoxac, Minocycline, an antibiotic for acne, Desoxyn for ADD, Klonopin for Social Anxiety, Nalodol, a beta blocker for social anxiety).
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> So everyday is hell. I'm sure I'll eventually get it. I just called home and burst into tears, so depressed from Desoxyn's crash today and the hopelessness of not having a doctor return your calls. My dad said he'd give my doctor a call, tell him to stop ignoring me. I never thought about that, that gives me some hope it'll scare him into calling me back finally.
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> If he doesn't call back tomorrow, I'm calling the colleague that referred me to him and my former p-doc, another colleague who "admires him" or whatever, at this prestigious hospital, and telling him he doesn't answer his calls.
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> Then I'm sure there's some ombudsman for the hospital (his office is at a huge Boston hospital), that's definitely going to here from me. I'm not a very assertive person until I realize my passitivity is being taken advantage of. Then that's when I start to shock people. People really get scared of me when they see me in action on the phone, my roommates are like "let me know if I ever get on your bad list so I can get off it." I don't let people get away taking advantage of my politeness.
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> If it wasn't for this guy, who promised me he would phone scripts in on a Thursday, I would have avoided a trip to the ER on the following Tuesday after 2 nights of not sleeping.
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