Posted by jiggitykid on March 1, 2004, at 18:06:16
In reply to Re: Provigil and Heart?, posted by PsychoSage on March 1, 2004, at 17:19:23
>>>Worrying about whether you should worry about your heart and taking your heart rate is not a good way to know how this drug affects you. Insomnia [in the beginning], not so deep sleep, and less sleep needed are understandable and common side effects of provigil. You need to give the drug and your body at least four weeks to figure out if the drug is tolerable in terms of benefits, risks, and disadvantages.<<
Thanks for your reply PsychoSage. Worrying isn't a problem. I'm not sitting around worrying while taking this :-). I'm just concerned - different than the emotion of worrying - about the heart rate increase.
I've been taking this for approx. 5 weeks now. As I said in my post, 100 mg seems to be a good dose for me. The higher the dose, the more anxiety I experience - but it's different than worry. It's more of a physical feeling of the fight-or-flight response when there's nothing occurring to cause this. 100 mg keeps me alert without feeling wired or "imperative." It also allows me to sleep quite well at night. For the first week, dreams were vivid and my sleep schedule was thrown a bit, but that adjusted fairly quickly on the 100. 200 was too much.
I agree with you on the pill splitter. It's a must have! I appreciate the fact that I have such an amazing doctor who trusts me to know how to read my body and what works for it. I have read the cautions about mitral valve prolapse and other heart conditions being contradictory for taking provigil, which is why I asked the question. Just covering my bases. My heart is nothing to fool with ;-D.
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