Posted by zeugma on February 11, 2005, at 19:45:15
In reply to Re: amphetamines/antipsychotic interaction » med_empowered, posted by Phillipa on February 11, 2005, at 18:06:46
> I still don't get the provigil. It would seem to me also, that if you are taking any drug to calm, etc. and added provigil, they would cancel themselves out and would be neutral. Fondly, Phillipa
Provigil is actually calming. It's a 'somnolytic', not a stimulant, or so the claim is, and I would support it. I got insomnia from it for a time (the somnolysis) and then just felt less sleepy all the time. I have a suspected case of narcolepsy and often can't stay awake past 8 pm, and feel half awake all the time. A conventional stimulant like ritalin took care of that, but with extreme irritability and appetite loss, and I was tense all the time (past my baseline which is stratospheric anyway!). Provigil made me feel awake but without the heart racing, etc., that Ritalin induced. It appears that Provigil is more selective in terms of regions of the brain that it effects, i.e. that it concentrates in the hypothalamus, where the structures that control sleep and waking are preumed to lie. Ritalin and amphetamines affect the brain globally.
-z
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