Posted by ronaldo on December 20, 2006, at 4:23:23
In reply to Ronaldo....,Adrafinil, posted by blueberry1 on December 19, 2006, at 19:47:32
Hi blueberry,
75 mg - that is 1/4 of a tablet? 1/2 of a tablet a day. And you still felt a positive effect!
The Adrafinil seems to like you. Will you increase the dose today? What times do you take it? For me I think it will be important to take it quite early say 8.00 am and again at 12.00 noon or 1.00 pm to avoid any induced insomnia at night.I am glad you have rediscovered your 'evening bounce' again. I hope it is back for good (permanently). It will be something to look forward to during the day.
What other meds are you using at the moment? Are you bothered with insomnia due to Zyprexa w/d? It worries me. I have been taking some trazodone for sleep. So far I have taken 50 mg per night for two nights and then 100 mg last night. It doesn't help me much with the duration of sleep though it sends me to sleep quite quickly. But it does take away the anxiety in the early hours of the morning. I wake up at 4 am with the trazodone and then I doze and toss and turn until I get up at around 7.30 am.
I also have some amitriptyline 50 mg x 6 tablets. Do you think that will make me sleep, say just one 50 mg at night?
Actually I don't think anything is going to help me to sleep. I am drawn to the conclusion that I will just have to get used to 5 or 6 hours sleep a night. Lots of other people manage on it. Its just a case of getting used to it. I used to enjoy my sleep. Now I will have to learn to enjoy it a bit less.
I'm glad you are holding your own with the Zyprexa at 1.25 mg. How long until you go to Zero? Are you going to do any further taper before you pack it in altogether? Maybe you will stay at the 1.25 mg level to give the Adrafinil some company.
I hope the Adrafinil gives you millenium milage.
....ronaldo
> Hey Ronaldo, I started adrafinil again today. I've just been so fatigued, drained and depressed. Anyway, I'm only did 75mg twice a day. For most people that would be nothing. But it lifted me from severe depression to moderate depression in about 6 hours. And tonight for the first time in about a week, I got my "evening bounce" back again.
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> Anyway, in my experience the first day effects become transparent by the second day. But as long as the evening bounce stays with me, at least I will know adrafinil is doing something. And with that low of a dose, and because I am more stabilized now on my lower dose of 1.25mg zyprexa (18 days!) hopefully anxiety or tension won't get in the way. I think I started adrafinil too soon last time after dropping zyprexa down, and I think I started with too high of a dose of adrafinil.
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> I think adrafinil works better in combo with something else, like low dose zyprexa or low dose ssri, than it does by itself.
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> And for some people, I think with all drugs less can be more, less can be better.
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> Anyway, I'm back on adrafinil.
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