Posted by bleauberry on May 6, 2011, at 16:43:03
In reply to starting provigil, posted by markwell on May 4, 2011, at 17:18:05
I had that happen with me. Provigil has an immediate goodness on the first day....if it is going to work....which fades and then weeks later turns out to be a true antidepressant effect. But as with any psychoactive substance it can provoke the exact opposite.
Most of the stimulants do that to me, except for Ritalin. Weird though, because I was on Provigils's parent Adrafanil for several years and it was good. But now if I try it I get very depressed rather quickly and it doesn't let up until about a day after I stop taking it. I don't need to be more depressed thank you.
In my way of thinking it is the natural body's way of saying the particular med is a bad one at this point in time. Frequently people can feel a little worse when starting an antidepressant....stated clearly on every prescription bottle....but when it is profound I think that is a different game altogether.
I guess I'll never know if the meds I had to abandon almost immediately would have every worked. I guess it doesn't matter, because there is no way I could have made it through the kind of depression they created. If that was some kind of necessary step to get to the other side, forget it, count me out. I don't know if your kind of med-induced depression is like that or not.
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