DOSE:

100 mg

oral

Armodafinil

(daily)

BODY WEIGHT:

250 lb

Modafinil Saved My Sleeping Beauty Arse

I started feeling excessively tired when my 30s hit. No big deal, happens to everyone -- so I was told. Then it got worse and worse. I was tired all the time. Nothing made me feel better. All I wanted to do was sleep. I got 7 hours of sleep minimum, and doctors kept testing me for other problems, but nothing seemed to be a problem, and nothing else worked.

Slowly the numbers of hours of sleep I needed to function crept up from 7 to 12, and after another year went by 20-22 hours! I was waking to go to the bathroom and only ate once a day. I was missing work A LOT. No other meds seemed to be working with my symptoms, not even SSNRIs that promised more wakefulness. Chronic fatigue, my GP guessed. Hypersomnia, a second opinion suggested.

Well, no matter what it is, Modafinil saved me. I started taking it in the mornings and instantly feel the effect. Now I just skip taking it when I have no work scheduled to catch up on sleep for my sleep bank, which I always make sure to do because that's the biggest thing with this drug: I feel so awake I don't notice if I'm sleep deprived.

There's no high, unless I'm taking a higher dose - then there may be some jaw clenching, some rush, possible mania swing up. However, keeping my dose to 100 mg, or 200 mg if I don't get sleep, has been more than enough to help me in my day-to-day. There's no bad effects yet for long-term use and I've been using it every weekday for 9 months straight now.

My experience with it, now that I've been on it regularly, is nothing but stellar : I am able to be up out of bed, at work, functional, focused. I can break pills in half and get my awake boost and an afternoon boost to keep me functional through dinner time and get chores done. Late night party? No worries, I just take those doses later in the day, and am mindful its half-life is 15 hours so I can plan my bedtime.

If I'm on a higher dose, I can get that rush feeling when I also take caffeine. I don't mind it, and honestly I think without this drug I would have lost my gig and things would be a lot different than they are now.

You see, my doctor now agrees with me: my problem was never depression... it was never feeling sad... or unmotivated. It was a heaviness in my limbs, and an inability to do anything other than sleep, because I felt exhausted and on the verge of passing out every minute I forced myself to be awake.

Now I am me again. And awake. And functional. It's a miracle drug!

[Reported Dose: '100mg - 400 mg/day']

Exp Year: 2018	ExpID: 112472
Gender: Female
Age at time of experience: 34
Published: Oct 16, 2018	Views: 1,691
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