Posted by per ekstrom on November 30, 2001, at 10:48:47
In reply to Re: ADRAFINIL and why I must stop it (lack of support), posted by Cecilia on November 30, 2001, at 2:02:21
I tried both Adra and Moda finil, if you respond ti either one of them, the response is quite similar. I never had a good respone so Adrafinil so I switched to Modafinil, but this is all very individual. Modafinil has been excellent for me. Gives drive and motivation without the PUSH you feel from typical psychostimulants.
Adrafinil is NOT OTC in any European country. If you can get your insurers to pay for Modainil in the US, try it out first. Risk of liverdamage is very limited, but its there. Modafinil is basically a metabolite of Adrafinil....no use to get into that now...
1. As always start low....100mg x 3 days 200mg x 3days 400 mg x 3 days 600mg x 3days and upto 800mg...MAYBE 1000mg per day. Just try to listen to your body before you increase the dosage and try to reach steady state as low as possible.Monitor liver values after a month or two, or if felt needed.
Try Modafinil if it fails.
+ as other posters said, seach the archives.
+ GOOD LUCK !
> > I was very excited to receive my Adrafinil and felt that I finally had "the answer" in my hands. The first thing I realized is that the directions, of course, are all in French and that if I wanted to know anything about this drug, like when to take it and how ( with food?), I would be relying on psycho-babble, since my pdoc knows nothing about this drug.
> > I felt relatively safe taking it, since my pdoc had recently given me Provigil to try.
> > Unfortunatly, I did have questions about the drug and possible side effects and whenever I posted a question online at Psycho-babble, I never received any responses. I even posted into old threads so as to get a response from some of the old posters about adrafinil. So now, here I am, not doing very well mentally and with no responsive support. MY MISTAKE.
> > I will get to see my pdoc today and stick with his recommendations, since at least I can usually get some sort of response from him when I need it.
> > Disappointed, Collette.
>
> John L. doesn`t seem to be posting any more, but if you look in the archives there are sure to be lots of his posts about Adrafinil. It worked wonders for him, but it did nothing for me except increase my insomnia.
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