Posted by lorilu on December 8, 2004, at 2:02:05
In reply to Re: Effexor/Provigil combo idea regarding this.. » Stryker88, posted by HappinessPie on December 7, 2004, at 14:55:30
> > What about the possibility of using Provigil to eraticate the Effexor drowsinesss. It sounds like a good idea, but I was wondering what everyone thinks.
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> Adderall certainly helped reduce my EffexorXR drowsiness, so it seems plausible that Provigil might do the same. Although my drowsiness also mostly went away once I got up to 150 mg - it was the worst at 37.5 and 75 mg, and I took it at night then. When I got up to 112.5 I switched to taking it in the AM because it started waking me up in the middle of the night.
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> Even at 75 mg though, I did notice an improvement when taking a stimulant (at the time it was Concerta) along with it.
Hi,
That's funny... Adderall does the complete opposite for me. It seems to calm me down and help me concentrate. For example, I always take 125 mg of Effexor and 200 of Provigil. On the first day I added Adderall I was driving for an hour to one of my doctors. Even though I was going over 70 mph on the freeway it felt like I was going much slower and that I was going in slow motion. I also felt like I could take a nap and it was only lunch time. I take the Provigil to stay awake so this was a funny feeling. When I got the the therapist I didn't know this was from the meds until this happened to come up and he said that this med can work in one day and I must really have a case of ADD. Unfortunately I probably wouldn't need the Provigil but I had sleep apnea (had a surgery for it but haven't retested to see if it worked yet) plus I take 400 mg of Topamax and that wipes me out. I'd like to get off some meds so we are thinking of dropping Effexor first (AND YES I KNOW ABOUT HOW HARD IT IS TO STOP) ;). PS I really live Provigil, although my therapist loves Adderall and would love to see off Provigil (my pdoc prescribed the Provigil)How many labels can a person have??????OCD, Anxiety, Depression, and now ADD! Wait at one time PTSD....The list goes on.............
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