Posted by flame on April 23, 2006, at 7:20:25
Hello All,
I posted quite a bit a couple of weeks ago in regards to my husband "giving up" on working and my frustrations with his current attitude.
In going through some paperwork yesterday, I found a prescription that my husband's pdoc gave him a little over a month ago. It was for Provigil. His pdoc wanted him to add it to his daily 375 mg Effexor xr regimen. He started out on half a pill (=100mg - samples his doc gave him) .. of which I think my husband was fine. (He didn't complain.) Once my husband was on that for about 4 days, his pdoc told him to up it to the full pill (=200mg). The very first day on the 200mg, my husband complained (A LOT!) about how jittery it made him and said that he did not want to be on it anymore. So, he has not been taking the provigil any more.
My question is this .. should he have just continued on the 1/2 pill (100mg) tab for longer and then tried to up it once again?
Before coming to this board, I had no idea how provigil would be helping him. (My husband doesn't/won't tell me about much that goes on with his pdoc appts.) So .. if anyone wants to chime in here on the how adding that provigil to husband's effexor (375mg) might help him, I would be very appreciative!
I am wondering (now) if he should be attempting to add that provigil (once again) back into his daily regimen? He doesn't have another appointment with his pdoc until towards the end of May. It sure would be nice if he could be inching forward (even just a little) before then ..?
BTW .. as silly as this sounds, I am the one that sets his daily meds out for him every day. If I did not, he would forget to take them (for the most part, anyways.)
Any input that any of you may have on the Effexor/provigil combination, would be great!!
Flame
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