Posted by sleepyinthemidwest on March 22, 2010, at 13:02:20
In reply to Re: Nuvigil vs. provigil. Your experiences? » OBeelee, posted by Deneb on February 7, 2010, at 16:12:32
> Hello OBeelee!
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> Welcome to Psycho-Babble!
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> OMGosh, it sounds like something like Provigil can help me too. I sleep too much and I'm sleepy a lot. My days are usually less than 12 hours long and I don't have time to do anything.
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> I can sleep 15 hours.
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> The other day I stayed up all night, went to bed at 9 AM, slept until 7:30 PM then got sleepy again at around 10 PM. I then went to bed again at 11:30 PM and slept until 8:30 AM. That's 19 hours of sleeping altogether!
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> Right now I have a huge problem with getting up and motivated to do things during the day. I wonder if there is a med approach to my problem? That would be simple enough.
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> My pdoc thinks it's psychological though.
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>pdoc? Primary care doc? My own recent experience with Nuvigil is because I'm trying to adust to a substantial change in my wakeup time. However, my solution might be of some help.
I was advised to set my alarm at least 45 mins earlier than my new wakeup time, keeping my meds and a glass of water by my bed. Because I have pets who like to get into my glass, I use a travel coffee mug.
Anyway, it helps me get up but I still find myself sort of slumping about 4 hours later. Hopefully, as my inner clock ajusts in a few weeks more this will fade. I'd doing a lot of coffee during that period, and might ask the doc if I can take a half pill at that time to "refresh" it because I think Nuvigil's peak activity is within a few hours after taking it.
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