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Posted by pauliD on December 11, 2001 at 21:49:35:In Reply to: My Provigil experience. posted by Quiet on December 02, 2001 at 09:28:03:
I am also starting out with Provigil. My experience with it has been similar to what you describe. I have tried to get by on just one but I really need two to insure against problems driving home from work at the end of the day.
I skip on the weekends, when I can take a nap as necessary.
For many years, napping was my first line of defense. I was a power napper. At lunch time I would eat quickly and set my watch for the last possible moment that I ccould get back to work on time, and then sack out.
I defined a nap as entering a dream state, and I could do it in under ten minutes in a pinch; anything over twenty minutes is really sleeping.If I didn't get that nap I had to be fprepared for sleep attacks at two. I think sleep attacks are most curious. I experience them as gradual dimunition of mental acuity often accompanied by a gathering sensation around the temples.
An interesting signal when driving is the sensitivity to light, especially on hazy days. It gets so bad that it is painful to keep my eyes open. At that point I have to get off the road.
My wife has gotten quite good at reading my face and watches me like a hawk. She says she can see it in my eyes and she picks up on it before I do sometimes.
My nap therapy came to an end when I started driving for thirty or forty minutes to the job. I began to experience what I believe is being referred to in the literature as micro-sleeps. I am wondering if this is what you refer to as " falling to the right". I experience them as amomentary break in consciousness that results in a physical shudder of some kind which, if your driving down the highway, means your swerving down the road. I scared myself a couple of times and realized I had to get on meds.
My chief complaint these days is disturbed sleep at night. I never sleep through the night. Usually waken three or four times.
That and the cataplexy...
My trigger is pride.
That's sick.I really wish those pompus jerks in Washington would quit jerking us around.I am really looking forward to trying GHB.
Thanks for listening...plesant dreams
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