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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Provigil...once and for all.

Posted by sleepykitty on September 24, 2002 at 10:48:46:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Provigil...once and for all. posted by not-so-sleepy on September 24, 2002 at 08:54:59:

No, no Ritalin for me, thank you. I'm underweight and always have been. I don't like the long term health problems that I believe it causes. Nor would I like the feeling of being on speed. I hate caffeine jitters so I know I'd hate Ritalin.

Are you saying that you feel you have trouble winding down to go to sleep since being on Provigil? That was one of the (many) problems I had on it. Felt like a 2 yr old fighting off sleep. I was useless up because I was so tired I couldn't do anything but lay around, but neither could I settle down to go to bed. Do you know the feeling when you get too tired to sleep? Do you know when a 2 yr gets too tired to take their nap. That was me.

I'm saying that my life was "normal" enough that I probably don't even have to use brackets around it prior to Provigil. I defined myself to others as being "low energy". Other than always being tired and having microsleeps I lived a pretty normal life. Enough that my former employer seemed to have planned to try the defense that I wasn't impaired enough to be considered disabled by ADA standards. But I was much more than they knew, I just worked extra hard to make up for my down times.

I would further take issue w/ your assumption that Provigil was not tested on people w/ psychological problems. There are many such "instabilities" that occur in PWN--depression, social withdraw, obsessive compulsive disorder, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. In fact, my doc said I was abnormal in that I didn't suffer from any such disorders which is uncommon in a PWN. That being said, and I believe a known factor in N, why would Cephalon not have included people w/ problems such as these in their trials?

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