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Re: I FINALLY KNOW!


Posted by Dianne on February 02, 2000 at 07:36:53:

In Reply to: Re: I FINALLY KNOW! posted by kate on February 02, 2000 at 06:10:17:

Kate: I'm sorry when I said keyed up, I was talking about pressure, worry, not being keyed up on the provigil.I have been quite from my job 1 month as of yesterday, aganist my doctors advice, he yold me it was not time. I told him I thought it was I was tired of dealing with people who does not understand chronic illness, if they do not see a broken bone or blood they don't think anyting is wrong. When I would go into my auto-mode they would think I was crazy. My superior would when I was on ritalin and had to get off once a month to go get my prescription; would say " You know you can loose your job for lost of time? In meetings she would say quote " some of you are moving around like your a sleep" or she would walk by and ask " your not asleep are you?" WE had started shipping cut goods to ship to Mexico at least 3- truck loads a month plus the plant we were at, plus other contracts in surrounding areas. Some times I had to be at work at 6:00am, sometimes 7:00 am sometimes 8;00 am then we worked sometimes until 4;30pm, 5;30 pm; so times later, that was monday thru friday, then we would half to work a half a day on saturday. When I came home I was dead, I just couldn't keep up. We didn't know if we would have a job from one day to the next .I first started on 100mg plus my ritalin for the first week then I went on 200 mg a day. I stayed on that for 6o days because it takes provigil awhile to build up in your system and be in full effect. Now I'm own 300 mg a day. The doctor told me to take 200 in the morning and 100 at dinner, at this tine I was taking medication for my allergies and I felt like I was in a foggy world drifting in and out my eyes really felt funny I had trouble seeing.The doctor said it wasn't the provigil,I had my eyes checked, nothing their but old age and not enough rest. I cut out my allegery medication and started taking all of my provigil in the morning and I feel great. Medications for allergies will make you sleepy, all of it was sapping me out. Thats why they want you to take it every day. Remember we are gina pigs, they really don't know all about the long turm thing or all the side effects. That's like when I told my doctor about how bad my urine had stated to smell he said that was something he needed to report back to the company. Well got to go; being on the computer is like taking 20 sleeping pills. E-mail me back if you have anymore questions, remember this is only my view. Dianne

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