Provigil anyone? New drug from the rheumie, also new Voltaren gel

Hey hun, my best friend out here in okie ville is on provigil. She's been on it a long time. She suffers from Leukemia (is in remission) . She also has Fibro. She takes it every morning. She said there is no way she could get out of bed and function without it. She was a little concerned about her liver but she said she was afraid it might hurt her liver over time. She hasn't found anything any where as close to working as well as the provigil. I'm not sure what your insurance is but I notice a website advertised on here that will send you a coupon for a 7 day trial of provigil. No she doesn't seem to suffer any bad side effects. She does have sleep apnea and uses a Cpap at night.

I hope it works great for you!

love ya

carol 

Wow, provigil is great! So far so good. The side effects are rare, I felt a tiny bit of nausea and a little bit of nervousness when I first took the pill, but i had to break it in half so sometimes they don't dissolve right and get a little strong at first. Also, it was my first time taking it. I actually was able to go outside and putter around in the shed and pick some blueberries. And I swam more and did more around the house.

It gives you the mental ability/energy of the prednisone without the side effects. And everytime during the day when I thought it would start wearing off and I would feel anxious or nervous, instead I felt a wave of euphoria and the medicine kicked right back in. It was like prozac for anxiety in a way. And I felt really wonderful all through the day and settled gently down into a very lucid and relaxed state. No jagged up and down. It lasted from 10am till now and I'm yawning and tired and ready to sleep.

Apparently the drug excites discrete neuronal areas of the brain that normal stimulants don't. I think it will be excellent for ADHD because it doesn't give you anorexia, and doesn't make you feel bad when it wears off.

It is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor and an adrenal stimulant. It also is a broncho and vasodilator. It helped my asthma a lot by opening up my bronchial tubes and I coughed up stuff in the morning from the tubes opening up.

So far, it seems like a real possibility. I am taking a half a 200mg, but maybe could take a half a 100mg, and it might have helped, I don't know. but the 100mg seems good. I don't know if you become used to it.

It also seemed to diminish my pain somewhat, I think just because it made me more active and sped up my metabolism. I also think I will end up losing weight on it even though I do eat on it, I will exercise more.

My rheumie says that everyone he has put on it really like it. It does seem to really help with the mental part and fatigue, which never seems to go away for me, even when my inflammatory markers are normal.

So, it is definitely worth a try. I think as an ADHD med, it will become a real hit. They are doing clinical trials now. It would be nice for kids with ADHD to be able to sleep at night and eat on their medicine and also to not feel lousy when the medicine wears off.

So far so good. Had a really good day, and it does deliver as advertised, not only wakefulness but euphoria.

Your post really made me not afraid to try it and I'm glad I did. If I can make it through two months without an allergic reaction, it should be smooth sailing! It's a great alternative to steroids when you want your mind back at least and some energy!

Well, I took a couple days off because I still felt good even now! It had a long lasting effect. So I gave the old liver a rest and have asked the rheumie for a lower dose and hopefully he will phone it in for me. I think that will be great. I don't know about taking it every day unless I take a much lower dose. I really threw my back out being so active and it reduced my pain, so that isn't good either. I'm thinking about trying it again on the weekend and hopefully before then I will have the lower dose, and I will try that. Taking 50mg might be the cat's meow.

I love the Voltaren gel. It works FANTASTIC on my neck, where I had so much surgery, and my lower back, as well as shoulder and knees. I have to alternate locations, but it's worth it. For my neck alone, it is great. Lower back too. It doesn't give you pill side effects and works great. Even if you don't have liver problems I would recommend it because there's no point in taking yet another pill when you can use a gel and not hurt your liver and kidneys. Pills have to be eight times stronger than the dose indicated to last all day, and the medicine effects you in an up and down fashion. The gel, like patches, is even and the right dose from the start. It's good stuff.

The provigil is far superior to Adderall, Ritalin, Straterra, and the other ADhD meds and really helps like pred does. I want to have it as an option for sure, though I like the fact I don't necessarily have to take it every day. My doc gives me a daily dose, but understands that in my unique case, it can get too strong. It could make you get kind of goofy if it was too strong.

I'll let you know when I get the hundreds and can take a fifty dose. It did work for days in regulating my sleep and readjusting my dopamine so that I was less fatigued and more active and content.

I would try it, though I would try a low dose first if you are prone to panic attacks or sensitive to meds or have heart problems. You could always raise it.

I had some heart irregularity when it wore off, beating irregularly and rapidly, but it went away with food, milk, and time and nightime meds (klonopin). My bp remained low.

There is no known antidote for it. Benzodiazapines don't seem to slow it down, antacids make it stronger, milk seemed to mildly help, food helps alot to slow down the breakdown. I would check with your doc about that, if it gets too strong, what you can do. I plan to talk with mine about it. So far, I use the milk thing and exercise to try to clear it a little and it works well. I'm really sensitive to meds though, really bad.

It's a keeper though. I hope you are doing better. It might be something to try definitely. Let me know.