Also see this mothership of information: https://www.gwern.net/Modafinil
Was coming here to post the same: Modafinil, used judiciously, is amazing.
An Experience with Modafinil
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Re: An Experience with Modafinil
#22I read this and cant help but think this man a highly irresponsible person. I generally approve of anyone modifying their own consciousness on there own time. And I get what he did ended up harmless and even beneficial, but if you are going to experiment with psychoactive pharmaceuticals, do it on you day off for your first ever does. This guy not only went to work under the influence of drug that he didn't know what…
Would you say the same thing if it was the person's first time with caffeine? Because Modafinil is a stimulant and used to treat narcolepsy, one could argue that going to work tired and treating people would have been more dangerous. I agree with you that he definitely should have done it prior but this is relatively low on my scale of recklessness. It is not like the effects weren't known. Just the severity of his reaction.
Re: An Experience with Modafinil
#23I read this and cant help but think this man a highly irresponsible person. I generally approve of anyone modifying their own consciousness on there own time. And I get what he did ended up harmless and even beneficial, but if you are going to experiment with psychoactive pharmaceuticals, do it on you day off for your first ever does. This guy not only went to work under the influence of drug that he didn't know what…
Modafinil is a pretty common drug prescribed for a wide range of issues, it doesn't have wild sudden side effects, it won't make you go suddenly crazy, erratic or cloud your judgement, it's essentially between a very strong coffee and a very weak amphetamine.
+Plenty of people get prescribed medicine and go to work the next day even if they never tried it.
Re: An Experience with Modafinil
#24I read this and cant help but think this man a highly irresponsible person. I generally approve of anyone modifying their own consciousness on there own time. And I get what he did ended up harmless and even beneficial, but if you are going to experiment with psychoactive pharmaceuticals, do it on you day off for your first ever does. This guy not only went to work under the influence of drug that he didn't know what…
It's Erowid, you can read reports from people on how every drug under the sun feels... they're all irresponsible people.
Doing drugs doesn’t make you irresponsible. Caffeine is a drug, is drinking coffee irresponsible? I’d argue it’s more responsible to browse Erowid’s reports and see drugs’ effects before trying them out, rather than doing something and not knowing anything about it.
Re: An Experience with Modafinil
#25Modafinil is a pretty amazing drug. The come down after one use isn’t too bad. But if you’ve been using it daily for a week, the comedown is BRUTAL: pretty much feel like you have zero energy and feel like laying prone for 8 hours. Once did 48 straight awake on it and felt wide awake 36 hours in… Distinctly remember the 1st time I took it. Was perhaps 8pm at night and I swore it was 8am in the morning and I’d just ha…
I took it heavily in grad school. Prescribed off label for adhd. You can be in any state of exhaustion, take a modafinil, and an hour later feel like you just woke up on a Sunday morning after sleeping in. It’s nuts. The military uses it for fighter pilots. You can take it for days and only lose minimal amounts of reaction timing. At my peak, I stayed up for finals for a week straight with maybe 2 hours of sleep total. Don’t lecture me, I know.
Anyway, it took 2 days in bed for me to recover after. Brutal.
Towards the end of that time period, my brain stopped processing information in the 30 degrees at the edge of my peripheral vision on either side. We were at a restaurant celebrating being done and the waiter kept teleporting into view at around 60 degrees off my center line. Very startling. Done with it now since I don’t have anything nearly that stressful in my life, but back then, it was a godsend.
Modafinil has a 15 hour half life so my main complaint was my sleep schedule was about 26-28 hours so I was constantly shifting. Adrafinil is only the active isomer in modafinil so it’s more potent. I didn’t like it as much. Even at a half tab it still kept me up longer than modafinil. Also modafinil makes your pee smell when it’s metabolized whereas adrafinil not nearly as much.
Re: An Experience with Modafinil
#26I’ve wanted to try Modafinil for a long time but I’m too nervous to order it online. My doctor won’t prescribe it to me, saying it is only for extreme narcoleptics, though I think the real reason is that its street value is pretty high… because it works.
I've purchased prescription drugs from Indian pharmacies online and they take a while to arrive, but they do make it through customs and arrive and they are legit.
The funny thing is, I mostly do it because I don't want to go to the doctor every six months to say "mother may I" for a very mild and safe statin. My insurance would pay for everything, but it's such a pain to do.
Re: An Experience with Modafinil
#27Is this person insane? Four hours of sleep and six cups of coffee per day? Lay off the drugs and get a good 8 hours sleep.
They work in a hospital. I hear 4 hours a night is normal in med school. If I'm not mistaken, that same culture of chronic sleep deprivation is also present in hospitals, so they don't seem like an outlier to me. Perhaps someone with more experience can confirm this.
Re: An Experience with Modafinil
#28If you're bipolar, you probably already know to be careful with drugs, but I just want to reiterate that it also extends to modafinil.
I'm type-II bipolar, so it's not too severe, but I could tell the moda was making my manic swings worse. It was subtle, and I didn't realize it until I had a few significant(for me) manic episodes. Stopping it seems to have helped. I was a little worried about 'kindling' and causing a permanent worsening of symptoms but that doesn't seem to have happened.
Re: An Experience with Modafinil
#29I’ve wanted to try Modafinil for a long time but I’m too nervous to order it online. My doctor won’t prescribe it to me, saying it is only for extreme narcoleptics, though I think the real reason is that its street value is pretty high… because it works.
The main things to look out for are mood swings (especially if you're prone to mania or psychosis). The milder, more typical manifestation will be irritability, impatience and restlessness, to the point of (temporarily) changing your personality so you don't want to relax and socialize but only work.
Well, that and the potentially life-threatening skin conditions. Those are apparently rare, but I discontinued use when I saw some large purple blotches on my skin.
Re: An Experience with Modafinil
#30I read this and cant help but think this man a highly irresponsible person. I generally approve of anyone modifying their own consciousness on there own time. And I get what he did ended up harmless and even beneficial, but if you are going to experiment with psychoactive pharmaceuticals, do it on you day off for your first ever does. This guy not only went to work under the influence of drug that he didn't know what…
Would you say the same thing if it was the person's first time with caffeine? Because Modafinil is a stimulant and used to treat narcolepsy, one could argue that going to work tired and treating people would have been more dangerous. I agree with you that he definitely should have done it prior but this is relatively low on my scale of recklessness. It is not like the effects weren't known. Just the severity of his r…
Entirely different. Caffeine is a very well studied substance with widely known effects, it has been used for literally centuries by a sizeable portion of the human population.