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An Experience with Modafinil

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Re: An Experience with Modafinil

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Post by marcan_42 »

ei8htyfi5e wrote: post #25
brotchie wrote: post #12

Modafinil 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 tota…

Am I the only one thinking there is something seriously wrong with an education system if students have to resort to drugs that keep them awake for a week to succeed in it?

I mean I'm not exactly anti-medication but... wow.

Re: An Experience with Modafinil

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Post by Jamie9912 »

I bought 160x200mg pills in 2016 and just ran out at the start of this year. Modafinil is fantastic in moderation, I take 100mg whenever I need to be awake for the next 12 hours guaranteed. For me, it's mostly just the anti-sleepy effect, with the side effect of extra concentration.

Re: An Experience with Modafinil

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brotchie wrote: post #12

Modafinil 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…

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Re: An Experience with Modafinil

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Post by kfarr »

marcan_42 wrote: post #31
ei8htyfi5e wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 tota…

Am I the only one thinking there is something seriously wrong with an education system if students have to resort to drugs that keep them awake for a week to succeed in it? I mean I'm not exactly anti-medication but... wow.

It’s worth it, no faster way to get into lifelong debt!

Re: An Experience with Modafinil

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Post by brimble »

marcan_42 wrote: post #31
ei8htyfi5e wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 tota…

Am I the only one thinking there is something seriously wrong with an education system if students have to resort to drugs that keep them awake for a week to succeed in it? I mean I'm not exactly anti-medication but... wow.

"Have to", maybe not. Will perform better if they do, probably. Will be outcompeted by others if they don't, many of whom only did better because they used drugs, yes.

It took me half a lifetime to really come to grips with it, but fact is, winners absolutely do use drugs. William S. Sessions' anti-drug arcade game ads lied to me.

Re: An Experience with Modafinil

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Post by capitalsigma »

Fezzik wrote: post #3

I’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 took modafinil for years, through college and my first few years of work. I realized once I stopped that my pretty-intense social anxiety was basically 90% caused by modafinil, and I think I am a more effective person now. YMMV.

Re: An Experience with Modafinil

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Post by majormajor »

marcan_42 wrote: post #31
ei8htyfi5e wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 tota…

Am I the only one thinking there is something seriously wrong with an education system if students have to resort to drugs that keep them awake for a week to succeed in it? I mean I'm not exactly anti-medication but... wow.

Cramming is less "required" then "an alternative way to get a good grade than working all semester long."

Re: An Experience with Modafinil

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Post by stephc_int13 »

Tried it a few years ago. It does work.

The feeling of laser sharp focus and high energy is quite pleasant and is clearly helping to work for long hours.

But it ended up with a severe burn-out in my case.

Not 100% sure it was the Modafinil, but retrospectively I think it made me drain my batteries a lot quicker.

My advice, if you need to work a lot, the best nootropic you can get is good sleep, healthy food and a bit of caffeine.

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