Modafinil anyone?

[EternalOptimist]

I wasn't making a point or asking for validation. Even I am not stupid enough to come on here for that. If you read my initial post I was just wondering if anyone else had any experience of the stuff. It seems to be fairly popular amongst eg medical students. The abuse doesnt concern me, it's just a windup and I'm not biting thanks. The vitriol is quite odd considering how popular alcohol - which causes huge problems - is in this country. But that is another issue.

well there are certain industries that are associated with snorting coke and there are others that are are associated with bumming choir boys. Then there are others associated with a champagne culture and others associated with drinking ale.

If you would like to make the association between contractors and this drug, then I would like to repeat my initial reaction which is, fook off , you fooking fooker

[mudskipper]

I wasn't making a point or asking for validation. Even I am not stupid enough to come on here for that. If you read my initial post I was just wondering if anyone else had any experience of the stuff. It seems to be fairly popular amongst eg medical students. The abuse doesnt concern me, it's just a windup and I'm not biting thanks. The vitriol is quite odd considering how popular alcohol - which causes huge problems - is in this country. But that is another issue.

It sounds great. I spend my entire life knackered, and often wonder how I'm going to make it till bedtime. However, I can imagine that one would start by taking it for an exam, or an interview, then finding more and more reasons to take it till it becomes habitual. Drugs change the brain - dependence isn't just a psychological thing. I don't suppose any addicts set out to become that way, all thought they'd try it once, liked it, tried it again and went from there. Anything that mucks with your dopamine levels is likely to become addictive. So I'd rather not try it, then I won't know. Once I know, I'll be tempted to do it again.

[socialworker]

Mudskipper

Good points there. I vaguely remember that Ecstasy messes with dopamine production and there is evidence that people who take the stuff end up producing less dopamine naturally and hence get depressed. However this stuff is clinically tested, and prescribed in the UK and all over the world for folk with genuine fatigue related to MS and the like, plus narcolepsy which used to be only treatable by amphetamines. Doesnt make it 100% safe because no drug is.

I too have a mild anxiety most days that my energy might run out before the end of the day, especially if I have something on in the evening after a day's work. It was shockingly good to have that anxiety taken away.

[Cliphead]

Mudskipper

Good points there. I vaguely remember that Ecstasy messes with dopamine production and there is evidence that people who take the stuff end up producing less dopamine naturally and hence get depressed. However this stuff is clinically tested, and prescribed in the UK and all over the world for folk with genuine fatigue related to MS and the like, plus narcolepsy which used to be only treatable by amphetamines. Doesnt make it 100% safe because no drug is.

I too have a mild anxiety most days that my energy might run out before the end of the day, especially if I have something on in the evening after a day's work. It was shockingly good to have that anxiety taken away.

So you have no medical condition but require drugs to get through a normal day?

Change of career perhaps?

[d000hg]

So you have no medical condition but require drugs to get through a normal day?

Change of career perhaps?

How's the drinking going?

On that note I'm off to find a nice dram before bed...

[fullyautomatix]

Has anyone here tried Modafinil on a sensible basis? By which I don't mean using it to stay awake for 60 hours plus then complaining it made you feel tulip.

After resisting it for a long time I took one the other day (prescribed for someone else) and it was absolutely great, felt alert, relaxed, decision making was great, not high or jittery, then it wore off and I had a relaxed evening followed by a good night's sleep.

It's against my normal prinicples to take any drugs except what is essential and prescribed for me, but I must say I am very tempted to order some online and take them occasionally if it improves my life this much. I guess there must be a few IT contractors out there who have tried it given the pressures to work long hours you chaps are under sometimes ....

Dont you have a gravy train to catch and pretend to work while sitting on your arse all day ?

idiot!

[SueEllen]

However this stuff is clinically tested, and prescribed in the UK and all over the world for folk with genuine fatigue related to MS and the like, plus narcolepsy which used to be only treatable by amphetamines. Doesnt make it 100% safe because no drug is.

You don't have those conditions so why are you medicating yourself with that drug?

I too have a mild anxiety most days that my energy might run out before the end of the day, especially if I have something on in the evening after a day's work. It was shockingly good to have that anxiety taken away.

If you are working long days and then expecting to go out and socialise but you aren't in your 20s then you will be tired.

I suggest you either change your job or your life expectations instead of pilling yourself up. There are already enough old people with dementia and similar diseases.

[SueEllen]

Dont you have a gravy train to catch and pretend to work while sitting on your arse all day ?

idiot!

Not all social workers are child social workers.

[socialworker]

"suggest you either change your job or your life expectations instead of pilling yourself up. There are already enough old people with dementia and similar diseases. "


It's interesting, I reckon if I came on here and said I had a couple of glasses of wine to relax last night I don't suppose I'd get all this disapproval, but try one tablet of a clinically tested drug of 20 years standing and Im plumbing the depths of depravity. Far more risk to health from even a moderate alcohol intake yet that is socially acceptable. Drinking Coke is supposed to be pretty bad for you as well. As I see the effects of dementia on a daily basis I can tell you I wouldnt want to increase my risk of it at all. Still I think I can take it that no one has tried it

[eek]

It's interesting, I reckon if I came on here and said I had a couple of glasses of wine to relax last night I don't suppose I'd get all this disapproval, but try one tablet of a clinically tested drug of 20 years standing and Im plumbing the depths of depravity. Far more risk to health from even a moderate alcohol intake yet that is socially acceptable. Drinking Coke is supposed to be pretty bad for you as well. As I see the effects of dementia on a daily basis I can tell you I wouldnt want to increase my risk of it at all. Still I think I can take it that no one has tried it

Did you read the comment above.

How's the drinking going?

On that note I'm off to find a nice dram before bed...

As for taking tablets I don't believe taking them to cure your issue would solve it. It may keep you awake longer but I'm sure they have been military tests where the use of them showed impaired decision making after long hours without sleep. And increasing the waking day is something the military have spent decades investigating.