When I started on Provigil, I was able to take a half dose (100mg) and it worked pretty well for the first month. I took Sundays off per the recommendation of my sleep doctor, because even though Provigil is technically a wakefulness promoter and functions differently from amphetamines like Ritalin and Adderall, you can benefit from
The end of the semester approaches. My first “real” semester of grad school. I have two very big deliverables at work due in December and January, consecutively. My orchestra just finished up its performing season, but we’ve also got a really big and really exciting concert to plan/coordinate for in January. Meanwhile, my husband’s got
The title is a lie. There are no adventures to speak of. The only thing to say about using modafinil is that I FEEL LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEING AGAIN, and it’s amazing. I can DRIVE. I can STAY AWAKE AT MY DESK. I can RUN ERRANDS. I can appear to be like other people without expending
I was baptized and raised in the Catholic church. If you, my dearest reader, can momentarily put aside your own thoughts on organized religion and its merits/detractions, then I hope you can at least recognize that reenactments of the crucifixion are graphic and potentially disturbing for a young child. I don’t even remember going a
So one of the reasons I started this blog was to talk about narcolepsy. Because, man, FUCK narcolepsy. I was diagnosed a little over a month ago, after nearly a decade of symptoms. The issues started while I was working my first Big Girl job, and thankfully it was a really low-stress place. So taking
