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One thing my neuro has said is that he wants to do a sleep study to see if this gives anything that he can use for a prescription medicine. I understand this is quite expensive, even with insurance coverage. Maybe some of my fatigue is caused from sleep apnea. What do you do for the fatigue? Have any of you taken the generic? I am thinking about paying for the generic out of pocket if I can find it cheap enough. Thanks!

I dont know if this is accurate or not, but I thought it should be shared. I just read this in the "Health" Section of Foxnews.com I have heard a lot of really good things about Provigil, although I've never used it. It was recommended to me many times though. Just some food for thought. Seems EVERYTHING comes with its own set of dangers attached.

s still the sleep study (!) and some supplements that could potentially help. I’d go for the sleep study even if you don’t think you could tolerate CPAP. It could rule out a sleep disorder as the cause of LOTS of problems. You could even surprise yourself and decide it is worth wearing the thing for the benefit of being awake for the rest of your life :) Good luck.

Usually I get a sustaining day-after-Provigil-effect so even the day following Provigil I have slightly more energy than usual - enough to get by. I do have to get more rest, though, later in the day on days when I take Provigil - or else I have really scary symptoms. I nap longer and go to bed earlier on the day of a Provigil dose. My feeling is, we have to pay back, with rest, the tremendous energy that we "borrow" with the Provigil dose.

This year my insurance company denied it, and I had to do a sleep study test. This was to see if I had sleep apnea, which I do. So now they will cover it, but even with my insurance, it is over 100 dollars a month! I was just dx'ed w/ MS 2 weeks ago, so that may be why I had to do the sleep study. I do get anxiety, but I take clonipine for that anyway. My MD told me when he prescribed it that "the good thing about it is that you can still sleep while you're on it.

Hi, To answer your question: No I haven't heard of the sleep study for MS. My MS specialist and neurologist KNOW I experience pretty severe fatigue and they never once mentioned to have a sleep study done. (they don't know I had a sleep study or that I use the CPAP) forgot to mention it to them... I had a sleep study done back in April, before my MS symptoms began...(I was dx with asthma.... the pulmonologist asked if I had fatigue or did I snore..

This is my first day on Provigil, taking 200 mg this morning. This is an attempt to replace Adderall 15 to 30 mg per day. Provigil walloped my blood pressure. It dropped by 10 points when I check 12 hours after taking the first dose. I've been lethargic most of today. I finally took an Adderall so I could function.

It was me with whom the doctor was going to order the sleep study; however, I haven't seen my neuro, yet. I've talked to his nurse numerous times, and the sleep study thing dropped from the discussion. Since most of the time we play phone tag, I don't know the reason why. He ordered Ritalin and even sent his order through certified overnight mail, so I filled the prescription and started it the next day. I will see him Monday, so I will find out about the sleep study thing.

t need RLS medicine, to increase my provigil, and that the neuro will talk about my sleep study at my follow-up appointment, which is a month from now. This sleep study was done with my taking provigil daily.... I learned the hard way that waiting to take it until I was so sleepy I couldn't function doesn't work. I am the primary bread winner in my household. I have a teenager and a special needs child. I have a job I love. I am NOT crazy.

I was given Nuvigil to help me with the fatigue that is causing me to have to nap pretty much every afternoon. The prescription is for 250 mg, but the neuro said I could probably take a half a pill and be fine. The first day I took it I was fine. The second day I was wide awake until 1 am, so the next day I took it at about 9 am. All of those days I only took a 1/2 dose. The third time I was having rapid heartbeat and hand tingling off and on throughout the day.

we are starting to get real. Not sure if you want to try to replace the coke with provigil.....and thats probably what would happen. Check out ---- clinicaltrials.gov ----- and you will be able to find all trials in your area. It took my suppliers getting busted for me to wake up - - and my suppliers were in South America....................

My pharmacist told me that he was given provigil while he was stationed in Afganistan. He said that the US Army gives it out to soldiers to add extra alertness without the buzz.

t have the motivation to clean the house or do something productive when I get home from work or study for the GMAT again after bombing the first one I took (I'm actually an excellent student). I get upset pretty easy, I can't let things go and I'm hard on myself. My husband is chef and a musician so he's always doing something, he CAN'T sit still. So I feel lazy when I'm sitting on the couch watching TV and he's running around doing stuff.

I've been on provigil for a year and a half now- as needed (my job requires shift work). I also take pristiq for anxiety in which I've had for many years. In the last six months I've been dealing with w lot of troubling events that have taken a toll on me, my emotions, my stress level. In the last month or so I've noticed that I get really bad anxiety/nervousness about ten minutes after taking my provigil. It never used to do that before.

Modafinal a/k/a. Armodafinal or provigil. Same thing, but my original dosage, to get me through the day was 1000 I now take Armodafinal 250 mlg, 3 times a day.

If you want to give Provigil a try, go to their website, and you can download or call them and have them send you a coupon for a week's free trial. Have your doctor write it for 200 mg. and start by cutting them in half. I tried it that way, and it made such a difference in my life that I bought myself a prescription of it for Christmas; it was only (only, ha!) $306 at my pharmacy, so you might be able to find it for less than your first attempt.

How do I suggest to my PCP that I would like Provigil or Adderall for my EXTREME fatigue, to the poing of falling asleep while driving, without seeming to be drug seeking.? I have got to have something, I drive for a living! I am so afraid of having a wreck, but I can't tell my job I have this problem. I have to have this job for the insurance, since if I went on disability I couldn't get medicare for 2 years, and how do you pay for insurance on the pittance you get for disability?

hehe I wanted to ask you about Provigil...is it only for fatigue related to MS? Is this fatigue that you are talking about the sort where you just can't keep your eyes open and just can't function? I am having horrible sleepiness every two or three days and it is really disabling in that I can't drive or do anything that requires real normal alertness...I know I would fall asleep behind the wheel if I tried to drive while feeling this way. Does this sound familiar to you?

I just realized that I forgot to add that I also have hallucinations when I fall asleep or wake up. They are frightening and it sometimes feels like I am frozen and cannot move.

I would also suggest a sleep-study test. In trying to find a diagnosis, no doctors wanted to even consider I possibly had anything else until I had the tests from the endocrinologist, the sleep study, and had seen a psychiatrist. (I have been on antidepressants for years. The doctors thought that one of the ones I was on could have been causing the fatigue. I went through 6 months of weening off one, then another until I finally got on my current prescription.

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