Posted by bleauberry on November 3, 2007, at 19:07:14
In reply to Naughty Provigil........!!!, posted by Mishal on November 1, 2007, at 6:12:02
You might want to take a microscopic look at other things in your daily routines to see if you can identify any triggers that set off the seeminigly temporary bipolar reaction that otherwise seems to work fine most times. I get the hunch it could be something else, not the provigil itself. It is thrown off by something else.
Take a food diary. Write down every single thing you eat and drink and what times you did so, all the way until your next (hopefully won't happen) episode. There could be something setting it off. Maybe a sugar thing, a caffeine thing, a protein thing, or some food you are intolerant or allergic to but you are not aware of it. Many people are gluten intolerant and don't know it. My GP says the most common intolerance he sees in patients is to the red food coloring in many processed foods. Yellow is common. How about MSG? Avoid it like the plague. Same with aspartame. Anyway, you might very well discover trends in your daily moods with a food diary.
What about the time of the month? Could be hormonal. If it repeats with any kind of regular pattern, you may be on to something.
To shut down one of those episodes quickly, you can get a lot of aid from any of these: magnesium taurate, magnesium glycinate, or any magnesium in an emergency, taurine, glycine, valerian, passionflower. You could take a bath for about 20 to 30 minutes with 2 to 4 cups of epsom salts in it (magnesium sulfate) which will absorb through your skin. It can calm things down in a couple hours.
In any case, I think you might be good to yourself to not be so quick to point the finger at provigil, but instead hunt for the trigger that sets those episodes off.
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