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Re: Provigil Ineffective for MS Fatigue; Aspirin Might Help (Score: 1)
by tuckertd on Thursday, May 25 @ 14:12:38 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Grace,
I was very interested in this report.
I am just completing my 2nd week of provigil, currently at 200mg and will be moving to 300mg daily starting in a few days.
I have felt not benefit yet but am continuing in the hope that I will at some point.
The side-effects have been troublesome for me, increased dizziness, periods of intense agitation/anxiousness, and emotional instability (more than the usual). But, as these match well with the known side-effects, I''m continuing in the hope that they diminish and that I''ll soon feel the benefit to the fatigue problem.
If things don''t improve in the next week, I''ll be contacting my doctor to get approval to stop and instead move to acetyl l-carnitine. ALCAR was recently shown superior to amantadine in treating fatigue. I had previously tried amantadine without success.
You''re lucky you''ve found something that works well for you to treat fatigue.
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Re: Re: Provigil Ineffective for MS Fatigue; Aspirin Might Help (Score: 1)
by tedye on Monday, June 04 @ 21:02:40 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I do so agree with you, without provigil life sucks. I have been taking it for at least 5 years, and have never changed my dosage, but now I also take ritlin, the combo. is great. I have worked 12 hour rotating shifts as a Locomotive engineer for 10 years, after 6 I found out I have MS. To make this short the insurance company that carried me for the RR was changed. The first company had no problem with all my meds. When it was changed the new company refused to pay for my provigil as they said it was not FDA approved for MS. I inturn emailed the FDA and was and recieved email back the next day. My Doctor and I had been faxing request back to the insurance company for months tring to get it approved. The letter from the FDA stated that they approve meds for what a Doctor deemed necessary, or what the primary illness it was made for, the side effects, safty issues, ect, and that should I have anymore problems getting this presciption then I should contact the state insurance commision. I faxed this letter to my doctor who inturned faxed it to the insurance company and the next day the doctors office called and told me I was approved until the year 2099. But the reason for this long bit of info is that dry period the gave me ritlin which made me crazy but when I took the two togather I got my life back. I have a number of health issues MS sits at about #3. 6 bypasses and 2 back surgries. But Provigil gets me out of bed and keeps me out most of the day and no side effects with my other 13 prescription meds. I also take an aspirin a day and its only for my heart, it doesn''t seem to give me any extra spark.
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