A month of modafinil

[james_davis_nicoll]

What seems to work is half a pill in the morning and a half in the afternoon. More alertness but when it wears off, it wears off very quickly. Also not loving the minor head-ache I get about an hour after I take it.

Still not convinced that it improves cognition, but at least I don't feel tired all the time.

Comments

[james_davis_nicoll]

I tried once a day. The side effects were worse, and the crash was as well.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Bah. It turns out pill cutters are designed to cut pills in two, not other fractions.

[(Anonymous)]

Only seldom do I achieve a result that is close to 50-50.

William Hyde

[(Anonymous)]

You can ask if it comes in smaller doses. Pill splitters are a crude tool, at best, and are useless for odd-shaped pills.

-Awesome Aud

So, still no sign of superpowers? How disappointing.

[autopope]

Also, if it's a sustained release formulation you will bugger up its pharmacokinetics completely by cutting it up, with Bad And Unpredictable effects. (And one a day pills are often SR types.)

[bolindbergh]

Wikipedia says there are multiple mechanisms in use, and only some of them are affected by splitting.

[(Anonymous)]

Do the pills come with an informative leaflet that may cover that sort of thing?

Robert Carnegie