What is Nuvigil?
Nuvigil™ is a brand name for armodafinil, a stimulant that is used to improve wakefulness in patients with excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy and shift work sleep disorder; and as adjunctive therapy for obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence) | 25 |
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6 | ||
| Fatigue and sleepiness | 19 |
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4 | ||
| Fatigue | 14 |
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4 | ||
| Brain fog | 5 |
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1 | ||||
| Try to see if it works better than Provigil | 5 |
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1 | ||||
| ADHD-Inattentive Type | 3 |
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See all 61 patients currently taking Nuvigil
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Nuvigil. See all 11 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Other
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5 | 42% |
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Expense
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2 | 17% |
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Side effects too severe
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2 | 17% |
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 8% |
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Doctor's advice
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1 | 8% |
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Change in health plan coverage
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1 | 8% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 8% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
Patient Evaluations
See all 14 patient evaluations
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- ChloeJ.
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 1
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 4
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: None
- 61 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
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- ChloeJ.
- 75 mg daily
- since Jul 18, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence)
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips It may affect your mood as well as your sleep problem See full evaluation
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- Candildy
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: severe
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- Candildy
- since Oct 19, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Fatigue and sleepiness
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips For me I need to make sure that I don't over do it just because I think I can. I can still wear myself out and be a basket case for days. See full evaluation
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- TIREDNSICK
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: All
- Stickman: all
- Description:F38y
- FM:4y Dx
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- TIREDNSICK
- 250 mg daily
- since Sep 11, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Narcolepsy
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Side Effects
Mild
- See full evaluation
See all 14 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.