126 patient evaluations for Modafinil

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Aug 27, 2011 (Started Apr 22, 1999)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence))
  • Effectiveness
    Major (for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (jittery feeling)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 400 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: jittery feeling

Dec 11, 2009 (Started Apr 22, 1999)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence))
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (jittery feeling)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 400 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Jitteryness does lessen
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: jittery feeling
  • 1 helpful mark

Dec 14, 2010 (Started Dec 01, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for narcolepsy)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 200 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Only complete relief for Narcoleptic symptoms I have ever found. I expected it to wake me up but it made me feel like an entirely new person. I had completely forgotten what being awake felt like! Unfortunately after my two week free trial insurance denied it. :/ have never been so happy with a medication since.
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 1 helpful mark

Jun 1, 2011 (Started Feb 02, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for fatigue)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Never taken as prescribed
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 200 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: It serves it's purpose, (fights fatigue)
Cost: $200+ monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Jan 1, 2011 (Started Sep 14, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for fatigue)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 200 mg Daily
Cost: $25-49 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

May 26, 2011 (Started Jul 18, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence))
  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for obstructive sleep apnea)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 300 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Got my life back. When combined with SSRI's was by far the best treatment for depression I have ever seen. It should be considered for trials for depression.....
Cost: $25-49 monthly
Side effects: hot flashes

Jun 19, 2010 (Started Jul 18, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence))
  • Effectiveness
    Major (for obstructive sleep apnea)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (hot flashes)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 300 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Life with out Modafinil is very ordinary. I was first diagnosed with depression two year before having a sleep study and OSA and somnolence was discovered. I wonder now if the depression was just a result of these two conditions. I am on 150mg of Setraline for the depression and since being on both that and 200mg of modafinil, I have my life back. I once could not walk past the bed and not want to get in. I often fell aslep if I lay down on the floor to play with my children. I was a zombie. Great drug. Worth every cent for my issues.
Cost: $25-49 monthly
Side effects: hot flashes
  • 2 helpful marks

Mar 1, 2011 (Started Oct 01, 2002)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 400 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: It was easy. It did not keep me from sleeping but it helped keep me awake during the day. No side effects. When my insurance stopped paying, I had to re-do other meds that were sedating. Provigil was necessary but insufficient to keep me awake.
Cost: < $25 monthly

Jul 6, 2010 (Started Oct 01, 2002)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 400 mg Daily
  • 0 helpful marks

Feb 24, 2011 (Started Jan 29, 2011)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for memory and cognition problems)
  • Side effects
    Moderate (for Overall) (anxious mood)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Side effects: anxious mood

Feb 24, 2010 (Started Jan 29, 2011)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for memory and cognition problems)
  • Side effects
    Moderate (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Advice & Tips: I was mor irriatble-stop taking.
Side effects: anxious mood
  • 1 helpful mark

Mar 22, 2011 (Started Apr 19, 2004)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for fatigue)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 400 mg Daily
Cost: $25-49 monthly

Oct 6, 2009 (Started Apr 19, 2004)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for fatigue)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 400 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Provigil use to help me more with my lassitude fatigue. I've been taken Provigil for at least eight years. I've notice that the drug does not seem to be working as well.
Cost: $25-49 monthly
  • 1 helpful mark

Dec 30, 2010 (Started May 05, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for fatigue)
  • Effectiveness
    Major (for excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence))
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 200 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Provigil worked wonderfully WITH admantadine... my insurance refused to pay for it anymore. My neuro introduced me to Nuvigil and it's been great!
Cost: $50-99 monthly

Aug 26, 2008 (Started May 05, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 200 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Take it early in the morning, don't go much past 10am or it can cause insomnia. If it causes insomnia at 200mg, go to 100mg dose and see how it goes with the half does for starters. It may build up in the system so that later down the road you may have to increase it.
Cost: $50-99 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Mar 25, 2011 (Started Aug 18, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for fatigue)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Never taken as prescribed
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: As needed
  • 0 helpful marks
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