For the past two years I’ve taken 50-100mg/day of Provigil in crunch periods with excellent results. Have just finished my second prescription. I have taken 60 200mg pills over 2-years.

Bottom line, I’m nowhere near the programmer I used to be, but that’s not from the Provigil . . . I just am getting older.

Now, I spend more time working with younger guys are in their prime, and together we get a lot done. There are still crunches, and Provigil continues to be very helpful.

Certainly, there is no magic. However, I do believe that Provogil has extended my working life and improved my personal life.

Now, the reason I suggest that many entrepreneurs are ADHD is because of the similarity between the attributes of ADHD minds and ENTP personalities (meyers-briggs typology). ENTPs are always trying to find solutions to problems, and they are even called “The entrepreneurs” on many websites about MBTI. So, I guess my point is that just because many of these people are taking these drugs without a prescription, doesn’t mean they don’t need them. I would urge anyone who takes these drugs (I take adderall), to go speak to a doctor. It is a much cheaper, easier, and more legal way to do it. I think I’ll ask my doc about provigil…

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They are in little need of a rescue from anything…especially modern reality.

Other sleep disorder sufferers who take Provigil tell me that if you drink, then a) the alcohol undoes the effect of the Provigil (so the excessive sleepiness and other symptoms come back) and b) Provigil lowers your alcohol tolerance so you feel like absolute cr&p and it isn’t worth it. Oh and apparently combining Provigil or Ritalin with alcohol can be fatal. Then there are the other side effects. Diabetes as a side effect, anyone? Kidney failure? Your skin peeling off? My doctor made me read through all of them before I took my first lot of pills – it took a long time to read that list. I am stumped as to why anyone would risk this when they don’t have to.

Oh, and if you’re a girl, you should be aware that Provigil renders the contraceptive pill ineffective.

Nobody knows about the long-term effects or damage because it’s such a new drug. But thanks to all the idiots chowing down Provigil so they can enhance their performance when they are already healthy, those of us who take it because we actually NEED it have a hell of a time when, for example, we want to go abroad and take it with us. Thanks a bunch.

The short editorial includes many links to interesting articles and resources about mind enhancement, including a poll of scientists who use the relevant drugs.

After the editorial are four pages full of insightful discussion. Well-respected neuroscientists, including Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir, participate and moderate the discussion.

These warnings barely touch the surface of what has been coming out about this drug’s lethal side effects. I should know. Early in 2007 after being on Provigil for a few short weeks, I awoke in a completely delirious mental state which my wife thought was some sort of sleepwalking episode but which turned out to be brain hypoxia – my brain was getting so little oxygen that I became like a person who was in the midst of drowning. At the ER they could not locate evidence of a heart attack, but found that I was in cardiogenic shock and suffering from acute kidney failure as a result. The odds of surviving cardiogenic shock alone are only about 20-30%, and that’s if you develop it AT the hospital. I spent the next 9 days in a coma and on a mechanical respirator with little hope being revived, but somehow I did, and following a total of 32 days in an acute hospital including 22 in the ICU, I amazed all doctors involved, including my own primary care doctor, who had never seen anyone so thoroughly sick get so much better, in other words, live to see him again. I have been left with chronic renal failure and significant brain damage, and the lack of oxygen caused a subendocardial infarction, not to be confused with a myocardial infarction. If there are not a lot of people talking about the deadly nature of Provigil it is because of articles like this which tout Provigil as near-harmless, along with the fact that those who sustain the effects which I did usually can’t talk much about their experiences, what with being dead and all.