Modafinil/Provigil
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Modafinil/Provigil
I understand these drugs have been trialled and used by various agencies including military aviators. Anyone used them...do they perform as advertised? How about side effects, either at the time or long term?
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Google as always is your friend as here, 10 % of users report headaches, not sure that would be worth the benefit plus there is a warning about driving and operating machinery!
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Assume all ending in "-il" probably much the same stuff
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I remember a doctor explaining to me once that all symptoms experienced during drug trials have to be listed as possible side effects. In every drug trial, someone gets a headache. So headaches are listed as a possible side effect, even of headache pills...
Checking the leaflets that does seem to be the case with an awful lot of drugs.
Checking the leaflets that does seem to be the case with an awful lot of drugs.
Having emigrated to Canada some years ago and having to endure US TV drug commercials, I would probably advise against using your Welsh sounding drug. Eg: Something that is supposed to stop the ****s on holiday is advertised as having the side effect (in ultra small print) of giving you kidney failure, respitory difficulty and/or cardiopulmonary failure, and/or inducing suicide tendencies or death, and the ****s! I'd rather just take the risk as you probably do in your job.
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I'm amused that the original query on a drug used to heighten alertness has been overtaken by those see to keep old codgers (in which I include myself before anyone gets offended) hearts beating. I guess that says a lot about the average age here!
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BEagle,
Well spotted, Sir ! (sorry I missed it last week).
Am now reduced to Horlicks as my bedtime tipple, I have to say.
When you're down with 'flu, (which thank the Lord I'm not sir), Bovril is a life-saver, far better (IMHO) than anything else.
Danny.
Well spotted, Sir ! (sorry I missed it last week).
Am now reduced to Horlicks as my bedtime tipple, I have to say.
When you're down with 'flu, (which thank the Lord I'm not sir), Bovril is a life-saver, far better (IMHO) than anything else.
Danny.
