Hi ADDForums Admin,

I am writing to request a new folder in the AD/HD meds section, a folder dedicated to discussing the med Modafinil/Provigil/Attenance. (It's not out as Attenance yet, but I think it may begin to be in 2006, at which time it will be labeled for AD/HD in children and adolescents aged 6-17.)

Would you create this folder? Thanks!

Flighty..... (hoping to be a little less flighty soon)

Less Flighty, :o

Could you possibly give us some links to the information you are gathering about this med.? I've been looking but doesn't seem that I am having the same success as you.

thanks,

Fly

Less Flighty, :o

Could you possibly give us some links to the information you are gathering about this med.? I've been looking but doesn't seem that I am having the same success as you.

thanks,
FlyHey Fly--

I think I know why you haven't been having the success that I have been having-- my research style is probably a little different than yours. I too have found only a little that specifically addresses the Provigil, but I don't look only for sources that offer authoritative information or conclusive evidence. See, I really think that the body of knowledge on neuroscience and attentional disorders is in its absolute infancy. I also have come to think that we are entering an era where we have to realize that almost no information is ever authoritative-- one source says dopamine does THIS, another source says it does THAT, one team of well-educated really smart researchers conduct studies that suggest THIS, another team of equally well-educated and equally really smart researchers conducts studies that suggest THAT. Same goes for so many areas of scientific knowledge. One year fat is the enemy, another year it's "watch out for carbs!" So I have adapted my style. I appreciate what the scientists do, but I don't think their answers are the be all and end all of conclusive evidence. Their answers are clues. My analysis of my own experience is a clue. The comments of people in this forum and others about their symptoms and their reactions to different drugs are clues. And I piece the clues together and make my own discoveries, or, to put it better, I make my own well-educated guesses. And I think my guesses are certainly as good as the scientists' guesses.

But your right, I really should explain the ideas swirling around in my head in a new thread. The problem is that the same difficulty that I have writing my papers, the difficulty grabbing hold of my thoughts rather than just dreamily experiencing them, may make it difficult for me to explain myself. I do think I really should though, the sooner the better, which will make it less likely that I will lose track of my own really good guesses. The best way to do this will probably be to just open up a new thread and allow myself to "project my reverie onto the screen", as I have described it earlier. This may seem like "diarrhea of the mind", but hopefully what I come up with will be better than... well, ya know! ;) Okay, I will try to start this tonight. :) And I will post links to my "clues".

Another ADD medication?

Are you sure this isn't a flight of fancy?

Sorry :-)

WTF - I don't know if I mentioned this before - but modafinil has been researched quite heavily by my psych and dept. - check out Dowson and Sahakian on Pubmed.
It seems quite effective.

Hope the drug does for you what it did for Sarah(22),

Fly guy (As in the film with Jeff Goldblum)

Sorry :-( !