I have been running modafinil for three years and the honest summary is that the effect is smaller than the internet suggests and real.
I have started logging dose, time, and sleep because otherwise the anecdote is just a mood.
If you need three other compounds to notice the first one, you have not tested the first one.
Appetite suppression makes the sleep problem worse, which is the actual trap.
How do you separate the compound effect from the routine around it?
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Read methods. Three years in on modafinil and it lines up.
Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all? How long have you been on modafinil?
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.
Narrow conclusion, briefly right. Broad conclusion, interestingly wrong. I know which I keep choosing.
Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at.
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero?
Most of what is called evidence here is one person, one vial, one month.
Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.
Narrow conclusion. Currently on modafinil myself.
Reconstitution arithmetic is only half the problem. The other half is what was in the vial.
Sleep, food, or the compound? Yes.
My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing. How long have you been on modafinil?
Same here.