Sandin Face
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OK, I know this one's (supposed to be) a performance enhancer for the mind, rather than the bod, but maybe someone here has some experience with it, and can give some opinions of the pros and cons.
I bought some back in November, but was waiting for some health tests so that I would have a base-line for any experimentation (as mentioned here: http://ausbb.com/showthread.php?p=520962#post520962).
I'm basically a lazy and disorganized bastard, and I'm looking for a majic pill to fix this. I was first alerted to M by that blog with the oiled coffee, and it sounds like good stuff.
Here's my experience so far, in diary form:
Saturday last - drove back home, from a big family Xmas in the bush. Lots had been drunk over the preceeding week, and it was a long drive.
Sunday - pretty tired - slept much of the morning. Had a beer and a bottle of red with dinner. Bed (with benefits) around midnight.
Woken around 4am by some bloody burglar alarm nearby.
Monday - did a few domestic jobs during the day; didn't have any alcohol. Making all sorts of plans for getting my act together on a number of fronts, in the new year (hopefully with the help of M).
Did my first serious workout since Xmas.
Bed around midnight - no action but - Mrs well asleep by then.
Tuesday - woke up 6am, full of resolve (note - at this stage, I hadn't taken any M). Took my first dose of 100mg of M (half a 200mg pill) at 6.15am. Had tea (as usual), and made a reasonably good start on tidying up my study - made quite a lot of floor space visible, by stacking piles of junk on top of each other. Bustled about with various things during the day, but probably didn't really achieve much. Did an arm workout in the late afternoon.
Now here's where I seriously breach proper drug trial protocol - I put another untested chemical into the system. I'd also bought some generic Cialis, and it had also been waiting, untried, in my pharmacoepia. I'd never had this or anything like it before ...
So, I swallowed a quarter of a 20mg pill at 7.20pm ... well (after a pleasant BBQ with friends, at which a not excessive amount of beer and wine was drunk by me), come midnight - a most impressive pump was achieved. This stuff is really something ... but I digress ...
Wednsday - woke up bright and early, feeling like the cat that had split the canary. Took another 100mg of M at 6.15 am.
I the morning, half an hour after I had taken the M, and (stupidly) after I had done my daily 30 pushups, I measured my bloodpressure:
209/74 WTF! - I measured it on the other arm - 155/75.
About an hour later, I measured on each arm again: 156/75 and 150/72.
45 mins after that, I measured again - 103/78 and 141/77.
This is funny - it's one of those automatic blood pressure machines, with a computer (rather than an experienced doctor) deciding when to make the pressure readings, so it can be confused by various things. My theory is that my arms (at least the left one) were too pumped by the previous afternoon's arm workout, and also by the morning's pushups, and so neither the 209 (if that were real, I'd be dead) nor the later 103 (I'm never that low, either) systolic readings were real. Have any of yous muscly-armed gents had difficulty getting blood pressure readings?
Nevertheless, the pressure readings of around 150 are probably real, and are higher than one would like.
I was busy all day, but, in retrospect, my achievements don't seem to have been much. No exercise apart from the morning pushups. No alcohol taken this day. A mutually enjoyable bedrooom experience was had around midnight.
Thursday (today) - not quite so bright, and not quite so early this morning. Blood pressure immediately after rising (about 7am) was 124/82 and 127/82 - OK.
Took another 100mg M at 7.15am - I really have a whole lot of things to get done, and a schedule of New Year's resolutions to knuckle down to ...
Also took another 5mg of the love drug about 8am - however, my enhanced stamina did not find such an appreciative match in a weary wife this morning.
Today, I've had a bit of a headache most of the day, and have been feeling mentally tired. It's been very hot most of the day, so that has been a confounding factor, but I think it's more than heat for me.
Have done pretty much fuck all today. Did a light (mostly arms) workout this arvo, and got both surpriningly pumped (muscle-wise, that is), and briefly sore. The weight wasn't much, but many of the exercises were ones I don't often do.
So, here I am - the excessive length of this post shows that the M is having some mental effect on me, but is it doing me any good? Should I have more tomorrow? Should I give it a rest, and maybe try 200mg in a week or so? (100mg seems to be a fairly low dose, as far as reports on the internet go, but the stuff is sold [also] in pills of 100mg, so this amount must be the right dose for some people and purposes)
Also, and most significantly on this forum, does modafinil have any known or likely detrimental effects on muscle building, or other bodily things?
One last thing to note is that it seems to be having a mildish appetite suppressant effect on me. For some people this might be a positive; for others a negative.
I bought some back in November, but was waiting for some health tests so that I would have a base-line for any experimentation (as mentioned here: http://ausbb.com/showthread.php?p=520962#post520962).
I'm basically a lazy and disorganized bastard, and I'm looking for a majic pill to fix this. I was first alerted to M by that blog with the oiled coffee, and it sounds like good stuff.
Here's my experience so far, in diary form:
Saturday last - drove back home, from a big family Xmas in the bush. Lots had been drunk over the preceeding week, and it was a long drive.
Sunday - pretty tired - slept much of the morning. Had a beer and a bottle of red with dinner. Bed (with benefits) around midnight.
Woken around 4am by some bloody burglar alarm nearby.
Monday - did a few domestic jobs during the day; didn't have any alcohol. Making all sorts of plans for getting my act together on a number of fronts, in the new year (hopefully with the help of M).
Did my first serious workout since Xmas.
Bed around midnight - no action but - Mrs well asleep by then.
Tuesday - woke up 6am, full of resolve (note - at this stage, I hadn't taken any M). Took my first dose of 100mg of M (half a 200mg pill) at 6.15am. Had tea (as usual), and made a reasonably good start on tidying up my study - made quite a lot of floor space visible, by stacking piles of junk on top of each other. Bustled about with various things during the day, but probably didn't really achieve much. Did an arm workout in the late afternoon.
Now here's where I seriously breach proper drug trial protocol - I put another untested chemical into the system. I'd also bought some generic Cialis, and it had also been waiting, untried, in my pharmacoepia. I'd never had this or anything like it before ...
So, I swallowed a quarter of a 20mg pill at 7.20pm ... well (after a pleasant BBQ with friends, at which a not excessive amount of beer and wine was drunk by me), come midnight - a most impressive pump was achieved. This stuff is really something ... but I digress ...
Wednsday - woke up bright and early, feeling like the cat that had split the canary. Took another 100mg of M at 6.15 am.
I the morning, half an hour after I had taken the M, and (stupidly) after I had done my daily 30 pushups, I measured my bloodpressure:
209/74 WTF! - I measured it on the other arm - 155/75.
About an hour later, I measured on each arm again: 156/75 and 150/72.
45 mins after that, I measured again - 103/78 and 141/77.
This is funny - it's one of those automatic blood pressure machines, with a computer (rather than an experienced doctor) deciding when to make the pressure readings, so it can be confused by various things. My theory is that my arms (at least the left one) were too pumped by the previous afternoon's arm workout, and also by the morning's pushups, and so neither the 209 (if that were real, I'd be dead) nor the later 103 (I'm never that low, either) systolic readings were real. Have any of yous muscly-armed gents had difficulty getting blood pressure readings?
Nevertheless, the pressure readings of around 150 are probably real, and are higher than one would like.
I was busy all day, but, in retrospect, my achievements don't seem to have been much. No exercise apart from the morning pushups. No alcohol taken this day. A mutually enjoyable bedrooom experience was had around midnight.
Thursday (today) - not quite so bright, and not quite so early this morning. Blood pressure immediately after rising (about 7am) was 124/82 and 127/82 - OK.
Took another 100mg M at 7.15am - I really have a whole lot of things to get done, and a schedule of New Year's resolutions to knuckle down to ...
Also took another 5mg of the love drug about 8am - however, my enhanced stamina did not find such an appreciative match in a weary wife this morning.
Today, I've had a bit of a headache most of the day, and have been feeling mentally tired. It's been very hot most of the day, so that has been a confounding factor, but I think it's more than heat for me.
Have done pretty much fuck all today. Did a light (mostly arms) workout this arvo, and got both surpriningly pumped (muscle-wise, that is), and briefly sore. The weight wasn't much, but many of the exercises were ones I don't often do.
So, here I am - the excessive length of this post shows that the M is having some mental effect on me, but is it doing me any good? Should I have more tomorrow? Should I give it a rest, and maybe try 200mg in a week or so? (100mg seems to be a fairly low dose, as far as reports on the internet go, but the stuff is sold [also] in pills of 100mg, so this amount must be the right dose for some people and purposes)
Also, and most significantly on this forum, does modafinil have any known or likely detrimental effects on muscle building, or other bodily things?
One last thing to note is that it seems to be having a mildish appetite suppressant effect on me. For some people this might be a positive; for others a negative.
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