I took Adrafinil the other day for the first time. However it's as though it always makes me tired (also disoriented). Here's how it went:
06 March 2013( I had woken up at 1600 on 5 March 2013)
My package of 10g of Adrafinil came in the mail around 1300. I had ordered this a week earlier on EBay from NootraBioLabs.
I prepared my station to make 00 size capsules. I made 50 capsules, each one containing approximately 200mg of Adrafinil,
with a standard deviation of approximately 30mg. I did take into consideration the mass of the capsules themselves, which is
on average 110mg.
The capsules were finished around 1430.
*I would like to note the smell of the Adrafinil; it smelled very sweet with a strong scent of some chemical similar to the blue asthma inhalers (Salbutamol, Ventolin
Terbutaline, Bricanyl **??)
It was now 1600, and I had been awake for about 24 hours (I was cramming for midterms for that day and I had a dinner/ ceremony to go to that evening).
I had separated out approximately 50mg from one capsule into another for my first go. As the evening progressed, I noticed certain levels of my tiredness alleviate.
By 1730 my body was still feeling dreadfully tired (that sharp chill feeling of being pale), but my mind was much more awake. I had started to become more talkative,
attentive, and focussed.
I had stayed until 1930. When I got home around 2100 I fell asleep very fast.
07 March 2013
I woke up feeling wonderful around 0600. It was the best nights rest I had had in 10 months.
I had my breakfast, took some vitamins, fish oil, and ColdFX, then popped the pill that had the remaining 150mg of Adrafinil.
I took the next bus and made it to school for 0700. I wanted to go study in the library for a midterm that day at 1100.
At around 0800, I started to feel a buzzing tiredness with no desire to sleep. This went on for hours, into and beyond my midterm.
I got home around 1400, and took a 200mg capsule thinking that it might help a bit.
It did help about an hour later, and lasted for a few hours.
At around 1800, the buzzing tiredness came back. I proceeded to ignore it as I continued school work.
I went to bed around 2100 again.
08 March 2013
I had woken up at about 0430, feeling tired and groggy. I assume it was due to the slight lack of sleep.
My morning went similar to the way it did the day previous, only starting at 0430. I had continued my morning with Lumosity and
homework. At around 0900, I again started to feel that buzzing tiredness. I made it to school for 1030 for a lab at 1100.
After my lab I, noticed that as I was walking, I was veering. I could only tell that I was veering visually, not through fluid motion in
the semi-circular canals in the ears. Needless to say, I was becoming slightly disoriented.
I got home around 1300
At about 1400, I was so tired that I had to go to sleep. I considered popping another Adrafinil, but decided not to.
I woke up again at 1600. Proceeded with a boring Friday evening and went to sleep at 2000.
09 March 2013
I woke up at 0530.
I have yet to take Adrafinil or my vitamins.
It is now 0752 and I think at 0800 I am going to take my vitamins and an Adrafinil.
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If the effects of Adrafinil continue the way they are, I am going to have to stop using it.
I have also ordered some Modafinil from ModUp.Net. It's only a generic version of Provigil. I won't expect that
to arrive for another month. This is partly the reason I purchased Adrafinil. I wanted to get a sense of what
Modafinil was like before I tried it.
My initial reaction to the smell of Adrafinil was suspicion. I searched up the smell of it, but could only find
answers that I could not relate my experiences with. As I said earlier, to me it smells very sweet with a
strong scent of a blue asthma inhaler (Salbutamol, Ventolin Terbutaline, Bricanyl**??).
Due to my experiences, I wonder if what I have is not of good quality.
Edited by SerpentFish, 09 March 2013 - 01:05 PM.
