Does Methylphenidate Do The Same Thing As Provigil

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Medicare wants to switch me from provigil 200 mg once/day, which I have been taking to establish a sleep pattern successfully for 4 years, and replace it with methylphenidate. WIll it perform the same?

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Provigil contains the active ingredient Modafinil and Methylphenidate is a stimulant, but they are used to treat the same conditions.

The only way, however, to tell if it will work for you is to actually try it.

You may experience side effects, such as: nausea, headache, irritability and insomnia.

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Thank you for the info. It appears that Methylidate is basically, Ritalin. I noticed that the medication's half life is 24 hours, SO, if I take this in the morning to deal with Narcolepsy, and I plan on sleeping 16 hours later, it may cause insomnia (a problem I USED to have). High Anxiety is also a side effect, I take a medication for anxiety, as I worked a high pressure job for 12 to 14 hours a day for 25 years. I summarize that Methylidate would NOT be a viable substitute for Provigil in my case, but I have no options available to me (I can pay for provigil myself, but at $575/month for 30 doses, this is not really an option for me). -Do you think that I should try the above substitution, or ask my Dr. to help me in getting the Provigil, which has been working very well for me in conjunction w/ the other symptoms and meds I am now taking? Thanks !

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There is virtually nothing about Provigil (modafinil) and Ritalin (methylphenidate) that is the same. Ritalin is very, very good at what it's designed to do, as is Provigil - but they are not designed to do the same things.
I'm not a doctor, but I've never heard of Ritalin being used to treat sleep disorders.

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