Modafinil is a highly effective smart medication that promotes focus, concentration, and wakefulness. It achieves these effects by altering the brain’s neurotransmitters. Originally created to treat narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and other common sleeping disorders. This smart drug has since then been used for other purposes too.
In most cases, Modafinil (also known as Provigil) does what it’s set out to do, but in rare cases it doesn’t ‘kick’ in as it’s supposed to. There are a few reasons why this smart drug won’t work for some users. We will explain it all in the following article.
Reasons Why Modafinil Doesn’t Work
It’s an uncommon occurrence that certain drugs just don’t work for certain individuals. If you are a first-time user and you haven’t experienced the wonders that Modafinil can do, then you are less prone to respond to its medicinal effects.
Between 95-98% of users do respond to Modafinil, but in rare cases it doesn’t work. There has been tests that has proven that users with an IQ level higher than 130, won’t feel the effects of the smart drug. So, if there’s no other explanation for it not working. It might be that you are a genius.
Click here to learn more about usage guidelines for first time users.
LONG-TERM USERS
Another reason why it might not be working is when you’ve become kind of immune to your dosage volume. Long-term users might have built up a strong immune against the smart drug. Even if it has worked wonders in the past, it might not have the same focusing effects after a few months like it had in the beginning. Your tolerance levels are completely messed up and you need to move back a bit. Make sure to cut back and reset your tolerance levels.
It might also be that another drug you are taking clashes with the effects Modafinil should have in your neurotransmitters. If you are on other medications, such as Inderal or Propranolol, Modafinil’s purpose might be jeopardized.
If you are using Modafinil and aren’t experiencing its wonders. Then it’s extremely important that you know the side effects and how it interacts with other drugs. To learn more about the drug’s effects when it’s combined with other medications, read here: https://www.everydayhealth.com/drugs/modafinil#affect
What Can You Do?
A QUICK TEST
After using Modafinil for more than a week without any results you can do a quick test. A quick test to make sure you are unresponsive to the drug, is to have a good night’s rest of 6-7 hours undisturbed sleep.
Take a 200mg tablet with water immediately after waking up. Don’t eat or drink anything else. Go back to bed after swallowing the pill and try to fall asleep. See whether you wake up within 1-2 hours. If you don’t wake up, then you might not be responsive to the drug and have to consult your doctor.
Best to do this test over the weekend or on a day where you don’t have much to do.
FOR LONG-TERM USERS
For long-term users who have become immune to the drug’s effects there are a few things you can do. Firstly, stop using Modafinil for a few weeks or even a month. Try to decrease the amount of times you take the smart drug, only using it once or thrice a week.
Lessen your dosage, some long-term users pop a 400-500mg tablet. This is by far a too high dosage taken on a regular basis. Rather take 200-300mg at a time.
Evidently, to make modafinil more effective you should firstly make sure that you are us taking the right dosage. Consult your doctor if at first the dosage amount doesn’t work for you. After adjusting your mg intake, and you still don’t feel any effects, then you can ask your doctor for an alternative that might work better with your body’s response.
No matter the reason for an individual using Modafinil, it’s extremely unlikely that it won’t work. In the rare cases that it doesn’t, you can refer to the above information for guidance.
As long as you maintain a healthy lifestyle and follow the exact dosage prescriptions from your doctor, then it should achieve what you want it to.
