In addition to humidifying your room, try not filling your humidifier tank all the way to the "fill" line. It's counter-intuitive, but I find it helps. Think about it: The humidifier heater can heat a smaller amount of water better than a larger amount of water. I've never had a machine that got the...

Snorer, those results look pretty good to me. I'm curious why you decided to abandon the trial. After all, it would appear you took a full dose for only one week and did not experience any significant side effects. Though I didn't explicitly say so, I haven't abandoned modafinil. I'm staying with t...

(Six months old but still news to me.) http://www.nature.com/news/narcolepsy-confirmed-as-autoimmune-disease-1.14413 Immunologist Elizabeth Mellins and narcolepsy researcher Emmanuel Mignot at Stanford University School of Medicine in California and their collaborators have now partly solved the mys...

DeadlySleep wrote:

Shore Snorer wrote: I'll continue with CPAP plus all my sleep hygiene habits

The oft-repeated mantra of this forum adds to your two points these two,

-regular moderate exercise
-healthy diet

Yep. From my original message in this thread: "I exercise regularly. I'm eating right, and I'm losing weight."

I've been on modafinil for about two weeks. I was given a fairly typical dose; I started on half a pill every morning for a week, then a whole pill every morning. Here are my experiences: Driving: Shore Spouse says I'm driving somewhat better on days I take modafinil, especially when I take a half d...

Congratulations on the good night's sleep!

Just thinking and wondering - your data says your OSA is therapeutically treated, but how would you describe your sleep quality? Do you remember waking up often at night? Do you sleep pretty much in place or is your sleep restless or fitful? May be way off base, just wondering if limb movements dur...

Thanks, houndlover. A few questions: I have read on here people feel like they get sensitized to it, studies with objective testing show that doesn't happen. Citation requested, please? Citation suggesting no tolerance: Randomized trial of modafinil for the treatment of pathological somnolence in na...

More information than you'll ever want: http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil

(Stop reading once you get to "We’ll ignore getting a legitimate prescription ...")

I started out on Provigil and when the price took off, Nuvigil is basically the same drug, just a little different composition, and they had the $50 co-pay deal on their website. I can't afford it now with my new high deductible insurance (thanks Mr, Obama!) because it is $500.00 a month for 30 tab...

I went to a new (to me) pulmonary specialist yesterday. He said he might suggest Modafinil after he sees the results of a test he prescribed. It is sometimes used for Residual Sleep Apnea (RSA). Apparently, I'm in that 6% who otherwise react satisfactorily to BPAP therapy, but still have RSA. Howev...

I recently saw a really good sleep doc. He knew exactly how to read a Sleepyhead report, and was able to see my AHI and leaks were both fine. He said, "Clearly there's no need to put you through another test just to verify what the CPAP data is already telling us." When I couldn't remember which mas...

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfi ... e_seconds/

The top comment is a 300 word primer to sleep hygiene (plus a comparison of fast vs. slow caffeine metabolizers).

Amateurs.

"Sleep Donation: A Novella" ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HRGXNQS ) A crisis has swept America. Hundreds of thousands have lost the ability to sleep. Enter the Slumber Corps, an organization that urges healthy dreamers to donate sleep to an insomniac. Under the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers ...

Enid, it will get better. It usually takes more than five nights. You may only need a few weeks on xPAP; you may need more. (If you have a chronic cough, consult a doctor, not a user forum. If a pulmonologist diagnosed you with sleep apnea and prescribed your xPAP, that's probably who you should tal...