Nicole,
Basically all I was wondering is if when you are on provigil, if it
feels like you are on a stimulant.  Not so much about the abusability.
Thank you for your reply though.
Also, as a side note, I hope that you are getting adequate therapy for
your pain needs, as I know that the DEA has overshadowed the needs of
some chronic pain patients, in spite of the intractable pain act.
regards,
tram

Um, I wouldn't want to have all those problems just to get a Provigil
script. Unfortunately, if I tell the truth and say I like to stay up all
night and then get up early and still have a productive day, I don't think
many physicians would buy it. In fact, were I a physician I wouldn't buy it
either, so what's a fellow to do?  :-)

Rediscover coffee after they have virtually made ephedrine all but illegal
in my state? No, not 100% illegal, I can pay a pharmacy $41 for an off
brand, for what Rexall used to sell for $3.97 for the same quantity of an
Eli Lilly name brand product (100 tablets x 25 mg.), but I would rather just
bitch than pay $37 more than I used to pay just because pharmacies are as
bad as gas stations ... when there's a scarcity, or just a perceived
scarcity, pharmacies are as likely to engage in price gouging as gas
stations. The only difference is the cops will arrest crooked gas station
owners but they won't arrest crooked pharmacists in a million years because
pharmacists don't post drug prices in conspicuous public places like gas
station owners do with gas prices; only a regular customer would know a
gouge where a gouge exists where a pharmacy is concerned.

Last of all I don't care that ephedrine is used as a precursor for illegal
methedrine manufacture. I think the effects of ephedrine are good enough for
me without chemical alteration, so why do innocent people like me have to be
punished because some people use it for the wrong thing? In fact, in my
state, you can be convicted of intent to manufacture methedrine for just
having two items used in the production of the drug.

I don't know ANYONE, out of every one I know, who doesn't have water and a
thermometer in their homes. According to the legislative rationale we're all
felons right there, so I'm not going to say what state I'm in because I
don't want mom, dad, all my brothers and sisters, cousins, friends,
grandparents, doctors, lawyers, butchers, clergymen and clergywomen,
priests, nuns, barbers, well I could type a million more professions because
there are millions of people in my state, and I don't want them all to have
felonies on their record because they all own two items necessary in the
production of methedrine (and if I tell, then you tell, and we're all
screwed).

I just expound to illustrate the fact that just because you have a precursor
for a controlled substance in your possession it is not the same as having
the controlled substance itself, just as having water and a thermometer does
not automatically lead any person with half a brain to the conclusion that
the owners of these materials have plans to make illegal drugs with them.
Intuitively I assume the intent of this new law is "any two items which do
not have any common household use and which are almost exclusively used in
said concentrations for the purpose of producing meth," but that is not what
the law says, so a zealous prosecutor could use the law as it is presently
worded to get a warrant against any person in the state who has water and a
thermometer. Any lawyer with one-tenth of a brain could easily argue for
his/her client successfully if said "logic" were used to get a warrant, I
only mention it on principle and not because I take the situation seriously.
If I took it seriously I wouldn't write about it in a newsgroup that will be
archived in thousands of places and may potentially be accessible for
hundreds of years. All it means is a lot of feedback -- maybe not all at
once but over a period of time -- and people are often influenced by what
they read: sometimes positively, sometimes negatively, but regardless, once
it's read it's mentally archived, so when the time to vote comes around
people may be influenced without even knowing why. Pretty funny, huh?

Use the newsgroups, get your ideas out, get feedback, think, form opinions,
acquire knowledge, assimilate, absorb, grow. (not in any particular order)