I suffer a lot from fatigue, not so much sleepiness, but more muscle fatigue . Sometimes I can only take a few steps before my legs get so tired I have to sit down and rest. My neuro has just prescribed modafinil . Has anybody any experience of this drug helping muscle / strength / energy fatigue ? John H
Hi I started Modafanil a couple of months ago and on the whole I’ve found it beneficial for me. In saying that, that is because I have been using it to counteract excessive sleepiness rather than muscle fatigue. It has made no difference to how feel within myself, the major change for me is that I am able to get up at a reasonable time now rather thank languishing in bed most of the morning because I feel as though I could do with a few more hours sleep. I have gone from sleeping nearly 12 hours a night to sleeping 8 - 9 whuch has made a huge difference to my daily life. However I’m sorry to say I’d be very surprised if Modafanil would help with muscle fatigue. Sorry, I’m sure this isn’t the answer you want to hear and maybe someone out there has a different experience and it has helped them in the way you are hoping it just hasn’t been that way for me. Ann Marie xxx
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I tried Modafanil and it did nothing at all for me, didn’t feel any different whatsoever, but I guess it works differently for everyone.
Wendy x
I have a friend who was prescribed it for muscle fatigue, I’m not sure if it worked I did take it and worked for a year then kinda stopped working and it was giving me vertigo also and fuzzy brain.
Her muscles worked alot better as she can walk about more and even stick the kettle on for me since taking Ampyra which she has to pay for.
I myself moved to Amantadine and only took 1 a day as this was enough, a year later fatigue has strangely vanished after 3 years of suffering with it.
Thanks for your comments. Seems to help some people but not others. I hope I’m one of the lucky ones !
It’s a great mood enhancer and also excellent if you have missed sleep. I was prescribed it for excessive sleepiness but found the excessive sleepiness went away when I started taking Fampyra (another neuro enhancer, but one you have to pay for). I did try the Modafinil for a while after reading an article about it, entitled ‘Me, only better: my life on neuro enhancers’ by an academic with MS who takes it. I’m always quite ‘up’ but I felt I was so bubbly as to be annoying when I was on Modafinil. I stopped taking it after a couple of weeks - my husband takes it now if he’s jet-lagged.
Generations of students have depended on nothing more potent than gallons of black coffee to enable them to burn the midnight oil when studying. But now a far more sinister stimulant is sweeping campuses. With unemployment among graduates at record levels, more and more students are turning to ‘cognitive enhancing drugs’ in the hope of boosting their grades and therefore their job prospects. The most popular of these drugs is Modafinil, a prescription-only stimulant used by doctors to treat patients suffering from the sleeping disorder narcolepsy.
[quote=“Graham 100”] Generations of students have depended on nothing more potent than gallons of black coffee to enable them to burn the midnight oil when studying. But now a far more sinister stimulant is sweeping campuses. With unemployment among graduates at record levels, more and more students are turning to ‘cognitive enhancing drugs’ in the hope of boosting their grades and therefore their job prospects. The most popular of these drugs is Modafinil, a prescription-only stimulant used by doctors to treat patients suffering from the sleeping disorder narcolepsy. [/quote] Graham, students have always used whatever they could get their hands on to pull the all-nighters required to deal with not having quite started that essay yet. They still do: no change there. In my day, it was Pro-Plus and cigarettes. If it is bootleg modafinil instead these days, it is not obvious to me that that is worse. 
Alison