I don't know if I mentioned it already but I lowered my Zyprex Zydis to 2.5mg for about 1.5 weeks, then to 1.25mg for about 19 days, then because of sleep disturbances (hypnopompic hallucinations) one night, I reverted back to 2.5mg Zyprexa Zydis, which I am currently taking.
Two days ago I got a new prescription for modafinil of 400mg/day. I don't plan to take 400mg every day though, I will explain this in a bit.
For about 2.5 weeks now I have been experimenting by taking 3 days off of modafinil, followed by 4 days on modafinil, thus my week consists of cycling modafinil on and off. This worked for the first week (after about 10 days of no modafinil, so if there was a tolerance effect it would have dissipated by the time I started taking modafinil again this time). In the second week (after a three-day off period), 100mg of modafinil was working for the first two days, however, by the third and fourth day it was not strong enough for me to fight off my excessive tiredness, so I slept for 14 hours those days. Actually, on the third day, I was too tired to get out of bed when my alarm went off after 10hours of being in bed, so I just slept in for 14 hours. And, on the fourth day, I did take 100mg of Modafinil, but it was not enough to fight off my tiredness, so I went back to bed shortly and slept for the remaining 4 hours to make 14 hours of bed time. [Note, in this paragraph, modafinil was at a dosage of 100mg on my on days, and I didn't go higher.]
Now for what's happening right now: Today is a start of my new week's cycle on modafinil after having taken a three day off period of modafinil. I took only 100mg upon waking and am doing well on only 10-10.5 hours of bed time. I plan to try taking 100mg again tomorrow to see how it will work (I don't expect there to be any problems). By the third day, I will take 100mg upon waking, however, I don't expect that it will be strong enough to fight off my sleep by that date (perhaps due to the tolerance effect), so I am willing to take additional modafinil pills to make my total modafinil dosage for that day 300-400mg. And, for the fourth day on modafinil, I plan to take 300-400mg again to fight off my excessive tiredness when waking with ~10hours of bed time. Then I will take a three day off period to allow my body to retain to homeostatic levels (according to my understanding that modafinil does work on neurotransmitters in the brain, although some say that there is not a tolerance effect). Then I will follow it up with another four-day on period of modafinil and will post further results in this post.
