Seems like I can tolerate higher doses afanils then most people I really love the shit and feel like such a lazy fuck without Flmodafinil. It gets me outta bed knowing I can dose and then chill back for 30mins and then zoom... let's get this show on the road.
The duration is long as fuck and it's not fiendish or anything you kinda just opt to redose if you feel like it. Honestly I prefer it to amphetamine in ways cuz there isn't any crash and sure it's not as euphoric but it still retains so many of the benefits that's it's a fair compromise. Thinking about picking up some 4-Clmodafinil next as the thought of having no stims really gets me stressed out. I'm pretty broke now tho and need to try and put off drug purchases another week or so because supposed to be getting larger amount of money each week soon, fingers crossed.
Yeah man, afinils are the nuts. I also prefer them to amphetamine on the whole I think although I tend to alternate them these days and think they both have their pluses and minuses. Having been doing modafinil, primarily armodafinil, for a long time now a lot of the motivation enhancement effects have faded and I can sometimes just end up feeling really wired but still unfocused. I think it makes me anxious sometimes too so I tend to combine with downers. I think the long duration of both, particularly armodafinil, is a killer because it starts to affect your sleep whether you notice it or not, and if you take it long term you probably are messing with your sleep cycle more than is healthy or sustainable.
Flmodafinil the shorter duration is something I really liked - I know you just said it was long, been a while since I did it, can't remember exactly - but I'll bet it's still not a patch on the insane lengthiness of armodafinil. I also think that higher doses of flmodafinil are a lot more forgiving. I would suggest if you do get the chance to try armodafinil that you might find higher doses harder to tolerate. Not to the point you'd be in any real danger, I'm sure, it's prescribed in narcoleptics up to 300mg armoda, 400mg moda, or maybe even twice that, and I've heard stories of people taking even bigger doses, like 1600mg. When I took 300mg armodafinil I found it uncomfortably overstimulating, I wasn't feeling in any danger but was just so wired, too scatterred to concentrate on anything, and after a point if you use it enough I think it does start to feel hard on your heart... but that could be prolonged sleep deprivation too, less sleep generally = more stress and other negative health effects.
All that said... I've taken armodafinil or modafinil every single day, well, maybe with 1-2 days a week off, for months at a time, and when I quit I did feel a bit flat and useless for a while but bounced back pretty quickly and everyone I've spoken to has experienced the same. You can bet if I took straight amphetamine as often, after a couple of months I'd be a lot more fucked. I have a love/hate relationship with it sometimes but I still say it's a miracle drug in many ways, the entire afinil class is very interesting. I posted a thread a while back about some experimental analogues only trialled in rats and there were some very interesting results - one in particular showed much higher affinity for DAT than even R-moda while still displaying the same exceeding slow tolerance curve and lack of other neurological adaptations... of course that doesn't translate to a drug for humans, maybe the rats all got brain damage a few weeks later or cancer or this drug is toxic in other ways... but my takeaway was that there's still potential with this class for substances even closer to traditional stimulants with associated euphoria, recreational side effects, while maintaining the same surprising safety profile.
I know "euphoria" and "potential for recreation" are not typically seen as desirable traits in "functional" drugs, and I'll admit they can be distracting but I still believe it to be just an engineering problem where the engine is the brain, how to be as happy and euphoric as possible at all times without losing the will to do anything so the human species doesn't just fizzle out in a heap of decadent euphoric stupor...
Edit: Also, have you ever tried phenylpiracetam (or p-Cl-phenylpiracetam, phenylpiracetam hydrazide), or RGPU-95? They're all atypical stimulants, in many ways very similar to modafinil and it's analogues. Phenylpiracetam in particular I would say could be indistinguishable from modafinil in someone naive to both - and perhaps even with even less side effects. Only downside is tolerance shoots up like a rocketship, impossible to use every day or even every other day really, once or twice a week probably is the max without seriously diminished effects, which is a shame. It has a shorter duration also, around 6-8 hours, IIRC. The other 2 are analogues I haven't tried - RGPU-95 is another analogue I
have tried and is supposed to have some kind of GABAergic addition, in a fairly dubious Russian paper it was compared to diazepam and it has some stimulating effects, but personally I found it weaker than just straight phenylpiracetam. But, if you're curious about atypical stimulants with extremely high safety profiles and minimal side effects, they're definitely worth a look...