What’s your thoughts on the modvigil brand? I have some in the mailbox today to try out.
I have never seen a labtest reveal any brand of Moda to be "underdosed", despite the huge variation people report experiencing from brand to brand.
It all comes down to bioavailability, which is very low with raw modafinil.
Onset time, peak strength, duration, are all determined by how the tablet is formulated and manufactured. Worst case scenario 50% of the active ingredient is never even absorbed. As a side note, the FDA recently put out a memo that compounding pharmacies, which make custom formulations of medicines for various purposes, should not attempt to make modafinil products because proper bioavailability requires so much expertise
to ensure.
The more "serious" the pharma company is, the more resources they have to do it "right" the better the Moda.
Sun Pharma is part of a multi-billion dollar generic pharma group. Sun's Modalert is at the top of the heap for reliability and overall strength (except for sublingual Moda).
Modvigil is made by HAB Pharma, also a serious generic manufacturer. It's got different properties which I'd say is perhaps 80% of Modalert peak strength and slightly shorter duration. HAB also makes the best Armodafinil tabs, Artvigil. You can't go wrong with HAB. As everyone charges really high prices for small quantities of Modalert now Modvigil blows it away in value for the money. The expensive aluminum on aluminum blister pack they use is actually top notch for preservation and typically reserved for very expensive meds. HAB has a second formulation called Modawake, which comes on faster, is stronger than Modvigil at the peak, but has an even shorter duration. Presumably the tab is made to dissolve faster. You can see the difference between it and Modvigil. Finally Modvigil MD is their hard to find flavored sublingual rapid onset tab that comes on very quickly, is strong. and wears off rapidly. Don't confuse it with the less effective Modafin MD by Intas pharma.
