Follow-Up: Help! This is not a reply but rather I need to know if any one has really been helped by Provigil. I have been on Ritalin for about a year and it has helped my EDS. Now my doctor thinks I'm dependent and has cut me down to almost nothing. He wants to try me on Provigil and I'm scared. I don't want to go back to how I felt before the Ritalin. It seems that most of the responses to how it works have been negative. Please tell me something positive.