Based on previous logs, if I did not take the methylphenidate I would be nodding off more often and longer.

Sunday May 5, 2002: 
180 21:00-24:00 pm sleep with 5mg Ambien

Monday May 6, 2002
  9 01:50-01:59am catnapped
  8 03:45-03:53am catnapped
210 05:15-08:45am slept
 12 09:33-09:45am catnapped
    09:45 took methylphenidate, 10mg
  6 10:52-10:58am catnapped
  8 11:12-11:20am catnapped
    11:25 cigarette
    11:40 coffee
    12:10-Observation/Conclusion: In regards to cheap narcolepsy and insomnia treatments and the request for an expensive  sleep study which Blue Cross/Blue Shield will not cover, I feel like the cancer patient in pain who will not get a painkiller because he can not and his insurance will not pick up the cost of expensive treatment. Needing to sleep and work--and not being able to do either--is painful.
    12:28 First time felt awake and not drowsy. Alert.
    13:20 Drowsy, smoke small cigar
    13:40 2 liter mountain dew start
 11 15:48-15:59 catnap
    16:47-18:10 Walk
    19:00-drowsy, cup of coffee, walk around block
    21:40-ambien 5mg
May 7===========
210 01:10 woke up (went to bed at 21:40)
125 02:05-04:10 Sleep
    08:00 Methylphenidate 10mg
  5 08:30-8:35 catnap
    08:36 walk and cigar
    08:50 Mountain Dew 2-liter
 25 09:32-9:57 catnap, snoring woke me
    10:40 First time felt alert
 10 11:18-11:28 catnap
    11:29 walk
  9 13:10-13:19 catnap
  8 15:27-15:33 catnap
 10 19:02-19:12 catnap
 30 22:10-22:40 bed with Ambine, woke up
150 23:15-01:40 woke up
May 8
  5 04:50-4:55 slept
    07:00 coffee
    08:30 methylphenidate 10mg
    08:40 cigar & walk
  5 09:05-09:10 catnap
    08:55 Mountain dew 2 liters
    09:23-10:10 Walk to wake up
 45 10:20-11:05 Nap, deep sleep
 42 13:23-14:05 down
 17 15:32-15:49 down
    15:50 cigar
 10 17:15-17:25 catnap
 15 19:10-19-25 catnap
    20:20 ambien

May 9
    04:40 woke up
06:53 nap