Ixamyakxim: So I'm sure I'm violating some sort of unwritten Insomnia GoG rule but I have to know, and now damnit! ;) I'm playing Miasmata (I know, I know a non-insomniac game, what can I say?). Does anyone who has played this game know if I can make the stat increasing drugs more than once? I just made one that jumped my Perception from "Low" to "Normal" - if I make the exact same drug again, will it work? Yes, I'm taking advantage of all the captive Insomnia eyeballs here but I can't wait to get back and play... I figured this was my best shot to get a quick answer ;)
If I remember from when I played the game last year, you're sick so you can only get to a certain state of well being until you develop the cure. So you're either very very sick, very sick, or sick, but you're never supercharged turbo extreme mega healthy. Your default normal is basically "sick" and you don't improve above that until you develop the cure. As long as you take the meds properly when you get sicker than the default sick, you will maintain just being sick, whereas if you don't take them you'll get progressively sicker and die. The meds appear to cure you back to just default sickness and that's it, with one having a longer time duration than the other, and taking several in a row does not stack the time, but rather resets the timer of how long it lasts. I forget the timing of things but lets say the one pills last for 6 hours and the other for 9. If you take any pill any time you'll be ok for that many hours from that point. If you take another pill shortly after you just reset the timer for 6 or 9 hours from that new time point and don't stack it to 18 hours. The numbers I'm using are fabricated though as I don't remember. Think of the meds like Pac-man's power pills, they last for X amount of time and if you eat another one during that time the power-up counter just resets rather than doubling the time or stacking.
Just make sure you can make it back to a safe camp site before 9pm for sure - I recommend getting ready to hoof it to camp no later than 8pm each night, and earlier if you're further away from your closest camp, and always keep meds on hand and plants to make more in the science lab trays, avoid wandering in the night time, and be very careful when wandering in the areas of the map where the monster frequents (where the rare plant ingredients are).
Hope that helps! ;)