Because I seem to be responding better to this latter drug, I am now slowly weaning off the
gabapentin. I guess if the pain increases as I go off the
gabapentin, this will tell me it was helping more than I realized.
I have no side effects from the gabapentin, even at such a high dose. I do find the 50mg amitriptyline makes me very drowsy, and may need to scale it back to 40mg if this side effect continues.