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Hey all! I started on Gabapentin about 10 days ago now, and I was just curious to hear about others' experiences with this drug. I started taking the gabapentin, at 300 mg/day, about a week and half ago for creepy, uncomfortable patches of sensation all over my body. These'd been around for a month or so, and they were getting progressively worse, covering more of my body. They felt sort of cold and hot and icky, all at once - I don't really know how to describe it, but I HATED this!

I can't believe how well gabapentin has worked. I've been thru the withdrawals going cold turkey 3 times in the past without anything to help. I was presribed gabapentin about a month ago for pain. It didn't help for that. I did some research on it and it is used for withdrawals. It has been 90% easier than before and trust me, I know how bad it is. The only syptoms I have had this time is I'm just a little cold and a bit of anxiety but nothing like before.

I have this same problem with my gabapentin! I do the same things as you, but I also take an over-the-counter anti-diarrhea medication as soon as the cramps start. There are pills that you can take (which is what I prefer) or you can take liquid, like Kaopectate or Malox. I'm not going to lie, the liquids are like drinking flavored chalk-water, but they work so well I just put up with it. How long have you been on Gaba?

I've been using Gabapentin for a week now and have just increased dose to 600mg. I've got a couple questions. 1- I'm taking 300 mg at bed time (8:00 pm {i must be getting old!}) and 300mg in the morning, is this the correct proceedure, or should I be taking all 600 at night? 2- Will this drug help stop headaches? So far it hasn't helped with that, but it seems to be slightly helping with other symptoms (too soon to expect much, I guess).

I am so sick of the false sense of well being and the apathy vicodin addiction has caused in my life. Seems there is a LOT of side effects for many users of gabapentin so aftraid of doubling the misery. Some people have offered me ultram but I have heard horror stories of getting off that if I were to start using it instead of vicodin. I hope I can get clean and stay off the pain relievers...I do not even want to see the doctor at least not yet.I know he uses suboxene (sp?

I was on Gabapentin for about a year I guess, maybe two. That whole part of my life is a little fuzzy for me. It was my worst episode ever. I did have a little trouble adjusting to the Gabapentin at first. I fell a lot for the first few days. After that, I did really well with it. I was taken off of it when my doctors started disagreeing about my care and then I moved out of state. It helped me a lot with pain and sensations.

My primary wanted me to try Savella w/o my test results back yet - waiting on the tests from the rheumatologist, but after reading that other post about Savella, that scares me. I have a friend on Gabapentin (which I believe is Neurotin sp?). Any advice? I want to be prepared because I have found that doctors do what works for them and I like to know what I am up against. I also take Clonopin, Verapamil for my heart, Potassium and Synthroid. Thanks for any advice!

I was doing a google search to see what I can do about these creepy crawly feelings in my limbs. I saw that gabapentin (generic for Neurontin) reduces this feeling. I have this drug at home and if this is true I can stop my Norcos tapering right now. Does anyone out there have success with gabapentin?

I just started taking gabapentin six weeks ago for worsening pain after a triple bilateral lumbar fusion. So far I'm not having much luck with the medication. I'm having trouble titrating up to the required dose because it makes me feel drunk (not in a good way lol) all the time. Also, no real pain relief to date. Some swear by this medication and I sure hope it works for you. Good luck . . .

I have looked at the more common side effects that are supposed to dissipate after your body becomes used to gabapentin - and I do still after this time often have blurred vision, involuntary eye movements, unusual tiredness, difficulty thinking, frequent urination, weight gain, and problem with balance. Is this the gabapentin after 2.5 months or could I possibly have multiple sclerosis?

This is such a shame you have been stuck with this all your life. All I can suggest is look for another neurologist! Just because someone is well known doesn't mean they have all the answers. Personally speaking, I had treatment once from a world famous highly esteemed physician in their field, and they entirely botched my surgery - makes me a little cynical perhaps but no doctor is perfect. It maybe that someone with half your doctor's experience or reputation can actually help you more.

I'm a 46 year old male with a long (15-20 year) history of migraines, they have been gradually getting worse over time. I have been unable to work for the last year and a half, and have been bedridden for the last year due to a severe headache. The headache has not gone away at all during that time. Five years ago I had a bad stretch that I was off for about a year but not necessarily bedridden the entire time. The rest of the time I experienced what may be considered regular bad migraines.

Since childhood I have had symptoms of anxiety and the inability to deal with change and stress, which affected my social life, but not my academic life. The overwhelming fear of not handing in an assignment or getting a bad grade was enough to push me to getting 90's-100's on all assignments, etc... But around age 18, the stress became too great that I went to see a psychiatrist and a therapist. Over the next year or so I was put on the regular Zoloft, Paxil, etc...

They come in and I go to the managers office with em, manager is like yo cut that **** in half n cut that half in half n swallow it. AWESOME! yes best feeling of my life. I was instantly in love, except back then 1 pill lasted like 2 days. So every night we were on the same shift we bought jawns, it really wasn't a financial issue yet, I was hardly addicted.

how it would affect my day-to-day life, etc. and the medication (gabapentin 900mg/day) was really changing my functionality at work and home. I of course have read anything I can on the condition (or whatever you want to call it) and being the pesimist I have always been, it was one more thing on the grocery list of health issues I have -- like many of you.

I DO know the half life is 5-7 hours if that helps. Go ahead and call the pharmacist where you picked it up. They know so much...

my personal opinion is that it would be easier too kick from ultram or lesser opioid, since subs have such a long half-life. after a good deal of experimentation, not to mention suffering. i have found that neurontin/gabapentin has been the most beneificial. the more agonizing symptoms: like anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, the sweats, really all of them!, are all but unnoticable. so, my regimen is 300 mg. of gabapentin 3xd, and in the evening i take between 5-10 mg. of valium.

This can be dangerous, especially with medicines such as methadone that has a really long half-life. So you can end up taking more in hopes that it will relieve the pain when the previous dose that you took earlier hadn't begun working yet; hence, the body can overdose on the medication this way. Methadone works really slow but once it begins to work, the pain relief is quite stable.

5/325 every four hours it was becoming a problem and not releaving my pain so doctor switched me to 800 mg gabapentin 3 times a day I asked him about withdrawals from the hydros and he said I would have none just take the gabapentin well I took only half this morning and became really dizzy and sleepy so laid down four hours later took 200 mg still dizzy and spacy is this normal or is it part of the withdrawl fro the hydro?

Valium is the ultimate Benzo to taper off of because of its long half life. 40 to 160 hours. Compared to 18 hours for Xanax. I was on 1.5 milligrams of Xanax for 8 years. I wanted to switch to something easier for my GAD, At first the DR. mentioned Klonopin, I told him NO WAY, I want Diazepam, It has been tryed and true for thousands of people and worked succesfully. They put me on 20 milligrams of Valium(the equivalent of the Xanax) and I switched from one night to the next with out a problem.

I did have a couple of weird visual-field disturbances followed by migraines, but I had a migraine three days before my period every month and ibuprofen took care of it, so I chalked that up to a development in the epilepsy. Plus the gabapentin helped my restless legs. I took gabapentin every 8 hours. found that if I stayed up late and took my gabapentin at 1 in the morning instead of 11 p.m. I would have trouble sleeping.

So I called the Neuros office to check in and reported the steroids seemed to make me worse not better and they just told me to take more gabapentin and tramadol. FGS I am trying to get off those danged brain wipe drugs. And they tell me to get on the Copaxone ASAP and how much better it will make me feel. That's what they said about the Solumedrol. Scary!. I did get to ream out the insurance company who informed me they would send out my copaxone for the copay of $2366.34 ... a month.

Tramadol has a longer half-life in the body, In other words it lasts longer in the body so the withdrawals that you have only postponed, last longer that the withdrawals from the original hydrocodone. I am a nurse and didn't know all of this til I lived it and did some research. Save yourself some grief and deal with only one withdrawal! You really can do it.

I will tell you the same can be true with BusPar since it have a relatively short half-life it is possible that you feel a comedown from it therefore creating the suicidal thoughts/depression symptoms as BusPar is a serotonin 5-HT1A receptor partial agonist as well as having some affinities with dopamine. A good person to call other than your doctor for quick information is your pharmacist. Their knowledge of medications is far beyond the knowledge of most GP.

My PCP called a neuro earlier in the week and the neuro told him that all of my symptoms are probably due to the gabapentin, which makes no sense as it is the symptoms that caused me to go on gabapentin. My PCP said to half my doses until he hears back from the MS clinic. He doesn't want them to blame it on the medicine. So currently I am in a lot of pain, can't sleep to well either.

hey gabapentin makes me feel like my normal self before all the pain meds i can even function like a normal person

I shared my experience with gabapentin not too long ago. Please forgive me for using copy-paste-revise editing to respond here. It’s odd - with some drugs (like our DMDs) it's a universal dose. Take it all or not at all. With others it seems there is a great deal of variability in how sensitive people are. Gabapentin apparently fits into that category. It has worked well for me but I had to increase it VERY, verrrry slowly.

Hi Tramadol Warriors! A new thread. New Day. New chance to take your life back. Welcome ....

I started taking gabapentin 300 mg 3 to 4 times daily and Cymbalta 120 mg in the morning along with hydrocodone 5/500 3 times a day and valium 5 mg so I can sleep. About 9 months ago and I actually lost 27 pounds. I have gained that weight back now but I still have the same problems. My Doctor still says I have Fibromyalgia.

I cant get up in morning without screaming in pain - trying to sit up - and during the night i am woken almost every half hour by pain in my shoulders, back, butt , calf and ankle. I have swelling around most large joints and meds i take are lyrica/gabapentin/diazepam/morphine mst/oramorph/celoxib and others..... my bloods jusst come back with esr 39 crp 19 do you think in your opinion i could have RA my doc has just referred me to rheumy appt should be soon i hope.

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