r/gabapentin

I think there should be subreddits or a Reddit for Gabapentin for Chronic Pain.

I have been taking benzos for over 20+ years. I'm very scared. I'm looking for advise if there is any. I have all but lost hope and refuse to go back to those panic attacks. Suboxone i must have to live, do this is my situation. Thank you.

I have been trying to taper from a relatively low dose (100 mg x 3) and am now down to 50 mg x3 after six months of torture. I know that the remainder of the taper will take much longer and will be even worse. The problem is that I am so suicidal on this drug. I think about killing myself all the time now. I was prescribed gabapentin for sleep but it never worked. A couple of weeks after first taking it I tried to get off but went into acute withdrawal. It has been a nightmare. I can't stay on it because I am worried I'll kill myself but I can't imagine spending another year in this condition.

For what it's worth, I am tapering with liquid and have been reducing at a rate of about 10% a month. I was a healthy person before this all happened.

Has anyone else been absolutely unable to taper this medication?

I’m about 2 years on 300mg nightly gabapentin. Prescribed for menopause symptoms. Especially hot flashes. Works amazing. Also helps with sleep.

Curious. Anyone having memory issues, brain fog, etc. with this med?

Anyone with weight gain? Emotionally emptiness? Agitation?

Not sure if is menopause or this med.

I am also on estrogen patch and progesterone.

Thinking of weaning off of gaba. Just enjoying my sleep on it

I think it's particularly hard for me because I already have pretty significant mental health issues. I had been trying to taper from 900 using the smallest increment pills, 100 mg, but 900-800 and 800-700 both had me feeling a significant increase in symptoms for a week after the drop and I couldn't get myself to do another drop. I went back up to 900 mg when I was in rehab for alcohol (65 days sober woohoo) because they saw my old prescription for 900 and assumed I was still on that and I didn't correct them because I knew it would help with the withdrawal.

Now I'm in PHP for alcohol and I got my psych to prescribe 50mg/ml liquid gabapentin and I'm dropping by 0.1 ml (5 mg) per day and I'm finally tapering without withdrawals. I'm down 50 mg already!

My cat is 16 years old and has ckd for past 4-5 yrs and has had a lot of G.I. issues and now going into kidney failure and has declined very quickly over the past 2-3days. He can barely stand on his feet and hie is wasting away and suffering at this point. So I made the hard decision of having him euthanized at my home tomorrow. I know he’s uncomfortable and he does a little cry every now and then.
He was prescribed gabapentin 50 mg pills a little over a year ago for some dental work. I remember it made him relaxed and sleepy. I was wondering, would it be OK to give him a small dose of that tonight? I read somewhere that if the organs and kidneys are going into failure, it might actually have the opposite effect and cause nausea and disorientation and more distress instead of relaxing him. I’m not sure if that’s true or not?

Hello, I’m not too familiar when it comes to medication other than basic research.

If this helps, im a 19F who’s 154 pounds who struggles with MDD, anxiety and panic attacks.

I got prescribed gab only for my anxiety and sleep paralysis but doctor tells me to take no more than 300mg due to drowsiness. As the person I am, i’ve been taking 700mg and it genuinely makes me feel so joyful without any worry and without feeling drowsy.

So I took that last night and a friend gave me a xanax 4mg to try as he abuses it. Once I was a bit sober off gab i took it and absolutely nothing happened and I still felt like my anxious self.

Why did i not feel a difference ?

Please no hate Im genuinely extremely new to all this.

I’ve been on gabapentin on and off since 2024. I feel so dumb now like I was good at math and chemistry and going into the medical field but now I can’t remember things. When I talk to people they think there’s something wrong with me because I can’t follow a conversation. I forget the meaning of things, I lose my train of thought. It’s so frustrating to go from smart to dumb. Has anyone experienced this? Is there anyway to reverse this?

Edit: I need to know if anyone has a success career while being on this medication. I want to be a nurse but afraid that I can’t retain information.

I didn't realize that due to the Holiday my pharmacy would be closed and I couldn't refill my script today (Friday). My pharmacy won't be open until Monday, and I don't have enough to get through the weekend. While trying to figure out what to do I found some of a smaller dose I used to take that is expired by about 5 years. I understand that they may not be as potent as they were before, does anyone know if they will at least help prevent me from going into withdrawal over the weekend?

Any advice is appreciated, Thank you.

Yesterday I was informed that she's trying to get all of her patients completely off it (slowly of course) because she learned that it has serious effects on the brain and can cause early dementia and brain damage. She admits that she had been prescribing it a lot to her patients, but I'd say it seems pretty serious if she wants everyone off it.

I'm going to start tapering off, personally. She seemed a little freaked out and regretful about rxing it so much. Thoughts?

Saw a specialist today for issues ive had for 10 yesrs

He suspects maybe im not getting enough deep sleep.. so wants me to try gabapentin 300mg before bed.

Early 30s

Tire by midday, no drive or motivation.

If im not at work i can waste a day sleeping.

Only other thing keeps coming up is low normal testosterone levels no regular gp thinks its an issue but if i contact a clinic they are happy to treat me.

Any thoughts?

Thanks heaps

I’ve never been on a substance this long before nor have I ever been physically dependent to anything to THIS degree. I am genuinely terrified. Was 22 when I went to rehab for a 10 month pill opiate addiction, got sober (yay) but then they put me on this stuff for anxiety…. Even though I never had anxiety meds before. Wish I never would have accepted it back then.

I recently tried to go cold turkey off 11 YEARS…. I made it to 18 hours before I caved and realized I need professional help (my doc) as well as people who’ve experienced the withdrawals (people here). It was dumb to think I could just stop.

Please, anyone with any kind of wisdom or advice. Any supplements or things that may help. I am trying so hard to make positive changes in my life and this is going to be the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through physically…. I know I need to taper off slowly. I am currently on 300mg every 6-7 hours with a total of 900mg per day.

i was prescribed 100-300mg as a starter dose nightly for my anxiety, restlessness, and insomnia. ive had one whole week on it and some nights that dose was turns everything down just enough to work perfectly and others the restlessness kinda breaks through.

my psychiatrist said we could consider 400-600mg but i am really worried about my tolerance to this medication. i do not want to lose the relief it gives me because not only does it reduce my restlessness and anxiety but it kills my cravings for all substances at night which has given me so much hope for my life. i genuinely thought that would be the death of me someday.

at a one time dose of 400-600mg nightly is tolerance going to rise enough for it to feel negligible eventually? is there any way to avoid this or is it inevitable? what dose have you been on and for how long has it been effective?

sorry i’m just really worried because i don’t want to lose this resource.

I'm prescribed both Gabapentin and Diazepam. I'm prescribed 900mg of Gabapentin (though I usually take 600) and prescribed 30mg of diazepam (though I only take 25 or less) my plan is to taper off diazepam eventually and reintroduce Gabapentin for the wds. But is this possible to CT with the help of my diazepam or would I experience WD? I've been taking both daily for 2 yrs

Hi guys, I am entering the very last stage of this tapering.

I've been on 50mg for the last 3 days, so far its manageable. I was taking it every 20h because its was starting to get very uncomfortable around that time frame.

Today I was able to though it out, and now I have passed the 32h with any dose. I started crying earlier, but I was ok and didn't take anything.

Now I am starting to be shaky internally, but its manageable...

should I just thought it out and stop entirely, or start a 25mg tapering... or continue at 50mg?

I can't wait to be off this med... :(

I need to take a small dose right now, so I'll take 25mg. but then what, I thought it out and stick to 25mg? or take 25mg 2 times a day from now on!?

Thanks in advance. any input is welcome.

Hi, so I’ve been on gabapentin for a little under a year after using it as a helper med for benzos. I’ve started trying (and failing) to taper a few months ago but i kinda screwed the pooch and stupidly thought taking phenibut would help stretch my script out a little more but it ultimately jacked my tolerance up and i don’t think i will have gaba in my next refill and i’m not really sure what to do. Should i taper as much as i can with this next refill and bite the bullet and jump off as i have about a weeks worth of sick days at work. Or is there a way to ask for a higher script without getting cut off completely. I want this monkey off my back but withdrawal scares me a lot and I am not really sure what my options are

i've been on gabapentin for around a month now. i've seen people talk about the weight gain but it's actually done the opposite.
i also understand it's a sedative almost, but i don't get tired. i feel calm, but have energy to do something. i feel more light on my feet
i'd say my memory is only a little impacted. i live with brain fog without it though

i was wondering if anyone else has these symptoms and/or experienced any other less common symptoms!!

I want more/longer coverage throughout the day. There's an extended release version of gabapentin, but i don't really know how it works.

So has anyone tried it? If so is it better than the immediate release one, say if you want it to last all day?

My plan is to take some days or time off to lower my tolerance then go for the 300 mg Extended Release one to last me all day. Worried if it would be weaker so that's why I'm asking.

I was hoping to hear some feedback and experiences with doing both kratom and gabapentin.

A little background information... I just started gabapentin for my sciatica and anxiety. I have used kratom for 3 years now, the last 2 years I've used it regularly because that's when I injured myself and got sciatica. I found that kratom significantly helped with my sciatica and anxiety along with a few other things. The dosing I have used is 3 gpd typically 1 to 3 times a day, though its usually 2 times per day on average. I did increase it to 4 times a day after my 16 year old dog passed away, but went back down to 1 to 3 times a day after a few months and had no problem doing so.

My anxiety has been really bad lately so I decided to get rediagnosed for anxiety and was prescribed gabapentin 100 mg 3 times a day. It basically does what the kratom was doing for me, but it helps with my anxiety more, although in a different way. The gabapentin helps me feel less anxious in general but the kratom makes me mentally feel more at peace. I wasn't necessarily trying to quit kratom because I'm not really taking a high dose. I was actually hoping I would be able to enjoy more of the effects of kratom instead of only using it as a crutch. However I've read that mixing the two can be bad.

I was also diagnosed with ADHD and I've noticed that since not using kratom (1 week in) a lot of the ADHD symptoms are worse. I didn't realize it was helping me so much with that but now daily tasks are more difficult for me to focus on. I won't be starting medication for that for at least 2 weeks. I never realized that kratom could help with something like that.

I'd like to mention that I haven't really had any withdrawals even though I quit cold turkey. Most of what I'm feeling is the typical side effects of starting the medication. However, a week in and im finding my body temperature hard to regulate. This started on day 6. From what I've read, I should be over the worst of withdrawals, if I was going to experience any, so I don't know if this is typical. I would like to mention one of the reasons I liked kratom is because it helped me keep warm. I've always had issues with being cold since I was a child. Now, I can't seem to be comfortable unless its 74 degrees in my home which doesn't work for my husband who needs it to be 67 degrees.

I'm hoping to hear some other people's experience with these 2 drugs. I've read a few comments on other posts but there's not much out there for this mix.

I have been on about a year maybe 6 months of only 1 100 mg capsule a day . Then I started dumping out half and stayed on that the rest of the time. The last month or so I think I've only taken 50 mg Max a day maybe less. But when I don't take it I get waves it anxiety/insomnia/body doesn't feel good

I'm just surprised that such a little amount could do that ? Or is it in my head ? I have anxiety and take Ativan and a piece of clonidine a day and even with those I get anxious til I dose gabapentin