Gabapentinoids Gabapentin Dosing

[punkndrublic]

hey again, in case anybody still reads this

i m now on 3x300 gaba on top of 1x25mg targin - now i have to see a dentist, and anxiety wise i could only bear it last time cos of her giving me constantly laughing gas; is that dangerous when on my meds? obviously i will notify her about the meds, but who knows how much she knows about those kinda interactions...

which brings me to the next question - what are interactions of gaba or prega with various substances, besides depressants and sedatives which obviously can make you pass out too hard? i dont find much reliable info on that on tripsitter or such... anybody any interaction experiences, pls let me know

thx everybody, peAce!

 

[dmlaughlin76]

I mean, I have had some degenerate habits, so I try not to judge, but jeez, have you guys not tried benzos? Or for that matter, mdma, ketamine, weed? I come from the scene of opiate addicts. Gabapentin is commonly mega dosed for withdrawals and anxiety, I've never heard stories of anyone enjoying it. News to me. But then again, people take seroquel or trazadone and call it "high", guess I just dont get it

Gaba seems like one of those habits that's gonna be hell to come off of without any of the fun.

Yeah I've tried all them and currently prescribed suboxone and klonapen. Now out of the gabbapentin makes me feel the best. If I'm stuck on a desert island though... I'm taking the klonapen. And I've used abused every drug besides, pcp and special K

 

[dmlaughlin76]

Besides pain, it's good for drug withdrawal, mild anxiety, and RLS.
What dose you talking about taking? Drowsiness, no. By brain effects do you mean a head change? Yes. A good head change. Very mild and happy.

No hydroxyzine is much stronger when it comes to going to sleep.

ABSOLUTELY I couldn't agree with you more. Like you stated, I have taken most drugs, and I myself have used or tried to use /abuse every prescription drug. It's crazy because I used to throw my Gabby's away or just give them to people I had like 6 months worth of 600mg x 4 times a day. Damn. I love gabapentin but if you don't take days off, it's ridiculous how much you can take even by day 2!

 

[benz210]

I take 300 mg a day for my pinched nerve which does help but I have read about a speed like rush taking them. I took I think around 2400 mgs and I'll admit I don't know if it was placebo or not but I felt less depressed and happy with a energetic feeling I can see why some people take them. However I couldn't recreate it again the feeling but it's a very unique drug as it helps me with my heroin withdrawal , by that I mean some of the symptoms the main one being restless leg syndrome so I always keep a bottle just in case for other off label uses that I do my research on before trying . Maybe I can't feel it as intense because if my expectations I'm tricking my mind into not getting the full experience . I agree with other posters most people just throw them or give them away so there bet abundant and doctors don't hesitate as far as for be to give them even I ask..

 

[dmlaughlin76]

I take 300 mg a day for my pinched nerve which does help but I have read about a speed like rush taking them. I took I think around 2400 mgs and I'll admit I don't know if it was placebo or not but I felt less depressed and happy with a energetic feeling I can see why some people take them. However I couldn't recreate it again the feeling but it's a very unique drug as it helps me with my heroin withdrawal , by that I mean some of the symptoms the main one being restless leg syndrome so I always keep a bottle just in case for other off label uses that I do my research on before trying . Maybe I can't feel it as intense because if my expectations I'm tricking my mind into not getting the full experience . I agree with other posters most people just throw them or give them away so there bet abundant and doctors don't hesitate as far as for be to give them even I ask..

Using Google Voice so I will apologize first hand for that but yes I agree in my experience you can only achieve that kind of Rush or that high with Gabby's every maybe once every 3 or 4 days you have to take a three you know a few days off otherwise you're just wasting them yeah

 

[dmlaughlin76]

Using Google Voice so I will apologize first hand for that but yes I agree in my experience you can only achieve that kind of Rush or that high with Gabby's every maybe once every 3 or 4 days you have to take a three you know a few days off otherwise you're just wasting them yeah

I would also say that there's no limit really to what you can take per day I mean I would stretch it and try doing 5,000 mg after taking a few days off just take it slow and just do like you know 600 mg every hour or 300 mg every half hour and see how far you can get caffeine really helps carbonated soda or carbonated carbonation really helps also Advil or naproxen really helps bring it brings out the gabri receptors that's what I've learned on here* again and I Apologize For pathetic grammar I'm just using Google Voice cuz I'm so tired

 

[JackARoe]

As far as staggering. I find if I take 1500-1800 mgs staggered if feels stronger doing 600 mgs every 40 minutes instead of 300. Both work. But starting with 600 seems ok. Not sure why but for me the whole transporting it to the brain at a smaller amount seems to include 600 mgs at once.

Some years back I was taking 3000 mgs whenever I would indulge. Way strong. These days much less. Seems better when it is more subtle than overpowering.

Still assesing just how much this stuff helps with nerve pain for me. But what I am not doing is taking it daily to find out. Exercise and PRN works for me.

 

[dmlaughlin76]

As far as staggering. I find if I take 1500-1800 mgs staggered if feels stronger doing 600 mgs every 40 minutes instead of 300. Both work. But starting with 600 seems ok. Not sure why but for me the whole transporting it to the brain at a smaller amount seems to include 600 mgs at once.

Some years back I was taking 3000 mgs whenever I would indulge. Way strong. These days much less. Seems better when it is more subtle than overpowering.

Still assesing just how much this stuff helps with nerve pain for me. But what I am not doing is taking it daily to find out. Exercise and PRN works for me.

I would agree with this also I would say that it's important - one has to take at least one day off - at least, two - three days is better - otherwise you're going to be taking 50,000 mg a day which I have taken which is ridiculous. Also, when you break up the 300mg and you pull them apart put them in a cup of coffee and my Lord it is something else a very good Buzz. Imo - body gets acclimated to gabapentin's way too quickly and easily it only takes one day and then you're already chasing that first "high"

 

[dmlaughlin76]

Gabapentin is my favorite thing ever. It is perfect.

I take my whole dose at once. I've experimented with it, and I noticed if I redose after my first one, it does nothing else. I dont get any higher and it doesnt seem to last any longer. I know alot of people stagger their doses so there must be some out there that benefit from that, but I never did and I dont like wasting them.

You must must must take a break in between days because the tolerance builds up like in one day. So if you took 1200 mg one day, you would have to take 2400 mg the next day to feel it and you dont need to be taking crazy high doses. I read somewhere on here that your body can only absorb so much of it anyways at one time.

I've found myself increasing my dosage to use daily until I got to scary high amounts. Luckly nothing bad has ever happened from me taking gabapentin and I've been taking it for 10 plus years.

If you get capsules, you can open em up and dump them in an orange juice and chug it and the effects will come on faster. Otherwise it takes almost two hours to kick in.

Love those things. They are like a miracle pill.

Agreed. Yeah I took like 50x 300mg one day with little effect and thought "huh maybe I should take a day off or two" lol. Oh well.

 

[suspool]

Food is important for that absorption. Now I don't know if this matters but I got into the habit of taking a shot or two of apple cider vinegar about half way through the staggeriing. If nothing else it is healthy. But I had read that soda keeps the stomach acidic.

At one point I would top it off with 400 mgs of l theanine as I could swear it potentiated it. Now I am thinking it is a little stronger without it. The focus aspect is stronger though.

I also realize some of this stuff could placebo. But I for sure agree and nibbling on food after each dose.

Would red wine vinegar work the same?

 

[JackARoe]

Would red wine vinegar work the same?

If the concept of extra acid in the stomach to help absorption is a real thing then for these purposes red wine vinegar would work.

 

[Osiris8675]

I was in the hospital recently. I was there for 4 days. They were not giving me my Gabapentin. After 4 days of not having it, I started to feel very sick. I had the sweats, the shakes, severe anxiety, the heebie jeebies, etc. I had never stopped taking Gabapentin suddenly like that before. I didn’t know what was happening to me. I truly thought that it was withdrawal from the I.V. Dilaudid that they were giving me every hour for my pain -which they stopped giving me the day before. It got so bad that I signed myself out of the hospital A.M.A. (Against Medical Advice) because I couldn’t handle being in my own skin. I drove home and took my regularly scheduled dose of my meds. I took my Gabapentin and 30 minutes later, the sickness and anxiety subsided. That’s how I knew that it was due to stopping Gabapentin suddenly. So regarding your question, I would say that it is physically addictive. Maybe the term “physically dependent” is more fitting when describing my situation.

I know this is a very old thread, but I completely agree. It is physically addictive, and also mentally.

I have really bad neuropathy and was prescribed a high dose of gabapentin every day three 800 MG
Also, at the same time, I was prescribed buprenorphine.
Only reason I even mention the BUPE is because of recent research and plenty of evidence out there that combining gabapentin at higher doses with any kind of opioid/opiate can actually be extremely deadly… Do your research and see what you find it’s actually pretty astonishing. How much Higher it raises the chances of dying or even going into coma

Anyways… Back to the reply above.
Back when Covid first started I got it
After I got Covid, I became allergic to a lot of medication that I was not previously allergic to especially when it came to antibiotics. Literally the only antibiotic I’m not allergic to these days is clindamycin.
But once again back to the gaba
Like I was mentioning… I was on a fairly high dose of GABA.
Well… It just so happened that gabapentin happened to be one of the medication‘s my body randomly decided to become allergic to after I got Covid.

I started having random blackouts where I would literally just be doing something during my normal day at work and then I would just drop like a fly after eating lunch and taking my gabapentin. Completely unconscious on the floor drooling.

I figured it was from something Covid was causing and then I started putting two and two together and decided to have someone come over to my place and take a gabapentin on an empty stomach. Very first thing in the morning and sure enough I dropped like a fly.
Even tested the theory out a few more times like a moron just to be sure.
So needless to say, I had no other option but to stop taking it cold turkey,

And honestly felt like I was withdrawing off of benzo’s, and opiates at the same time
I was having extreme panic attacks, and even seizures while still having opiate like withdrawal symptoms, a.k.a. flu like symptoms (cold, hot, insomnia, sweating, vomiting, diarrhea,) in other words, the whole 9 yards you would expect trying to come off of opiates, cold turkey

I wouldn’t call it quite as severe as stopping oxy, cold turkey, but probably more along the lines if you were to stop taking Norco’s cold Turkey
You combine that with a benzo like withdraw and you’ve basically got a nightmare on your hands.
So I don’t blame you one bit for leaving the hospital just so you could get back to take your medication.

I have no clue why they wouldn’t be giving you your typical dose of medication if you were admitted to a hospital, especially when they can see what medications you are prescribed, unless they were doing it because they were aware, combining it with other opiates isn’t exactly safe sometimes.

As far as the safety of taking GABA along with opiates. Some people have no problems with it. I was prescribed buprenorphine and gabapentin for years and had no issues at all.
But I also have a friend who was prescribed OXY and got prescribed gabapentin at a much lower dose than what I was taking, and he is no longer alive because of it.

Writer fact, he was no longer breathing a week after getting prescribed it.

Gabapentin is one of those tricky ones
It doesn’t seem like something that would be addictive and it doesn’t make you feel any type of way. “unless you’re not taking any thing else except for gabapentin. “

Then you will feel it at first, and it will kind of put you in a good mood and make you wanna get up and start the day, but that fades away very quickly like within a few days..
So needless to say I completely agree with you when it comes to gabapentin being physically addictive not to mention mentally.
Double edged sword for sure.
And they prescribe it for everything. Anxiety, neuropathy, seizures, etc., etc..
It’s definitely the snake oil medication Some doctors will prescribe for a lot of different things.

 

[R0be]

Gabapentin is my favorite thing ever. It is perfect.

I take my whole dose at once. I've experimented with it, and I noticed if I redose after my first one, it does nothing else. I dont get any higher and it doesnt seem to last any longer. I know alot of people stagger their doses so there must be some out there that benefit from that, but I never did and I dont like wasting them.

You must must must take a break in between days because the tolerance builds up like in one day. So if you took 1200 mg one day, you would have to take 2400 mg the next day to feel it and you dont need to be taking crazy high doses. I read somewhere on here that your body can only absorb so much of it anyways at one time.

I've found myself increasing my dosage to use daily until I got to scary high amounts. Luckly nothing bad has ever happened from me taking gabapentin and I've been taking it for 10 plus years.

If you get capsules, you can open em up and dump them in an orange juice and chug it and the effects will come on faster. Otherwise it takes almost two hours to kick in.

Love those things. They are like a miracle pill.

I am prescribed 800 mg three times a day to keep me calm. They won't give me benzos cuz they know I'm a drug addict. Anyway, I don't really take them all that much so I have tons of them all the time. I find when I take a lot of them it does amp me up kind of like a stimulant but it also can make me a little bit angry. I'm actually addicted to Adderall and benzedrex inhalers so I know a lot about stims, and they can make you angry too. I never thought of gabapentin as anything that great. Sometimes I snort them. I get the capsules with all the fine white powder inside so it does up the nose easily. Makes me cough a little, but no burn. I'm looking for ways to get high that don't cost money because I'm broke and about to be homeless, so I'm gonna start experimenting with gabapentin and see if I can find the sweet spot where it helps. I know I should probably just quit doing drugs, but I really can't stop no matter how much help I get I just can't so I need to find a way to make things work while still getting high and I'm hoping I might find the answer through my meds. They don't do anything if I just take them how I'm supposed to. I'm just depressed all the time. I hope gabapentin will help me.

 

[aesthetic.addict]

I'm prescribed 600mg/day for anxiety.
I usually just take it with 2-4 days inbetween, to stave of tolerance and to keep the mood lifting effects.