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gabapentin as a potentiator

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oh-pana321

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i never seen anything about this online, but from experience, gabapentin potentiated my highs really well.

i know it wasnt placebo cause id pop a few grams of gabapentin for pain, and i usually just forget about it

ive taken about 4.2 grams gabapentin, then 200 mg's tramadol before school, and i got really high, and it lasted the whole damn day. and i have a pretty high tolerance cause im sort of addicted to smoking fentanyl.

and another time, i took 3 grams, then smoked weed an hour later and had the craziest high ever.. and i only had .3-.4 g's with 2 heads

anyone else notice gabapentin having good potentiating effects?
 
mmmm omg smokin fent...brings back good memories. as for your question, ive never taken gabapentin so i dont know.
 
Very few people have experience with Gabapentin. I got a hold of a whole bottle once, and they WITHOUT A DOUBT somehow increased the effects of the Tramadol I was on at the time. I also used it with Hydrocodone a few times, and had similar results.

I never got to try it with Heroin, but I'd have to imagine it would help. I don't know the science of it all, but there has to be something there. I got a nice lift in mood from Gabapentin itself, so it could simply be the synergy.

If I had the opportunity to get some Gabapentin, I'd certainly take it - I liked it that much. And I'm not trying to say it is incredible, but there is definitely something there.
 
It`s a pretty good opiate potentiator. The bad thing is that it kinda messes with my vision when i get a good opiate buzz going with the help of gaba. It definetely makes the nod alot heavier. A really good (and dangerous combo) is your opiate of choice+gabapentin+you benzo of choice+diphenhydramine or dimenhydrinate. I usually take either morphine or dilaudid with gabapentin, clonazepam or temazepam and dimenhydrinate. I can get a really good nod going on that combination.

I get gabapentin prescribed for pain and although it works pretty good for pain i can certainly notice negative effects on my mood. It cetainly seems to add to my depression. Lyrica has much the same effects and is a better drug that is much easier to take. Id recomend lyrica over gabapentin anyday.
 
It actually dulls my highs for some reason, but it's nice alone.
 
i think it potentiates many things when you time it right.

you will find everything and then some on gabap in the search engine.
 
Gabap does not potentiate equally across all opiates. The following from RXlist.com:

Hydrocodone: Coadministration of Neurontin (125 to 500 mg; N=48) decreases hydrocodone (10 mg; N=50) Cmax and AUC values in a dose-dependent manner relative to administration of hydrocodone alone; Cmax and AUC values are 3% to 4% lower, respectively, after administration of 125 mg Neurontin and 21% to 22% lower, respectively, after administration of 500 mg Neurontin. The mechanism for this interaction is unknown. Hydrocodone increases gabapentin AUC values by 14%. The magnitude of interaction at other doses is not known.

Morphine: A literature article reported that when a 60-mg controlled-release morphine capsule was administered 2 hours prior to a 600-mg Neurontin capsule (N=12), mean gabapentin AUC increased by 44% compared to gabapentin administered without morphine (see PRECAUTIONS). Morphine pharmacokinetic parameter values were not affected by administration of Neurontin 2 hours after morphine. The magnitude of interaction at other doses is not known.

I have found Gabap to work well w/ grass, increasing euphoria. But Gabap. can make me giddy
all by itself. I have found that Gabap. + Oxy adds up to nothing for me...?
 
BUMP!!! i was searching this up in google and look what i find!!!! :D
omg soo im using methadone to help me go about my days, n my "Pharmacist" suggest me to try using some gabapentine to potentate the high.
so i try 60 ml's of juice and then as it starts to kick in pop the gab, and oh wow to my amazement it did the trick.
i just wanna know, how come it has such a noticeable effect, and how bad/unhealthy could this combo really be?
some things can be too goo to be true.
 
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oh could i also request this thread get moved to OD because it would be a better place for Opiate discussion.. :)
 
Gaba Is some nasty stuff in my opinion ,I had a siezure after I was perscribed it. Maybe be my sensitivity to drugs, however it really did suck.
 
I don't really think it adds that much in terms of actual potentiation, but I've certainly noticed an, at times (especially with h, and by at time I mean before I developed a tolerance to it, which is by no mean a hard thing to do), that neurontin can produce a significant synergistic effect (i.e. where 2+2 doesn't = 4, but 5). My biggest concern with the neurontin is the tolerance, which can build up easily in a week (taking +/- 800mg 3000mg/day (one dose)).

In term of its dangers, well, I'm not sure I've heard much. on the other hand, without a tolerance or when added to other sedatives, I've seen it mess up folks so much that one guy actually got himself hit by a car by stumbling into traffic. Sad, really. But otherwise, and this is only from personal use and not any sort of medical opinion, it seems pretty benign. Then again, I guess that doesn't help much at all - h was once thought to be benign too... Still, def doesn't seem as dangerous as high doses of certain benzos or booze. Surely 3000mgs a day per dose can't be very healthy, esp when combined with other drugs that tax the body (i.e. prozac/opiates/etc)...
 
I have been prescribed gabapentin for some time now, and while it doesn't provide overwhelming effects, it certainly is a versatile and helpful medication. It helps my GAD to a certain degree, as well as my nerve pain in my legs. Along with my daily methadone + klonopin my anxiety and pain is usually at a manageable level. I found that tolerance does indeed build quickly with it though. When I first started taking it, I would get a half decent buzz from it, on its own. Smoking weed with it is definitely nice as well.

Some people think it is garbage, but personally it has been quite beneficial to me, medicinally speaking. Helps with opiate w/d too I found. Overall, I like it a lot and am glad I have access to practically unlimited amounts.
 
Just come back from the docs with a bag of these things. I know absolutely nothing about them, so the search here was the first thing I tried...bingo, as usual :) Ya gotta love BL.

Anyway, I've been given it for chronic pain that I suffer with, hopefully it will help a little, even if it's just a mood thing. How will this mix with things like MDMA? I know it's not part of the SSRI family, but wondered if there may be a trade off in MD effects?
 
with mdma its kinda weird. actually experience that combo last night. chilled it out a bit, and I noticed that while I certainly felt tweekish at some points after the peak, I wasn't physically clenching or grinding and my body was certainly more relaxed. it also made the distortions of a strong molly trip (+/-15mg @ 150mg and 3600mg gaba with 5-htp, vitamins and melatonin and a prozac after when I went to be) a little clearer and more fun. on the other hand, it had my friend tripping hard hard after he smoked a bowl (and he def has a tolerance to herb). So, once again, iono. Gaba can be a cool chill drug, but it all depends on the person and combo, not to mention the set (I certainly find high doses of mdma a little, not a lot, but a bit trippy). For me it made the trip a lot more physically relaxed, less sweat and clenching, while not affecting my thinking/thought patterns in any way noticeable. Combined with herb, my friend had an awesome time. He was a little freaked out at first (he only had 1200mg gaba and a couple beers about an hour before the mdma, which we parachuted) but then really enjoy himself. He said it was a bit like being on a mdma+ket trip, or RC+dxm, or even the epitome of the perfect dxm dissociated trip.

p.s. I find tramadol (200-350mg) and gaba (or preferably neurontin) between 2 and 4 grams to be more enjoyable than the above mdma+gaba combo. More functional certainly, but also a lot cleaner and level headed euphoric that lasted a lot longer. That's actually something else I noticed about the mdma+gaba combo - it seems like the gaba lengthened or somehow elongated the mdma experience, while also softening it a little too.
 
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I've been prescribed gabapentin for pain in my legs but haven't ever used them because the pain isn't bad enough to warrant being on full time medication. So tonight I had a headache and took 2 8/500 co-codamol, headache went as expected and experienced no side effects.
I had a massive night of work ahead of me so I thought I'd experiment with my gabapentin prescription to see how it affected motivation, which I always suffer with when it comes to work. I only took 1 300mg tab and after half an hour I felt pretty high. The feeling was almost euphoric but subtle, comparable to lets say a 150mg tramadol dose with no tolerance, except I felt more energetic. Music sounded great too and I definitely think it helped me to concentrate on the work I needed to do.
I'd be interested to know whether it seriously potentiated the codeine I took earlier or if it was just the gabapentin since I haven't taken it before and don't really know the effects. Either way it was very pleasant, definitely gonna try it again
 
Gabapentin is an extremely effective and beneficial medication for some of us. I have been prescribed it for about 7 years, and I take it for fibromyalgia, migraines, and anxiety. It works for me like a miracle.

Don't get me wrong...I have abused the fuck out of it, up to 19 grams. The shit is subtle in smaller doses but can wreck your ass in higher doses. Of course, I have quite the tolerance after all these years. I remember taking it the first time, something like ~7 grams or so, and I was completely fucked up out of my mind and euphoric as hell. To me, it blasted ecstacy out of the water. Hard to compare? Not really. I think I get effects from it that alot of people don't.

Higher doses of gabapentin aren't necessarily bad for anyone. I am currently prescribed 3600mg a day, and it works at this dose for what I need it for. I have seen a person stumbling and slurring from 400mg before. It just depends on the person.

I've used it in conjunction with pretty much anything you could name, and it's an incredible potentiator, adding a chill, yet stimulated euphoria to the drugs that I add it to. However, it has a euphoric, chill yet stimulated effect on me by itself.

Everyone that I've ever dosed up good with the stuff loved it, although a few people said that it messed them up TOO much and they would no longer fuck with it.

The only real side effect I notice from it is memory problems, such as short-term, and word recall. Things like that. Being in a conversation with someone, getting distracted and then not remembering what I was talking about. It definitely makes my mind wander, but to creative places and it can be used as a tool for work, music composition, etc.

Once again, it's a strange feeling that takes a while to put your finger on. It's different for everyone; we are all biologically and neurochemically different in certain respects. You just have to know your body, and know your mind. It's not for everyone, that much is for sure.

Note: It also depends on how you dose it. You have to understand the pharmacology of the drug to some degree...I can relate it in that respect to tramadol, I've known people who hated tramadol and thought it was a shit drug, then they dosed it the way I told them to and, *ta-da*, now it's one of their favorite drugs. Just my $0.02.
 
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^^Interesting read, thanks for that.

I'm still yet to try my prescription. It was given for chronic pain, and so far (20 years) nothing has worked, so I'm just dismissively sceptical now. I also get through my pain with a few glasses of wine and spliffs every night. That combination is the best I've found for managing pain. I wonder how Gabapentin would sit with alcohol and weed?
 
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