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Misc Getting off gabapentin

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Keweanna

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Ok so I quit taking opiates almost 90 days ago and was experiencing anxiety so decided to try out gabapentin . It was all fun at first and it helped with my mood and anxiety but now I'm terrified to come off it! I have only taken it for two months at most and am now down to 300 mg a day , I'm just wondering if I'm being a big baby about all of this or have legitimate reasons to be worried ... I just went through suboxone withdrawal and don't want to have to go through stupid gabapentin withdrawal . If anyone has any sort of answer that would be great thanks!
 
Hey Keweanna, what was your daily Gabapentin dose over the 2 months? This and the duration (two months is not that long) are the two factors. And of course your individual metabolism and such as some people do not experience withdrawl symptoms from Gabapentin, and others go through severe wd's.

But without the dose information one can't really estimate. Did you experience any symptoms during the tapering?
 
Well I'm not sure exactly how much I was taking but it probably could of been 1800 mg , not everyday though and I would take pregablin sometimes too . I guess I didn't notice too much any withdrawal cutting back but I guess I wasnt really thinking about it . I went a good 18 hours without taking anything and my teeth hurt and I had nausea and felt just weird so I ended up taking 600 mg but the symptoms didn't subside until the next day . I just want off this crap and wish after what I just went through getting off opiates I would of been smarter ...
 
teeth hurting and headache were my first symptoms of Gabapentin withdrawal as well. My withdrawal of the drug (cold turkey from 900mg) lasted for about 2.5 weeks. It actually only ended because i took a little more Gabapentin + 1mg Klonopin. The withdrawal were awful. The withdrawals were actually worse than benzos IME (both in length and severity). My symptoms were burning leg pain, headaches that were incurable (opiates, benzos, weed, alcohol, etc. did nothing to help even temporarily - and I would really avoid the alcohol as it made things worse), agitation, worse sleep (lost an average of an hour or two per night), and painful teeth.

I would strongly recommend tapering down off the stuff. Find your lowest stable dose and then try reducing by 300mg every few days or week.
 
Oh I'm already down to 200 mg , I have never done benzos more than a couple times , never really liked them but how long were you on the gab? My problem is , is as long as I have it I will take it to make the shitty feeling stop and I'm also wondering if I'm just messing with things more by tapering and not just stopping now
 
Tapering down to 50-100mg gabapentin/day will make the withdrawal sumptoms minimal. If you're still having problems after getting off gabapentin, you can switch to L-Theanine, which is safe, neuroprotective, anxiolytic, sedative, hypnotic, and anxiolytic. It's similar to Gabapentin in chemical structure but with a somewhat different feel at therapeutic dosages.

300mg L-Theanine = 100mg Gabapentin (imo)
 
Thank you! I have been trying to figure out a supplement that would help but couldn't find one. I will have to try that instead .
 
it makes me sick reading these threads..
and remembering when gaba was a bs "miracle" drug..
which came w/no w/d syndrome. :|
unhelpful..sorry.

best of luck op.
 
I have tremendous experience with gabapentin. I take 9,000 mg recreationaly and never experience withdrawal whatsoever, I have had a mild headache here and there but nothing more. I never do that for more than four days at a time though. I take multi week breaks too.

Don't freak out about the dose either, I've done my research and gabapentin is not damaging to the liver or kidneys in any way. It does not cause any other bodily harm from what I have heard either.

Also, only so much gabapentin can be absorbed by the body.
 
Where and how is this obtained? Is it a supplement?

More importantly, can l-theanine be abused?
 
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Gaba and pregab were fun for me at first but now I feel stuck in a weird trip ... It's NOT fun and wish I was withdrawing off opiates instead . Atleast that was a straight forward felt like shit , sick feeling .... This is unexplainable
 
I feel bad for you, maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe your body just takes to it worse than most. Did you read that I take 9,000 mg recreationaly?
 
Lyrica/Neurontin never gave me withdrawals...I was on 2400mg of gabapentin for almost a year and 450mg of pregabalin for a few months and never had issues...and I dunno about opioid withdrawals lol...just got done with 3-week bupe withdrawals and FUCK that shit lol...
 
Yes that is what I was on suboxone ... Horrible horrible crap ... 9000 is a lot of gab , i couldn't imagine taking that much
 
It's very nice. But I just discovered that taking that much at once is a waste because of low bio-availability. Now I take 15, 300mg pills at once, wait for that to be felt and then take 15 more. I think I'm gonna start taking lower doses even more spaced apart though. I'm 6'3 and weigh 370 pounds. Very experienced user.
 
I was taking 300-900 mg of G a day for almost a year and recently got down to 300, and stopped 5 days ago. Going through mild withdrawal. Sweats, sleep disturbance, runny eyes, fatigue, a little anxiety, but its a BREEZE compared to opiate or sub with drawal! An absolute VACATION compared to that. Try it, you don't know ti you try! I scared myself into thinking it was going to be worse.....I have been going to the gym every day, that REALLY helps.
 
Ok well I stopped the gab , and honestly it comes and goes but it's not that bad . My eyes still are very blurry which bothers me but I feel fine . Thank god! I am done taking medication that I know nothing about or is told to not be addictive. The dr gave me sertaline for my anxiety and even that has problems coming off so I refuse to take it . I feel like I'm just stuck dealing with the anxiety depression in fear of every medication now .
 
well, i take 3,200 mg a day (800mg 4x a day) and usually i run out of gabas b4 i can refill them. ive never experienced withdrawls, but thats just me. i never really have noticed any symptoms, but mabye the WD symptoms are so weak, i just dont recognize them.
 
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