Will gabapentin work as a stop gap between narcotics for dental pain?

[cay]

I've been avoiding posting this, but on thursday I was offered some H. I turned it down, later I gave a suggestion that we could still hang out but let's do it at the bar area of our city. After some drinks we got jumped by a mugger (no I'm serious, I asked if he was freaking serious no one carries cash these day) anyways he lunged at me with a knife (like a child over arm) I caught his wrist and while disarming him my face took a bit of a pounding. Then I used a basic wrist throw to smash his skull into a wall. Anyways, beyond needing some advil for a headache I've been fine I have a swollen eye, but now I think I either have a cavity or he knocked my bottom lower tooth free. A) a dentist wouldn't give me strong enough to dull the pain and B) I really do want to avoid narcotics. Anyways my front tooth is FREAKING bothering the hell out of me and I have a bunch of boxes of gabapentin laying around. Since last I checked tooth pain is pretty much exclusively nerve pain do you think I would be far off by following these sample packets instructions as an alternative to opiates? Or if the dentist needs to extract should I just go ahead and grab a couple of grams of h to get through the first 3 or 4 days?

Thanks!

 

[herbavore]

"Grabbing a couple of grams of heroin" for tooth pain seems crazy to me, especially as I am inferring from your post that you are trying to stay away from it (and other opiates)? Have you tried the gabapentin for the pain you have now? If it worked could you use that after the extraction? In my experience, extractions are not painful after the fact--just feels weird to have a hole where a tooth once was! Good luck with it and sorry for the experience that led to this.

 

[cay]

Yeah probably true wouldn't need that much I just know what I was using and can only go from there. Either way you are right I am really not interested but I would rather not be in severe pain (and I remember the last time I got a tooth pulled or maybe filled or something it fucking hurt for about a day to two then yeah it was fine.)

 

[Smoky]

I used some H going into dentist before ... but it was really a very bad idea looking back. I am off it now. I would steer clear of opiates indeed. Gabapentin used to help with my nerve pain, as well as anxiety. Maybe you can take it briefly. Also, you will be numbed for an extraction locally, which is helpful…. and last a little while. Excedrine is also helpful for tooth pain, as well as some otc localized numbing agents.

So sorry you had that experience. How terrifying it must have been. I've been robbed and beaten up by 3 dudes with baseball bats before

 

[CaveBear]

sorry bro, all around, but Gabapentin does nothing imho for pain. i just had an arm sawed off, opiates helped, but they prescribed gaba and flexeril, neither touch the pain. i cant get anymore opiates due to the fact they know i od/d on h a few years back. if i cant sleep again, im going back to h. i cant handle the pain anymore. i'll just snort it, be damned if a needle sees this arm, but im gonna do it, even booze aint working anymore.

 

[Smoky]

quick note, don't ever snort lyrica or gabapentin. I did it once and had a throbbing headache for 24 hours, almost went to the ER.