Gabapentin Awareness is a Facebook community for people who want to learn about the adverse effects and withdrawal effects of Gabapentin. The group provides educational resources, safe tapering suggestions, and peer support for Gabapentin withdrawal.
My name is Julie, looking to get to this Facebook group to talk to someone going through this horrific withdrawal from this gabapentin. I desperately need a friend to talk to. Help.
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Hi Julie I was on garbapentin for 4months. 300 mg three times a day. I have never been so sick I quit cold turkey. It was doing nothing for pain. It’s going on 6 weeks.it is just one thing after another. Some people go back on it. No way will I go back on it. What a horrible drug. One needs time.
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I was on Gabapinton 100mg for two years.Decided to come off because of frequent palpitations.I was talked back into going back on it and be able to stop taking sleeping pills.
Seven days ago I went up to two hundred but it was too strong. I’m in my 6th day of cutting back a hundred per day. I’m experiencing excruciating burning in my legs. How much longer am I going to be in this pain before I feel a sense of. normalcy? I currently am only taking 100 per night instead of two . I was only on two for seven days before I cut back a hundred .Is this the right way to reduce nightly the extra hundred?
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How do I join this group. Struggle to come off gabapentin and MD does not believe I could possibly be having withdrawals.
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I also need to join this group about helping me withdraw from gabapentin. It was originally prescribed for me about 35 years ago for off-label use to help bipolar 1 disorder. Unlike many people, it had a positive effect and was the only medicine that helped me think clearly. I haven’t experienced any negative side effects from it. I now find out after all this time that it is addictive. I was never told this. I am on a higher dose -3600/day and now my new psychiatrist wants me to reduce it by at least 600mg, then more. I am having major side effects – extreme fatigue ( all I want to do is sleep) and brain fog. Do these feelings subside with time?
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