Gabapentin for anxiety

Is anyone on it for anxiety? Has it helped?

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I take it and have for a few years. @TheLogician

My dr who just retired put me on it. She said that benzo meds are not good and she doesn’t prescribe benzos. I had been taking clonazepam, but she stopped it and started me on gabapentin instead.

I think gabapentin helps me. I’m pretty sure. My new dr says I take a very high dose of it. Which is weird because my old dr kept pushing me to increase it. I have very severe anxiety disorders though.

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I take pregabalin. It is the sister molecule of gabapentin. It helps.

The jury is still out if it is habit forming. It is certainly a drug of abuse to some folk

I came off Pregabalin a while ago, but not sure if that’s unsettling things right now

The Vortioxetine at 20mg was supposed to replace it