Gabapentin

Medications
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Anyone have a success story of trying Gabapentin for anxiety?

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I couldn’t note any help from gabapentin. I took it for a month. Is it not helping you?

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I’m not on it. Im thinking of asking for it tomorrow during my doctors appointment. Ive read it can be used Off-Label for anxiety.

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It calmed me down from having a episode at 600mg which is not a high dose for this med. It did the job and I recovered. That was two months ago, no problems since.

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Tried it for severe anxiety. Did not work unfortunately.

I did notice however that I was no longer scared of heights when taking it.

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I am in pregabalin (the sister molecule of gabapentin). Pregabalin is licensed for anxiety. I think it certainly helped to begin with. I am not on a big dose.

But pregabalin piles on the weight in me. Heard others say this too. Can speak for gabapentin

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You should mention Buspar as well. :bug::bug::bug:

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I’m willing to try anything at this point for my anxiety.

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I heard ya. I hope you find something and get some relief. :speak_no_evil::speak_no_evil::speak_no_evil:

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Thanks GrayBear.

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It seems to help me with anxiety. I have been on it for several years.

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That’s promising to hear. Glad it helps you.

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My first experience with gabapentin was to treat an unknown vomiting issue. It didn’t help much there, and made me manic. I discontinued.

My second time, I had already fixed the vomiting issue, but was prescribed it off label for panic attacks. It helped a ton, but if I took it at night, it made me too wired to go to sleep. I liked it, and my doc put me on it every morning. I eventually came off it because of… Let me find my old thread and get back to you on that. Maybe it was side effects? Maybe I just was on one of my “I can cure myself through willpower” kicks that I was so fond of early on. Either way, no mania issues this time around, but I did feel a bit loopy when I was taking it PRN.

My third time, my OCD intrusive thoughts had gotten severe, and were causing me daily distress. Mr. Star told me to go back on it, so I did. I have been on it ever since. When my brain tumor issues began causing my pain issues, my neurologist raised the dosage from an anxiety-relief dose to a nerve pain dose. I currently take 300 mg 3/day, so 900 mg/day total.

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Just looked back at my log. When I quit it before, it was because I had gained a lot of weight. But then I went back on it because of the intrusive thoughts. My weight gain turned out to be unrelated anyways. I had a fibroid measuring 11c in diameter. Finally got that removed in May, and I’ve been dropping weight pretty steadily ever since.

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Congrats! I need to lose about 90 to 100 pounds. Doubt that ever happens on Olanzapine lol

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Ok cool.hugs. rox

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Apparently one of the common side effects is becoming a moderator, jk :smiling_face:

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Yeah, they should really warn people about that stuff :rofl: It’s dangerous

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I take 1000mg a day and it does seem to calm me down.

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