In my experience this is way harder than coming off clonazepam.
My negative symptoms are awful and any gains I made in socialising have reversed. Can’t really leave the house on my own now. Lost pleasure in everything and am always worried.
I know my doc on Monday will give me a hard time for not going out, but he can say whatever he feels. I’m the one who has to live with this.
In addition my nurse isn’t returning my calls. The whole CMHT is suffering from a jaded sort of malaise and the patients are suffering. Morale is low.
I’m sorry to hear that. I am going through a similar thing.
Let us know how things work out.
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I alternate on a 3 day cycle between gabapinton and klonopin…both say as needed so I’m not really going against my doc…but I worry about taking them both everyday and then getting hooked and then putting my self through withdraw if it becomes an issue…and my doc is a dick about helping with any withdraws I’ve had in the past…so I try to protect myself from falling into addiction…
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I’m sorry to hear that all this is going on. I myself, also take gabapentin but I’ve never tried to get off it I just lessened the dose and perhaps saw a little negativity at first. I was taking alot of it at one time, four capsules a day. But now I take it two times a day and I think they’re 200mg gelcaps.
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Is there a reason you wish to quit taking gabapentin is it a bad thing for you or are you experimenting with a new medication regimen?
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It made me put on weight. Also I was a bit pissed off taking all those tablets. Still on the APs - just wanted to streamline everything else down
Why do you guys take Gabapentin? Here, they prescribe it for pain and epilepsy.
I’m sorry you’re having such a tough time… It will get better though, hold on to that.
I guess there’s a reason my pdoc didn’t want to put me on gabapentin.
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It can be used off label for anxiety
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Aaaaah. That explains it.
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Yeah I’ve gained alot of weight from my medicine and low energy levels. It’s nuts how hard I’ll have to work at losing all this weight I’ve gained. I can’t fit my clothes and it seems like they just keep force feeding me pills that never did anything worthwhile. I’ve never been symptom free, no matter what medicine I was on I have been constantly harassed and hit in the face and raped. I’m fed up inside with how they’re trying to hurt me.
They say it helps calm people down but I haven’t really ever noticed anything good or bad about it. I think it’s a nerve pain medicine traditionally and they just probably have alot of pills made and want to distribute them as other forms of medicine merely to get rid of them.
I don’t really trust doctors or any big pharma there’s always a catch and a reason a medicine comes out and most of the time you need more medicine for it to work and different medicine included into it. I’ve been having a really hard time lately, I feel like I want to die sometimes.
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It looks like there’s no free lunch when it comes to anxiety meds and supplements. I’m going through the exact same thing with l-theanine.
I caved in a few hours ago to the withdrawal and took my full dose. So much for over the counter supplements not causing withdrawal.
Anything that reduces anxiety must have withdrawal associated with it.
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