I need help getting off gabapentin
I take 300 mg in the morning and 300 at night.
I would like to quit these pills. I just want to be my old self again. I was never in so much pain to be chained to a drug this.
Can someone please help?
First get your doctor to give you a script for 100mg capsules. Then decrease by 100mg over a period of 4 weeks, once achieved that and if you are feeling okay, go down another 100mg over another 4 weeks.....it will take long, but I believe you will not have all the awful side effects of quitting.
I would talk to your doctor about weaning off of them slowly. I took Gabapentin, but only for a short time. I realized right away it was not working for me, so I had no problems stopping it. However, I was just reading posts last night in a Facebook group from individuals who had a terrible time getting off of it. Everyone reacts to it differently. I have been able to get off all prescription medications for fibromyalgia, except 1. I am still on Effexor, I tried to get off of it by weaning down my dose slowly. I spent 2 and a half months doing it. I got down to the lowest dose and when it was time to stop completely I still got sick. So sick that when my doctor said I should just get back on it I said OK. If I miss 1 dose I get sick. I hate it. Everything else I take are natural supplements and I want off the Effexor so bad, but don't know what else to do!!! Good luck to you.
Hi Jeff, I am in the process of coming off of gabapentin..
would I be able to ask the side effects you had from gabapentin??
They caused me so much mental suffering it’s been awful. Can’t wait for them to be out my syestem so I can get my mind back!
I hope this process ends quickly for you🙏
My max dose was 300mg a day, 3 capsules of 100mg. Only for couple months then tapered myself off over a week. It’s been 3 weeks since off the med, felt bad for a while but better since yesterday!
I would taper really slow, like Nancy says.. that will minimize the side effects. And once you’re off the medication, magnesium supplements help.
Hi Nancy, firstly my apologies for the italics, I can't switch it off!
I spoke to my gp yesterday about tapering from 900 mg a day and he advised me that 100 mg a week reduction would work without side effects . . . . I'm very sceptical about this - I tried once before and the side effects were awful, rapid eye movements, vertigo, nausea, I had a conversation with him about this but he is fairly adamant that this will work . . . .am I too anxious about this or should I follow my instincts and take it much more slowly . . . my thinking is reduce by 100 mg, wait until my body gets used to that, then reduce by another 100 . . . .I'd value the opinions of others.
Thanks, Susan