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Date: 26.06.2012
From: Lynnr

Subject: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

Hi I have just been given gabapentin by my dr was wondering if anyone has taken it and what their experience was? I've heard it makes you quite drowsy or out of it? I'm not ken on taking it.
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Date: 26.06.2012
From: bsk

Subject: Re: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

Don't know about drowsy but have heard it is very good for pain.
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Date: 27.06.2012
From: Ted

Subject: Re: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

It is not to bad if you start off on a low dose 100mg ,I was on 3 x300 mg daily &sometimes I went a bit loopy
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Date: 27.06.2012
From: Lynnr

Subject: Re: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

As thanks I've to start on 3 times daily 100 mg then up to 200 mg then 300 mg I'm sure she said but it sounds excessive!!!
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Date: 27.06.2012
From: Yasmin

Subject: Re: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

Hi LynnR,

My uncle was placed on Gabapentin a couple of years ago to help with pain in his heel due to a Diabetic ulcer...He took 100mg, 3 times a day for about 6 months...It really helped with the severe discomfort he was feeling, allowing him to have a peaceful nights sleep...

He was on this dose for about 3 months and we started to reduce it down to twice a day, to cut down on the drowsiness...a few months after we reduce it to the point when he felt he needed it... now he only takes Paracetamol...I can trully say these tablets have helped him and carried him through a very rough patch when nothing else was helping... When your pains become a little more bearable, try reducing it down to twice a day and see how you go...YOu will know yourself when you can reduce it further...xox
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Date: 27.06.2012
From: Lynnr

Subject: Re: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

Thanks Yasmin I will try that I got it yesterday but will start it in a couple of weeks as going away for a week and don't want to be falling asleep.
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Date: 16.07.2012
From: Dave

Subject: Re: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

hi yeah was prescribed gabapentin 2 years ago,i took it for 9 months,i have never felt so out of it so sleepy and terrible dreams.My specialist then told me after i come off of them that his wife was very bad on them too.If the side effects are that common,which they seem to be,why do Drs prescribe them?Awfull drug!!
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Date: 16.07.2012
From: Lynnr

Subject: Re: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

Hi dave i am just gong on to the second week of taking them and increasing this week and next to get up to 900 mg which sounds a lot I feel quite out of it and drowsy but I'm hoping these side effects will ease with time, the pain I was suffering in the mornings was so extreme and it continued for up to 5 hours after getting up some days but since being on these I really do feel the pain has eased off slightly so I'm willing to suffer the side effects if they are going to help with the pain.... It really is a catch 22 take the drugs and suffer side effects or don't and suffer extreme pain.
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Date: 09.10.2012
From: Jennifer Sutherland

Subject: Re: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

I take 3x 300 over the day. Its not amasing but im better with it than without it. Iv also added Nortriptaline 50mg and seems to work well together.
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Date: 10.10.2012
From: Lynnr

Subject: Re: Just been prescribed gabapentin has anyone ever taken it?

I can go up to 3 x 300 some days I do and I was offered nortiptaline at pain clinic but I take amytriptilne and they seem to help me so didn't change.
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