G@bapentin/preg@balin for anxiety?

[thegreaseman]

this is the first i've heard of gab or pregab used for behavioral health issues. i've gone through my fair share of psych cocktails for BP2 and have settled in on a mix that includes 3mg risperadol before bedtime for my anxiety-stayed away fron benz0s by choice. recently had shingles and am now dealing with PHN-Post Herpetic Neurolgia-and was prescribed gab for the pain. 2 weeks of 300mg x 3 a day and didn't so a thing. no euphoria, no pick me up feeling-nothing and certainly no pain relief. Dr then put me on gaba 150mg x 3 a day-same thing-no pain relief but BEWARE-it changed my personality and certainly led to suicidal thoughts, idiation and actual preparation for the act. people react differently to different meds and this is how i reacted to pregab. am staying as far away from it as possible, on Tegratol now...another anticonvulsent and it seems to be helping one kind of pain you get with PHN. but as for gab and pregab...uh-uh, no way. also didn't suffer any withdrawals at all after 5 weeks of taking the 2 and stopping cold turkey. but like i said...different folks react differently to the same meds.

Sorry to hear that you had negative reactions to the g@b@p3nt0n01ds. Although I'm pleased as punch to hear that you have discovered a better treatment option. I haven't had any negative side effects like you mentioned and I've been taking it for ~3 days now. I'm not a fan of the feeling overall but I HATED ph3n1but so much! These drugs are odd absolutely. I heard that it causes ed for some but for me it does the opposite which I'm not too happy about. 

[G.Elias]

Been prescribed g@bapentin for nerve damage/arthritis in my neck for a good few years now,believe this and maybe the other things i am prescribed are causing me to get ill,esp feeling nausea from my stomach,my dr has actually encouraged me to take more than the 3x300mg caps,i am trying to take as little as possible nowadays,there are no doubt better alternatives but if there is a chance those meds have rec potential then i wont get them prescribed,a lot of the illness i have been down with is i believe caused by meds i am prescribed,not the ones i get from an iop or vendor,thing is,even taking the g@bapentin has very little benefit from relieving my pain,i don't know why i bother at all,believed my dr when i ws told they would help,maybe for some but its done very little for me so far.Don't really want to go on pregabs either and deal with a whole lot more potential health problems.Can't win these days it seems.

[durango]

nerve pain is a tough critter to pin down. even with all the knowledge and technology today Drs can't really say what's causing what and that makes it difficult to treat. you read on almost every nerve pain treatment drug "it's believed to work by....." so that's saying they don't really know. all i know is that old fashioned hIdr0 works to put the constant pain in the background and allows me to work and get some sleep. but, of course, the Feds put the kibosh on even Pain Managnement Drs. prescribing much of it. oh well, what will be will be. what doesn't kill us makes us stronger...and miserable! but thanks for the thoughts thegreaseman.

[thegreaseman]

nerve pain is a tough critter to pin down. even with all the knowledge and technology today Drs can't really say what's causing what and that makes it difficult to treat. you read on almost every nerve pain treatment drug "it's believed to work by....." so that's saying they don't really know. all i know is that old fashioned hIdr0 works to put the constant pain in the background and allows me to work and get some sleep. but, of course, the Feds put the kibosh on even Pain Managnement Drs. prescribing much of it. oh well, what will be will be. what doesn't kill us makes us stronger...and miserable! but thanks for the thoughts thegreaseman.

No, thank you. I'm sorry that you have to deal with this, I wish I could offer some advice.

[Roses]

Hi thegreaseman. I have been prescribed gaba for nerve pain. For pain it was 2 300mgs/3 times a day. That was 2 yrs ago, at that time I got


bad side effects from it. Extreme dizziness, brain fog & feeling like I was drunk all the time were some of what I felt. So I stopped taking them, because

I found that they didn't help my pain at all. Then last year, my psych dr. prescribed them when I went off X@n@x for helping with the w/ds. He

scripted 1/2x day & 2 at bedtime. I was able to tolerate that dose & I did get off of my benzo. The doc continues to prescribe gaba for anxiety

& sleeping. I haven't found that it's anywhere close to the relief I used to get from my benzo, but I continue to take it because I wonder if it

might help in someway. One thing it definitely helps is withdrawal off opiates. I know so many that use gaba for that. I hope it helps you

with your anxiety. It's being used by many docs nowadays for all sorts of things.

[Naomi]

I was prescribed gaba after multiple $SRIs did not work. Even after increasing the dose of gaba, I never noticed a difference in mood, ability to sleep, anxiety, etc. I gave up on it recently.

[cmdline]

i find it strange people getting gaba for their pain issues prescribed, now i dont have much info about gabap in general, but most uses ive seen was to prevent seizures for tapering of benzs,or anxiety related nothing that would connect it to solving any pain issues, ex diaz is considered muscle relaxant but even that wouldnt be close to mosts pk's as effective treatment.Either im wrong on this or some docs actually dont know what they are giving their patients, if its used for pain, which for me seems unrelated med to prescribe someone.

[thegreaseman]

Thank you all for your input! It sounds like generally speaking people here aren't too keen on the old gabap3ntonoids. A quick updated, I wasn't either and my doctor switched me over to propranolol for anxiety and it has really, really helped. They don't want me on benz0s and for now I'm ok with that. Thanks again!

EDIT: Oops, forgot to mention my reasoning for switching. Pent barely did anything for my anxiety. In fact, it almost made it worse because it feels "dirty" in the system and it made me worry more. Only did anything for me at around 900 mgs and then I was literally nodding. No good for me.

[Blockhead59]

Hi everyone, sorry to learn about so many negative or negligible help with g@bap pen tin.

I don't remember where I posted and in response to whom about g@bapen tin, but this seems the perfect place.

I had mentioned a friend being prescribed g@ba pentin and how she finds it helps with anxiety, pain (recent hip surgery and continued knee(s) pain and her restless leg syndrome). Someone asked (sorry, I can't remember who) if she was taking something else. Well, I asked her and she said she was indeed prescribed g@bapen tin, and she said it was definitely helping with her anxiety. And with the her pain (a little) and definitely with her RLS.

But, now I'll have to inform her of all the possible side effects. Sheesh

Thanks for the tons of information provided!

[cmdline]

Thank you all for your input! It sounds like generally speaking people here aren't too keen on the old gabap3ntonoids. A quick updated, I wasn't either and my doctor switched me over to propranolol for anxiety and it has really, really helped. They don't want me on benz0s and for now I'm ok with that. Thanks again!

EDIT: Oops, forgot to mention my reasoning for switching. Pent barely did anything for my anxiety. In fact, it almost made it worse because it feels "dirty" in the system and it made me worry more. Only did anything for me at around 900 mgs and then I was literally nodding. No good for me.

well at least your doc seems has some sense, bnzs no joke to easy to get hooked impossible to get off, ive tried prop but since no heart conditions found it to harsh even at 20mgs my bp would plummet in minutes, nauseous feeling as well, but it does help with physical symptoms and no where close as bad as bnzos. if ever go down that route take smth like 2mg diaz at least safe play or clonz. kinda agree that gabapn is usually effective only at 900mgs but since its so strong its used usually to wean of benzos,,since you need tank meds to combat wds when cutting off from bnzos,to make one sane,then again long term leads to similar dependence.