Hello lizardlady Good thought. It's been 2 months since his dental, but... I wasn't there during the dental to see if anything went wrong. Got any ideas that a dental might have set off something in his mouth that would make him more sensitive to this medication?

He's never been an easy cat. He doesn't like alot of human interaction and doesn't like to be touched, mainly due to his hyperthesia. Every time I nab him for his medication, I am touching him and setting off his hyperthesia, which scares him. The thinking is that by putting him on gabapentin, it will dampen down the neurological response and help him to live a more "normal" life, which is has. This drug has been very successful with him, until the last two months. In fact, he has become more symptomatic lately and was considering upping his dosage. However, due to no long term studies with this drug (and being off-label), I have no idea how by increasing the drug if it will help him or make him worse.

I'm thinking I will stop giving the gabapentin to him, per advice of my vet, and see how he does. Last time he went off the drug, he had quite a reaction to this disorder. He reacts by racing through home in a state of sudden panic, crashing into walls helter-skelter. I can't sleep with him as several times he has crashed into me when in a sound sleep and bruised some ribs. Last time, before going back on gabapentin, he got tangled up in my sleep apnea mask and that was scary.

I think I need to video tape him and take this in to my vet to show him what my cat is doing while off the gabapentin.