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BeyondtheRainbow · Dec 06, 2018, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Wild Coyote

I had first seen my new pdoc when I was agitated. We had added one med at a time, which had resulted in adding two meds and tapering off another.

Suddenly, the meds are far too much, even though they were fine for 2-3 months. I have had to discontinue one and now another also feels too sedating.

I will see my pdoc tomorrow.

I am wondering if anyone else has had sudden very sedating changes in reactions to meds which had been just fine before the sudden change?

Maybe this is a silly question?

Thanks for reading.

Love to All!

WC

I've found gabapentin to be a really weird med. I was put on I think 600 mg 3x/day in 2011 and had to come off it nearly immediately because it sedated me so that I couldn't drive or function at all. All I could do was sleep. Eventually I tried 400 mg for sleep and that worked well for me for several years.

When I went on clozapine I went off high dose Seroquel very rapidly and the result was extreme anxiety so they started with gabapentin again. I don't remember the dose they had me on IP I think it was 900 mg twice a day and 1200 mg at bedtime. Even with the sedation from clozapine there was no problem at all. As I got adjusted to clozapine I needed it less and eventually went down to 800 mg at bedtime and 100-200 mg PRN. I had no problems with sedation or lack of sedation.

Now I've been having trouble sleeping and having PTSD nightmares and my pdoc increased 100 mg at night. No side effects and the nightmares are gone. So strange that such a tiny dose made so much difference.

I still have no idea how I tolerate it now after how awful it was the first time.