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Old Apr 19, 2022, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by BethRags View Post


I understand about having to take all the pills. I take 6 Gaba pills per day. The afternoon ones are problematic in that I often forget to take them and end up taking them late. It's odd that a medication that is generally prescribed in higher dose isn't made in higher-dosed pills.
My husband never took gabapentin three times per day, but only two. Though he did use 100 mg pills in the morning, he had a bottle of 400 mg gabapentin pills for his evening dose. I believe he only ever had 100s and 400s to use.

I used to have to take a pile of lower dose (200 mg) carbamazepine pills per day to equal 1,400 mg. It was only years later after my dose went down to 800 mg that I could use two 400 mg pills per day. I'll confess that sometimes I yearned for doses that made fewer pills possible. Right now I take 550 mg Seroquel XR (quetiapine ER) per day. That means a 300, a 200, and a 50 mg pill. Wish I could someday get down to 500 mg or even 300 mg. I was always opposed to 3x per day dosing, mostly because I so often forgot any afternoon doses.
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Dx: Bipolar type 1

Psych Medications:
* Tegretol XR (carbamazepine ER) 800 mg
* Lamictal (lamotrigine) 150 mg
* Seroquel XR (quetiapine ER) 500 mg

I also take meds for blood pressure, cholesterol, and tachycardia.
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*Beth*, bizi, Nammu
Thanks for this!
*Beth*, bizi