[boogiesmash]

So recently my pdoc switched me to gabapentin for anxiety and had me taking 2 300mgs. I contacted her and asked if my dosage could be increased as it was semi effective but still had anxiety sometimes. So this is the new dosage she told me 1 100mg in morning 1 100 mg in afternoon and 1 300 mg in evening. Now it's spaced out more but down 100 mg from my previous dosage. Anybody have any experience with gabapentin? Think the spaced out dosage will work better?

[Wild Coyote]

There' a strategy for chronic anxiety which involves "chipping away" at it with more frequent, albeit smaller doses, of an anti-anxiety med. This strategy is likely to work with gabapentin, too.

I hope it helps you.


WC

[xRavenx]

Originally Posted by boogiesmash

So recently my pdoc switched me to gabapentin for anxiety and had me taking 2 300mgs. I contacted her and asked if my dosage could be increased as it was semi effective but still had anxiety sometimes. So this is the new dosage she told me 1 100mg in morning 1 100 mg in afternoon and 1 300 mg in evening. Now it's spaced out more but down 100 mg from my previous dosage. Anybody have any experience with gabapentin? Think the spaced out dosage will work better?

I am on Gabapentin, and yes, spacing the dosage out works best for me. My pdoc has me taking 300 mg, three times per day. She had me try different times of the day to see what works best. I space mine out throughout the course of the day. I will take my first pill a few hours after I wake up since I'm still a little zonked from Seroquel when I first wake up. After lunch, I'll take my next pill. Early evening, I'll take my last pill.

[~Christina]

Spacing is a standard dosing.

I'm not sure why more doctors don't do spacing

[bioChE]

I don't know why she reduced your dose when you asked for an increase. Doesn't make sense to me.

That being said, taking gabapentin 3x/day is standard and the recommended method per the PI. Gabapentin has a pretty short half-life.

[HALLIEBETH87]

I take 300mg four times a day. It has a very short half life

[bioChE]

I take 600mg 3x/day. However I take it for peripheral neuropathy and not for BP or anxiety. It definitely helps my anxiety, though.

[jacky8807]

It didn't work for me until I was at atleast 600 3×daily for anxiety. So you have plenty of room to go up atleast. At one point I was on 800mg bunch times a day