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Old Oct 25, 2018, 09:50 PM
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I agree. Hopefully it won't happen. she doesn't want me on any more of it etiher so I'm hoping we'll stay with gabapentin. I hope she was just warning me that someday it may have to go too. But the klonopin w/d is a long project so it will be a while before we need to even consider gabapentin.

The other thing about taking about the gabapentin and relying on clozapine for sleep is that gabapentin helps me get sleepy which lets the clozapine get me to sleep. Clozapine is not that sedating for falling asleep for me. I can't imagine sleep without gabapentin. I can't take most of the other options for anxiety/sleep because of my MAOI.

Oh well, no need to worry that far off. Even though I do.
I'd be very concerned. Well, I am very concerned. I had mentioned this to my pdoc and she was not aware that some states are tracking gabapentin. She then went on about a required state licensing training here which scares any doctor away from treating pain patients, stating she hopes gabapentin is never tracked by the state, because "she did not go into medicine to conduct random urine tests, to do surprise med counts," etc. It's insane once the state gets involved in tracking meds! It intimidates doctors, scaring the off from prescribing meds people need.


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Old Oct 25, 2018, 09:58 PM
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Here they have things so regulated that when I had a kidney stone my doctor gave me painkillers and told me that he had to write the script a certain way but because of my psych meds he wanted me to take it less than he'd written for. It's crazy.

I've given norco for migraine relief for years. I can only have 2 triptans with my MAOI and neither works. So every so often I have a migraine that doesn't stop. I go through 30 every few years. I'm terrified that when I need it next they won't be able to give it to me.

I wish they could figure out this opoid crisis and calm down about things that aren't even addictive. and they need to figure out where to stop; people crush and snort Seroquel....
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 07:24 PM
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The regulations are so tough. Not just for pdocs, but dentists too. Used to if I went in needing major dental work, the dentist would prescribe you hydrcodone. Now, I don’t know, you may need horrid root canals, not just a painful crown or tooth pulling to be to maybe get Tylenol 3, if you cannot take NSAIDS.

When I left the hospital after ulcer surgery (this is a 4-5 inch incision belly button up with staples), the hospital gave me 10 pills of Norco. This for what is one of the worst, most painful surgeries out there. When I called the hospital wanting more pain medication, they gave me tramadol or said I could drive there (45 minutes each way, too much pain for that and get a written script for 5 more pills). The tramadol didn’t work at all, so I just didn’t take it. Around 5 days later or so, I went to the trauma surgeons’ place to get the staples removed, and the surgeon removing the staples couldn’t believe they had given me so little in the way of pain medication for such a traumatic surgery. He gave me a prescription for more Norco. Same thing when the G.I. doc heard what the hospital sent me away with for pain but I was OK for meds, having gotten the script from the surgeon. But he told me to call if I needed more pain medication. I didn’t end up needing more. Things finally turned around. The doctors weren’t doling it out like that because I was addicted; it was because this was a very big, extremely painful surgery.

I mean, they are shooting you up with morphine, extra morphine shots, Norco, everything under the sun in the hospital, and then they send you home with next to nothing for the pain.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 10:27 PM
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I was on Klonopin when I was first diagnosed with BP. My experience with the drug was far from pleasant. However it did help me sleep at night because it made me so drowsy. I wish you good luck in keeping on in lowering the dose. Hopefully your body and mind will get used to the new dosage.
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