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Originally Posted by sadies mom I need some advice and also to know what others have done in my situation. I have been on Neurontin for several months now. And have got to get off it. I am feeling depressed, extreme fatique, memory loss, fog, punch drunk!! This is the second time I have been on it for CP ~it didn't work that great the first time for the pain and isn't now either~but, the side effects this time are awful!! I am on 800mg q hs , but have started taking 400mg one nite and 80omg the next until I see the doc this Tuesday. How have any of you that have been on Neurontin tapered off? How long did it take for the fog to lift? I have other meds I can take for the pain~I am better of without the N ~ it made me more of an invalid than the pain does!  |
Sadies mom, my husband was on 1600 mg in the am and pm, and was taking it as a mood elevator since he had become toxic to lithium. He went to a new psychiatrist and he wanted him to switch to something else, so he started cutting down on it. It was a nightmare! He was pretty much knocked out and couldn't function for two weeks, (slept all the time) and when he was awake, he was pretty much in a stupor. He had cut down to 800 mg in the am and 800 in the pm. When he cut down a bit more, he could hardly walk! It scared us to death, so he went back up to 800. He finally leveled off and is now only on 800 at night. It took quite a while to get down to that dose and be able to function. Now he is so much better at the low dose. His old psych had him at such a high dose, he was in a fog pretty much of the time. It is not at easy drug to wean off of. Just take it very slowly!
I take skelaxin 800mg also with Tramadol. I dont want to become hooked on drugs,But it would be real nice to be normal again. 
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