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Coming off gabapentin

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deborah36618
deborah36618

I have only been taking it for less than 3 weeks and only managed to get to 300mg a day but the side effects are awful. I have now found out what is causing my nerve pain in back and leg ( my L5S1 disc has collapsed trapping nerves) and GP says that I would need a very high dose of gabapentin to ease this nerve pain so I might as well come off it ( waiting to see neurosurgeon).  Today I dropped down to 200mg ( 100mg morning and then I was going to take other one before bed). I would normally have taken another one at 5pm.  This evening I have had a bad headache around my eyes. like shooting pains. I have now taken the second 100mg tablet to see if this stops the pains. 

My Gp said " oh you can just stop taking it after such a short time" but I said I have read it gives back withdrawal if stopped suddenly and he didn't disagree!

So could the headache be withdrawal?

After no advice from GP I was thinking of dropping to 200mg a day for a week then 100mg a day for a week then 100mg every other day until I stop - does this sound good?

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    I am on gabepentin also and Napraxen.  I had c-t scan in April and found out my disc in my L5 in gone, I've had back injury in most common thing in our lives! In 2015 n now I've been in most pain since February to today, gabepentin 300mg 2 tablets and 3 is way too strong for me so, I went back to 1 tablet of  300mg ... Back injury is quite abit painful
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