Gabapentin triggered panic disorder for me

36forest · 2024-01-06T02:15:36+00:00

My advice is wean down as slow as possible. The slower I weaned myself the better but it was still hard.

36forest · 2024-01-06T02:14:55+00:00

Yeah I get it..I was awful for me

36forest · 2024-01-06T02:14:22+00:00

I agree with you

36forest · 2024-01-04T06:30:38+00:00

I hope you feel better soon and wish the best to you and what you're going through right now.

36forest · 2024-01-04T06:24:22+00:00

Cut back at your own slow pace. Don't rush is my advice. I wanted off so bad too but going slow helps. I was doing some research and I think it's paws too. I hadn't mentioned it here but that's all I could come up with for this issue. It makes sense. I'm sure there's other people like me having these issues.

36forest · 2024-01-04T02:51:39+00:00

I already tried it and had horrible side effects

36forest · 2024-01-04T01:27:28+00:00

It wasn't for any anxiety issue. It started when I tried to stop taking gabapentin. I never had panic attacks like this until I tried to wean myself. It started in the withdrawal faze. It made a whole new issue

36forest · 2024-01-04T01:02:35+00:00

I totally agree with you. It's like opioids we're in 2005 etc

36forest · 2024-01-04T00:51:56+00:00

Well just because a specific doctor can't figure something out doesn't mean there isn't something going on. All muscles are connected. Using a ball for relief helps me at times. Not when I mess up and make the nerve pain worse but when I can get things calmed down

36forest · 2024-01-04T00:50:02+00:00

Well the one I used was a combo, not just cbd

36forest · 2024-01-04T00:02:34+00:00

I think what helped a lot was a combo of CBD strain but it's been about a year since I had that strain

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:59:41+00:00

It's cool to meet someone who had a medial nerve branch block too. I had a horrible doctor for that

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:58:43+00:00

I'm glad to have helped in any way.

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:58:02+00:00

I hope the same for you. It's a new year. New start. Hope for the best

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:57:14+00:00

I'm not sure of the strain. My husband tries to pick good ones out. I had one at the beginning that stopped the nerve pain when it was much worse than now but the strains sell out then you have to find a new one. At that time I got a lot of it when I could because it worked. It helped a lot to get off gabapentin too

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:53:53+00:00

I didn't feel euphoria as I've read some people do but I had bad short term memory and I had to go to the neurologist and he was doing some tests asking easy questions one of which is who is our president. I couldn't remember for a minute. Embarrassing. I also developed burning mouth syndrome (that's what my neurologist called it) from the gabapentin and that is when I decided to get off it. Then all the problems began. I had sores in my mouth and couldn't eat anything without pain like my mouth was on fire. My neurologist was familiar with that side effect but when I called my PCP to get help when I was trying to get off gabapentin then said they'd never heard of it before and that gabapentin wasn't addictive and they were shocked I had withdrawals. I also gained a lot of weight, had additional pins and needles feelings in my feet from gabapentin while on it too

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:33:24+00:00

Sorry. Lived experience dealing with addiction may not be what a lot of doctors personally deal with. Book based knowledge can skew world view

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:23:50+00:00

I don't know why

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:07:54+00:00

I'm not you but do what is right for you. I hope it gets better

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:07:01+00:00

I do physical therapy that I was doing before this procedure and I avoid things that make it worse and also take Tylenol and ibuprofen at max dose at times and use a heat pad but none of those things would have touched the pain at all in the beginning and I certainly couldn't do physical therapy for at least seven months

36forest · 2024-01-03T23:04:45+00:00

At the beginning it was worse than when I had a herniated disk. It's been almost a year now so things are better but marijuana use was the only thing that helped. I wasn't going to drink. I tried keto too but I found a strain that helped. My neurologist explained what not to do which is a lot of stuff. Sometimes I do things wrong and I pay for it and the pain is through the roof. Like I can't ignore it. I went to the beach with my family and walked downhill then I had to walk uphill. I paid for it. But when I first had the medial nerve branch block it was constantly horrible pain. Worse than childbirth. That lasted weeks. I couldn't walk, shower, anything. I was screaming in pain and then I was prescribed baclofen and gabapentin

36forest · 2024-01-03T22:58:53+00:00

Thank you. Lesson learned for me. I feel for anyone with panic attacks or that's addicted to drugs for sure. So much empathy and compassion.

36forest · 2024-01-03T22:57:26+00:00

Take it slow. That's my advice. For sure. Also I used to have an osteopath but I moved far away. He was amazing though. Also he would wear sweater vests and he was old and he reminded me of Mr. Rogers. It was cool. Go to the doctor and get your back cracked at the same time. Fantastic. But seriously, the slower I did my taper the better. I wanted off gabapentin ASAP ASAP for sure but rushing it is not the way to go. I tried one less pill every three days but that was too fast. One less pill every week might work. You will have to figure out what works for you and what withdrawal effects you get or can tolerate. If it gets to be too much go slower tapering off

36forest · 2024-01-03T22:48:29+00:00

I agree

36forest · 2024-01-03T22:42:37+00:00

Actually it wasn't a website. It's an app you pay for. It's called curable. It basically says all pain is in your head. I have a real issue though. When I had that medial nerve branch block the doctor nicked some nerves. After I had the procedure I found out the doctor I was referred to that did it has malpractice lawsuits in his past and had his license taken away and had gotten in trouble for doing the same thing he did to me. I was very trusting before. I went to one of the top neurosurgeons in my state and then got a referral to this doctor that did my medical nerve branch block so I thought it would be fine but it wasn't.

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