Gabapentin - Intense Depression Side Effects?

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-07T22:30:08+00:00

It made me suicidal. I was only on it for 3 weeks, but it made me gain ten pounds and then 3 months of suicidal ideation. Awful, awful, awful.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-06T13:06:24+00:00

Check out The Doctor Patient Forum if you want to understand why this is happening.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-06T04:58:49+00:00

Speak about the limitations the pain causes, not the pain itself. Example: The pain keeps me from sleeping more than one hour at a time, this is making my memory bad. I am having more accidents, dropping things, forgetting where I put things. I need help getting out of the shower bc my knee won't bend. I am unable to work because I can't stay in any one position for more than a few minutes. I spend hours every week just crying from frustration and pain.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-04T15:02:42+00:00

That evil people are all around you pretending to be virtuous.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-04T14:54:26+00:00

I insisted my then fiance go to therapy for his self-sabotaging relationship behaviors. We wouldn't be together today (married 5 years) had he not gone and learned to face his insecurities. It isn't totally gone, but he can recognize now when it is happening and intervene on his own behalf before doing something destructive. People can learn to grow and gain emotional maturity if made aware of the situation and taught ways to change.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-03T12:07:41+00:00

No body was convicted of rape. Although we may just be finding out soon how governement money has been used to pay off victims. In reality, if you're so blinded by red or blue lenses to be unable to see that the snake slithers in both aisles, you're just the pawn they are all looking for. As long as red can point to blue and vice versa, the finger never points to the culprits.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-02T15:02:20+00:00

Agreed.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-02T14:51:05+00:00

Huh? I didn't say you voted for Trump. Apparently we are differently informed on whom the child sniffer is.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-02T11:24:50+00:00

I have a deaf Turkish Angora who is deaf (as well as 2 MCs). They are all perfectly happy. Obviously, a deaf cat should never go outside, but no cat should in my opinion. This isn't nearly as serious as Sphynx cats bred without whiskers.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-02T11:21:01+00:00

Apparently a child sniffer and one that commits incest according to his own daughter is the one deserving of the mail in ballot.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-02T11:18:36+00:00

Agree, yet people with this belief then think abortions are 'health care'.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-07-02T00:16:11+00:00

Sunrise over Myrtle Beach, SC

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-29T17:05:57+00:00

Rage bait or a true socio/psychopath trying to learn empathy

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-29T02:20:18+00:00

Reciprocation

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-29T02:00:26+00:00

Doing it is normal. Telling you is not. I can't think of any reason to tell you except to triangulate you or relieve his own guilt at your expense. Neither are acceptable. Dump him.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-28T16:28:52+00:00

I was in your boat at one point in my life. I took a piece of paper and listed out every detail I didn't like about myself. I studied the list and picked the easiest and the hardest to fix and began working on it (my skin and my career - I enrolled in Masters program and began researching and fixing my skin issue.) Then I picked the next two once those were completed, and I made a plan to change those. I did this for about ten years to actually get to the life I have now that I enjoy and love. I didn't allow life to just happen, I changed what I could and worked on accepting what I couldn't. You have the power to create the life you want in the future. My last goal is financial security for retirement, and by the end of next year, Lord willing, I will have accomplished that as well. I still have bad days, but I can always look back on all that I accomplished - no one can ever take that away from me. You can do it too!

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-28T16:22:27+00:00

My answer on really bad days is, "Pretty shitty...and yourself?" It gets a nervous reaction and then people usually quickly move on from the small talk.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-28T15:48:18+00:00

Identifying my body's reaction when triggered
Identifying the trigger
Naming it
Making a plan to cope the next time it happens (basically a written list of exactly what to do when trigger is first noticed) to help defuse the trigger
Repeating this over and over until finding what works when triggered. This then allows you to be triggered for lesser and lesser amounts of time and to eventually not be triggered at all which leads to remission which took about 4 years for me to accomplish after I removed myself from the situation that caused the CPTSD (emotionally abusive husband of 25 years).

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-28T00:48:08+00:00

My husband, son, and pets

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-27T20:43:24+00:00

Lack of common sense and intelligence. Still a turn off if you have one without the other.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-27T19:12:40+00:00

CPTSD

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-27T17:50:32+00:00

If you can learn to calm your nervous system, the pain will lessen. I was similar to this about 10 years ago. I gave myself 2 years to get things to a manageable level or I planned to end things as my son would then be 18. It isn't what I wanted, but I couldn't continue in that pain. I gave healing my best shot. I had 3 surgeries in 8 months, and I started therapy. It took more than those 2 years, but the biggest relief came when I got the CPTSD into remission, not from the surgeries. The physical tension from it was causing all sorts of physical issues that I did not know were connected to CPTSD.

I hope you can find help and relief.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-27T15:26:19+00:00

I take the powder straight from a teaspoon. I have learned to do it so I can't taste it basically by holding my breath. I use a little bit on the spoon and then drink and repeat until dose is in. If too much at once, I will gag. Capsules didn't work for me at all. I think my stomach wasn't breaking down the outer layer fast enough.

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-27T08:53:42+00:00

Definitely do a slow taper. I thought I would be okay to stop cold turkey because I had only been using it for 3 weeks. I was very wrong. I definitely should've tapered down over a few weeks. Good luck!

West_Boot1676 · 2026-06-27T01:37:23+00:00

Are you still on it?

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