That¹s quite a dramatic wash-out!! Just a few hours and it is gone from your system. At least the Lyrica (pregabolin) lasts until I rise in the morning. I now take 900mg/day of that.
Dalton Office: +971-02-607-5070/5297 Mobile: +971-50-668-5760-- From: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:52:16 EST To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TMIC] Gabapentin Resent-From: <[email protected]> Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:52:26 -0800 I take 600mg (or 900mg if needed) of Gabapentin [Neurontin] along with one (or two if needed) Hydrocodone APAP 7.5 325 TA [Norco] four times a day (every six hours). When I was first dx'd, my neuro had me on this same dosage, but at only three times a day. I was taking them after breakfast, mid afternoon and at bedtime. But by the time I woke up (which was 8-12 hours later), I hurt so bad and had such bad spasms, I could barely make it to the bathroom, let alone dress myself and go downstairs to start breakfast and take my next dose. I asked my doc if I could take an additional dose - spacing them out 6 hours apart, keeping a more even amount in my system at all times. This has worked pretty well for me for 3 years now. Depending on how strenuous my day has been, I start hurting pretty bad around about an hour before I'm due for my next dose, but on ordinary days, it's not so bad. Betty (in Northern California) In a message dated 12/18/2010 8:17:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > my neuro said the backlofen he has me on was for the jerking, my wife made > him put me back on it when he took me off of it once,she said i almost kicked > her out of bed at night! > > has me on the high dosage of gabapentin for the nerve pain i am so familar > with > > --- On Sat, 12/18/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> > Subject: Re: [TMIC] Gabapentin >> > To: "john snodgrass" <[email protected]> >> > Cc: "Dalton Garis" <[email protected]>, "transverse myelitis" >> <[email protected]> >> > Date: Saturday, December 18, 2010, 11:09 AM >> > John, >> > >> > I'm not sure what your spasms are like - maybe yours are >> > much worse than >> > mine, but I've found that if I take sufficient calcium >> > supplements, I >> > don't have them. (What I refer to as 'spasms', for >> > me, is when nerves in >> > my legs actually cause my legs to jerk around when I'm >> > still. It makes it >> > hard to go to sleep.) >> > >> > I take maybe 800 mg to 1200 mg/day, depending on how much >> > calcium foods >> > I've eaten. If my legs start to spasm, I know I >> > didn't take enough and >> > get up and take some. (Calcium is more effective if >> > taken in smaller >> > doses - i.e. 400mg - throughout the day, rather than all at >> > once.) My >> > calcium levels were good before I was given the 5000 mg >> > methyl-prednisone >> > to zap the myelitis, but that zapped the calcium, >> > too. So this is likely >> > to be true for all of us who were given steroids to treat >> > the TM. It >> > might be worth it to give it a try. >> > >> > Sally >> > >> > >> > >>> > > realy bad spasms. >>> > > it helps some. >>> > > i thought this stuff made you sleepy. >>> > > i reckon i am immune. >>> > > >>> > > --- On Sat, 12/18/10, Dalton Garis <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > From: Dalton Garis <[email protected]> >>> > > Subject: Re: [TMIC] Gabapentin >>> > > To: "john snodgrass" <[email protected]> >>> > > Date: Saturday, December 18, 2010, 9:33 AM >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > That is 4x what I am taking! >>> > > >>> > > John, do you have paralysis and spasms? And is that >> > why the neuro has you >>> > > on such a high dose? >>> > > >>> > > Because I would love to be more medicated if I could. >>> > > >>> > > Dalton >>> > > >>> > > Office: +971-02-607-5070/5297 >>> > > Mobile: +971-50-668-5760-- >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > From: john snodgrass <[email protected]> >>> > > Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:11:48 -0800 (PST) >>> > > To: Kevin Wolfthal <[email protected]> >>> > > Cc: transverse myelitis <[email protected]> >>> > > Subject: Re: [TMIC] Gabapentin >>> > > Resent-From: <[email protected]> >>> > > Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:11:49 -0800 >>> > > >>> > > i am taking 2400 mg a day. it helps but it doesn't >> > heal me >>> > > >>> > > --- On Sat, 12/18/10, Kevin Wolfthal <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >>> > > >>>> > >> From: Kevin Wolfthal <[email protected]> >>>> > >> Subject: [TMIC] Gabapentin >>>> > >> To: [email protected] >>>> > >> Date: Saturday, December 18, 2010, 6:12 AM >>>> > >> >>>> > >> My new doctor visited me today. I asked him again >> > about >>>> > >> Gabapentin and he >>>> > >> is going to start me on 100mg 3 times a day. For >> > those who >>>> > >> take this, I would >>>> > >> like to hear how you did on it. I realize it's a >> > low >>>> > >> dosage. >>>> > >> >>>> > >> Thanks, >>>> > >> Kevin >>>> > >> >>>> > >> >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > >> > >> > > > >
