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If the ONLY reason you are talking gabapentin is for sleep, there's much better meds for that with less horrible side effects. Gabapentin is normally used for Nerve pain/neuropathy. Talk to your doctor about a mild sedative. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Gabapentin looses its effectiveness for sleep. Tolerance is a thing with this as far as sleep goes, it still helps the reason i’m prescribed it for at night but it’s sleep effects diminishes. I can double my dose if i need to but rather keep my dose low. If you started at 100, 200, 300 and increasing it for sleep you’ll understand. We do NOT promote drug use; - Accept, for better and or worse, that licit & illicit drug use is part of our world and choose to work to minimize its harmful effects rather than simply ignore or condemn them; - Utilize evidence-based, feasible, and cost-effective practices to prevent and reduce harm; - Call for the non-judgmental, non-coercive I've been taking between 100-300mg gabapentin as needed for sleep for about 4 months now. On the higher end of the dosage, I get decent sleep for about 6-7 hrs. I combine 100mg with weed sometimes and it works OK but not nearly as well as 300mg. No morning or daytime grogginess. I hear ya. I was on Neupro and later Neupro plus Gabapentin for several years. Tapered off Neupro due to augmentation and am working on increasing my Gabapentin dose in hopes I can manage my symptoms with Gabapentin alone. My neuro isn’t supportive of prescribing opioids. I've been prescribed Gabapentin for sleep. I can only sleeping if I've had about 5 or 6 hours the night before but I'm tired through the day. If I sleep 8 hours I'm not tired enough to sleep that night. Welcome to /r/gabapentin, here we primarily discuss issues pertaining to the medical, prescribed use of Gabapentin, Lyrica and Phenibut, as well as other Gaba related drugs. I know that for sleep doses are much lower (25-50mg) and quetiapine doesn't act as a "true antipsychotic" in that dosage range but I would still hesitate and try every other viable option before taking that step. I've been given almost all non-benzo sleep aids (trazadone, remeron, lunesta, hydroxyzine etc) and gabapentin is the only one that really helped. Admittedly I take 300mg like 5hrs before bed and top off with two more doses later just for a nice relaxing evening. The bad side effects are a small subset of the people taking it, and those are the ones who post most often on a board like this Reddit board. Reply reply redditor8675039 Oh, I wasn't suggesting to go that high. Having said that, the upper limit for gabapentin is pretty high so just know you're on the lower end (always keep the goal of the lowest dose to get effect - except benzos, they don't work like that since the lowest required will constantly increase. As a new user of Gabapentin, prescribed for insomnia, at just a 100mg dose before bed so far I haven't seen the sleep benefits yet but really hope they come at slightly higher doses. Gabapentin has an average rating of 7.5 out of 10 from a total of 131 reviews for the off-label treatment of Insomnia. 69% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 14% reported a negative experience. ben "I have had profound insomnia for many years. Last night, finally I slept 7 hours with gabapentin. Doses go up to 2800mg (but that's because the effect as a function of dose is logarithmic, meaning the more you take, the less you get out of that increase of dose). It's shown to be an incredibly safe medication and has been used for a long time. I would not use Gabapentin off label for sleep. There’s much better meds for insomnia. I’m gabapentin lower dose for nerve issues at night (just nightly dose) and it’s sleep benefits dissipated quickly. I can take a larger dose to sleep but as an insomniac myself it only gives me “short sleep” as it cannot keep me asleep. Side Effects Common side effects of gabapentin. Gabapentin can cause several common side effects, including dizziness, drowsiness, and fatigue. Other commonly reported side effects include headache, nausea, and blurred vision. These side effects are usually mild and tend to improve over time as the body adjusts to the medication. By taking gabapentin at this higher dosage, I believe, I suppressed my ANS from overreacting to sleep apnea events allowing me more restorative sleep. It's only been 3 days but the improvement is drastic from being a zombie. My plan would be to take 1 dose of 300mg before bed. At this dose there shouldn’t be much risk. Yup.prescribed. 900mg/day but usually only take 600 but with benzos too ( clonazepam and temazepam ) .. I was on lexapro for a few years which helped greatly but eventually the side effects outweighted any benefits the gabapentin helps a little but not that much and the weight gain is bad and hard to loose but thats the only side effect i get.
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