Been in so much Pain.

[Shartaylor0264]

Hi haven't posted for a while .been in so much pain past few weeksHeat is not helping went to doctors yesterday to talk about my medication and pain im in .Doctor up my Gabapentin to 3 .300mg 3 times a day plus still tak my codine and paracetmol 3 times a day . Just wondering doe's anyone else take as Gabapentin. And how it makes you feel .x

[Beautifulwoman]

I take 400mg of Gabapentin 3 times a day. I can take up to 4 tomes daily if pain is severe. It works well. I can tell if I miss doses. The pain gets bad.

I still have those stabbing jolts here and there in various parts of my body, but they are much more tame with the Gabapentin.

[Shartaylor0264 in reply to Beautifulwoman]

Hi thank you i was just a worried because my doctor said take 900mg 3 times a day .x

[Wilson16 in reply to Shartaylor0264]

If you’re concerned about the dosage perhaps you could check with your doctor or pharmacist maybe

[lynn_lunn]

Hi I take 900mg in the morning, 600mg in the afternoon, 900mg in the evening I had to drop 300mg in the afternoon as I was too drowsy with them and fell asleep at work, after discussion with the pain clinic and occupational health I am settled with this. The pain is still there, but I am waiting to see neurosurgeon with trapped nerves in my neck and lower back, doctor also gave me oramorph when nerve pain is too severe, also have tramadol for if I need them, but try to cope with just paracetamol. Just try to find the right balance for you to cope with the pain.

[Makie-Uppie]

I take gabapentin too, 2x300x 3 times per day, took a bit of getting use to though but it seems to work well. It is a bit of a helper to the CoCodomol in it s effects, the two seem to tango well together to reduce things. Like beautiful woman says it take the edges off the jolting stabbing pains. Nights are bloody awful at the moment, I had covid just after Easter and have been sweating like a pig at the slightest movement since.

[Duffy2021]

Hi shar, sorry to hear that you are struggling, I take gabapentin, but only 300 milligrams 3 x a day, it does control my symptoms to a degree but have gained over 20kg in weight, and I have a very strange side effect, it gives me a slight stammer, it’s definitely the gabapentin that causes this, I used to be on a higher dose and the stammer was much worse then, lessened when I reduced dose, but still there. I also take amitriptyline ( for nerve pain) at night which I cannot do without, at least I have a full nights sleep with that, and baclofen for muscle pain during the day, also co-codamol at night (paracetamol in the day) it’s such a juggling act with all these meds, as they all have side affects, and I still feel pain (it never truly goes) but it’s a manageable level, the pain clinic have told me I will just have to learn to live with it. I also tried pregabelin but the speech side effects were much worse with that, have also had Duloxetine, but that gave me insomnia and restless legs. I had steroid injections in my neck for trapped nerves, which was by far the best treatment I’ve had for my neck, and now virtually no pain in neck, but very stiff, Are you under the care of a pain clinic? I have some group sessions with them to help deal with the phsycological side of constant pain. You just get to a point where they just tell you to learn to live with it and learn to pace yourself so as not to have big flare ups. Hope things improve for you soon. Duffy

[Rosie49]

Hi Shartaylor, I am really sorry to hear that you are in so much pain!

I am sorry to say that I have not heard of that many mg’s taken in one day. I would suggest that you look into this further.

I do hope things get better for you soon. 🤗