Gabapentin and sleepwalking

[Bloodhound669]

What is this now? Finally started my Gabapentin three days ago. Been sleeping pretty good, however, now I am walking in my sleep. I sill take this over most of the miserable nights on pramipexole. The thing is that I've fallen down every night by tripping on things and tonight I awoke when I crashed on the kitchen floor and now my knees are killing me. Another oddity is that I had an episode of withdrawal like I had up until three days ago from the Pramipexole. What gives? This falling down isn't acceptable.

Merry Christmas BTW!

[LotteM]

That is not good! Falling can be dangerous. May I ask about your dose? Maybe you started out too high?

Cleaning out your rooms and store things in a locked space may help a bit in the short term, but may be tedious.

Merry Christmas to you and yours too.

[Bloodhound669 in reply to LotteM]

That may be the answer. thank you,

[SueJohnson]

It is a very rare side effect. I would stop taking it as Lotte said that could be dangerous.

Ask your doctor instead for pregabalin. Although it is basically the same drug except you don't need to divide the doses, and the side effects are basically the same, some people find that the side effects that bother them on one don't bother them on the other.

[Bloodhound669 in reply to SueJohnson]

unfortunately pregabalin is not available in the V.A. system. I was lucky to get gabapentin. maybe I need to et used to it or build up a tolerance or something. I seem to remember that Joolsg mentioned that they thought I was being over prescribed as to my age and that I should start with 100 mg and not 300mg. This may be the problem.

[SueJohnson in reply to Bloodhound669]

Then I would suggest you get a bed alarm to wake you if you start to sleepwalk. amazon.com/sleepwalking-ala...

You don't want to seriously hurt yourself which you could,

[Bloodhound669]

That's an excellent idea. Thanks!

[Madlegs1 in reply to Bloodhound669]

Yes- I would certainly get an alarm.I hadn't realised such things were available.

I was going to suggest a string attached to your wrist and connected to the bed, so that the resistance would wake you.

But isn't Amazon wonderful!😎

[SueJohnson in reply to Madlegs1]

A string attached to your wrist would certainly be a low cost solution.👍

[Madlegs1 in reply to SueJohnson]

I'm so disappointed you didn't get a laugh out of that !😅💚

[Bloodhound669 in reply to Madlegs1]

I laughed! I just didn't let on. ♪ I'm laughing on the outside and crying on the inside. ♫

[Madlegs1 in reply to Bloodhound669]

Love ya!👍💚

[SueJohnson in reply to Madlegs1]

Hey - I thought it was a good idea! 😀

I'm sure you'll come up with something else for my laugh of the day..

In fact that made me laugh.🤣🤣🤣

[SueJohnson in reply to Madlegs1]

Your disappointment that is.

[scifire]

Gabapentin made me sleepwalking. It also made me passout for a split second and drop in my tracks. I fell into a bookcase, changing a shirt, sitting on the toilet, shaving, and worse driving a car. It was by the grace of God I wasn't killed. As it was I broke my foot and crashed my head into a door requiring staples and stitches. I went cold turkey and stopped taking it. Get off it before you get hurt.

[Mozartsinger]

I too started sleepwalking and falling when I started Gabapentine so My GP took me off it straight away so I was very interested in reading your experience. I set light to a dishcloth in the microwave and had absolutely no recollection of putting it in; it was the smell of smoke that eventually woke me, thank goodness, in time to prevent any damage.