Posted by viridis on September 24, 2002, at 2:18:35
In reply to Re: Any Gabitril success stories?, posted by utopizen on September 23, 2002, at 20:22:06
Neurontin is kind of a funny drug. My understanding is that the sites through which it's absorbed saturate readily, so that in the average person, a maximum of about 600 mg can be taken up in the space of a few hours; the rest is supposedly peed out. So, taking more all at once isn't supposed to increase the effect, and apparently overdose is nearly impossible.
I take 400 mg 3X/day (1200 mg/day total). The first two or three times I took it, I experienced an incredibly mellow, pleasant high -- nothing dramatic, just an overall feeling of tranquility and mild euphoria. Since then, I've felt nothing. A couple of times, I've taken two 400 mg pills by mistake in a short period of time, realized it, and had no noticeable reaction.
I'm not sure if it really does anything for me (I'm taking it along with Klonopin, Adderall, and occasional Xanax, and these definitely help a great deal with anxiety and depression). My pdoc suspects that Neurontin adds subtle background stability and suggests that I stay on it, although he says that as a mood stabilizer it's generally considered very mild. Since there are zero side effects for me and I'm doing well (with it plus the other meds, which I suspect are the real key), I'm sticking with it for now.
I just wish that, once in a while, I could recapture the initial feeling that it gave me, but I guess tolerance develops fast. I'm certainly not complaining.
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