Posted by bob on February 2, 2002, at 16:26:07
In reply to GABITRIL- a substitute for benzos like Klonopin?, posted by 3 Beer Effect on February 2, 2002, at 3:31:42
> I was recently taking Neurontin 900 mg/day but it hasn't done anything for my social phobia, only seems to make it worse. I stay in the house all the time, somnolent, drowsy & much more irritable when on the neurontin. Some studies said it might help with social phobia but they only got a 32% response rate with a 14% placebo response rate.
That doesn't sound like too bad a response rate to me. I read articles about AD studies that have led to approval with less spectacular results. It is more than twice the placebo response.I think antiseizure drugs are much more likely to be effective for non-social GAD, and free-floating type anxieties. That, of course, is just an opinion on my part.
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