Posted by utopizen on September 23, 2002, at 20:22:06
In reply to Re: Any Gabitril success stories?, posted by cybercafe on September 23, 2002, at 19:46:27
> i think you're right about becoming accustomed to it -- but i'd like to hear more ... how much of an increase do you go through before you reach a stable dose? i only have 400 mg size pills, ... so i'm thinking of going from 800 mg x 3 to 1200 mg x 3, but that's a huge increase .... certainly too much for one day
>Cyber,
I'm having second thoughts on this. I did have some kidney issues, but that was also during accutane, and it wasn't too high, just right off the mark.
I think it's safer just to stick with 400 for now. Take it 4x if you have to. If you really want to go experimental, within the net total of 3600/day, then what I'd do is simply decrease the interval times between dosing by adding another 400mg dose. This actually seems more effective now that I've tried it against trying 2000mg at once. It's really a different kind of drug, I'm starting to realize. I thought the whole "take consistently" warning didn't apply to me because I wasn't an epitile.
I only took 1200 or 1600 or even 2000 if there was a party...
then again, I also took 8 mg of Klonopin the first time I got my hands on it, because I was anxious over the fact it wasn't working fast enough and some girls were coming over. I remember up to them saying they had to leave soon, and me sort of looking downward in a depressed agknowledgement (because I was physically depressed from the klonopin) and then waking up 6 hours later.
Then I watched some TV and went to sleep, and only the next morning did I remember the fact that people had even stopped by (when I woke up to watch TV, I sort of didn't think of what I did before I went to sleep before for some reason)
obviously, this is retrograde amnesia. I'm not sure why it's a bad thing, but it is kind of freaky, and I wish I was more mature about dosing klonopin. It was sort of this panic-striken anxiety thing where I just took 4 mg of Klonopin. Literally, it was like my hand grabbed the pills before I could think over it.
Something about anxiety and needing a quick fix... it's like you're in hell, only you have several really tempting plans to get out buzzing around your head quickly. So my brain thinks, what's better, staying in this river of boiling lava or throwing myself into a freezing tank to die as a popsicile?
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