Posted by patc on August 28, 2004, at 22:07:05
In reply to Re: Neurontin and Depression » patc, posted by platinumbride on August 28, 2004, at 20:52:10
1200 4x/day
I also take Klonopin, because I'm an "atypical depressant", so I need the Klonopin or the social phobia and all day anxiety attacks go haywire. I'm hooked on both unfortunately whether I need them or not. Hey, I've been running w/ Wellbutrin as the antidepressant, Neurontin as the mood stabilizer and Klonopin as the real anti-anxiety/anti-social phobia agent. This cocktail replaces Nardil, which I took for years; gained 70 pounds; couldn't eat pepperoni pizza and chinese food w/ soy sausce; and developed tolerance to so I needed Neurontin as a booster. I'll take my current cocktail over Nardil any day.
> If I may ask, how do you take your 4800 mgs? Do you take it all at once or do you space it out during the day?
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> I have been very anxious lately and have been taking 2400 mgs at night and then 1200 every 4 hours or so. When I get to really high doses for a long period of time, I find it loses efficacy, and then I need to go on a short holiday from it.
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> I think I have a really weird thing going on with this med, but it is the best thing for anxiety I have ever taken (well, klonopin is good too), and I dont have to feel like a junkie asking for a script for it!
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> Thanks,
> Diane
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> > Well, it's a "mood stabilizer" so it's supposed to level off your mood swings IMO.
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> > Most docs don't prescribe it as anti-depressant, but a mood stabilizer, anxiolitic and booster of other drugs.
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> > Overdosing on Neurontin can cause hypomania, which feels great for someone that's been living in the black hole of depression.
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> > I'm maxing on 4800mg and I've had doctors suggest going over this level. However, most docs say 4800mg is max.
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> > > I had a very weird experience with Neurontin last week. I am on Effexor for depression - it doesn't work very well but I can tolerate the side effects at my low dose. My doctor had prescribed Neurontin for anxiety and chronic neck pain (disk problems) but I hadn't been taking it for a while.
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> > > Anyway, I had been feeling more anxious than usual for a while so I got my Neurontin Rx refilled. I took 300 mg at about 9:30pm. I didn't feel anything so about 11:30 I took another 300mg. At about 12:45 -my depression went away. Completely. No depression, no anxiety. I felt normal. I mean for the first time in years, I felt like a normal person. I stayed up until almost 3 am just to enjoy feeling good. When I went to bed, I lay there and enjoyed the feeling of being able to enjoy my bed feeling nice. It was like a miracle.
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> > > So then I took 300mg the next morning and what I felt was speedy. I had energy but felt wired. I kept taking the N for another couple days trying to get the normal feeling to come back but it didn't. Just speedy for a couple days, then nothing much at all.
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> > > Weird. But I sure enjoyed feeling human for that 2 hour period.
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> > > Marsha
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