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Originally Posted by mrsD
How much carnitine are you taking?
Starting at 250mg a day is best and titrating up as needed up to 2 grams a day is what the dose in the chemo treatments suggest.
While the carnitine will wake up sore muscles, and improve some metabolism, I never noticed much energy from it.
But decreasing gabapentin may be the real reason. Perhaps you were just used to the zombie effects before and now that they are removed, you notice that.
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Interesting thought! I think I would rather not lay awake all night even at the cost of losing a few brain cells...the Carnitine I have is 528 mg. it was really dumb to add one and decrease the other at the same time. I should know better, I had a lot of chemistry in school! I have stopped the Carnitine, didn't sleep well last night but I was sleepy- pain kept waking me up.
I don't really feel like a zombie on the meds, never noticed much effect in that way. I just figure I will be on pain medication the rest of my life and I do worry about cumulative effects.