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Originally Posted by ewizabeth
I haven't been diagnosed with BP, but I have depression and MS and when I started taking gabapentin for nerve pain, it improved my mood. I wasn't expecting a good side effect, lol.
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I have MS, and take gabapentin off-label as a mood stabilizer for BP disorder. It no longer works for neurological pain for me. I guess that's a good thing because high doses would be too sedating because I'm on heavy psych meds now.
My main mood stabilizer is Seroquel now, but I'm maxed out. When my mood starts to shift, my pdoc adjusts the dose of gabapentin I take, and it's been working
really well for me.
Please keep us posted on how things work out and how you're doing
