It's also possible, as many others have noted in past discussions, that you're just acquiring a tolerance to the gabapentin. Some have rotated to Lyrica or Topamax or others. In time, the tolerance to gabapentin may dissipate (or not).
Couldn't hurt to revisit some of those previous discussions for advice/suggestions.
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My day consists of getting up at [whenwever] and I try to do without meds until [whenwever]....
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A lot of people do this with all kinds of meds (but especially with pain meds) for all kinds of reasons.
I get it, but it turns out that it doesn't make much sense, and in some situations may actually be counterproductive (e.g should a diabetic wait until they're going into a sugar coma before taking their insulin?)
With pain meds, it often means a patient needs
more to address the acute pain (flare?) that occurs by not maintaining a constant low(er) level in the bloodstream.
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....the prescribing of these drugs was very vague and over the few years that I have been taking them I have just been instructed to increase the dosage with no advice on when to take them.
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I think these dosage questions are worth taking up with your docs. Very often medicos assume nothing is wrong (or that a patient doesn't have any questions)
unless we make it a point to bring these things up and persevere until we get it.
Doc