Dear Waves,
I apologize for not understanding and for not being clear. My brain was barely with it last night at the time I posted.
Maybe the low carb diet for three days (approx 35 carbs each day) affected the mood and prolly my cognition.
Right now Friday night I am posting within 45 minutes of coming home from work. I am usually up mood wise at this time. This is the highest cognitive level I will have for the day. When I get off the computer, I will take part 1 of my night meds and the little cognition I have right now will fall apart (too stupid to write out here about why there is a part 1 and a part 2).
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I did not mean to imply that you permanently modify your daily Klonopin dosage to accomodate more gabapentin, based on what happened in the "test."
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I understood that. I was wondering if a two day weekend would work.
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On the contrary, if you felt better the day after shaving off 0.5mg Klonopin once, that would suggest to me that gabapentin isn't going to be viable, precisely because you do need the Klonopin.
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O.K. Now I see that the suggestion was to do this one night only. One night would give good results. If necessary I could do the one night trial again a week later on a second weekend.
I'm comfortable doing that with the Klonopin tonight: shaving off 0.5.
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that's a pretty decent dose of Klonopin there. you could still try the test,
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Yes. I'm taking a decent amount of Klonopin. It's been working. Mdoc prescribed the Gabapentin for nerve pain and I got the happy effects of
~less anxiety
~less depression.
Around the time I went to 300 on the Gabapentin on Oct 24, the drugged feeling became too much.
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did you say you took 220mg gabapentin for a while or do i remember screwy? did that work ok? if so, i would take 150mg to get well again faster, and then step up to 220mg again if you could tolerate that.
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I'll go back and read through this thread again and get back to you. Right now, I want to get through this post.
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i am trying to figure out how you are getting these dosages because as far as i know gabapentin only comes in 100's, 300's and 400's, capsules, and splitting the powder is not real precise.
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Yes. Splitting the powder is not precise.
Mdoc gave me pills for 900 mgs a day, The capsules are for 150 each. That gave me a lot of room to work. I threw away a lot of powder.
When I was taking 220 mgs. approx I would do the following:
1. take one pill at 150
2. take half of another pill at about 75.
That added up to 220 approx. When I pulled apart the capsules, I opened them so that the pill was vertical. Then I kept the powder in the bottom half and let the powder from the top half fall onto my work space. Then I tossed that powder in the trash instead of trying to save it to measure it for the next night.
As I write this, I recognize how completely crazy batty it is to split capsules. I am putting off dealing with mdoc for a few more weeks. I will see her very soon and get 'scripts for 100 mgs.
I am not looking forward to the convo in which I explain why I am taking such tiny doses compared to the 900 mgs in the script.
M