Hugs to you today.
((((((((HUGS))))))
it is good that you figured out the mishap.
bizi

looking in other threads now
 

Hi,

I'm finding places in other threads where I mentioned my dose of Gabapentin:

July 22: Posted about taking a third of a 300 mgs capsule which was less than the night before.
I was concerned I was getting too happy/ up. Perhaps the night before I took a half a capsule.

July 23: Posted that I was still under 300 mgs daily. I wrote that I took 200 mgs approx

August 15: Posted that I raised the dose to a full capsule. That means I started taking 300 mgs then.


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This is all over the place in many threads. I should have put it in one thread.
I stopped reading because I was sad in lots of those posts. Anyway, I have enough info: I could take 300 or less.

I started taking 300 mgs on August 15.

At some point before August 15 I started having problems with word recall (DO not feeling like looking for that thread. Backtracking is soooooooooo depressing. My last five months was full of posts complaining about sadness.)

I'm done with this. Time to think of something else. . . .Place some loud music.


M

Mari

Good luck with your dosage.

I would suggest that you try to stay with 300mg if at all possible.

I know that for my pain and nerve damage, its taking the whole 900mg.
So I'm glad its not taking that much for you.

But I also now that I have some of the word problems.


But I associate that with my having hit my head.

Donna:grouphug:

depressed. crying. afraid of going into work.
 

Hi,

I am too depressed to go into work.
. . . slept four hours after 4 or 5 nights in a row with the same
. . .woke up crying.

I really have to go to work, but I am afraid of freaking out or crying or doing something that upsets people. . . .

M

can you call in sick?

i hope you feel better soon. :o :hug::hug::hug:

~ waves ~

I am sorry for your lack of sleep. and it pains me to hear that you are crying.
I am so sorry that you are this depressed.
would you consider trying a small dose of welbutrin?
((((HUGS)))))
bizi

go back up on the Gabapentin?
 

Hi,
Waking up like that is not good. . .. .
But due to the expansive sleep deficit, I have no way to know what is causing the depression . . .. Sleep can't be fixed. Perhaps The Gabapentin can be raised from the 200 mgs (a little less than one capsule) I am taking now.

And again I am confusing when I write. Sorry.

M

I am sorry about the sleep, always am.
Is one capsule 300mg?
then I think that would be an ok dose for you.
what do you think?
bizi

Bizi

Mari posted earlier that her capsules are 300 mg.

when she started the therapy, she was noticing improvement in mood with half a capsule.

not sure what dosages were used in titration - would have to look back and have some kinda headache again (migraine? not sure) :(: so not gonna do that right now.

she became very depressed - but was sleeping - when she jumped to 600mg (2 capsules) thinking it was 300 mg

~ waves ~

Mari

unclear to me what you did now, after dropping to 300 mg (1 capsule). i thought the intention was then to go to half a capsule (150 mg), which was a "known good" dose. did you do that, and for how many days?

or have you always taken "slightly more than half" after the decrease from the full capsule?

i guess i am talking in capsules now to make sure we don't get mixed up again. ;)

going back up to 300 mg (1 capsule) is an option if that had you sleeping... it may take longer for the depression to lift....or

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do you think 3.0 mg would help you sleep more for a couple of days, just to catch up a bit so you can be in better shape to figure out if the depression is from sleep deprivation or from the gabapentin?

~ waves ~