I'm sorry Kay. I hope the pdoc can help as well. Hopefully your not in a manic state and will feel better tomorrow.

Good luck Kay, hope things are getting better.

Donna

oh how we have to self monitor our selves....
...spouses can hardly take care of themselves

let alone figure us out.
Is corey mindful or does he notice when things are going sour?
Does he help you when you are getting worried?
I am sorry this sounds like a terrible place to be, agitated.
(((HUGS))))
bizi

I am hoping you are feeling better now
love'bobby

Mari, up until now I have had very good luck moving the dose of gabapentin up and down as needed. When I've need to come down, increasing the dose has usually helped with that, and with my anxiety disorders, but it sedates me for a while until I adjust to it. It's has never been activating before.

I think I know what happened, but it just makes things more confusing...

When I went to take my pills last night, there was an extra empty slot, so I probably took my night pills twice on Monday night. And I took my a.m. pills around 10:30am. So that means in 24hrs (for psych meds) I took:
1,600mg Seroquel
800mg Lamictal
400mg Topamax
1,000mg gabapentin
Can't remember how much Klonopin- maybe 4mg?

It's really f- weird because doubling the Seroquel overnight should have REALLY put me out, and it should have been really easy for me to go back to bed and sleep that med mistake off like I have in the past, especially since I took my day pills as well because I was unaware that I had made an error. But instead, I woke up early with little sleep, and even tho I was sedated, I was off the wall... I think it was all the gabapentin I took, since even going up to 500mg at night was activating, and I took double that.

Either way, I'm very lucky I didn't pass out, fall, or worse.

I couldn't hide what was going on yesterday from Corey, so I had to explain it to him. He had a hard time understanding me because I was so f- ed up, and he told me I needed to go to bed, but I couldn't settle down. I wasn't comfortable taking anymore Klonopin, so I smoked a little pot, and was able to nap for 1 1/2hrs, which is just a drop in the bucket for me.

I'm feeling much better this morning, which is not saying much lol.
I didn't take the extra gabapentin, and slept for seven hours last night, which is normal for me. I'm having some sx of hypomania that are easier to recognize this morning. I just took an extra 1/2mg of Klonopin to see if some of my symptoms are due to anxiety.

I'm not going to contact my pdoc today because what happened yesterday was due to a med mistake. I'll be vigilant today to (hopefully) see what's happening minus the med mistake and the extra gabapentin in my system. I don't need her to add on another med if I don't really need it. I don't want to add anything on at all.

I am sorry you made a medication mistake.
It will probably take a while to get back to normal. I am very glad that you slept 7 hours last night.
maybe with a good nap you can catch up for your not sleeping before.
(((((HUGS))))
bizi

Kay,

I am posting these links in case something here seems helpful:

Neurontin (Gabapentin) Abuse: Side Effects and Overdose Risks - San Diego Addiction Treatment Center

Gabapentin Overdose | Can You Overdose on Gabapentin?


I am glad that you did not pass out and that you are o.k.

Are that you saying that maybe you did not need all of the full dose of morning meds?

It's wonderful that you use the pill minder and can retrace your steps to
get an idea of what probably happened.

It's hard for many of us to take care of ourselves. Trust your instincts.

M

Thank you for the links, Mari

I used to take a total of 2400mg of gabapentin a day for the neurological pain from MS for years without any apparent side effects... but I was on lithium- NOT Seroquel then. I stopped taking the gabapentin because it stopped helping with the pain. Seroquel doesn't play nice with other meds, so there's no way I could take anywhere close to that dose now... just going up from 300 to anywhere up to 600mg can be really sedating at first.

Had I known that I took double my night pills, there's no question that I would NOT have taken any of my morning psych meds (more Seroquel, Lamictal, and Klonopin) because that would just have compounded the problem. But I was unaware I made the mistake until about 10pm... and had already taken them.

That night I thought about not taking/reducing the dose of Seroquel I usually take (700mg) because I already had so much in my system, but decided against it because I didn't want to make matters worse by messing around.


Right now, I'm really not sure if I'm hypo or not because I'm so tired and don't feel well. I'm having symptoms early in the day, but they seem to disappear or improve the more tired I get later in the morning/in the early afternoon.
I napped from 1:30-6pm yesterday, and it didn't feel like it was enough.
Today is a bad day. I will probably take a shower, go play the lottery up the street, and go back to bed.

I hope you win the lottery and that your day goes better for you....good nap for sure.
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi

Kay,

I hope your day got better after you posted it. I hope sleep helped.

Most of the time, one day is enough for me to recover from a mistake,
but other times, I need an extra day.


M