I have been doing better, down to 400 mg of gabapentin and 40 of nortriptyline a day. So today I went and broke my shoulder – no surgery, just lots of pain, and plenty of pain meds. But I think the combination of my PN meds and these new drugs (Percocet and a muscle relaxer) is making me really woozy and dopey. That's very bad news for my job, besides feeling just plain awful.. So I wonder about cutting way back on the gabapentin and nortriptyline. I'm sure there have been discussions about tapering off from gaba and nortiptyline before; can anybody give me advice about letting the Percocet and Robaxin substitute for them? Or maybe direct me to an earlier thread?

Can you call your doc or pharmacist and ask them about the best way for you to do that?

Maybe Mrs. D can help you with this. I would not do anything without talking to your doctor first. If it is at all possible to take off tomorrow, do so and call your doctor.

Thanks to both of you. The doctors I asked didn't know anything about gabapentin and nortriptyline – but a pharmacist might have, and I would certainly trust anything Mrs. D said. However, I dropped the Percocet and muscle relaxer anyway because they both made me feel kind of queasy. I'm going to try codeine/acetaminophen.