[ChaucerFan]

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?

[Jomar]

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

[hopeful]

Originally Posted by ChaucerFan

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?

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.

[ChaucerFan]

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.