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08-01-2014, 08:29 PM | #11 | |||
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It's likely you'll get used to the sedation in a week or so, but it might calm some of the sleep issues. How much were you taking before, and how much did you increase it by? |
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08-01-2014, 08:33 PM | #12 | ||
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nine hudred to eighteen hundred. it has helped the waking up burning and trembling thing but not the chronic head neck pain. I know it is only good for certain pain. i'll take it
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Sitke (08-02-2014) |
08-01-2014, 08:54 PM | #13 | |||
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The Start: MVA, t-boned, on 1-12-14 (my sons 5th birthday) and did not think anything of it.. my back hurt on site but everything else seemed ok. Lost about 10-12 hours from about 3 hours after the accident to the next day...Experienced terrible brain fog for over a month, plus intense headaches, nausea, dizziness, cognitive difficulties, disorientation, no short term memory, depression and just an overall hangover feeling daily. Current Situation: I'm about 7 months in and my local neurologist has waived her white flag and therefore I am headed to Dallas to be seen (I have family there). The headaches are still daily. I have nausea, dizziness as well. Drugs I have been on- Vicodin (off), Naproxen (off), proanolol (off), topamax (off), cataflam (off), Midrin (off), Flexeril (off) and now Namenda XR (off), Nortrptylin (off), Verapamil (off) Therapy- Osteopath, Vestibular and balance therapy, fuzion/soft tissue massage, acupuncture Drs- ER (no help), GP, Chiropractor, Neurologist and Osteopath |
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08-01-2014, 09:09 PM | #14 | |||
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Glad it helped with the burning/trembling at least. Sounds like that was keeping you awake and waking you up. Also, you know, gabapentin works only by chronic exposure you dont' see full effect until it stays in the system a while... give it a week and see. Who knows, perhaps it will reduce the head pain some as well. Increasing above 1800 can be done safely with medical supervision, but it's less likely to be useful. (Response is non-linear above this dosage, i.e. the drug is less and less "efficient"). waves |
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08-01-2014, 10:22 PM | #15 | ||
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Keep in mind that markneil is 350 pounds. It may be a part of why such a high dose is needed and well tolerated. I am 150+ pounds and have taken up to 1200 mgs before bed. At first, I needed 1200 or at least 900. Now, I do fine with 600. It is not know to help with normal pain (that's an off label use), such as skeletal pain but helps some with nerve pain similar to Lyrica. I've been taking it for 14 years. I take it to reduce the body jerks and to help my mind let go of thinking. Its half-life is only 8 hours so unless it is taken multiple times during the day, its benefit can be targeted at sleep issues. markneil, If you are waking up still tired, did you keep your cpap mask on ? Apnea will negate the good sleep benefits.
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08-01-2014, 11:02 PM | #16 | |||
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Seems to me also that weight would be a factor in overall dosing as this med is heavily distributed in tissues (diffuses out of the blood). But I do know of people over 200 lbs and use only 600-900 successfully. However, an increase of 900mg at a time is steep even if one is heavy, and could certainly bring on a potent sleepiness. The thing I was saying about dose is only about absorption. Higher than 1800 studies show that dose/response rate loses linearity. For instance, increases from 1200 to 1800mg, or from 1800 to 2400 mg, are both 600 mg. But in the latter case, a bit less of the med is going to get "delivered" and as you increase further, less and less of it gets "delivered". Not sure if that's clear I'll try to find you a link tomorrow. (I need to get to bed!) I take gabapentin myself... have on and off for years -- 1200mg for migraine prevention. And sometimes other things. Quote:
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The half-life is misleading becausee this thing has crazy pharmacokinetics. It takes several hours just to be absorbed (3-5 hours). I notice this when I start taking it... start feeling brainfuzz and sleepiness at about 5 hours after each dose.) And then, it doesn't stay in the blood it migrates into tissues... body fat. All in all, the slow absorption means plasma concentration risees very slowly, and then the tissue distribution means it falls off somewhat more rapidly than the half-life suggests as it permeates into body fat. waves... who will check back tomorrow and try to find you some links that maybe explain better if you like. Or maybe I misunderstood you and you already knew these things. Nite nite for now. |
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08-01-2014, 11:08 PM | #17 | ||
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Waves,
I thought I was a big shot because I read so much about Neurontin and how it works. I didn't know anything you mentioned very interesting. would love the website for further information and to kill time |
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08-01-2014, 11:22 PM | #18 | ||
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I start to get effect from my before bed dose within 90 minutes. It could be that I never take it except before bed.
I don't get any cognitive decrease when I take it. It just sets me up so I can relax my thinking if I want/need to. I still need to practice good sleep hygiene to get to sleep. It does not put me to sleep. btw, Time for my bedtime dose. I want to sleep tonight.
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08-02-2014, 07:46 PM | #19 | ||||||||
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Hi again, Mark & Mark.
Ok, so most of my bookmarks on gabapentin were defunct or too specific and not about dosage considerations... so I had to go to google .... took me a bit. AND, what turned up this time is little different than what I remember or perhaps found before. Not entirely surprising because every time I google this med something different comes up. Anyway, I will post a few of the sources/articles. 1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8022536 Quote:
2. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...01.02399.x/pdf Quote:
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">600 mg q8h" would be more than 1800/day -- over 1800mg a da plasma conc. is less than dose-proportional. Quote:
======== 4. http://www.rxlist.com/neurontin-drug...armacology.htm This source states something slightly different -- that availability decreases as the dose goes up, even starting at 900 mg/day. These numbers still show a progressive decrease in availability with increasing dose. I do find very interesting though that the rate of decrease slows down as the dose goes up. Quote:
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08-02-2014, 07:48 PM | #20 | |||
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What I know on its mechanism of action is murky... the only stuff I could find was either murky or too difficult for me to grasp completely. Many sources still report the mechanism of action as unknown, so if you know how it works you are doing way better than most!
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