Re: question re: neurontin

September 3, 2006

Jane,

My son takes 1,800 milligrams of neurontin daily, 600 milligrams three

times a day. He was prescribed it as an anti-anxiety drug and it has

worked tremendously well for him. However, when he first started it it

made him sleepy, but after about 2-3 weeks that effect went away.

When once his insurance company screwed up and he was out of it for 4-5

days the OCD anxiety came back with ferociousness and we had a weekend

from hell with him screaming for reassurance and answers to his

questions and for us to repeat things. The change in his behavior from

being with neurontin to being without was extremely dramatic. Even tho

neurontin is short acting, we learned from that experience you do not

want to stop it cold turkey if you ever need to stop it; you have to

taper off as you would with all these high powered anti-depressants and

anti-psychotics.

Compared to the benzodiazepams and antipsychotics like Geodon and

risperdal, neurontin seems to be pretty innocuous as far as side effects go.

I hope this is helpful.

Robin

gmomtsb wrote:

> Hi --

>

> My son's pdoc is recommending that he try dropping AM Geodon, which is

> making him too sleepy to function by mid-morning, and adding Neurontin

> in the evening and at bedtime. Does anyone have experience with this

> med?

> Jane B.

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