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Note first: please feel free to take the poll even if you have never tried gabapentin (or have but dont' have a comment)>
I have used a cream form of gapapentin but I suspect oral would be the same (if i could tolerate), so curious to hear about others experience. I found mine to be very notable. I take at bedtime and it causes me to sleep through the night with no awakenings from noise, electric sensations, dreams, etc. In addition, I realize only after it wore off (about 1 pm the next day). that I was free of many of my usual aches and pains. I also was not bothered by noise as much (though still sounded loud) and sort of felt "high", in a good way.
Note I'm talking about gapapentin the big pharma drug, not GABA, the neurotransmitter. In fact, studies apparently have found gabapentin does not alter GABA levels. According to the latest entry on wikipedia, it reduces activity in "a subset of calcium channels". Yes, i know wikipedia not a great source, but there's about a dozen pubmed searches i have to do that are ahead of this one. Until recently though, i remember reading knowing really knows how gabapentin works.
The reason i asked for it was because of the misfiring nerves i get that make me feel like i've been shocked with a defibrillator or someone is using my head in a slingshot or pinball machine. It did help with that overnight, but then came the positive side effects as well.
an interesting tidbit (again, just from wikipedia) is that only 30-40 percent experience significant relief which is why I added the quick poll. Also interesting, they claim studies have not found any addictive quality (dependence yes) because it supposedly produces no "reward". Certainly not true for me.
i'm only using it occasionally - i save for emergencies - because i am concerned that anything that makes me feel that good i will quickly adapt to and i will need more and more and more just to get some relief and then at that point i'll have a full blown dependence and won't ever be able to get off it (whilst no longer experiencing the benefits having long ago adapted/habituated to its positive benefits.
Curious what experience has been like for others
I have used a cream form of gapapentin but I suspect oral would be the same (if i could tolerate), so curious to hear about others experience. I found mine to be very notable. I take at bedtime and it causes me to sleep through the night with no awakenings from noise, electric sensations, dreams, etc. In addition, I realize only after it wore off (about 1 pm the next day). that I was free of many of my usual aches and pains. I also was not bothered by noise as much (though still sounded loud) and sort of felt "high", in a good way.
Note I'm talking about gapapentin the big pharma drug, not GABA, the neurotransmitter. In fact, studies apparently have found gabapentin does not alter GABA levels. According to the latest entry on wikipedia, it reduces activity in "a subset of calcium channels". Yes, i know wikipedia not a great source, but there's about a dozen pubmed searches i have to do that are ahead of this one. Until recently though, i remember reading knowing really knows how gabapentin works.
The reason i asked for it was because of the misfiring nerves i get that make me feel like i've been shocked with a defibrillator or someone is using my head in a slingshot or pinball machine. It did help with that overnight, but then came the positive side effects as well.
an interesting tidbit (again, just from wikipedia) is that only 30-40 percent experience significant relief which is why I added the quick poll. Also interesting, they claim studies have not found any addictive quality (dependence yes) because it supposedly produces no "reward". Certainly not true for me.
i'm only using it occasionally - i save for emergencies - because i am concerned that anything that makes me feel that good i will quickly adapt to and i will need more and more and more just to get some relief and then at that point i'll have a full blown dependence and won't ever be able to get off it (whilst no longer experiencing the benefits having long ago adapted/habituated to its positive benefits.
Curious what experience has been like for others
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