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Haus

Haus

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Borzak said:
Now at 3600mg a day on gabapentin and it really slows down your brain. It really helps with the pain but it feels like you are a rock or mud moving in a mud slide. I had to start wearing a watch to keep up with the time. I guess all medication has an upside and down side. I feel like I'm an hour or more behind what is going on right in front of me. But hey it really helps with the pain.
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My wife has some nerve impingement around her lower back and hip that she is prescribed Gabapentin for, and she only takes it when things "get bad" because of those exact side effects. She can't take feeling mentally flooby.

Nirgon said:
I find myself needing the snooze button 3+ times after decades of big dawging. I was never a morning person but holy fuck. Anyone else?
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I've evolved in the opposite direction. At first I always needed an alarm, then I usually needed an alarm, now in my 50's I just pop awake around 7 every morning and it's on. Then again I also used melatonin for a while to nail my circadian rhythm into an absolute lock step.
 
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Haus said:
My wife has some nerve impingement around her lower back and hip that she is prescribed Gabapentin for, and she only takes it when things "get bad" because of those exact side effects. She can't take feeling mentally flooby.


I've evolved in the opposite direction. At first I always needed an alarm, then I usually needed an alarm, now in my 50's I just pop awake around 7 every morning and it's on. Then again I also used melatonin for a while to nail my circadian rhythm into an absolute lock step.
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It's not just mental. But my hands feel like blocks, you can feel them but nothing like you do when you don't take it. Kinda numb.

I know when I first was prescribed it I looked it up and you could spend days reading all the side effects people menton.

When I first started I had major problems with my diabetes. I have always known what my blood sugar was at all time, pretty close to around 5-10. If I was sleeping and my blood sugar dropped to 70 or so I just woke up and get something to eat or drink. With gabapentin that went away. Some serious bad things and numerous visits from EMS before I figured out what it was. I then got a continous blood sugar alarm that goes off and every time now I wake up. But it definetly slows down your mental process.

Speakig of alarms. I've never used one. Not while in school or college, not working on site regular hours. I don't know why. I often swap my days and nights and had never had a problem waking up at the right time. Of all things to be good at. On a goose hunt once laying out in a frozen field someone asked who had a watch to know when legal shooting started. I said the exact time to a minute and hadn't looked at a clock/watch in days.
 
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