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Does anyone drink beer or other alcohol while taking this? I start on it tonight, increasing every 5 days to 900 mg total a day. I'm curious as to how much alcohol can be tolerated and if there are any reasons to avoid it completely. I like my Budweiser. Thanks for any input.

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I take gabapentin 3 x day 300 mg then 900 at night also 25 mg seoqel 200 mg of seretrilin.5 mg clonazapan as needed
I'm very unsteady and sometimes dizzy I also started taking 30mg of cymbalta
Can I drink? Vodka or wine?

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Darren you are right!! Just interested in your age ,weight,diet etc.LMN please

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Yes I drank a budweiser and my head is pounding something crAzy !!!!

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Hi I'm not a regular taker of gabapentin and have stupidly took 9 600ml tablets and am drinking rum.... I'm depressed so kind of not T bothered the outcome. Could that amount kill me?

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Oh crap you took 5400 mg Gabapentin. That's got to be an OD.

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Your probably gonna live. Rats were able to take 49 grams of the stuff and survive. Don't play with your meds and drink anymore.

Symptoms And Treatment Of Overdose: Symptoms and Treatment: Acute, life-threatening toxicity has not been observed with gabapentin overdoses of up to 49 g ingested at one time. In these cases, double vision, slurred speech, drowsiness, lethargy and diarrhea were observed. All patients recovered with supportive care.

Gabapentin can be removed by hemodialysis. Although hemodialysis has not been performed in the few overdose cases reported, it may be indicated by the patients clinical state or in patients with significant renal impairment.

Reduced absorption of gabapentin at higher doses may limit drug absorption at the time of overdosing and, hence, reduce toxicity from overdoses.

An oral lethal dose of gabapentin was not identified in mice and rats given doses as high as 8 000 mg/kg. Signs of acute toxicity in animals included ataxia, labored breathing, ptosis, hypoactivity, or excitation.

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I gradually increased my gaba dose up 2 the max, 3600mg/day. I hv skin-grafted buttocks due 2 an accidental burn... Sorry 4 any visual u got, lol. I. Also take 40mg Vicodin as well. It all helps some but basically confined 2 a chair as I HAVE 2 hv pressure on it. I even sleep in chair. So, 2 answer your?, I did hv trouble working my dosage up that high (esp. 600 to 900 per dose). But I DO drink. Daily. It does, as the painkiller btl 'warns' me, "enhance" the effect of the drug, lol. It does not seem 2 interact w/ the gaba at all. My only caution is that if ur on high doses of gaba, make sure not 2 overlap doses at all- I set 4 daily timers each day based on time of 1st dose & never go less than 4 hrs between doses

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Has anyone died from taking gabapentin?

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I was on 900mg a day, and loved my wine. I drank 2 bottles a week without any side effects. In the past few months I've stopped drinking for other reasons.

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I dont have problems with gabapentin and drinking. I don't drink heavily - but a drink or two once in a while - - seems find with no problems for me. I would not drive of course - - one time i over did it, and it didn't seem to harm me. I had a driver, slept well, got up in morning and felt fine.

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Try a more natural approach... All of your symptoms might completely disappear

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I totally agree I have been on Gabapentin for years 1200 mg daily. I drink wine and I feel completely normal.

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My personal experience is that i i take alcohol with gabapntin before bedtime will wake up far more drunk than if i used alcohol by itself.
The first time i experienced this was when i was on a normal dose and one night i drank some wine. Not enough to get really drunk. I used the wine to help me to sleep. Then i woke up a few hours earlier and felt like i was so drunk i could not even get up,
I tried to get up but fell and hit my head on a peace of furniture and went back to bed. The next day my bed was soaked with blood. .
I did this one other time and when i tried to go to the bathroom which was next to some long stairs i fell down the stairs. So i stopped doing both together

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Not sure on that one hunnie , but. It made me say words differents. Come out I was so so tired My balance Was all over the place ,, I did drink on it ,,I was okay first time but 2. Like I said on here no no go area ,,,, it made me feel like I was on drugs not that I have ever taken them in my life that's not me ,, while driving my car. I would be in my world ,, and I thought no this is no good ,,, it's a shame they don't do another drug for folk who are in so much pain ...it makes u sleep ,!!!!

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I take 3200mg. of Gabapentin a day for the past 3 years. I had to quit drinking alcohol all together. It first started out as a my face getting beet red after a few beers, so I quit for a few months. Out to dinner one night I got the bright idea to order a Long Island Ice Tea. Mistake: My wife had to rush me to the emergency room because I could barely breathe. It took some massive dosages of Benedryl to straighten me out.

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I'm 24 years old and was in a car accident in December 2015, hit by a drunk driver. In the beginning of April they did a cortisone steroid epidural at my L5-S1 that helped my herniated disk bulge back pain but a sciatic nerve pain down my right leg showed up during the inj. I started on 300mg gabapentin last night (nightly only), I did not know that you couldn't take it with alcohol until today. Also didn't know the side effects of it with pain killers. Needless to say, I had my Norco 10/325mg then drank 2 low alcohol content beers and later on took my nightly meds which included the new gabapentin. I did not have any bad side effects good ones actually, I was able to please my husband without any pain. Today my pain medication has changed to Percocet 10/325mg and I am not drinking tonight so I can find the real outcome of only painkillers and gabapentin. I just want to be able to work pain free and be useful to my staff in my department. There is a 90% chance that they will do surgery but for now, I'm managing my pain.

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Gabapentin Clinic Research Studies show that Gabapentin used with 900 mg and above will reduce or eliminate alcohol craving or relapse.

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Have you been tested for Fibromyalgia? Sounds a lot like what I go through daily and when the flare ups are bad the anxiety is EXTREME, the brain fog is deafening (can't hear myself think). Just started gabapentin yesterday, hope it helps with something oh and I always have 1-2 beers a night, we will see how that goes.

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My mom is on gabapentin, started a few months back. Shes reported a lot of confusion and blurred and fuzzy vision during the day time. She drinks every night, and when the alcohol is introduced along with the gabapentin, its a nightmare. One or two beers really won't mess with anyone on anything too much. But throw a few shots in there and all hell brakes loose. She has been drinking FOR YEARSSS, and usually a few shots over the course of a night in a mixed drink is something she handles no problem, shes got a tolerance. But since the gabapentin she has these crazy fits of just yelling and screaming and cussing and slamming doors, its terrifying. And then when she wakes up...she remembers nothing, nada. She wakes up thinking she went to bed early and got a great nights sleep, having no memory whats so ever of her episode the night before. Its not the alcohol by itself, as I said she has been drinking as much as she always has for years, and even the nights she over does it she never black outs. I would really caution those individuals who are thinking of taking this medication that are also more "advanced" drinkers.

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I just started on it too...and like you I love my beer...typically consuming 2 quarts in early evening... my dosage is 75Mg....let you know in the morning he he he...... he all l I could find was ""Dont drink if you are taking this medication.."

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