Alcohol And Gabapentin (Page 7)
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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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Colleen NO! You are already on enough mood altering meds, know wonder your so dizzy. Drinking will just make your symptoms worse. Im on similar meds and have had to work very hard with my doc to avoid side effects. Finally on a good routine and well controlled. hope this helps.

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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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My doctor said 300 mg a day is about the amount he would give a cat!

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massive headache! MIGRAINE ! I drank on gabapentin and BOOOOOOM!! Strange how it does not affect some people though.

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I started gabapentin 300mg 3x daily 2 months ago for neuropothy. Had to stop for a week because of other issues. I would have shot myself if I had a gun! This med is a lifesaver for me. I willingly gave up any alcohol per docs orders. I would give up almost anything for the relief thos has given me!!!

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That's a pretty low dose. I take 900mg three times a day for chronic nerve pain. 2700mg total. I'm a tea totaler now.

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I'm 31 and have been taking gabapentin 600 mg every night before bed since I was 17. I honestly have a few glasses of wine a night and do go out drinking with friends a few times a month. I haven't noticed anything unusual with mixing the two of these. I recently have had bad episodes drinking and blacking out especially with liquor but I'm positive it was because of the klonopin I just had been prescribed which you should never drink on.. (That's what lead me to check on the drinking effect with the two medications that lead me to this thread) An anti-anxiety medication would cause more of what your describing with the husband fighting thing than the gabapentin.

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100mg is really a low dose if that is per day. I don't think so, but take it easy.

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I'm taking 100mg gabapentin for hot flashes after my hysterectomy. Should I take this when drinking beer?).o

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I have stomach burning the day after drinking a few alcoholic drinks. The alcohol isn't worth to me the way my stomach burns.

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It will lower your tolerance to where your out of control staggering,and doing dumb stuff before you know it.
if you must try not drinking anymore than half of what you used to..

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Picked up my adult son from the ER this morning after he was brought in by ambulance after drinking probably too much but not an excessive amount. He was found blacked out on the street and fought the EMTs, so he was put in soft testraints. He thought he was being kidnapped but other than that, he remember parking the car (thank God he didn't try to drive) and waking up in the hospital many hours later and nothing in between. I have noticed a kind of "invincibility" behavior with just a beer or two before. He takes 1800 mg gabapentin plus baclofen daily for RSD/CRPS. Has some sweling and bumps and bruises but nothing major ... yet. His friend had called it a night and assumed he had gone home hours earlier. ER report says only "alcohol intoxication" but it was much more. If you must drink while taking gabapentin, take it easy and make sure you have friends to help you stay safe. You may not be tolerating it as well as you think you are.

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Excessive need of caffeinated beverages to counteract the tiredness. Alcohol tolerance down to where it's not worth the trouble. Unexpected diarrhea on occasion after drinking a small amount. Fatigue along with a low libido is not good either. Have a nice day

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What kind of weird bad things ?

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I was on gabapentin 400 mg for nerve pain from a surgery called Arnold Chiari which I had about ten years ago I was having nerve pain and my neurologist said it was from scar tissue. I had to increase it to 800 mg but now I'm having bad depression from it.

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Don't mess around. Alcohol does weird bad things to me on this.

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Waking up to edema in my legs and increase in the minor side effects. I just looked up this thread because last night I had 1 beer and a tiny bit of vodka which I knew I should not. For about a month I've been on gab 300 mg for some neuropathy left over from chemo treatments. Based on this I think people should abstain from drinking if you have any question about it.

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Also, I notice more affects from drinking on my meds the day after... Hang overs feel like withdrawal and death... twitching, dizziness, restlessness, shaking, pure misery. Anyone else notice this ?

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I take .25 klonopin a day, am prescribed 1 300mg twice a day and two at bedtime gabapentin (but only take 1-2 at bedtime)because I have been afraid of it making me too sleepy during the day and I am scared of medications high doses scare me and the doctors in my town suck. I am also prescribed .1mg of clonodine once a day and three at night. Again I only take 2-3 pills at bedtime because I am afraid of high doses and day time drowsiness that's stronger than what I already have. And lastly I am prescribed 20mg paxil once a day. I had a lot of bad reactions to it so have tapered myself back down to 10mg and have been trying to contact my doctor. I drink a few times a week. Usually wine or blue moon but will have fun mixed drinks when I go to the bar. I am 21 year old female with extreme anxiety and feel as though I am on wayyyy too much medication for my age. I am always achey and sore my nerves are shot and my back kills from scholiocis. Even my hips hurt sometimes ?! I get scared and freak myself out often when drinking because I was so unsure about how dangerous they all are to mix especially all 4 together. I have not noticed any violence or diference in the way I act when drinking. Still a happy friendly drunk . I just notice I get drunk a lot faster.. Anyone else take more than this one medication and drink ? ~B

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Hey all,
I wanted to know what peoples reactions were to gabapentin and alcohol as well. I take 900 mg each dose, 3 or 4 x daily,it depends on my activity level for about 1 1/2 yrs. My cocktail is my gaba and 24mg acetaminophen with codeine each dose, my doctor doesn't like me taking more than 72mg of the codeine daily, but once again it depends on what has to get done. I have the stupidest knee injury, I am perfect except for this relentless horrifying nerve pain from my knee, that has about 4 different pain threads( my own description).
I was on the 100 mg fentanol patch for 5 yrs and jumped cold turkey from the fentanol to gaba and codeine. Three days of he'll, but overall not too bad.

I can't walk a bumpy or hilly road ,climb stairs, swim, dance, stand for a lengthy time. and no libido, and honestly, it exhausts me days afterwards. My life has been turned upside down, and I am the most intensely boring person now. And I can't drink. I have tried a few times, it's very scary, extreme dizziness and I get a headache that feels like a medieval wired cage that gets turned tighter. My head feels like the weight of a bowling ball, I have to lie my head down horizontal, I dont feel drunk, just pain that feels better once I lie my head down, I can carry on a very lucid conversation, but my head is pinned down, and there I'm stuck. So since I can't read anymore, ( I'm told my eyesight has rapidly decreased because of my age, I'm 42. But I'm not convinced that's all it is.) It's not just the vision it's deeper than that, I can't describe it. It also took me 4 yrs to listen to music, I couldn't withstand the vibrations.

Now, I think there is a huge difference between drinking liquor and beer, my guy drinks beer and once in a while I get him to give me a half glass of beer that turns into a few, and I really enjoy it. I am literally too afraid to try wine. I think if u do want to enjoy a drink, turn your wine into a spritzer, only 1 oz of liquor with a lot of mix and ice, these two are both way stronger than beer, so I'm getting the feeling the alcohol content is extrmely relevant.. I am a cannabis supporter, and really enjoy my joint or two a day. I am extremely thin naturally and my teeth were wrecked from lack of dental care and fentanol dry mouth, so it prompts me to eat and the world doesn't seem so harsh. But that wired cage inside my head happened today, and bowling ball syndrome too. Now I've been taking lyrica for the last two days, I ran out my Dr is three towns away, and a friend had leftover lyrica, she stopped beacause of weight gain, so that would be a plus for me.maybe it's just the lyrica, but I have noticed over the last few months a few niggling differences. And today whammo.
Now cigarettes, well for someone who rarely smoked before, I seem to do just fine with them.

I apologize for not sticking to point of topic, and I now it's a really old post, but maybe if somebody reads this, it might be helpful in some way. I'll tell u tho, I've had issues with this weird headache whenever I'm running late or low on meds, my friends have said the headache is from the codeine withdrawal, possibly, but its a really weird headache, and I've gone thru withdrawals a few times in my life and this is different, it's not the body it's the brain. Anyway, my pain my life and my depression has been stabalized, thanks to the gaba, and if drinking is the cost, I'm glad to pay it.

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