Gabapentin Withdrawal Headache & Time

I was on 300 mg of gabapentin for 3 months. I'm weaning off it by taking the 300 mg capsule every other day as per what the pharmacist recommended. How long should I do this? It's been a week. The days I don't take it I have a headache that just won't go away. I want to be done with this drug.

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Hi Yeb,

Just wanted to congratulate you on doing your due diligence with weaning off gabapentin. It really sounds like you're on the right track with the pharmacists recommendations of dosing every other day. However I think in order to take it to the next step, you have to ask yourself what seems feasible based on how your body has already responded. All I can say is that it were me in this position I'd probably be very strategic about my approach; perhaps by going down 25-50-100mg every so many weeks, doing whatever feels right in that moment, but still taking the necessary steps forward with an understanding that eventually the body will have to get used to not having it at all. And this is only my opinion, but I think a gradual yet steady titration is probably less risky than yanking it all away at once; unless you have some other form of treatment to rebound on or mitigate withdrawal symptoms.

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