I’ve been on Gabapentin since spring of 2020. It’s been essential for treating my dysautonomia. I’ve had a terrible time with it. I was too sick to take a tilt test. I’m exhausted being in the sympathetic system all the time. I have to work very hard with breathing and resting to get into the parasympathetic. Also, if my body starts something like coughing, it can just go on and on because nothing shuts it off - messed up signals between the parasympathetic and sympathetic. Gabapentin has been a life saver with that. Once I started taking them I could get my system to calm down enough to regulate better. I’m also on an experimental HIV drug protocol that has helped me so much. My blood pressure is mostly stable now, and before it would get horribly high, like 192/102, but then in the same day it would go down to as low as 56/40. I was so sick I couldn’t really get out of bed very often. I think I was at about 20% of my precovid energy. After about 1 1/2 months I had nearly 80% back. Of course, then I got Covid again. I’m know at 50-60%, and hoping that I’ll someday get back up to 80%

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