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@wheegie
It is so incredible that doctors are not aware of common side effects. Gabapentin is prescribed off label for sleep-I know because it was prescribed for my insomnia and it did help me sleep at night. It just made me so spaced out and a little dizzy all the next morning that I had to discontinue it. I was on it for a month or more and those side effects never got better. I’m not surprised you felt extremely fatigued after taking a dose.
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@1oldsoul
That's exactly how I feel! I'm also dizzy and in a brain fog when I wake up in the mornings. When I take my first dose in the morning after about 1 hr, I'm sound asleep again. I'm slowly weaning myself off of it because honestly I can't think straight. I was prescribed 3 doses per day and I'm now down to 2. I plan to drop down to only 1 dose in the next few days. I've been warned not to stop taking cold turkey. I've been taking it for about 6 months.
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@1oldsoul
I was given gabapentin when I had a herniated disc and had no side effects, so maybe people respond differently. I think I took for a month or so.