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@jakedduck1
So glad to see someone posting this caveat. It actually applies to most drugs prescribed for neuropathy, assuming that you can tolerate them in the first place (I cannot). Everyone with whom I've spoken about their experience with the gabanoids, venlafaxine, etc., indicated that getting off of them was a bear, despite their neurologist swearing that they weren't addictive.
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@elizm
Hi there,
People are definitely different. The hardest time I ever had stopping a drug was Klonopin. Although I didn’t take it for years and years I took a lot. I stopped very slowly so for me my discontinuation of both Klonopin and Neurontin/Gabapentin was uneventful. However a lady here had a horrible time discontinuing Neurontin. So my theory is to go slow. Doctors often advocate 50% cuts but not everyone can handle large cuts.
Jake