When I started taking gabapentin, I had NO IDEA that you couldn’t just stop taking it! Your “story” sounds like a living nightmare, which I don’t want any part of. Not one doctor has told me about the addiction that goes along with this drug. In all seriousness, at my age, 71, I couldn’t care less about addiction. I have the absolutely worse knee and leg problems from a torn meniscus and other ligaments. The pain is practically unbearable. The “pain management” place has done enough little experiments, I just want it FIXED. Because I’m stupidly honest, I told them I had taken some pain meds from a friend. Like I said, STUPID. I’m now considered a “risk” and they dismissed me. Of course, now I don’t know where/what to do. I’m not looking for a “lifetime supply” of pain meds, just enough to get me through until someone fixes me. Imagine my surprise when I found out a “pain management clinic” won’t do this. I’ve been “marked” and I don’t know what to do.