I don't know, would have to stop it and see, it's such a slow taper and I did stop it briefly 3 years ago and started getting pinching twisting nerve pains in arms legs chest, doc thought it muscler in nature so I started pounding the local hills that are max steep pushing a bike to top and ride down 4 or 5 days in a row to prove not, went back on gaba and faded, now and then I get a spell and the site of the pain is weird, a pinpoint location that squeezing and massaging have zero affect on it, however a very light brush of a fingernail across it and a burning flare like burned by coal, goes away after few sec and will repeat, doc has no clue, told her the Gabapentin I was prescribed years ago for migraine help now has been masking something totally different, am about to ask for sec opinion doc, kp gen pract is frustrating, I had to tell them test for blood inflammation markers and they came back MGUS, I ha to tell them for 9 months dehydration issue wasn't in my head, D.mg