My doctor put me on Gabapentin after he performed surgery on my spine. The dosage was 300 mg. at bedtime. It wasn’t prescribed for pain but to help me sleep. And I did sleep…..sometimes for 10 hours. When I would wake up, I would be terribly off balance and forced to use a rollator. So, my Internal medicine doctor reduced the dosage to 100mg. At bedtime but that dosage did not help me sleep. So she upped it to 200 mg. at bedtime and that was the right dose, I still have the off-balance problem but I am not certain that the problem stems from the GABA but from the actual spinal surgery. Not only do I have a balance problem but I also get very sleepy in late afternoon which never happened before the surgery or taking Gabapentin, I don’t know what to do because now I have to use a rollator to get around because I have fallen three times without it and since I also have Osteoporosis, I cannot afford to break another bone (which I did on two separate occasions. ). There do not seem to be any answers for my problems, so I just live with them and I ask God to get me through each day . I am sure nothing I have said will help you but now you are on my prayer list and perhaps my prayers will be answered for all your problems to just go away! God bless!!!
Yvie