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Posted 8/15/2015 2:24 PM (GMT 0)
Hi all, I have been taking 1500 mg of gabapentin for spinal pain for a few months. I didn't feel like it was doing much so my doc suggested cymbalta. Now I am on both for a few weeks. I was stupid and stopped the gab. and pain went WAY up so back on both. I really would like to be on one or the other (you know--who wants to take so many different meds?)
So I am wondering, do you take one or the other or both? I'd love your input! Thanks
Posted 8/15/2015 7:11 PM (GMT 0)
We have seen several people be on Gabapentin & thought it wasn't helping until they stopped it & then found out the hard way that indeed it was helping. I don't think I would want to be on both of these at the same time. In fact, you still have room for increases with the Gabapentin.

I would get back to the dr & let him/her know what happened when you stopped it & perhaps talk about bumping it up.

Good luck.
Posted 8/15/2015 11:20 PM (GMT 0)
I'm one of those who is on gabapentin, 1200mg a day for post-shingles pain at that time, and didn't realize how much it was helping until reducing the dose for a few days.

However, I was recently able to reduce from 1200 to 900mg in two steps, after supplementing with daily magnesium, but I did find that after each step down, the pain increased for two or three days, then settled down to what it was before. Trying to reduce below 900, it increased and never settled down again, so I went back to 900 and have stayed there ever since.
Posted 8/16/2015 3:48 AM (GMT 0)
I take 1500 gabapentin and 80 cymbalta for peripheral neuropathy in my feet. I wouldn't dare stop either med for fear of backsliding into my original state of pain and inability to work. This combination works fairly well but my pain doc is still tweaking my meds. I am having break through pain at the present that tramadol is no longer covering but see her on Thursday. Be patient with the process...I was started on meds last September.
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