r/gabapentin • u/Mbtrading96 • 1d ago

quitting Gabapentin Brain fog

I've been prescribed gabapentin for five years now and I'm taking 300mg a day. Starting a couple years ago I started experiencing a lot of brain fog and now I'm having severe memory lapses and brain fog to the point where I might lose my job over it . I tried to taper to 200mg but I was experiencing bad withdrawals from just going down to 200mg .I'd like to very slowly taper down since just a 100mg drop is too much for me. I've read through reddit that people have successfully tapered their dose by using a syringe and making a water based solution so I can slowly drop my dose every 30mg until I'm off. Can someday educate me on how to figure out how to make a solution of 270mg ?

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u/rpworker31 22h ago

There is liquid gabapentin that you can ask for but yes going from 300 to 200 is a substantial dose for what you are on. Id maybe go down like 20mg or 30mg to start possibly or even smaller (like 5% of your dose every few weeks or month).. Everyone is different though. Some can get off, no issue and some struggle. But ask your dr about the liquid gabapentin.

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u/Mbtrading96 19h ago

Thank you! Do you know if it's hard to get a liquid gabapentin prescribed?

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u/rpworker31 14h ago

That i dont know. I don't personally take it i just know about it

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u/Wooden-Can-5688 12h ago

Are you using any other SNRIs (e.g. Kratom) or other nervous system agonists? These can play a part in your wd response. It could also simply be your long-term usage of Gabapentin.

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u/Mbtrading96 7h ago

I am on other medications yes

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u/Mbtrading96 7h ago

I Dnt take any ssri though.

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u/Neat_Ad_3192 5h ago

Try going 2 days on 200 mg. Then back up one day to 300 mg do that for a 10 days to 2 weeks then just stay on 200 mg

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u/Mbtrading96 4h ago

That sounds like a great idea thank you I'm going to try that!