Posted by Novelagent on May 7, 2012, at 5:58:49
In reply to Re: Gabitril / Tiagabine anyone? » uncouth, posted by phidippus on April 30, 2012, at 22:13:22
Stick with Neurontin. I had Momento-like memory (every 7 seconds, it seemed, I couldn't remember the last 7 seconds-- memory went in and out, delusional ideas of reference involving a vague sense of meaning relating back to me as I looked at meaningless objects on my desk--
Someone else on this board also got a brief psychotic episode on Gabitril around the same time; search site with psychosis gabitril if you're interested. I think it was more than just one person.
I later, 8 years later, when I was 27, got schizophreniform, but that's unrelated. Anyhow, I slept it off and was golden the next morning, but it scared my roomies, who were good enough friends not to dial 911 in the trust it would hopefully be episodic, which it thankfully was.
But yeah, it's used for "pruning" in schizophrenia, but I think such use is naive to what it does, as it's obviously given in combination with antipsychotics that would mask the psychosis in such a case. Not sure what the rationale of pruning is, but I don't think docs have a theoretical footing firm enough to warrant this med to be used...
It also doesn't work on anxiety as well. In terms of sleep, it's meh. There's better drugs. Neurontin is great for anxiety. Be cautious of promises about drugs enhancing sleep-- I listened to the b.s. that GHB (xyrem / sodium oxybate) condensed sleep... All it did was make me vomit in my sleep. Broken sleep, they're finding, could actually be ideal sleep. No one knows what they're talking about when they talk about efficient sleep.
> Gabitril has been studied in treating insomnia-it improves stage 4 sleep. I took it for a while. It also works well for anxiety.
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> Eric
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