Going Cold Turkey On Gabapentin

[joeylittle]

@sonicwhite - can you try going to the hospital or a rehab center and asking to be admitted? It's very hard to manage withdrawals all on your own. They can actually give you different kinds of meds, to make the transition much safer and much less painful.

I know you do want to get off the gabapentin - and I think that it's not a failure to realize you can't do it on your own - it's actually a really great thing for you to have experienced, and learned from.

Think about trying rehab, K? I promise you, it is not as hard as cold turkey, ever.

 

[scout86]

What @joeylittle said! We all want you safe and well. Sometimes we all need help with that. Personally, I think that's why God created therapists and doctors.

 

[sonicwhite]

Joeylittle yes rehab is what I need. Def rehab because I can't beat this beast on my own. Some can. Man I wish I had that will power...

Gabapentin withdrawals is just dangerous. I mean I thought it was ok like I said the half life but once 24 hours where up I was in shock.


So I need to acknowledge that I have a disease and I'm addicted to something a lot of ppl don't get addicted to.

I used to struggle so bad with lust but I overcame that but I think it just switched themes and now drugs are so hard to quit. I do want to. But at the same time I just want to be able to take it right but if I can't be trusted with a lot, if they tried to wean me, how can I be trusted with very little?

I resent the day they put me back on this because they thought klonopin was addictive. I hate the way klonopin or any benzo makes me feel. I just know in time I'm going to have to be strong. Thank you everybody and @joeylittle for showing love in this trying time.

 

[JEKBreatheandBelieve]

But at the same time I just want to be able to take it right but if I can't be trusted with a lot, if they tried to wean me, how can I be trusted with very little?

I think what others have said about rehab centers helping you would help with this part because they'd be controlling the amount they give and keeping the medication safe. You are very brave to admit that you have an addiction and very brave to want to do something about it. That's hard stuff, but you're working on it and that is great. I think so many of us were just concerned for your safety because we care and we wanted to make sure that you were safe. I don't think anyone wanted to make you feel bad and if I did, I am sorry for that. Sometimes concern does sound like criticism, I can agree to that feeling in some of my own situations. I hope that you are able to follow the desires you have to end the addiction and seek the help that God has put out here for those very reasons.

 

[Justmehere]

Sonic, you deserve to have a much easier path out of this hard place you are in. I was very concerned you would end up in a much worse spot, and that's why my words were as strong as they were. If you know someone is about to walk off a cliff sometimes the kind thing to do is to say "hey, watch out, there's a cliff ahead." That's different the criticism or judgement - but I can also understand how it can feel the same. you have been making some good chances in even juts he past month alone. I think you will excel at rehab and come out of it really being able to do the good things you want to do in life. Nightmares are so hard. I'm sorry thy came back. :hug: