I’ve been taking gabapentin for chronic crippling daily headaches since April 2022 I started low at 300 mg daily divided into 3 doses and worked my way up to 1800 mg currently, I’ve noticed a slight improvement in the severity of the pain and has made it more manageable but for the most part I still have daily headaches, some days are worse than others I am able to function slightly some days but other days I’m not, I am a bit nervous to increase to the next dosage as I don’t want to get myself to the max dosage and have no relief,
Has anyone had positive effects or relief at higher dosages,
Gabapentin for chronic daily headaches?
Question posted by Daniel Insalaco on 26 Oct 2022
Last updated on 20 November 2022 by Quito
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Quito
20 Nov 2022
I take 3000 mg/day. Wow, that even sounds like an awfully big amount to me. I was taking 2700 mg/day but was upped another 300 at night. I know gabapentin has helped the nerve pain that I had without it. I'm afraid to not to take it because I don't want the pain. Everybody is different and maybe it'll help your headaches but I have headaches mostly all the time. I used to take the generic Excedrin headache meds but I'm on so many meds that I'm afraid of interactions.
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