Has Anyone Had Experience with Neurontin for Opiate Withdrawal?

[ColleenToQuit]

I've read Neurontin works to relieve some opiate withdrawal symptoms. Does anyone have any experience with this? If so how many milligrams a day did/do you take and how long does it take for the Neurontin to start working? I'm currently taking about 70mg of hydrocodone/day and I want to stop. I hate being on opiate painkillers for so long. I have a prescription for 100mg of gabapentin to take 3x a day. Does anyone know how much to take for cold turkey opiate withdrawal? And should I let the gabapentin build up in my body before I stop taking the hydro? From what I've read gabapentin works like a neurotransmitter reuptake accelerator/inhibitor and needs to build up in the system for a few days before it works to its full potential.

[crisco14]

I wouldn't have been able to get off opiates if it wasn't for nuerontin. I'm 7 days clean I'm through the worse part only dealing with mind over power issues. The nuerontins has made it much more simple this time. I have been able to sleep at night and I never got the jerks or sweating and chills. So yes nuerontin helps tremodously with opiate withdrawls

[soaddicted1800]

Addiction is terrible and withdrawels are worse..Me and my boyfriend are both on the weve been together for 6 years and this is the first thing I have kept from his as well.I take at least triple what he takes and spend all my money on them, I have to stop.Last night I ran out of pills and was up all night with cold sweats and restless leg I felt like screaming.I took 100mg of lyrica which I never take anymore and it just made me really dizzy.I didn't like Lyrica when I tried it a year ago but was at my wits end last so I dug it out of the medicine cabinet.I have script for Nuerontin I never picked up so I am hopin they will let me pick it up today.The best thing for oxycodone and hydrocodone withdrawal is if you can get you hands on some methadone it takes away all the wd symptoms but you have to be very carefull with that so you don't get addicted to that as well cuz that withdrawal is even worse.Good luck and wish me luck. You should talk to your hubby because I don't think you will be able to quit with the pills in the house.Maybe he can quit his scripts and just get what he needs and just tell him to lie about the others. Everytime I start to quit and think I am doin good I get a call from a friend with hella pills and the temptation is too great. I think I may go visit my parents for a few weeks and bring a weeks worth of methadone and do it that way.If I am 6 hrs from drugs than I won't be able to slip up.

[Shanoogle]

Im currently using nourontin to get off heroin. I was slamming for about a week an started buying nourontin off the street because i realized if you take about 10 of the 300mg nourontin you will have no opiate withdrrawls whatsoever. HOWEVER, this dosage also does effect your nerves meanong it impairs all aspects of your perception causing a feeling of almosy being drunk.. But over a 5 day time span if you titrate (slowly reduce dosage) you can come off of both with no dependencies towards either one. If you have questions find me on facebook, my name is Lanea Waldeck. I am NOT a doctor. This was my personal experience. I hope it helps. :)

[makarizo]

I had been taking percocet for about a year and decided it was time to get off of them.  I kind of tapered down but only because I was like "oh crap I'm almost out".  So I went from taking 8 5mg a day to like 4 a day for two days then 2 a day for a couple days then 1 a day for a couple days (because I turned my house upside down looking for strays).  The next day I felt like I was ready to die.  I was too weak and sick to even figure out how to pull off my sudicide. Every joint, every bone, every part of me hurt.  I felt worse the next day so I had the gabopenten laying around.  I took a couple gabopenten and the next day I felt pretty good.  By that second evening the withdrawls were almost gone.  Four days later I felt so wonderful.  I didn't take any gabopentin or any drugs starting that day.  I still have a lot of back pain but the whole opiod withdraw thing is not worth it.  
Anyways I had read about oxycodone withdrawls lasting atleat a week to two weeks and being like "the worst flu youve ever had."   Not at all.  The gabopentin must have helped a lot.  I had about a day and a half of feeling like crap but that was it.  
Also I forced myself to drink like a gallon and a half of water and a little lemon juice per day for the first 3 days to wash out the residuals.  So I'm sure that helped too.  

[eric1793]

I was  taking percocet and oxycontin in quite high doses for 9 years, lost count of how many times I had suffered WD , probably every month when I ran out... Finally I got absolutely sick and worn out by this life style that I asked my doctor about Babapentin... He started me on 300mg 4x a day ie. 2 300mg caps during the day and 2 300mg caps at bedtime. I weened my opiates down and was off them in a week, hardly any noticeable WD at all... Its been a month now and Ive been erating like a horse so Im gonna start weening off the Gabapentin as it is an antiseisure drug... Im as happy as I have ever been in my life right now, its done wonders for me... ROCK ON.....

[eric1793]

I was  taking percocet and oxycontin in quite high doses for 9 years, lost count of how many times I had suffered WD , probably every month when I ran out... Finally I got absolutely sick and worn out by this life style that I asked my doctor about Babapentin... He started me on 300mg 4x a day ie. 2 300mg caps during the day and 2 300mg caps at bedtime. I weened my opiates down and was off them in a week, hardly any noticeable WD at all... Its been a month now and Ive been erating like a horse so Im gonna start weening off the Gabapentin as it is an antiseisure drug... Im as happy as I have ever been in my life right now, its done wonders for me... ROCK ON.....