I am now up to 1800mg of gabapentin a day, I am taking 600mg in the morning and the afternoon and the evening. The side effects have doubled! My mouth gets so dry now, I try to keep gum in my mouth at work I can't chew it to much cause of the pain but I try to keep it in my mouth but at some point I just have to take it out and my mouth gets so dry and we can't have any water and I can't just walk to get some, I am a cashier. When I am at home it is fine cause I can drink as much as I want. I really don't know if the increase is helping or not.
As for the Embeda I have been on it since Thursday. I think I am on the lowest dose 20-0.8mg 2 times a day. It has taking the edge off my pain but so has darvocet in the past. It says If you have been taking opiods (narcotics) for a period of time you will have to have a higher dose. Well I have been on them off and on since Jan of 2009. I first started taking vicodin then that stopped working then I started on percocet for 8 months then had the surgery and after that the dr would only give me darvocet and I have been on that a couple times since October. So I am wondering if I would need a higher dose? I am going to call the doctor on Monday. The good thing is I am feeling alittle better to the point I have been able to clean my house on Friday and today I finished it and I can tell that my feelings about things are getting better, We just moved into a new house in December and this is the first time since we have been here that I have really took pride in the house and wanting to keep it clean. I don't know if it is cause the edge of the pain is taking off or maybe just maybe I found a drug that might help. We just have to get the dose right. The other problem is that Emeda is not cheap, it was $50 for 60 of them. I can't get help from the state to help pay for them so I don't know what else to do.
When I have stopped any of the pills I have been on I have not had a problem stopping them. So I am not sure why the dr didn't want to go down that road. And when I was on the meds I had to be cause I was going to the dentist once and sometimes even 2 times a week to get the hole in my mouth packed and stitched up with about 15 stitches so it was a very painful 8 months he would even stitch my cheek to my gums so it was so painful. I thought after the surgern fixed the hole everything would be done and over with but I was so wrong. This story don't seem to end.
Thanks for everything.
Jamie