Posted by 3 Beer Effect on February 2, 2002, at 3:31:42
I was recently taking Neurontin 900 mg/day but it hasn't done anything for my social phobia, only seems to make it worse. I stay in the house all the time, somnolent, drowsy & much more irritable when on the neurontin. Some studies said it might help with social phobia but they only got a 32% response rate with a 14% placebo response rate.
Does Gabitril (tiagabine) function as a mood-stabilizer or an anxiolytic/anti-anxiety drug?. On paper, it looks like it would help with Social Phobia since it potentiates GABA like alcohol (which I still think is the best social phobia/anxiolytic drug ever), which the benzos also do but through a different mechanism.
But I don't know much about Gabitril since I've never heard anyone talk much about it on this board. Is Gabatril the non-benzodiazpine, non-tolerance inducing cure for Social Phobia that everyone has been looking for? Does it make you "dumb" & drowsy all of the time so you can't get studying or other work done?- I found Neurontin to have this effect on me.
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