Posted by lunesta on October 31, 2005, at 5:23:25
In reply to Re: Gabapentin/Neurontin - depression and anxiety, posted by SandyWeb on October 29, 2005, at 17:33:12
you were off it both times you were sick, just like me, this is because neurontin lowers white blood cells, which fight infections. So when we get a big one, we end up in the hospital or somewhere major, where we might have to stop our immune supressing neurontin. this causes a huge rebound in white blood cells fighting all the infections that neurontin may have supressed. calcium overload, vomiting, constant nesea, panic, anxiety, hyperventilate, urination, hot cold chills, sweaty palms yet cold hands. sound anything like the illnesses you had concidentally when you had to stop neurontin then too they kept going. if you had taken higher doses of neurontin, the illness would most likely would have been supressed, but because the body builds tolerance, eventually, well..lets just say
neurontin withdrawl resembles severe illnesses like flu, pnemunoia, anxiety, psycosis etc.
I would bet this was the case.
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