I only take 600mg /day but don’t notice the pain reduction. Just easier to get to sleep when taken with another med. I can’t really tell if it does anything but I’ve been told it is powerful and ‘good stuff’. Yeahok.
Severa medications, including this one cause symptoms in older people of mental decline. One reason I wanted to get off gabapentin is my memory went from not great to noticeably worse. This is the problem with most nerve medicines and sleep medications. Go to google, plug in the medication and side effects. Or, medication and “mental decline.”
I no longer have much mental to spare.
Gabapentin did absolutely nothing for me pain-wise. Only thing that worked for me was radiofrequency nerve ablation. It only took 40 years of suffering before a new pain doc presented the option. Best thing I ever did. Disclosure: I have bad osteoarthritis pretty much in every joint. Likely the result of nasty bouts of Lyme Disease.