I had made a little experiment after my dialysis last Wednesday, I didn't take a dose of my Gabapentin. Usually I would take a third of the 600 mg tablet so that I can get some of its benefits like pain relief, relaxation of my mind and body, calming of my whole system including my guts, and sleep enhancement.
That is why I really cant take-off gabapentin because of the good benefits it does to me. But taking it off from my system is not good as I have experienced because for one thing I feel that my guts are not "calm in a way that I feel like I am always bloated and has this discomfort in my bowels.
It is hard to describe it but it feels like I want to go to the toilet all the time. ut going to the toilet with a body condition like mine is not as easy as it sounds. To a normal person it is an effortless affair but not for me.
So for as long as I can hold my "you know" I will hold it so if I would have a bowel discomfort it is just a debilitating condition for me. But with Gabapentin my guts are calmer and I am serious for saying this but my farts are "drier" so to speak.
I guess that maybe a cure for IBS is just Gabapentin because it calms not only the nerves but also the guts or bowels, intestines.
Anyway as for my little experiment, I just did that in withdrawing Gabapentin for a while to see if my blood pressure would hold this time and if it would not crash while I am hooked for my dialysis but the results are good because I didn't get to crash my blood pressure this time around.
But it could be that I went home not achieving my target weight which is 54 kilos with wheelchair weight included because I went home with 54.5 kilos and it might be that extra .5 kilos could be the factor that I didn't crash my BP because if I would have reached the target goal of 54 Kilos I might crash my BP.
So again I am not concluding yet that if I do not have GABA in my system that I will not crash my BP. But I really needed that medicine because of the said reasons especially the calming of my intestines, it means a lot for my well-being rather than having a feeling of discomfort all the time I am just glad that have a "one stone multiple birds" approach for the things that bothers my body. Thanks be to God.