u/Byakubeeni

I was prescribed 300mg gabapentin to be taken 3 times a day for 5 days after my surgery. I completed that course and stopped cold turkey after 5 days since I took all the capsules that were prescribed. After 2 weeks I had a follow up appointment with my doctor and told him that I am still experiencing some pain around my incisions and general backache and he prescribed gabapentin again 300mg dose once a day at night. I have been taking 300mg dose once daily for a week now. I would like to wean off of it. How to safely do that?

I am 16 days post op and struggling to sleep. I am a side/stomach sleeper and cannot exclusively sleep on my back for longer periods of time. Ever since my surgery I have been sleeping on my back strictly as I have 4 incisions, two on my left and one on my right side and one in the belly button. The ones on my sides are just right above my hips so they are really on the side instead of towards the abdomen. So any pressure that I try to put on them just hurts badly and I am not comfortable sleeping on my sides yet. I have been using a wedge pillow to sleep on my back and a pillow underneath my knees to take some pressure off my back but I am so done with sleeping on my back I can’t wait to sleep on my sides/stomach! 😭 how long more will it take for me to sleep on my sides? Any tips for getting comfy while sleeping on your back? My backache is currently diabolical it’s killing me 😭🙏🏻 any advice would be appreciated!