Hi there all, I was recently prescribed gabapentin by my dr, specifically for my marijuana withdrawals. I was having terrible episodes of vomiting from high marijuana usages (er visit before claimed it was withdrawals from weed.. anyway)which my dr recommended a slow stop, and said to try to only smoke 2 times around night time. I wasn’t really easily adhering to that, I managed to restrict myself to night, but was smoking way more than 2x (not sure what a dr would measure that as) but that lead me to cold turkey stop because i can’t really help myself otherwise. But regardless it was interfering with my job and I knew I had to do something.
To preface, I only met with this Dr after my 5th episode and since first meeting we have had only 1 virtual follow up. 3 days before the follow up I had an episode at work which landed me at the Er for IV fluids(took 5 different nurses to poke me for IV)
From my 1st meet with doc to my 2nd, she upped my dosage from 1 - 3 300s (gradually take more, not random) to 2 600s at night and I’ve been getting angry and short tempered since then. I’ve been off weed since March 26th and I explicitly said I did not want to develop a dependency on this substance, and at first, I attributed my anger to no weed (she did not correct that) because it made sense to me that id be a little bit off as I’ve been a regular smoker since I was about 17-18(28 now).
But the anger hasn’t gone away in the time I stopped until now. When I mentioned my irritability my dr wanted to put me on anti depressants… but I do not want to take more pills and told her as much, I mentioned my sister had a hard time and would feel “zombie” like on that stuff. She backed off but kept going into how it may not have been beneficial for her because at the time of being prescribed she was a teen, not a 28 year old with a fully functional brain?regardless of my sister, I have not heard great things about anti depressants and my whole goal is to have no daily pills or anything so I feel a bit dismissed to say the least.
Is my dr full of it? I feel like I’m tripping but the weird push for gabapentin and now anti depressants is making me feel like I should seek out a different doctor entirely. She told me there is nothing to worry about dependency wise but have the posts here around telling me different stories. To sum it up, I feel like it was never withdrawals from weed making me angry but the gabapentin, and now she’s trying to prescribe a fix to that which just puts me onto another thing. Maybe I am baseless but it feels like meds are being pushed on me. I’m a cautious person, but don’t want to disrespect her or her experience during our meetings.