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Got put on it for neuropathic pain once and it just made me lethargic and sleepy. Yeah the pain was slightly lessened, but I couldn't do anything. I was then quickly taken off it and another medication was tried.
I hope this lethargic and sleepy does not last, I feel serenely calm but also slightly alcohol-buzzed.
Tolerance to the sedation developed pretty quickly for me. A lower dose can help too. I take 300 * 3/day
Awesome 
I'm on it for neuropathic pain as well and had a similar experience for a while. The sleepiness and lethargy stopped being a problem after I was on it for a bit, but the efficacy of its painkilling (and anxiolytic) properties also mostly wore off. I could go up quite a bit in dose, and have as a rare occasional thing, but don't really want to go down that route, as I'm already worried about withdrawal if/when I do go off. Mind if I ask if any following meds you tried worked well?
Synthetic opioids like tramadol work the best in terms of pain relief for me, but the side effects are pretty huge, so I only use them during really bad pain episodes. For more minor common pain where the neuropathic component isn't that bad, I take a NSAID called celecoxib.
Well, they prescribed my dog gabapentin because she's anxious and all it does is make her the world's sleepiest hound
Personally, don't like having her zonked out 20 hours of the day, but then again I also doubt my dog has actual anxiety problems (pretty sure the people who left her at the shelter lied)
Understandable 
I am on a dog dose, I hope I won't be permanently zonked
Hey I'm sure it'll be fine, just remember, no one knows you're a dog on the internet.
Yea.......
and I can still feel my emotions which is nice
An anti-anxiety that lets you feel emotions would be pretty rad ngl
Yeah it would, will post more if anything funny happens. Had a huge downward moodswing just half an hour ago, adjustment periods and all.
I was put on it for a different off label use, and then kept on it longer for some nerve pain, but it didn’t do shit for my anxiety.
Fugg 
I can't understand the title. Are we the bear website?
Yes this is bearsite. Try it, put a medication into the search bar!
something went wrong and I looked up a bear on the drug website
Gabapentin is fine at low doses, anything below 600mg a day is fairly low. Just don't let someone give you more than a gram a day, because the withdrawals do become quite terrible at high doses. Don't let your dose be raised too quickly. Most doctors are pretty good about this, but your dose should only go up like once or twice in a year, and it shouldn't be a huge bump
Awesome, thank you. My current indication says 100mg for two weeks, and if it's good go to 200mg. Sound fine?
Yeah that sounds perfectly reasonable. Like I said, as long as you're below 1000mg a day you'll be fine. Gabapentinoids are extremely similar to alcohol in how they actually act in your brain, so at low doses they're perfectly manageable dependency wise. You'll probably notice your tolerance increases fairly quickly with the medicine, however the medical effects of it don't start lessening for quite a while so you'll be good there. If you're getting it for anxiety, they should keep you at a fairly low dose, 600mg-900mg a day should be the most you ever get. You'll find a sweet spot on them eventually and probably just stay at that dose because Gabapentin is a very different drug depending on the dose you take. It's very interesting imo.
I'm probably one of the people you heard saying Gabapentinoid withdrawal is terrible, but I was dosing myself on them so my tolerance climbed to the equivalent of about 4000-5000mg a day. At those doses, it truly is the worst withdrawal, but the first time I quit it my tolerance was only around 1000mg a day and it was pretty manageable. A little bit of insomnia and physical anxiety but nothing you can't just breathe through.