Pain
"My doctor started me on gabapentin about 4 months ago now for pain from osteoarthritis, and fibromyalgia and bad knee pain.  She had me take 100mg, 3 times a day.  Or she said, I could take 1 tablet in the morning and 2 tablets at night, or all 3 tablets at night and nothing else during the day, whatever works for me.  Each tablet is 100mg.  The medication definitely slows my system down and makes me relaxed and sleepy, so when the pain from my diseases starts to act up, I take my pills according to how I feel and they seem to work for me really well taken that way.  No side effects at all from the meds.  I told my doctor I did not want any narcotics at all for my pain, as they are addictive and I did not want to be addicted to any pain med"