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@snow86, I think you misunderstood my objection to the post I was replying to. I've tried all of these drugs, and done it under the auspices of regular doctors.
Beyond that, Gabapentin, unlike Trobalt, is not a controversial, or particularly unusual drug for tinnitus. There are several papers which have attempted to look into its efficiency, and it's one of the things which was directly suggested to me by an ENT doctor.
Dr. De Ridder knows more about drugs and pharmacology than I ever will. I am in no way dismissive of the prospects of Trobalt or Kv, the strongest statement I will make is that much further study is needed to determine if these drugs are effective, and if so, what the correct protocol is. Until there's more data on that, it's a crapshoot. It's one thing to be desperate enough to make a crapshoot under the guidance of someone who has experience prescribing a drug; doing it on your own is russian roulette. I would be frankly shocked if Dr. De Ridder, or anyone else with actual medical training, disagreed with that sentiment.
If someone is, indeed, suicidal, taking unprescribed psychiatric drugs is the last thing they should be doing, because very reliable research shows risks of increased suicidal ideation among some subset of people who try them. Gabapentin is no exception
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/Drugsafety/UCM229208.pdf
The FDA said:
NEURONTIN can cause serious side effects including: 1. Suicidal Thoughts. Like other antiepileptic drugs, NEURONTIN may cause suicidal thoughts or actions in a very small number of people, about 1 in 500.
1 in 500 doesn't sound like much, but this forum has 10,000 users. If every one of them tried Neurontin, then you'd expect 20 of those people to have "suicidal thoughts or actions". If that person were already suicidal, well... you get the picture.
As I have said repeatedly, I have no problem with people making informed decisions about their own health and electing to take drugs, it's the definition of a personal decision from where I sit. What I object to is the way that these discussions go on here; the post I was responding to specifically was asking someone with a demonstrated track record of buying unprescribed drugs, how to get them. I definitely appreciate a lot of the insight that
@Danny Boy shares with us, and the compassion he has for new sufferers. However, some people seem to think he's some kind of pharmacological guru, and that's incredibly dangerous. Unless I am mistaken, he has no medical training.
Over the past couple years, this forum and these threads specifically have gravitated further and further towards the kind of reckless, thoughtless, desperate drug use which is usually found on places like bluelight, and not on support forums. It frightens me, and so I will continue to be vocal about it for as long as it persists (or until I move on with my life sufficiently to not be posting here, which is looking more and more likely).
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I'd just say, if you're going to do it, do it, and then maybe don't spend much time reading about other people's experiences?
