Written for long-term gabapentin users, caregivers, and the practitioners who support them. No horror stories. No false promises. Just what the research shows and what the experience actually looks like.
I built GabaDown because I couldn't find anything for my mother. This is her story — eight years on gabapentin, the cognitive and physical side effects nobody warned her about, and what it felt like to finally have a structured plan and a reason to be hopeful.
What a safe, supervised gabapentin taper actually looks like — the timeline, the reduction increments, the evidence behind hyperbolic tapering, and why the standard advice to "just stop slowly" isn't enough for long-term high-dose users.
Most gabapentin tapers fail not because the person wasn't motivated enough. They fail because of four specific, fixable problems. Here's what the successful ones did differently.
The blog is just getting started. These articles are in progress — each one addresses a question we hear consistently from people navigating this process.