Hey friend , sorry for a delayed response , but I hope you see this still . I was on gaba for ~ 9 months , as it reduced my DDD nerve painsciatica by probably 6070 %. Amazing results , pain wise , so it took me a very long time to realize just how nasty of a substance gaba is for me , anyways and eventually get off of it . Though I was up to the 300 3 x day course you ' re on pretty quickly , I realized because of how dull gaba made me feel mentally there was no way I was going to make it though grad school popping those suckers throughout the day . As such I ended up taking my full 1800 mg once daily before bed . This shitty idea let me sleep and still function the next day when it came time to work on my research , but what I didn ' t realize was that I was entering a cycle of withdrawal on the daily . Forgetting my gaba for a weekend trip and a couple of other similar experiences let me connect the dots and realize the cold sweats , irritability , headaches , sensitivity and general depression I was experiencing every evening before taking it might be linked to the drug it ' s self . Complicating the fuck out of things , you will hear from one source that gaba causes no withdrawals , and the next source will say it ' s awful be extremely careful . My pain management doc scoffed at my theory , my pharmacist thought it to be without a doubt the culprit and urged caution getting off . Bottom line is only you know how it ' s impacting you ! Long story short , I started reading and looking more into the side effects of gaba and fully believe it to be principally responsible for the bout of depression I dealt with concurrent to taking it . Morbid thoughtsdepression etc . which I had never experienced before , and haven ' t since eventually did go away , but there was about a month of tapering off I tapered over ~ 6 weeks , started a bit too quick before eventually finding the pace that my body liked for me where I had good days and bad days . Gabapentin was a real bear , more so than I ever realized while taking it . Getting off of it , despite a huge pain resurgence and having to finally accept ' defeat ' and seek narcotics so I can sleep through the night , has been the best decision of my young life . I wish you the best of luck and urge you to pay attention to the way your feeing , and most of all , be kind to yourself ! !