G@bapentin/preg@balin for anxiety?

[durango]

this is the first i've heard of gab or pregab used for behavioral health issues. i've gone through my fair share of psych cocktails for BP2 and have settled in on a mix that includes 3mg risperadol before bedtime for my anxiety-stayed away fron benz0s by choice. recently had shingles and am now dealing with PHN-Post Herpetic Neurolgia-and was prescribed gab for the pain. 2 weeks of 300mg x 3 a day and didn't so a thing. no euphoria, no pick me up feeling-nothing and certainly no pain relief. Dr then put me on gaba 150mg x 3 a day-same thing-no pain relief but BEWARE-it changed my personality and certainly led to suicidal thoughts, idiation and actual preparation for the act. people react differently to different meds and this is how i reacted to pregab. am staying as far away from it as possible, on Tegratol now...another anticonvulsent and it seems to be helping one kind of pain you get with PHN. but as for gab and pregab...uh-uh, no way. also didn't suffer any withdrawals at all after 5 weeks of taking the 2 and stopping cold turkey. but like i said...different folks react differently to the same meds.