I worked up to a dose of 900 mg of Gabapentin 3x/day for about 6 months. I did have a side effect of some weight gain (sugar craving!!) but that was it. Unfortunately it never really helped my myofascial pain or fibro. I switched to Lyrica 300 mg/day a few months ago. Only side effect is constipation.
Ionic compounds are compounds made up of ions. These ions are atoms that gain or lose electrons, giving them a net positive or negative charge. Metals tend to lose electrons, so they become cations and have a net positive charge. Nonmetals tend to gain electrons, forming anions that have a net negative charge.
These bonds form between atoms that generally have fairly close electronegativities to one another, though there are exceptions. Ionic bonds are attractions formed when one atom gives up an electron, becoming positively charged, or a cation, and another accepts the electron, becoming negatively charged, or an anion. The attraction of a negative charge to a positive charge creates the ionic bond, and ionic compounds are commonly called salts.