NEURONTIN Reviews (GABAPENTIN)Average Rating: 2.9 (919 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NEURONTIN with similar:
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RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NEURONTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
5 | pain | none | M | 84 | 30 days | 2/26/2005 | 1 | Shingles Pain | Drug caused tremors and drunken like behavior. Stopped taking it after 9 days and now trapped in withdrawals that are causing severe chest pain and hypertension. | Can't get any help, no one wants to admit the withdrawals from this drug can cause such pain. I'm 84 already suffering from CHF and COPD. I couldn't go back on it and taper because it slowed my breathing. There is an FDA warning about this just came out. No one will help or admit responsibility. | F | 84 | 9 days 100 mg 3X day | 12/30/2019 | 4 | Pain following back injury | Memory loss to the extreme. Balance problem exacerbated. Spent more time sleeping. | Worked really well at making pain bearable and greatly improved my quality of life. | F | 83 | 17 days 200 2X day | 7/14/2010 | 1 | Spinal stenosis pain | Took at night and sedating effects lasted throughout the next day. Disoriented at night and heightened confusion in my mom with slight dementia | Would not recommend use in the elderly | F | 83 | 5 months 100 mg | 6/1/2019 | 4 | trigeminal neuralgia | It helps my nerve pain but it keeps me from having an emission. | M | 82 | | 6/11/2008 | 1 | BECAME VERY DEPRESSED ALMOST SUICIDAL. STILL HAVING BAD EFECTS FROM IT, AFTER STOPPING IT OVER 2 MONTHS AGO. | HOW DO i GET BACK TO NORMALITY. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE .THIS DRUG HAS RUINED THIS YEAR FOR ME. | F | 81 | 5 months 600 3X day | 11/5/2010 | 1 | diabetic nurotophy | my father took neurontin for 2.5 year. He had severe mood swings, fell over things, very depressed, committed suicide on april 18, 2003. gun shot wound to head | this is a very powerful drug. I know with in my heart that this drug distroyed my father. He was a retired police officer and my heart. I watched this drug distroy him. He had a stroke, heart attack, had to have his left kidney removed all after taking neurontin. | M | 80 | 900 days | 8/20/2005 | 1 | Leg pain | Where to start? Was prescribed for elderly (but very independent pre Neurontin) father. Pain escalated severely. Added pain where there was none before Neurontin. Confusion. All kinds of mental/mood/sleep problems that were NON EXISTANT prior to taking. What a bad drug this was. Wow! | My 80 year old father was taking this. Within one day, he was a different person. For the worse. Confusion, mood changes and his pain went from moderately bad to off the charts crippling in just one week on this med. Suddenly he couldnt even drive a car (pain and brain). Could barely stand up. He was bedbound within 4 days of this 'miracle' drug. Just wiped him out in every way, physically and mentally. I'd be very careful with this med, esp. for the elderly but even if younger. It's potent and when I tried to take him off after just one week, wow, he fell apart even more for about 5-6 harrowing days. I guess these were withdrawls, after only 1 week? He had sudden severe headaches when coming off. Disoriented, agitated, couldn't sleep a wink. He had NONE of these before the drug. None. He was a mess. Scary scary stuff. | M | 80 | 7 days | 6/29/2006 | 4 | Back surgery, general pain | None imparticular. Other meds are partially to blame. | I must be sure to get a little walk every day and eat on schedule. Very helpful in coping with stress, nerve pain, migraines. | F | 78 | 2 years 300mg 3X day | 9/7/2011 | 3 | trigeminal neuralgia | No side effects | this medicine has helped somewhat but still have some pain so now the Doctor has added Vicoprofen to take when pain is severe | F | 77 | 3 years 400 mg 3X day | 6/25/2011 | 3 | sciatic pain | After only 1 week, Neurontin, at 300 mg a day, helped relieve my troublesome sciatic thigh pain, but I began to feel muddle-brained and impatient. Took myself off after only 23 days, because instead of my usual 'sweetness' I was becoming very impatient especially with my dear husband, 'treating him like a little child', as he expressed it. His darling bride of 48 years was suddenly just not very nice. I considered what he said and realized I was snapping at him numerous times a day because I was just plain annoyed with him and what he said. Now after a week off the pills, I am back to my normal pleasant self he says. | F | 76 | 23 days 2X day | 6/10/2012 | 1 | No appetite, tremors,anxiety, restlessness,sweating,cold, not sleeping,increased pain,stomach pain, feel like I'm shaking inside | Am now down to 500mg daily after months .but not feeling any better.no energy at all | F | 76 | 6 years | 3/17/2016 | 2 | sciatica, leg pain and tingling | brain fog and dizziness | Decided to give neurontin a second try after my first experience several months ago. No different this time. Took 300 mg at night after 10 hrs of sleep I can barely function.Was prescribed 1-3 caps per night. Can't imagine taking 3, I'd be comotose.I know I should give this drug more than 2 days to work, but I'm not willing to feel like a zombie while it does the job. I know this drug works for others including 2 of my friends who have been on it for years, but unfortunately it's not for me | F | 75 | 2 days | 10/22/2009 | 2 | Trigeminal Neuralgia | I keep gaining weight, feel tired after a night's sleep, hungry all the time, stumble and nearly fall often, brain's in a fog, sleepy most of the time. I was on 900mg and told Dr. I could not take it; he said take 2 at night; couldn't do that either, so I cut myself back to 1 at night and still feel bad! Have had this pain for 25 yrs & have decided I'd rather have the pain (& that's really saying something!) than this drug! | This is the third time I've been put on this drug and it gets worse each time. | F | 75 | 5 months | 7/30/2006 | 1 | Neuropathy | All of the bad side effects mentioned earlier except suicidal, bu thoughts there at times. It has really affected my hearing and I can barely converse with anyone any more. Had i known it could do this, I never would have started it. I am trying very hard to stop it with bad withdrawals. | Horrible, horrible chemical! | F | 75 | 2 years 200 mg 3X day | 2/4/2015 | 4 | RLS | Word finding difficulties and now after increasing my dosage several times I get a little groggy in late afternoon but have had to increase dosage over several years as I seem to build up resistance. | I could not take Mirapex or Requip. I had terrible side effects from both. After many years finally getting some sleep. A little concerned about having to increase drug so much. Also taking phenobarbital and clonazapam to get me settled. | F | 74 | 10 years | 8/12/2007 | 3 | Back surgery - Lumbar Fusion | Hardly any. Very mild off balance or light-headedness | M | 74 | 9 months 300 3X day | 11/20/2010 | 5 | fibromyalgia | Occasional dry mouth which is easily diminished by drinking plenty of liquids during the day. Which, of course, is what we should be doing anyway. BTW, I take the generic form. Gabapentin. | After slowly raising the dosage as indicated above over six month period, along with the inclusion of paxil and later cymbalta, the fibromyalgia and arthritic pain was and is easily controlled. I had pain and discomfort most of my life until I went on this regimen at age 48. | F | 73 | 25 years 1600 MG 2X day | 11/5/2013 | 4 | neuropathic pain in legs | Puffy feet, swollen ankles, swollen calves | F | 73 | 10 years 1200mgs 3X day | 5/28/2015 | 3 | Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia | I'm taking the lowest dose, 100mg as needed. Reason is my age, plus I tend to have bad reactions to all meds. I'm being very careful with this and probably not taking enough to do me any good. I've taken it off and on as needed. | I need to talk with someone who has facial pain or Atypical trigeminal neuralgia. I am so miserable, and can't function well at all in recent weeks. I've had it for about 8 years, and in the past it has flared up and then subsided. It doesn't seem to be going away this time, but is getting worse. Please email me if you have this problem. I need to try something else, Anyone - let me know if you tried Lyrica? Right now I only take Neurontin and Ativan. | F | 73 | 2 months | 3/18/2008 |
NEURONTIN (GABAPENTIN): Gabapentin is used with other medications to prevent and control seizures. It is also used to relieve nerve pain following shingles (a painful rash due to herpes zoster infection) in adults. Gabapentin is known as an anticonvulsant or antiepileptic drug. FDA Approval Date: 1993-12-30 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)