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 |
| 3 | heavy head feeling in the morning, constipation, some bad dreams. | I think it's helpful for some of my pain and to help me sleep longer at night. Before I started taking this drug, I could only sleep a couple of hours at a time without waking up in pain. However, I still have to take my pain medication with the Neurontin. | F | 52 | 1 years 300mg 3X day | 5/13/2012 | 2 | arm/hand pain c5 discectomy | A little tired but nothing compared to most of the posts | It has done nothing for me. I have been taking for 6 months with current dosage at 3200-3600 /day. No noticalbe pain relief or really any other side effects. Sleep good at night though | M | 52 | 6 months | 1/23/2007 | 2 | anxiety, replace prozac | dry mouth, weight gain (35 pounds in 1 year) back reaction with alcohol, sexual disfunction, changed from nightime and now see the others problems. tired, no motivation to do anything, agoraphobic, and lots more... | 600mg... no longer helps with original problem of panic attacks. feel like suing doctors. | M | 52 | 15 months | 1/14/2007 | 2 | anxiety, replace prozac | dry mouth, weight gain (35 pounds in 1 year) back reaction with alcohol, sexual disfunction, changed from nightime and now see the others problems. tired, no motivation to do anything, agoraphobic, and lots more... | 600mg... no longer helps with original problem of panic attacks. feel like suing doctors. | M | 52 | 15 months | 1/14/2007 | 2 | Fibromyalgia?, Diabetic | extreme pain and full feeling in ankles, knees (especially), elbows and wrists, shooting pains down legs and feet, and from elbows to fingertips,vivid dreams, crying when waking up from dream almost nightly, frequent urination (almost nightly), tachycardia, changing of clothes nightly one to two times, most recent symptom bleeding from vaginal area | I originally started taking this about a month and a half ago 300 mg 3 capsules at nighttime for general achy flu like aching all over my body. well this drug has resolved that problem, but the problems listed above have all occurred since taking neurontin about six weeks ago. The biggest one that my doctor's have noticed is that my heart rate has increased from 80 something to 135. Gave blood two weeks before started taking neurontin, and my heart rate was ok, not even mentioined. since then have had two or three doctors mention the fast rate of my heart, spent seven hours in emergency room (told to go there by my endocrinologist) and had almost every test imaginable, which came back normal, and all I received afterwards was that they didn't know what was causing my fast heart rate, and to have my endo check to see if could be my meds causing it. Went to give blood a few days ago, and was almost disqualified because my heart rate was too high. The pain that I was having before w | F | 52 | 45 days | 9/7/2008 | 1 | Upbeat downbeat nystagmus | Because of Neurontin now I have neuropathy | Demonic drug | F | 52 | 2 months 900 millig | 6/28/2016 | 1 | Upbeat downbeat nystagmus | Because of Neurontin now I have neuropathy | Demonic drug | F | 52 | 2 months 900 millig | 6/28/2016 | 1 | Off label mood stabilizer,nerve pai | Rash, insomnia for years, I eventually became a vegetable In pain. Lost memory, motor skills, slurred speech, forgetting words, dizzy, I cared about nothing & lived in pain as my true diagnosis was not addressed. I'm learning to live again. | I suffered double PE's. I had not been feeling well prior. Months later I returned to normal activities, but I had a lot of chest pain, leg pain, my Dr. Insisted on antidepressants which I vehemently refused. As an end result, he suggested neurontin as he believed I was having fantom symptoms, then added it may calm me down also. I really never thought more of it. When another Dr. Weaned me off, it was like waking up from a coma and my life ruined. Not at all worth the risk! We are vigilant in Rx/OTC med side affects, this snuck up on us in a BIG way. I hate it, I'm angry, my legit problem was ignored. I believe he was simply tired of me. | F | 52 | 4 years Max 3X day | 8/10/2016 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | Nervous, muscle spasms in arms and hands, fog-like mental state. | F | 52 | 2 months | 7/17/2004 | 1 | To Help nerve pain post L4/5 Fusion | Developed severe joint swelling and pain in hands, fingers, wrists, ankles, knees and hips. Got so bad I could do nothing, I just wanted to scream. | This was not a posted side effect, my doctor had not heard of this, nor could he find anything about it in the PDR. The effect went away as soon as I stopped taking it. He contacted the company and they told him that it was such a rare side effect that it wasn't worth putting on the warning label. My Doctor suggested that they think about that a little more as this effect is very serious when it does happen. This was 8 years ago. I will not and have not taken it since, and would not recommend it to anyone I know. Just the fact that THEY decided that this side effect was rare did't make it any less disabling. I was disabled enough from a failed spinal fusion, I didn't need their help in making the pain I already had to endure worse. | F | 52 | 10 days | 1/25/2008 | 1 | chronic pain in my back | I wake up feeling 50 lbs. heavier. My back feels like a truck ran over me. Tired all day. No enthusiasm. My pain has increased by 100%. I have to take more of my normal pain med.s just to be able to move around. I spend more time in bed on my back than ever. Normally when I lay down I feel no pain, But now I'm hurting alot while laying down. The first coulple of days I was feeling much better - by the 5th day I was miserable and have been ever since. I refuse to take this drug any more. This is unactceptable to feel this lethargic. I'm angry at my doctor for not informing me of these potentional side effects. I do know of a natural product that has amazeing healing properties and will not have anyone. Its an antioxident - the second highest in pureity and is only developed in Europe. I've seen living proof of some amazeing things it WILL DO! Its known as the TRUE FOUNTAIN of YOUTH. The write ups on this product you take daily in a capsule (have to take a certain mg. at least - never been any, and I mean any adverse write ups. I have taken it for years and I can attest to it. Email me and I will tell you where to find it. Its not expensive. AND, you can read absolutely everything written about it. One little secret about it is that I have never been sick in the last 7 years. Even when I have stopped it for a while and then started back up. It reverses the ageing process from the inside out. Arthritis and DJD (degenerative joint diease, etc. PS: I've had a career in the med | F | 52 | 1 weeks 600/daily | 12/25/2011 | 5 | Osteoarthritis | Weight gain - about 25 pounds in less than a year - wobbly, fatigue, skin dry on hands and feet. Achy feet in morning. | Worked terrific on my pain but don't like the weight gain. Can't really say I am eating more; in fact I am skipping meals. I am craving sweets but am not overdoing it. | F | 51 | 9 months | 8/18/2005 | 5 | Chronic neck pain | A little drowsy, had frequent, amazing flashback memories from my childhood. Relieved the pain long enough so my body could heal on its own. Took this medication years ago when they first started prescribing it for symptoms other than seizures. Have not had the severe neck pain since. | 51 | 1 months low | 12/1/2011 | 5 | Refered pain from cervical spine | Anxiety and insomina if medication is forgotten. Normal level personality becomes agressive at the littlist provocation. Normally no side effects. | Love the pain stopping power of Neurontin. Combined with a good physical therapist, neurontin, is a wonderful relief from the terrible pain I was suffering. | M | 51 | 3 months 600 3X day | 12/6/2010 | 5 | Tri-geminal neuralgia | some light headedness, mild balance problem, hypomanic thought process bordering on euphoria immediately after dosing. 300 mgs 3x per day | The skin senisitivity in my scalp and face which was a pre-curser to the pulsating electric shock type pain in my face disappeared over night. Once the senistivity of my skin goes away I know I will not have a full blown episode. I also had a problem with weakness in my right tricep muscle, since starting Neurontin both arms feel like they have equal strength again. | M | 51 | 7 days | 12/21/2006 | 5 | Migraine | None that I can tell. | After suffering from nearly non-stop migraines the last 2 years, my neurologist had me try neurontin 6 months ago. It has been a miracle drug for me. I started with 400mg 3 times per day and within 2 days my migraines were gone. I can now take 400mg just once or twice per day to keep my headaches away. Prior to this my neurologist tried most traditional migraine medication plus i took tylenol 4. | M | 51 | 6 months | 3/14/2008 | 5 | Severe Anxiety / Depression | Increased energy, mood stability, decreased anxiety | I usually would be reluctant to review a medication after only three weeks but the benefit for me in terms of anxiety reduction, has been immediate and quite amazing in comparison to various benzos used in the past. My social anxiety and depression had reached a level that was disabling...at times I found it difficult to move. The first dosage made me feel a little tipsy (so I thought ) but actually I was just experiencing massive relief. I am attempting to take as low a dosage as possible to avoid any potential side effects - cannot afford any additional weight gain that other meds have caused. I'm cautiously optimistic and keeping my fingers crossed. | F | 51 | 3 weeks 300 mg. 2X day | 2/22/2015 | 5 | Proctalgia fugax, bunion pain, ibs- | Dry mouth, double vision | I increased the dose to 300mg a day. I also take 195mg trimipramine and 5 mg amitriptyline. I have cfs/ME since having severe viral infection 3 decades ago. Constant urgency has been very distressing. Been on numerous gut meds but this helps the most. I notice I am calmer. Still anxious about travel in case the bowels go.hopefully this will lessen over time. I now have some control over when I go. If I take a couple of cups of tea I end up going to the loo. Prior to gabapentin I was going numerous times a day and had to be very careful about what I eat. I can also eat a bigger range of foods without having to run to the loo. | M | 51 | 10 months 100 3X day | 11/16/2017 | 4 | Mastectomy Nerve Pain | Horrible trying to get off this drug. Extreme mood swings since tapering dosage down slowly. Currently down to 100mg 3xd with crying/depression/nervousness. I had problems years ago, like this, trying to get off an SRI, so I know the symptoms. | This drug did work for my nerve pain following bilateral mastectomies. After 3 weeks of intense pain following my surgery, was put on 100mg to take every few hours up to 900mg a day. The side effects were tough, most talked about already. Yet my pain was worse, so put up with it. Now that nerve pain has decreased, I want to get off of this but not easy because of increased side effects. Which probably means this drug has addictive tendencies. | F | 51 | 6 months | 1/2/2010 | 4 | neuropathy most of body | Dizziness, sleepiness, loss of short term memory, cotton mouth, weakness (at higher dosages), blurred vision | I hated the side effects when I first started (at 300 mg x 3 pr/day). I was feeling that it was doing more harm than good. My family saw the same thing. Then I noticed that it was actually starting to help (my feet can get so painful that I couldn't walk) and became willing to increase dosage. I should add that I take 15 mg x 3 of morphine and they really work well together for me. I still have a lot of bad days but the good days are increasing. I've had a couple of times that my pharmacy held my 'script and I have run out and it's intense, even with morphine. I realize that this is something that I'm probably taking for life. And I don't have a problem with that. | M | 51 | 10 months up to 3600 4X day | 2/13/2011 |