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 |
| 4 | Sensory Neuropathic Cough | Hair falling out at rapid rate; weight gain (40 pounds in 7 months and that is with daily assertive exercise; at times forgetful; Low energy for sure but still had enough to do things like 70 miles a week long distance bike riding until the pain in toes and calves began. **this has begun to rapidly decrease as my dosage has decreased the last 2 weeks. Possible hyperness at times as some have observed in my behavior. DO NOT drink alcohol while on this drug. | OFF LABEL USE - Took 900mg every 8 hours (2700mg) for the first 6 months. Have begun to decrease the last month VERY SLOWLY - 600mg every 8 hours during day and 900mg at bedtime. After 2 weeks of this decrease began 300mg every 8 hours and then 600mg at bedtime for this week and next. Then will do 300mg every 8 hours total of 900mg per 24hrs. Aim is to be off totally to see how the chronic cough is. For now, there has been little change since decreasing doseage except my feet no longer ache (side affect?). Dr. is using this RX as off label. Sensory neuropathic cough - have had a dry chronic cough for 5 years. They put me on everything to help solve problem. I did find much relief from using Gabapentin - about 90% improvement. I hope to go completely off this rx in the next month. Do not like taking it and believe it has helped my cough. But, wondering if cough could be something else... will know in the next couple of months. If cough returns to 100% of the time, literally was, then I will most likely return to Rx. Standing in faith and prayer. | F | 50 | 7.5 months | 12/3/2009 | 4 | spinal stenosis | After reading side effects from others I now understand my hair loss and extreme weight loss. I thought something was wrong with me. | Works well, but I've lost so much weight. Not good. Hair was midway my back, now its less than midway my neck | F | 50 | 5 months 900 mg | 3/21/2015 | 4 | severe leg damage due to car wreck | Side Effects: I often feel off-balance, my body seems to just "hang a right". I have trouble concentrating at times, word retrieval is often difficult. I also fall asleep during the day, without warning. (don't drive) But then at night, I can't seem to feel sleepy until way past my normal bedtime. Usually however when I do fall asleep I sleep hard for 5 hours or so. | Neurontin has been a godsend to me, personally. It has greatly reduced daily pain, though it does little or nothing for event-induced pain (Such as 'doing too much', turning my leg incorrectly' and even bad weather symptoms). I am currently taking 3200 mg per day (800 mg 4 times daily). Due to a prescription error, I was without the med for 5 days... the pain then returned with a vengence. Would be very afraid to come off this medication quickly, if at all. Doctor has prescriped 50 mg Nortriptyline to be taken with the last dose per day... Not sure why, but ?? The dosage may be increased next month to a maximum of 3600 mg daily (900 mg x 4)with an additional increase to 75 mgs of nightly Nortriptyline. Doctor says after that we will have to look at alternative meds or procedures (whatever that means... LOL ) | F | 50 | 6 months | 9/29/2008 | 3 | leg numbness/tingling | At 600 and then 900 mg/day, very slight memory problems and mixing up letters and words. When starting and increasing dose, drowsiness & dizziness, but these faded to quite mild within a couple of days. In summary, pretty mild effects compared to some other drugs I've taken, though my dose is fairly low. | I'm not yet sure how much this is helping my leg pain/numbness/tingling (secondary to a spine injury) because these things improved somewhat while taking oral steroids just before starting the Neurontin. The improvement has held while I've been on the Neurontin. I'll have a better idea of the benefit when I further increase the dose (as my doc recommended), or when I someday taper off and quit. | M | 50 | 45 days | 9/19/2009 | 3 | nerve pain - cubital tunnel | numb lips, drowsiness, dizziness, trouble thinking, clumsiness | I can only take at night(300mg) and have to have a lot of coffee in the morning to wake up...I only take when I have a flare up...as needed for the last 5 yrs. Not on it daily. | F | 50 | 5 years | 1/3/2009 | 3 | Not sure | I started sleeping for several days at a time, I take other meds. Ativan 0.5, trazodone 50mg...I sleep a few days in a row, I pray to die everyday.I'm so depressed and I look awful..I can't go on like this much longer before I throw in the ---! | I get depressed when I try to stop..I will then take more and sleep another few days.. | F | 50 | 9 months 200 mg | 12/7/2015 | 3 | Not sure | I started sleeping for several days at a time, I take other meds. Ativan 0.5, trazodone 50mg...I sleep a few days in a row, I pray to die everyday.I'm so depressed and I look awful..I can't go on like this much longer before I throw in the ---! | I get depressed when I try to stop..I will then take more and sleep another few days.. | F | 50 | 9 months 200 mg | 12/7/2015 | 3 | Migraine | Heart Palpitations; muscle pain; stiff joints; fatigue; hand tremors. | M | 50 | 2 years 500 MG | 8/29/2014 | 3 | M | 50 | 9 months | 6/21/2007 | 3 | F | 50 | 2 months | 12/23/2001 | 3 | lyme disease pain | none | F | 50 | 14 days | 12/6/2002 | 2 | menopause related neuropathy | sedation, sleepy, can't get out of bed. Now, on it a week, my skin is itching like crazy and I will have to stop. | On a low, low dose, 10mg/day, and it has helped the pain although not as dramatically as nortryptaline did. Very sedating, and I can't deal with the skin itch. | F | 50 | 5 days | 1/31/2005 | 2 | Trigeminal neuralgia/ATFP | drugged,brain fog,lack of focus | dosage raised to 2400 mgs/day; did not help with pain on left side of face; too many side effects; not worth taking since it did not help pain | F | 50 | 2 years | 5/4/2005 | 1 | pain management and menoapause | This in my opinion is a very dangerous drug. I thought at first it might be helping. Looking back over my chart I realize as I increased the dose, my menopause symptoms actually got worse. I began to experience physical depression; fatigue and inability to cope. After four months on it i began to increase the dose on the advice of poorly informed doctors. I began to develop somnalence; swelling of my hands; ataxia; tinnitus and decreased immune system. Saddly, despite my complaints my doctor(s) failed to recognize the connection between the drug and the side effects. Eventually I just was not coping emotionally and psychologically. As Doctor Tom Perry says from the Therapeutics Initiative this drug can in some of us cause brain toxicity and it is hard to describe what is really going on. As I came off I too am experiencing nausea -- and sore stomache. I unfortunately came off too quickly which I would not recommend at all -- I crashed psychologically -- which felt very scary -- I am no | F | 50 | 10 months 1600 mg 1X day | 4/9/2010 | 1 | Lower back pain- spondylosis | Tired, bad dreams,severe loss of memory, falls, no sex drive, hiding things | I could not remember the names of things, and would get easily irritated. I cut my arm with a knife, busted a door, hid things from myself and my husband,got in terrible arguments, and could not remember paying the bills. I sent out bills without checks in them and paid some of them twice. My poor husband almost went crazy. I stopped taking this without asking my Dr. because even after my cutting episode she wanted me to take more. I don't think my brain is right and it has been about 30 days since taking any of it. I would rather have the pain and not so sure it worked anyway.I can't work.Who would have a crazy person who can't remember anything work in their law office? I have had many falls, and have broken both my arms as a result of two of the falls. | F | 50 | 7 months 200mg 3X day | 7/8/2010 | 1 | CRPS | Weight gain, memory loss, no sex drive, depression, anxiety, sweats, | When you don't feel 6 abscess in your mouth leaking poison into your body, how many other issues does this medication coverup? no pain relief, off this med now, last pill 1 week ago and pain no worse or better than when on it. Will try natural therapies, never touching this stuff again | F | 50 | 3 days 300 4X day | 12/8/2010 | 1 | Migraines, sciatica, fibromyalgia | Horrible headaches. Dizziness. Loss of ability to read or make sense of written words. Confusion. Couldn't wake up. No longer could drive. Too sleepy to leave the house or get dressed. I didn't have any of these symptoms before starting this drug. Didn't notice any improvement of nerve pain and had a migraine every day on this drug as compared to once every week or two prior to starting this drug. | Horrible drug | F | 50 | 2 weeks 2X day | 1/28/2012 | 1 | chronic knee pain | woorsening of depression, anxiety, irratibility, aggression and wild mood swings. | I don't believe it was worth the side effects for the little pain relief I got from the drug. I think it depends on what you're taking it for and the other meds you're on. I'm also taking buphrenorphine (suboxone) for pain and it's awesome. I take 10mg of flexeril 2 or 3 times daily as needed. | M | 50 | 2 weeks 300 3X day | 7/24/2012 | 1 | Peripheral neuropathy from Taxol | trouble recalling words, foggy feeling | After 2 weeks, dose was increased to 1200 mg/day. I developed swelling in hands and feet, severe bronchitis and shortness of breath. I read these are both side effects. My internist and oncology doctor are not relating it to the Gabapentin. I am taking myself off of it, gradually, of course. | F | 50 | 22 days | 3/1/2009 | 5 | mood swings | dizziness, sleepiness | it has worked very well for myself and my sister | F | 49 | 4 years | 7/11/2005 |