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 | Herniated discs, sciatica pain leg | Tired, weight gain, memory loss, moody, depressed, and loss of patients. | Seemed like the miracle drug for the sciatica pain. I could not walk or do anything. Started with 300mg went to 400mg four times a day. Have had surgery for back as well. I have been dosing down for past five months with side effects. My moods have been really bad and feeling depressed. Has anyone else had simliar problems? I am now down to almost no doses and feel better physically. I have begun to loss the 15 or so pounds that I put on. I would use with caution. | M | 37 | 3.5 years | 5/21/2007 | 4 | fibromyalgia (neuralgia) | None noticed - rather than weight gain, though, I'm usually able to lose weight when I'd like and I've found it impossible. Could be this or the concurrent tramadol. | Using this in conjunction w/tramadol to reduce body pain: tramadol handled the joint & body pain, but not the neuralgia, which neurontin does. | F | 37 | 1 years | 9/16/2004 | 4 | Neuralgia | Memory loss, weight gain, nausea (if late on dose). | I continue to take neurontin, as the pain I was in was absolutely debilitating, and I am now out of pain (most of the time). I'm ok with working out extra to combat the weight gain, and I only have the nausea waves if I'm more than a few hours late taking a dose. I am most concerned about the memory loss. I've always had a very sharp mind and incredible memory intellectually and visually. That is truly gone from me now. I have to set alarms and write notes to remind myself of everything. | F | 37 | 1 months 300mg 3X day | 11/8/2010 | 3 | bipolar | blurred vision, headache, severe pain in back of neck, migraine like symptoms, shoulder ache | Psychiatrist said there were NO SIDE EFFECTS to this drug. After taking one day I experienced the stated side effects. I went back to the doctor and he insist that the things I experienced are not because of this drug. I welcome feedback see email. | F | 37 | 2 days | 5/13/2004 | 3 | pysic med | none | it seems to be helping with my mood changes.overall i fill alot better :o) | M | 37 | 10 days | 7/10/2003 | 3 | L4 L5 stenosis, severe sciatica | Night sweats, twitching, nausea, diarrhea, INSOMNIA, missed period, hyperactive | I am on Neurontin 600 mg TID (3 times/day) for pre/post op Laminectomy. Was having severe sciatic nerve pain that put me in hospital twice so I was put on this and 50mcg Fentanyl patch. Though these drugs helped the pain, the side effects/withdrawl symptoms are horrendous. I'm a nurse and was always led to believe Neurontin was a "safe" drug. I am weaning now and cannot sleep along with above listed side-effects. Anyone weaning or just weaned from this? | F | 37 | 3 months | 5/8/2007 | 3 | Tarsal Tunnel syndrome | I get really dizzy and I feel like a pin ball in a pin ball machine trying to walk everytime they up my dose. After a day or two it goes away, but its so bad if I miss a dose or if I have my dose upped that I can't drive or anything. | I noticed that I seem happier taking it. I guess it works as an antidepressant too. It helps the really bad pain but it doesn't take it all away. All my nerves in my foot are entrapped and they are damaged. | F | 37 | 6 months | 6/3/2005 | 3 | Peripheral Neuropathy -non diabetic | Memory loss (went from 4.0 college student to a 3.0) and that in only 8 short weeks. I cannot remember jack sh*t. Laziness, weakness in the entire body. Zero sex drive. Dizziness, blurred vision, moments of binging for sweets (Never done that before prior to this medication) | I began taking this drug 4 months ago. I started out at 200mg every 8 hours which was near impossible to keep up with. I had funny dizzy type feelings at first then it went away. I was fine pain gone, then pain back, doc upped me to 600mg every 12hrs. Ok pain gone, now I cannot remember anything. NOTHING! I ask people things twice then ask again. My college classes are getting so difficult I cannot hardly do it. I was a 4.0 student! Not anymore. I haven't gained any weight, but have no sex life period any longer. I get strange feelings that come over me, insomnia you name it. While the pain is gone it isn't worth it I have to find something else. I check out lyrica and cymbalta and I am terrified of them too! | F | 37 | 4 months | 10/8/2009 | 2 | Back,neck pain and Fybromyalgia | memory,concentration,functioning,motor skills,balance,dry mouth,decrease appetite:-),speech, tired spells,sleeplessness and libido:-( | similar to the Lyrica family but a bit less potent so far? I am still currently taken Gaba going on a month now so i'm hoping symptoms subside or i will have to wean myself of this one too unfortunately? | F | 37 | 26 days | 6/23/2008 | 2 | shoulder/arm pain C6&7 slip discs | hot, red, dry face; constipation & diarrhoea; unpleasant taste in mouth | Update...I still have all the side-effects previously mentioned, but now I also have constipation (and random bouts of explosive diarrhoea!), an annoyingly red face that feels sun-burnt (so red, that my friends have commented on it) - I wasn't sure if I had become sun-senisitive or if it is a kind of rash, so I have been wearing high-factor sunscreen with no difference so I conclude it's a kind of rash. I have a horrible chemical taste in my mouth that is present even while I am eating. I wake up every morning totally exhausted, so I think there is very little benefit from taking this drug. I am finding it impossible to do my job too, which is in turn causing even more anxiety and depression....I think I preferred working in agony and only getting a few hours' sleep a night. | F | 37 | 3 weeks 300mg 3X day | 9/23/2010 Patient History | 2 | chronic pain | In the beginning mild dry eye and feeling thirsty a lot. Starting around 300mg/day, started feeling 'spaced out' and heavily tranquilized, dizzy, hungry, difficult to concentrate at work, and worst of all: depression. Felt sad and tearful and had no control over these emotions. Very unlike me. I was at 700mg/day when I decided to wean off. | The side effects affected my work and sense of well-being. It was NOT worth waiting to see if they would wear off. I know some folks who take 3600mg/day and are perfectly fine. I guess I'm sensitive to it. | F | 37 | 7 weeks 200-300 3X day | 6/17/2011 | 2 | seizures | Can not do more than one task at a time. I forget EVERYTHING!!! Sometimes I think things are moving that my husband says aren't. I have had loose stool since I started the medicine. I can not ever seem to catch my breath and I am a bit more easily irritated. It has not controlled my seizures. Weight loss is IMPOSSIBLE!!! | F | 37 | 3 months 100mg 2X day | 4/5/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | Dear God... This stuff made me stoned out of my mind in only a 200mg dose. No way, I can even function on this stuff. | M | 37 | 1 days 200mg 1X day | 8/30/2010 | 1 | Fibromyalgia pain | Worked a little for pain in beginning but then I began feeling very nutty and had terrible homicidal/suicidal thoughts and mood swings. I became a different person. I hated being on it | F | 37 | 2 months | 2/7/2012 | 1 | panic / anxiety | Uncontrollable shaking, almost like a seizure, scared my husband and me to death, called ambulance, but was ok in about 2 hours | Only took once, worse drug ever taken, will not take again. Very scary | F | 37 | 1 days | 11/21/2007 | 1 | Migraines | Intense anger, easily triggered, Thoughts about self harm and harming others. Disassociation during some episodes | F | 37 | 30 days 900mg 1X day | 4/11/2015 | 1 | neuropathic pain | At first I didn't feel any difference with the pain. I still don't think it helped at all. I began getting easily agitated by little things, mood swings and depression. I would feel normal then as stated in prior sentence. I stopped taking it:the side effects are too worrisome, especially at such a low dose. | I would caution anyone taking this to be vigilant in monitoring yourself. Any symptoms you never had prior to taking gabapentin, take them into serious consideration -they may be your first sign of problems with side effects. Trust yourself in your judgement, do not wait and second guess yourself. Left unheeded, the side effects will get worse in some people. | F | 37 | 1 months 300 mg | 2/20/2016 | 1 | I have chronic back and neck pain | I am not taking it it makes me sick and worse then I was I would not recommend drugs to any one try vitamin and herbal remedies all Dr's want to do is kill people that's why they give you drugs I throw all mine away | M | 37 | 2 days 300mg | 7/20/2014 | 1 | For nerve pain | Insomnia, burning skin, extreme head aches, blacking out, became suicidial have never been in my life. Black box warning on it for that. I never believed that could really happen but I ended up being the 1 in 500 it's estimated that it happen to. | I guess this is a good med for a lot of people but not for me. When I first started taking it 100mg 3x daily and decreased 100mg a week. The first week I was so dizzy and would sleep nonstop then the insomnia started I stopped sleeping it is now 7 months later and I sleep 1-3 hours a night before taking it I never had any issue with sleep. As I was weening off my skin started burning and itching the head aches got so severe that I would just hold my head for hours. The worst part was fixation on suicide these feelings were so strong I couldn't believe I was having them. I never suffered from any mental illness in my life. But I still would tell myself there's noway I would ever do that. What happened next would change my life for ever. I guess I was in the mixed of a black out because it was never plained and I don't remember to this day but I ended up hanging myself the cord broke I was told and was on life support for 4 days remembering none of it. Medicines affect people in different ways and it did me very wrong but it may work every well for some people. I know now to take black box warnings serious now because before I did think twice about them. Well that's my story god bless. | M | 37 | 3 weeks 300 | 12/8/2014 | 5 | sciatica | Mild drowsiness | It helps me so much. I love it | F | 36 | 1 years 300 mgs | 11/9/2014 |