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 | Leg Pain due to disc problems | Sleepiness | Take it at night-helps to sleep! | F | 27 | 2 years | 10/7/2006 | 4 | Anxiety and Fibromyalgia nerve pain | Fatigue, gained five pounds, increased carb craving, some minor delay on orgasm, short term memory issues (hard to find the right word) | F | 27 | 8 months 100mg 4X day | 12/25/2015 | 4 | fibromialgia | blurred vision | i recently was diagnosed with fibromialgia a few months ago, and i have been taking 600mg 3 times a day. it has helped a lot with my burning pain that has been shooting up from my hands to my neck and back. it doesn't take all the pain away, but without it, i would be in misery. the only side effect i have noticed is blurred vision, but only slightly, and not all the time. | M | 27 | 3 months | 6/8/2009 | 4 | Rapid Cycle Bipolar | Fatigue, grogginess,memory impairment. If doses are taken too close together, it has an alchol-like effect on me. Also, if I take too much of near bed time, I have a harder time waking up and have a 'hang over'. The side effects can be a pain, but's better than manic cycling. | This has been a good medication for me; it prevents manic episodes and is works for anxiety. For those of you with bipolar disorder, this medication is worth a try. It's a good mood stabilizer for me and I haven't had terrible side effects from it. Something to bear in mind; neurontin IS a safer drug than the benzos; it's not addictive and is much easier to get off of. It's also the best medication I have found for sleep and I have been on quite a few; a dose taken an hour or so before bed time works very well; as long as I don't take too much. I have found that, at the higher doses (900mgs+), it's important to space the doses out evenly; it will limit the side effects. | M | 27 | 7 years | 8/16/2009 | 3 | nerve pain (7 surgeries on arm) | sleepiness, lack of motivation, feeling "zombie-like"), difficult time waking up in the morning, hard time going to bed at night | been on it now for a month (100mg 4 times a day), still working up to larger dosing, feel like it is starting to help somewhat with the nasty pins and needles feeling in my arm where all that scar tissue is | F | 27 | | 11/10/2008 | 3 | nerve damage due to 5 pelvic surger | Felt like I was "high". Trouble with memory,angry sometimes, felt like all energy drained from my body. Very lifeless,husband misses the "old me" :( | Seemed to help the pain at 2700 mg per day. Not sure if it's worth the side effects!! when taking with vicodin (which helps my pain briefly) makes the "high"/numb feeling much worse!! DO NOT drive until you are sure that the dazed feeling is gone or when your body gets used to the drug! This drug seems to take effect 2 hours after taking it. | F | 27 | 3 weeks | 4/13/2008 | 2 | Neuropathic Pain | Anxiety, restlessness, muscle aches, felt high and spaced out. | In my case, I found the side effects of this drug to be dose dependant. At 900mg a day I had no real side effects but only had a partial resolution of pain. Moving up to 1800mg a day totally got rid of the pain, but made me high as a kite and gave me bad anxiety and jitters. I am currently trying to wean back down to 900mg and hopefully the side effects go away. I am not convinced this drug is as benign as the docs make it out to be. | M | 27 | 3 months 300mg 3X day | 4/18/2011 | 1 | bipolar | complete memory loss for the entire time I was on the medication. The medication caused serious reactions in my mood. I would never recommend this medication. | F | 27 | | 3/3/2006 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder | This medication seemed like "the wonder drug" at first for me until I lost my insurance and was unable to pay for it. Approximately 3 to 5 days after stopping the medication, I developed flu-like symptoms. As the days when on, they became increasingly worse and eventually so severe I could not get out of bed. I was constantly crying for no reason. I had severe pains all thoughout my body. I wanted to die. | My only option was to go back on this medication. Without it, the symptoms were not going away. I feel I would have eventually ended my life because of the way I felt. I'm still looking for an out from this medication, but I do not see one in sight. Doctors have no idea what they are talking about when they tell you this is a safe drug. I wish I had done my research to see all of the others who have had to deal with this. | F | 27 | 3 years | 10/27/2007 | 1 | Nerve pain | Nausea, feeling dumb and high | Did not help. Side effects were too much | F | 27 | 2 weeks 300 3X day | 1/8/2015 | 5 | Leg pain, twitching, shaking | First dose was -insane-. I have never felt so loopy before! Side-effects are nothing new to me, and that was the worst. Otherwise weight gain over the time period taken thus far. | I began taking this drug several years ago after finding a good neurologist. I began with 300mg/day, now on 1200mg/day. Until recently this has helped a great deal with pain, now having to augment with Lyrica. The two together may make the average patient go a bit crazy with all the side-effects. Now I'm on my way to a fibromyalgia diagnosis. Regardless, this is a VERY stabilizing drug that takes TIME. I mean a LOT of time to work. Don't give up after two months because you're in a 'fog'. It does get better, it just takes time. | F | 26 | 3 years | 1/15/2008 | 5 | Bipolar 1 and epilepsy | None | This drug is a lifesaver, I had a grand mull seizure with in two hours of coming out of the seizure I had another one neurontin was given to me and with in 24 hours all my seizures stop. As well with seroquel I have been seizure free as well a my mania has been under control. | M | 26 | 2.5 years | 3/25/2006 | 4 | mononeuritis multiplex | none | i'm down to 400mg once per day, medication still effective. great pain killer for neuropathy. | F | 26 | 4 months 400 mg 4X day | 2/3/2012 | 4 | Anxiety, neuropathic pain(Lyme dis) | I never noticed any negative side effects, but I hear that it can be difficult to get off of it... Which is why I'm not going to go up any more on my dose. | It calmed me down from daily anxiety, and lessened the neuropathic pain I was experiencing in my legs. I kind of feel like I need to be on a higher dosage to achieve the complete benefit, but I am afraid to increase my dose because I hear it can be difficult to withdraw from... On especially bad days where I feel sick from Lyme treatment etc, sometimes I take my entire day's dosage (1800mg) all at once instead of spread out and that seems to really help during those times. | F | 26 | 1 years 600mg 3x | 8/8/2015 | 4 | anxiety, opiate, benzo withdrawl | side effects included some blurred vision, lazyness, hunger | it really helped me out long term as far as staying clean and stopping the head aches and anxiety associated with benzo withdrawl. i had a seizure when i was taken off 6mg Xanax a day that was leagally prescribed. then i was put on 900mg.neurontin 3xday and it has helped me stay sane since discontinuing the xanax regement. It also helped to some degree coming of strong opiates. drug has helped a lot with anxiety associated with these problems. | M | 26 | 6 days | 2/3/2008 | 3 | Fibromyalgia | Brain fog,lost for words most of the time,weight gain.If I forgot to take my medicine-BAD mood swings and pain.Motor skill quality diminished.Slower motor skills,no short term memory. | My pain was only at about 40%, which was very good for me.But after time all of the side effects seemed to cause other problems in my life.My husband would look at me sometimes like "I know your not stupid-but,what's wrong with you? Is there anyone in there?"That was very frustrating for me,as I usually am a pretty quick thinker!! Also driving at night became a little scarey!Slow to physically react,vision effected. | F | 26 | 6 months | 10/1/2007 | 3 | Some sort of unknown "back pain" | Super Spacey, feeling of not caring. Eyes feel like they are shaking. Feel like I am stoned all the time. I get moody sometimes, but I am not sure that it is the medication and not just my issues. No weight gain but I try to work out alot. I have trouble processing thoughts and telling stories, best to be described as; If I were a train then I would derail constantly. | It is taking care of the pain somewhat. I still feel a slight radiation of pain after I take it, with it increasing thoughout my daily activities. It has been the only thing that has touched the pain so i will continue to take it until the cause is found and then we will go from there... I am just hoping that the mental affect subside from this med... | F | 26 | 4 weeks | 6/16/2007 | 3 | Migraines | Feeling of being high all the time, insomnia | F | 26 | 6 months | 7/28/2004 | 3 | nerve pain, from RSD | weight gain (up 4 sizes in 9 months) | It worked for a little while, but I had to keep upping the dose to keep on top of the pain. Ended up giving up when I was taking 1500mg a day and tried something else. The weight dropped off straight after I stopped taking it. | F | 26 | 9 months | 4/28/2004 | 2 | Daily Headache over 5 weeks | Nothing | F | 26 | 15 days | 7/30/2004 |