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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NEURONTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | fibromyalgia | No real side effects other than fast tolerance buildup. I take 1100 mg which is supposed to be split into three doses, but I have a horrible memory, so I take it all in one go and it seems to work out. I'm honestly not sure how much it does for my pain at this point, but with suboxone and flexeril, I'm the most pain-free I've been in a long time, so I'm a little wary to change up the routine. | F | 29 | 1 years 1100 mg | 9/24/2014 | 4 | Peripheral neuropathy | I have ringing in the ears but don't know if this drug caused it. | I'm on 600mg. Still have some numbness and pain in my feet but it did seem to help. Pain and numbness is tolerable. | M | 68 | 1 years | 8/8/2008 | 4 | Migraine, partial seizures, rls | All positive with exception of 20# weight gain | F | 55 | 1 years 3000 daily | 9/12/2016 | 4 | Mood Stabilization (BPD) | Taking in combination with other medications (Effexor and Xanax)-- but did notice an immediate difference from the beginning as far as controlling mood swings. After more than a year, dosage has been increased with increasing | Sometimes the | F | 39 | 1 years | 7/7/2004 | 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 | Motion Sickness 24/7 Post Traumatic | Initially I was sleepy, feeling sort of slow. I was able to sleep through the night. My constant nausea for three years was replaced with sleepy, which was good. Believe me, sleepy is better than nausea! I gained some weight and purchased some 'fat pants'. I am normally quite thin. ( I hit my head on the headrest of the car while being rear-ended. ) | Reading about Neurontin is facinating. All the Neurontin one takes passes through the body and is excreted. No medication is perfect. But I can walk better without feeling the rocking, swimming, nausea feeling. Whew! Nausea is improved overall, still improving little by little every day. I take 500 mg 3x per day. Also has helped with post traumatic headache. Very loud sounds (amplified sound) I may need more for a few days. I increase it 100 mg. This medication is a synthetic buliding block of protein. It has had a claming effect for me. I choose sleepy over nausea. Thanks PD! Cindy Dr. Hess provided the initial samples for me. | F | 57 | 1 years | 5/31/2005 | 4 | Fibromyalgia | Lethargy, trouble waking up, loss of coordination, slowed reflexes, inablility to drive. Developed an allergy to it after 1 year | I took 600 mg 3x a day for one year. This is an abnormally high dose, but it seemed to work for me; however the side affects never went away. Before taking neurontin I had disabling fibromyalgia. While on the med, I was able to function. I did develop an allergy to it after taking it for a year. I can't take it anymore, but it did help while I was on it. | F | 23 | 1 years | 10/18/2005 | 4 | Migraines, Leg Pain | Dizzy, the kind of feeling like you get when you've had a little too much to drink, a fog. | I originally started taking this as a migraine preventative but found that it also stopped the constant pain in my calves and back pain that I had had for the past 18 years. It didn't get rid of my migraines but the pain from the migraines was in the background and they were no longer so severe that I lost vision or vomited. It was more the fact that I didn't care that the pain was there. I also added Excedrin Migraine and that, along with gabapentin, seem to take the migraines away, for the most part. I have noticed that I can no longer do much physical exertion because that causes me to get more dizzy. When I first started taking it, I could eat a meal and then five minutes later, I was starved. I knew that was something in the med so I would just not eat more and I haven't gained any weight. I started with a dosage of 600 mg/day, taken at night. Within 30 minutes, the pain in my calves is gone, although occasionally one foot feels hot inside. It is not hot to the touch but I can put it in cold water and it feels good. After another 30 minutes that is gone. I feel great in the morning, although it is difficult to get out of bed because I'm still tired. After I get up, I am a little dizzy and groggy. After work I come home and usually take a nap. I don't want to but I am so tired. After a nap, I am dizzy and groggy again. It isn't a great feeling but it seems so much better than dealing with the leg pain and migraines. | M | 55 | 1 years 600 mg 1X day | 8/3/2010 | 3 | spinal tumors, sciatica | SIGNIFICANT memory loss and "brain fog". | I have a love/hate relationship with Neurontin. It works wonders on my nerve pain (I have a large, inoperable tumor on the left sciatic nerve), and really calms down some of the fibromyalgia pain. My GP initially tried me with Lyrica, but I had EVERY adverse side effect except organ injury and death. We then switched to Neurontin, and the difference was night and day in terms of pain relief and (mostly) lack of adverse effects. But I have serious issues with the memory loss it causes. My short-term memory is shot to H-ll. I will literally forget what I'm doing, where I'm going, etc., in the MIDDLE of doing something. I've been known to get to a flight of stairs and not remember whether I wanted to go up or down them, and will just stand there with one foot poised to move onto the stairs, which is SERIOUSLY dangerous when you're standing before a descending staircase with your foot dangling in mid-air (and yes, I've fallen down stairs because of it). It affects my work to the point where I'm seriously worried about my job. Would I recommend Neurontin? Maybe. But I'd definitely advise anyone who is taking it to watch out for the memory loss side effects, because they are BAD. | F | 47 | 1 years 600 mg 3X day | 3/7/2010 | 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 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder | Weight Gain. A weird dizzy feeling when I hadn't taken it for 2 days. | After unsuccessful attempts at taking other meds (Wellbutrin, Celexa, Lexapro, to name just a few) and being treated for depression, I was put on this as I have three immediate family members who are also on it. It works great for them! Seemed to work for most part for me at first. Started taking small doses (200-300mg) and now am only up to 400 mg. At first it made me VERY sleepy so I began only taking it at night and still do, however the "sleep like a log" feeling has subsided. It helped for my racing thoughts, and mania, but after almost a year of being on it, it is the ONLY reason that I can attribute my weight gain to. I am 5'4" tall and have consistently weighed about 135-145 lbs MAX since high school, but now I am at or just over 150, which just makes me more depressed. My pants don't fit, my stomach is huge, but butt is big, I feel like CRAP physically. Someone else posted they'd rather be fat and happy than thin and crazy, but I can't take this extra weight. I | F | 30 | 1 years | 1/24/2008 | 3 | Nerve pain from nerve damage | A little scattered brained at first- sort of tired, sort of high feeling... these effects lessened over time. I think it makes me hungry, but I’m not sure-I changed other meds, too. | There aren’t a lot of good meds for nerve pain. Gabapentin can really help. I have taken it off and on at different times throughout my 20+ years dealing with nerve damage. I’ve never had a difficult time stopping it. Everyone has their own experiences, though. I find this mild compared to many of the other options. | F | 55 | 1 years 1800 daily | 5/11/2018 | 3 | cerival radiculopthy, sciatica, | Too many side effects. Ear Ezecema,zoned out,clumsy. Liver enzymes slighlty increased at 1200mg/day. Drug inhibits metabolism of vitamin D. Had low vitamin d. Off of drug and taking vitamin d. Ear Ezecema practically disappeared. | Really help radiculopthy. Dosing above 300mg/day is too much for me. Will never take it again. | F | 59 | 1 years 300-1200 | 9/13/2015 | 2 | Swellington and edema of lower extremities, weight gain. | Like the previous poster, I was placed on Neurontin for Xanax withdrawal; however. I'm not "a drinker." I don't even think he had a legit rx because he couldn't spell Ativan correctly. In my case, the Gabapentin helped ease withdrawal symptoms a bit, but when I was hospitalized again, I was already taking it plus the Xanax, so withdrawal was nast, hallucinations, etc. I was also placed on Remeron, and that assisted in the 60 lb weight gain. I want off all this stuff! | F | 38 | 1 years 300 mg 3x | 4/2/2016 | 2 | neck, back, arm pain and numbness | I started taking it about a year ago. I have gained 35 pounds and feel tired a lot. | I don't see where it is helping me at all. I guess I sleep better at night, but that's about it. I still have the pain and numbness in my arm. Sometimes it is so bad I feel like I am going crazy. Had a nerve conduction study and MRI recently. Revealed cervical problems. Pain specialist is talking about changing meds. GOOD. I am worried about the side effects, especially since it doesn't seem to be helping me. I am just tired all the time. | F | 39 | 1 years | 5/22/2006 | 1 | peripheral neuropathy | long-term memory loss and word-finding difficulties, hair loss | I was never told about the possible side-effects from neurontin. I feel betrayed that I have had to discover and live with the long term effects after the fact. | F | 43 | 1 years | 1/31/2008 | 1 | epilepsy | seizures, uncontrollable hunger, fatigue, mental spaciness, loss of short-term memory, inability to concentrate | Neurontin would make me so hungry that I could eat enough for 3 adults, then be curled up in a fetal position with painful hunger pangs and general physical weakness just an hour later. Gained 50 pounds on this drug; lost 40 in the month after I stopped taking it. The mental fogginess made grad school hell. And, to add insult to injury, it didn't control the seizures, either. Your results may vary, but use caution when taking this drug! | F | 31 | 1 years | 1/25/2005 | 1 | Ulner nerve damage | Extreme anger to the point of hurting myself, dullness of senses, a floaty feeling, difficulty concentrating | I am taking myself off this drug. My husband is scared to death being around me. I'll suffer through whatever it takes to get myself off of this medicine. | F | 35 | 1 years | 12/5/2004 | 1 | Nerve pain, headaches, RLS | Uncontrollable crying, brain fog, dizziness, impossible to wake up in the morning, intense mood swings, depression (never had before), insane nightmares, hearing issues, speech issues; stuttering and issues finding correct words, weight gain, hair loss. Etc. | It took me far too long to realize that my entire personality changed because of this demonic drug. I thought I was simply hormonal until I got out of control. I was crying multiple times a day (full blown curled up in a ball crying hysterically) I NEVER used to cry and then all of a sudden I couldn't have a conversation without crying. I couldn't have a conversation without getting angry and yelling and then I would start crying because I didn't understand why I was behaving how I was. I felt like a spectator in my own body while some psycho b***h took main stage. I was one of the lucky few who was able to stop cold turkey with no withdrawl symptoms for 10 days as of now. Pain also has not increased since being off. Will never take this in any form at any dose in my life ever again! Strongly advise others to closely monitor themselves for any slight changes before they become too severe. Good luck. | F | 23 | 1 years 300mg | 2/7/2016 | 1 | Restless legs | Dry mouth is the only side effect I had. | The medication worked wonders for what it was prescribed for. But, I became pregnant. Stopping this medication has been a complete and udder nightmare. Massive depression. Muscle pains and cramps. Severe night sweats. Vomiting. The whole 9. Stay as far away from this drug as you can get. Unless you plan on never coming off of it. This drug is satan! Pure evil! | F | 31 | 1 years 300MG | 10/12/2015 |