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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NEURONTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | mirgrianes | I am taking this along with the Mayo clinic recommendation vitiamin regime to prevent mirgraines. I take 4 vitiamns and 1200 mg of neurontin before bed. I have been able to reduce my migraines from 15 a month to 6 to 7. I am having trouble with anxiety and depression with this combo so my physcian has added clonzenpam to help. I have tried alot of prevention meds and this is the only thing that has come close to giving me relief. 3 of the mirgraines come during that time of the month so my mirgraines are all about my hormones going up and down. | M | 36 | 9 months 1200 1X day | 10/10/2010 | 4 | Cervical Spinal Fusion | I definitely lose focus and am forgetful. Tiredness only when I take 2 in the evening. I started taking 400mg 3x daily and now take 600mg 4 times daily. I do drink wine alot and I guess this may intensify the side effects. The side effects are not a problem with me and I will continue to take this until the Dr. says to stop. | My whole body went numb due to degenerative disks and my spine curving taking my spinal cord with it. It has been about 10 months since my surgery and my hands and arms still feel very numb. I can do everyday tasks with no problem but I know when I am due to take my Neurontin because I seem to feel alot more numb. I really am afraid to be off these because I don't like that numb feeling. | F | 43 | 9 months | 3/1/2008 | 4 | nerve pain | Felt foggy at first, but that subsided. Noticed recently that I've gained weight and have been concerned with hair loss. Have had some on and off depression,and I do find that I forget things frequently. | I tried to cut back to 3 300mg per day, but I couldn't stand the nerve pain, so I went back up. The side effects outweigh the pain. | F | 44 | 9 months | 10/26/2009 | 4 | fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome | I cannot take 900 mg daily as my dr prescribed because I do medical transcription and midday I was totally wiped out and unable to work; very sleepy, brain fog, blurred vision. I now take 300 mg am and 300 mg p.m. After 1 day I had a drastic improvement in the RLS; gone completely, and it had suffered badly with this. It has helped enough with the fibro that I can tell a difference, but not a huge difference. Without a midday dose I can work fine, but definitely need it for pain about 5 p.m. which begins to become almost intolerable. | I have gained 45 lbs taking Neurontin only 9 months. SO I decided to wean myside and see what would happen. I weaned slowly over a 2-week period. After just 1 day of no Neurontin IMMEDIATELY the RLS returned and kept me awake at night with leg pain. But the really scary part - I believe to have tremor-like seizures in my head; it felt like I had a drill turned on in my skull for a few seconds that left a taste in my mouth and my teeth sore. I stood this for about 1-1/2 weeks of these seizures increasing to 3 a day average and I jumped back on the Neurontin. It tooks another 2 weeks for my head to "feel normal" and the seizures just gradually weaned away. So, no matter how large I get (I am 230 now) I will be too afraid to ever stop the Neurontin again. But I tell myself it is worth it for the leg pain to be gone. I would toss and turn all night and feel a deep ache in both legs and a feeling as if electricity was running up and down my legs, even in my feet. To have that gone and be able to sleep is worth wearing a size 20, although a devastating blow has been struck to my vanity. | F | 59 | 9 months | 9/12/2009 | 4 | severe herniated disc, sciatica | Works pretty well for me. No bad side effects - except takes approx. 2 hrs to kick in. | F | 36 | 9 months 300mg x 3 | 10/1/2014 | 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 | nerve pain from herniated disks | Weight gain, nightmares, tiredness | I kept taking it (at minimum dose) because it helped me sleep! But if I increased the dose for pain management, the dreams would wake me up and it was hard to return to sleep. Would recommend only if you have severe pain or seizures- and if it helps you, of course. | F | 48 | 9 months | 6/12/2008 | 3 | Neuropathy, migraines | Horrible weight gain. Low energy. Mood swings. | I reduced my caloric intake so that I should be losing 1--2 lbs a week. Doing heavy exercise 3x a wk and light exercise the rest of the week. Instead of losing, I gained weight. It seemed to go up with each dose adjustment. Lots of hungry feelings. It's a shame, it really got rid of my daily stress/tension headaches. It helped me sleep. And it's helped with my back pain. I'm reducing my dose because I can't deal with the weight gain after so much work to lose and tone. If I start having daily headaches again, I will re-up my dose. (Dose adjustments are made in conjunction with my doctor.) | F | 43 | 9 months 1200 mg 1X day | 5/2/2017 | 3 | Back surgery - Lumbar Fusion | Hardly any. Very mild off balance or light-headedness | M | 74 | 9 months 300 3X day | 11/20/2010 | 3 | anxiety | appetite increase | F | 36 | 9 months 1800 1X day | 2/23/2010 | 3 | back pain | absent minded, tired, no energy | at 600 3x a day my pain level was much lower, however I could not function at work. could not focus on tasks, got confused in the middle of tasks, very forgetful and just dead tired all the time. have cut back to 300 2x a day, still have no energy, back pain is worse, but at least I can focus and remember things most of the time. | M | 35 | 9 months 600 3X day | 2/23/2010 | 3 | Trigeminal neuralgia | To begin with, felt sometimes exhausted, but muddled through because that was better than the intense pain. | After reducing my tabs down to 600mg a day (as opposed to 2700 per day)I have noticed some severe changes. Until I am completely free from these, I can't guarantee how much of the following symptoms are soley due to meds. I do not have the best memory, but this has been severly impaired (to the point of forgetting to go to work - not because I was asleep, just because something distracted my thought path)and struggling to find the right words had convinced me that I was suffering early dementia. I am 41 and used to joke about being scatty. Now I'm just embarrassed. Social life has changed because I just don't feel that bothered about seeing folk. This is not depression - have been through that once and this is very different. Don't seem to be able to run around the house as I used to. Thought it might be sudden onset of.. middle age. Have a temper like I have never know. So aggressive - just want to SHOUT! Relationship suffering. Wondered if we had just stopped loving each other. Everything I know about me, has been put into question, even though physically, I don't feel that different. At the moment, everything just irritates me! Reading this site has made me realise that the drugs are greatly responsible. Very grateful for the relief of pain, but I'm coming off them. | F | 41 | 9 months 900 3X day | 2/7/2011 | 3 | peripheral neuropathies | Confusion, difficulty thinking, mood swings (particularly with pms which has never been a problem), aggressive, violent outbursts (again with pms), tired, short term memory problems, increases migraines, withdrawl which included bowel trouble, trouble sleeping, restlessness. | Neurontin worked great for alleviating the nerve pain, better than anything else I have tried but the behavioral changes were awful. I have never been physically violent in any relationship, not a fighter. But I could not control my temper on that dose. Lower doses are not as effective with the pain but also do not have the effect on mood. the problems with confusion, memory, thinking did decrease the longer I was on it but never was 100% | F | 32 | 9 months 1200 3X day | 1/27/2011 | 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 | 3 | M | 50 | 9 months | 6/21/2007 | 2 | Benzo withdrawal / substitution | Horrible Withdrawal symptoms, blurred vision | Titrated upward and upward and upward...eventually to 800mg x 3 daily then 1600mg at bed time (4000mg/day). Did not have any full blown seizures during benzodiazepine withdrawal, but this did not work at all for the anxiety and panic attacks that I was on the benzo for to begin with (which worked wonders). | M | 26 | 9 months | 6/1/2006 | 2 | burning/tingling in feet and legs | Initially I thought this medication was great. I took 300 mg at night and it helped me sleep and did initially stop the pain from the burning and tingling in my feet and legs. However, before I realized it, I had gained 20 pounds!! I could not for the life of me figure out HOW in the world I gained that much weight so quickly, as I was doing nothing different. I work out daily and do NOT eat junk/fast food. It just hit me yesterday to google this medication and I have been on this site reading the experiences of others and I firmly believe this medication has not only caused my weight gain, but also hair loss, brain fog and other symptoms that I was not attributing to the medication until I read that others also had these side effects. I am going to immediately decrease the dosage until I am totally OFF this medication. It is not worth it. Too bad physicians these days REFUSE to prescribe pain meds to people in legitimate pain. They would rather prescribe these medications that cause m | I would NOT recommend taking this medication and I hope it is not to difficult to wean myself off of it! | F | 41 | 9 months 300 1X day | 1/4/2011 | 1 | neuropathic pain in leg | BRAIN FOG, memory loss, weight gain, drunk-like stuper, double-vision, gastrointestinal problems, insomnia, temporary amnesia-like symptoms. 2700 mg. per day. I have been off for 3 years and still suffer long-term side effects from drug. | Neurologist told me that there would be NO side effects and would be thrilled with it. It was my demise. I was sent to multiple specialists and underwent countless medical tests to try and find out what was the cause of my problems. Only when I made the connection to Neurontin - did I stop it. Even then I weened off and suffered severe physical pain, and then Neurologist told me that I had fibromyalgia. It was obvious withdrawal. I was also told that taking Naproxen was fine to take for the inflamation - to only find out that it would exasserbate the dosage. When can we start having faith in our doctors - if they are pushing drugs without researching the side-effects. Please let me know if anyone else continues to suffer from effects years later. | F | 43 | 9 months | 11/16/2006 | 5 | Guillain Barre | This was the only medication that relieved the severe nerve pain I experienced with Guillain Barre. It allowed me to focus on recovery following complete paralysis (instead of needing to cope with pain), and for that I will be forever grateful. I am now fully functional without any residual nerve problems. | F | 47 | 8 months | 4/30/2004 |