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 |
| 5 | Severe Anxiety | I take about 5-6 600 mg a day. Dizzy, trouble speaking if I took too much, euphoria, it makes me very ditzy | Gabapentin is a miracle for me. I have a history of substance abuse so I can not take things such as Xanax or Lorazepam... I am actually able to talk to people and go out with out worrying much about what people think, also when I take Gabapentin, I can sit down and do homework for hours instead of freaking out and trying to do 10 things at once. | F | 20 | 8 months | 3/23/2007 | 5 | Migraines | Drowsiness, hard to remember things, dizziness. Makes me sleep Very well but I wake up feeling groggy. | I love this medecine. My doctor started me on 300mg 3x a day and now I am up to 600mg 3x a day. It has helped me drastically with my migraines. It has gotten rid of them by about 45%. I still have them but not near as much. | F | 21 | 8 months | 2/28/2007 | 5 | Nuropathic pain & co-morbid anxiety | at first I felt high and was worried, but I realized it was taking over my anxiety and I needed to give it time - meds take a few weeks, and we need to give our bodies a chance to adjust. Some tiredness, but learned how to adjust my dose through the day. No weight gain, I also take Topomax as I have a condition that calls for that alone. Honestly, together they seem to work well, and I have been able to stop benzo's and I sleep better and my memory has greatly improved - AMAZING | I gave it time, it freed me from pain I no longer new I had as I had become so adjusted to it. of course I still have pain, as I have a neurological disease. I am so happy to be off of benzo's PS- be sure to take vitamins, cal-mag, etc. It helps with sleep, bones, and weight. | F | 42 | 8 months 100 mgs 6X day | 1/9/2011 | 5 | Nerve pain/left leg from disc | Weight gain from increased hunger, increased thirst, increased urination, severe sleepiness, itchy skin. | I herniated my L5/S1 disc when I was 18 and I tried everything because I couldn't find a doctor that would to back surgery on an 18 year old. Everyone kept saying it might get better. It never did and finally at 27 I had a back fusion. Best thing I have ever done, but I still suffer from some leg pain. My doctor perscribed this to me after surgery. The drug worked wonders for me. I only take the drug at night because it makes me SOOOO sleepy, but I'm good to go in the morning and most of the day. By night time I feel the nerve pain coming back on. I started at 300mg and now I went down to 100mg to wean myself from it. Yes I did gain about 5 pounds, but the drug makes me hungry at night. One major problem was the urination, but the doctor said that could also be connected to the nerve pain in my leg causing me to go all the time. I would recommend the drug, but I would never take it unless I was going to sleep. I'm not very big so it effects me quickly and zonks me out. It | F | 28 | 8 months | 3/28/2006 | 4 | fibromyalgia | weight gain, about 15 pounds in 6 months. initially, some fatigue and weird reactions to small amounts of alcohol, not drunk, but loopy | Until I started taking neurontin, I didn't realize how much pain I was in because it had been so long since I had felt WELL. Once at maintenance, the knots in my muscles relaxed, my joints felt better, and I could exercise more. Despite my increased exercise, I gained weight at a pretty steady rate. By the time I stopped taking it, I had gained about 15-20 pounds, which, for me, wasn't really the best situation. Stopped taking it and all the pain has come back. | F | 25 | 8 months | 3/24/2006 | 4 | fibromyalgia,chronic back pain | foggy memory, nausea , diarrhea, headaches, dry eyes | I was prescribed this medication to treat my fibromyalgia and lower back pain from 7 back surgeries and a spinal fusion. The original dose was 300 mg 3 X a day and 900 mg at night...I have experienced great success with this drug and am now down to 900 mg at night only. Although there are a few side effects, other than the diarrhea, they are tolerable for the relief I am experiencing.. | F | 55 | 8 months 900MG 1X day | 7/2/2012 | 4 | Peripheral neuropathy | At first nightmares and fatigue, even thought pain might have increased some. But I hung in there and gave it the recommended 3-4 months to work and am glad I did | Much better drug than Lyrica. Lyrica was horrible and messed w/my mind, cried a lot and suicidal. Neurontin has helped stabilize mood and dull excruciating nerve pain. Isn't a perfect drug, but works well. Needs to be started on low dose and slowly dose must be raised over time as the same dose will not work well after awhile. | F | 47 | 8 months 300 3X day | 2/4/2011 | 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 | 3 | MS and Trigeminal Neuralgia | My hands are numb and I wake from bad headaches in the morning. I feel beyond soul tired. My fingers have swollen and I had to remove my wedding rings. I am beginning to put on weight. | F | 49 | 8 months 900 mg 4X day | 12/29/2015 | 3 | nerve pain | I have gained 50 pounds in 8 months can't lose the weight | M | 46 | 8 months 800mg 2a d | 3/15/2015 | 3 | femoral neuropathy from blood clot | Severe memory loss, word searching, not thinking clearly, feeling physically drunk without the head trip about 6 hours after dosage, feeling apathy and laziness and feeling no guilt about it. | I took Neurotin for a short spell about 10 years ago and noticed the apathy and memory problems then. It took a few years, but my memory returned to normal even though some memories were lost forever. It's more severe now because of the duration. The nerve pain without the drug is atrocious even with pain medication which I take in limited amounts. I miss my keen mind and memory and I can't attribute it to age. | F | 66 | 8 months 600 1X day | 11/7/2011 | 3 | neuropathy | Memory loss, word retrieval, mild vibration sensation in my body/head. Am also taking darvocet n 100 w/apap 650 so don't know how much is increased with this new drug...now naseaus (wasn't before with Neurontin) | The issue is that I didn't realize that some of the things I have experienced over time were or could be side effects. I am 48 and other than problems with my back, have never taken meds and have had no other medical issues. Extreme back pain going down my leg was diagnosed as a herniated disk. After surgery left residual burning and tingling in my left foot and leg, Neurontin/gabapentin was prescribed. I was told to titrate up (increase dose to best result). I started with 600 mg 3 times a day and was instructed to stay on that dosage unless the pain increased. I ended up with a second lower herniation and had an additional surgery a few days ago. I am SERIOUSLY CONCERNED with my dosage as a pain management doctor told me (as I was in extreme pain prior to the surgery) that it was o.k. to increase my dosage to 1200 mg (4 300 mg capsules) 3 times a day. That's 3600 mg a day. JEEEEEEZ. I stopped taking a few other drugs after the surgery and I have had recent bad dreams, depr | F | 48 | 8 months | 2/5/2006 | 3 | Fibro, Nerve Pain & Mood Swings | Dry Mouth-I can't even talk when it gets too bad,Continual Frowning- I have more wrinkles because of this,Dental problems-a tooth broke two days ago probably caused by Dry Mouth,Brain Fog,Memory Loss short and long term, Word Retrieval-doing a Crossword is almost impossible. Weight Gain-30lbs in 3 months-even more depressing,Lack of Interest in anything especially life,No Libido-causing relationship problems.Confusion and my spelling has become atrocious, TG for the dictionary. | Although Neurontin eases some pain some of the time I am still debilitated by pain and the side effects only add to this.I feel as though my depression is not improving and Neurontin is just a cover-up not a treatment.I am supposed to take 300mg a day, 100 in the am and 200 in the pm. I take 200mg in the late afternoon only, this eases the pain enough for me to get through dinner and into bed by 9pm. I tried stopping Cold Turkey, don't do that, the pain and suicidal thoughts are not worth it, I am cutting back to 100mg p/d for at least 2 weeks before hopefully giving it up.I will be sourcing something milder to come down off the final 100mg.I have 3 months worth of office/taxes paperwork in front of me and I sit here PLAYING Solitaire instead of WORKING, lucky it is my own company. My mother is taking 900mg p/d prescribed after her last Stroke 2 yrs ago, the docs told her it is brain damage that has her showing the same symptoms we are all describing, I think not.PLEASE GET OFF THIS D | F | 45 | 8 months | 1/7/2008 | 3 | Anxiety | I had missed my neurontin for one week (400mg). Once back on, the anxiety was unbearable. My doctor increased my dosage to 500mg daily, spread throughout the day, but I feel worse. I feel labored breathing, a mental foginess but yet edgy and nervous inside. A general malaise and some depression. I am currently on Prozac as well and that has been increased to 60mg daily. I have this feeling that I'm crawling in my own skin and want to get out! | I keep hearing that you have to continually increase your dosage. I'm afraid of that and any possible addictive qualities of the medicine. | F | 44 | 8 months | 6/2/2003 | 2 | migraine prevention and rls | Extreme fatigue, weight gain, severe leg twitching, memory problems, no migraine relief at all, dizzy and loss of balance, no energy, legs get weak just walking thru grocery store | I have told my doctor about side effects and no relief from original issues. He increased my dosage and sent me to neurologist who blew me off and said come back in two months. I feel worse now physically than I ever have, I'm only 32 years old and I feel like I'm 70. I want off of this stuff, I've already tapered myself from 1800mg a day to 600mg a day but because the tablets are 600mg I'm not sure where to go from here. I feel like a fool for just getting on the med because my doctor said it would really help. I should have read up on it first. I can't recommend or not recommend but maybe sharing my experience will help somehow. Reading everyone elses experience helped validate a lot of what I was thinking about this drug. | F | 32 | 8 months | 5/8/2009 | 1 | Fibromyalgia/Pain/Depression | Weight Gain of 3 sizes-Felt irritable,disoriented, spacey, unable to focus.Tremors to the point of not being able to ride in a car for more than 1/2 an hour, without tremors setting in.Severe depression. Edema of hands, feet and neck.Difficulty breathing and functioning in general.All sorts of tests done with no help. Finally realized that it was the neuronton that 'gradually' had caused these bad symptoms.My Dr.is helping to wean me off this drug. Withdrawl from neurontion is very difficult to go through. | While I feel this drug may be beneficial for seizures and certain types of pain, CAUTION should be used in taking this medication for any other usage then it was produced for. The 'bad' side effects are not worth the risk! | F | 41 | 8 months | 8/10/2004 | 1 | seizures | Memory problems,vision problems, weight gain, hormonal disruption, headaches, seizures (??), extreme fatigue...and more!!!!!!!! | My doctor prescribed this in an attempt to squash my symptoms without first making a diagnosis. I did not want to take this drug; I did not go all the way up to the HUGE dosage that he prescribed. This turned out to be a very good thing, because I discovered that I was experiencing symptoms of overdose and insisted that he help me wean myself away from this poison. I was getting better before I started the drug; the withdrawal symptoms were agony, I am much better now that I am off of the drug. Now I just need to shake the extra 20 pounds that this exercise in futility landed upon me. Does anyone else get the idea that doctors have become drug pushers? Does anyone know how long it will take to put my body chemistry back into a natural mode? It's true: Drugs don't heal! They only squelch. p.s. I was lucky to hold onto my job while on this drug - it made mush of my brain. | F | 45 | 8 months | 11/11/2004 | 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 | 5 | Hot flashes | drowsiness | This has worked wonderfully for me. It makes my hot flashes shorter and less severe, and it lowers the feeling of anxiety that preceedes them. I only take it at night, and since it makes me drowsy, it helps with my insomnia as well. | F | 56 | 7 months | 5/13/2009 | 5 | rsd in hand and arm | Spacy, sore throat, brain fog, hard to speak sometimes, sleepy after about three hours. I started taking 1800 a day along with one 25mg. palamar at bedtime. It was a miracle. I didn't feel the burning pain unless it got toward the end of 8 hours and more was due. I took it up myself to 900 three times a day and that is when my coordination was very bad plus the other things already mentioned. I tried to really dose myself. Then I took it back down to 600 three times a day. If it gets worse, I take 600, 900, 600. | I have gained about thirty pounds in about 7 months but it seems to have leveled off. I do eat a lot of sweets. At the first of all of this, I did have three nerve blocks in my neck. Before those, I was in constant pain 24/7. No pain pill worked and I never slept at night. I don't know what I would have done without this drug. | F | 60 | 7 months | 1/21/2005 |