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 | anxiety, insomnia, seizures | Mild dizziness, sedation, calmness | Loved this medication for my anxiety and insomnia. Other meds for my seizures had/have massive side effects but my Dr. didn't feel this was an appropriate medication to control my seizures and I didn't want to duplicate side effects so I stopped. I had no weight gain, in fact lost weight as I felt so good and started running again. | F | 46 | 5 months 100 mg 3X day | 5/20/2011 | 4 | Head pain related to brain injury | Severe dizziness, fatigue, constipation, poor wound healing, rashes, hair loss. The dizziness and fatigue diminished greatly with time. After being on for a few months, I started developing skin wounds, rashes and infections that would not heal. Then I noticed that I had bald patches forming on my scalp. I did not notice hair falling out because it affects the forming follicles which turn into something resembling a carpet fuzz. As hair falls out it is not replaced or is replaced by weak and thin hair. Hope it grows back. | This is a very serious drug that I believe should only be used as last resort for short periods of time. I was told that brain chemistry will change to accomodate this medication over prolonged use. I hated being on this medication, but it helped my severe head pain when nothing else would. | F | 41 | 5 months 200mg 1X day | 5/4/2010 | 4 | Neuropathy neck pain(CM in Spinal C | Mental fogginess, tired for the first week then it completely subsided. | Would give this a 5 since it has worked great for the burning in right foot, neck pain, restless arm and itchiness in left arm following a bleed from a CM in my spinal cord, but over the past month or so I started having some speech issues(slurred) and loss of words and alertness..confusion..weaning myself off to 300 twice a day..my doc wanted to try Cymbalta, but I'm apprehensive to try it due to the bad reviews, so I'm hoping that taking just 300mg will do the trick. I can't deal with the speech issues and loss of words any longer otherwise I would stay on this medication...it gave me my life back. | F | 38 | 5 months 900mg 3X day | 2/18/2010 | 4 | PLS-Post Laminectomy Syndrome | Extremely chatty :-) , feeling like a "zombie", sleepiness, memory issues, VERY edgy, when decreasing the dosage I've had terrible eye twitches, mood swings and the edginess has gotten worse. | Overall, it has been a GREAT drug for me! I feel that it really has cut down the amount of pain that I would have had without it. I have been able to distract myself (for the most part) from the side effects. | F | 32 | 5 months | 3/9/2009 | 4 | Transverse Myelitis | Some weight gain, terrible hair loss (which I have stopped with generic rogaine 5% 1Xday). Extreme fatigue but TM causes that too. | The worst is how dependent I am. Without it the nerve pain is beyond what I can endure. Dosage was 300mg 3Xday, now 4003X. I fear having to take this in increasing dosages. I will know in another year or so if I am one of the lucky 1/3 of people who recover. TM is rare so there is no research $. Neuro can just prescribe meds & cross fingers. | F | 64 | 5 months | 10/19/2009 | 4 | spinal stenosis | After reading side effects from others I now understand my hair loss and extreme weight loss. I thought something was wrong with me. | Works well, but I've lost so much weight. Not good. Hair was midway my back, now its less than midway my neck | F | 50 | 5 months 900 mg | 3/21/2015 | 3 | anxiety, depression, insomnia | Weight gain, feeling spaced out, midday tiredness, low energy, unable to remember words. | I wrote a review for Neurontin about 6 weeks ago and couldn't have been more pleased. I thought this was the drug I had been waiting for all of my life. My depression, anxiety, and insomnia were greatly reduced and I could still have organsms. Then, about two weeks ago, it stopped working. I was so disappointment - my insomnia and anxiety (but not the depressive thoughts) returned. My shrink upped the dose from 900 to 1200 mgs at bedtime. Symptoms have not improved and my insomnia is worse than ever. On top of that, the increased dosage has caused me to be extremely tired, lethargic and I am now experiencing the word loss (I gave a talk yesterday and noticed how difficult it was - I had given this same talk numerous times and could not remember my presentation.) I am so upset and disappointed because I thought I finally found the right medicine for me. To make matters worse I took my old sleep inducing standby - Klonapin. With the Neurontin in my system the Klonapin had an antagonistic relationship and I was awake all night! Want to wean off before I gain more weight and lose my job. I really can't blame the Neurontin for the weight gain - it could be because I am too tired to exercise. | M | 56 | 5 months 1200 1X day | 3/12/2010 | 3 | Vestibulitis | Weight gain. With a healthy diet and 60 mins moderate exercise 5 days/wk, still gaining .5-1 lb per week. Eye twitches. Sleepiness, but I take it at night so I get a good night's sleep. | It has helped a bit, though I need some PT for some of the pain. I can't decide whether to go off or stay on it, it's the only thing that has worked at all, but the weight gain is really frustrating. I'm on a fairly low dose at 300 mg/day, and I'd say the pain is reduced about 15%. I don't want to increase dosage for fear of my side effects increasing. | F | 24 | 5 months | 8/9/2006 | 3 | Small fiber neuropathy hands/feet | First few weeks I couldn't sleep more than 5 hours. I was exhausted but couldn't return to bed. I still have trouble falling asleep. I don't know if it is the medicine or the situation but I went into a terrible state of depression at the beginning of this. I was taking 800mg x3 now I am down to 600mg x3.Gives me terrible dizziness and headaches during the | I am still on this med, unfortunately, It is the only thing that takes the pain away. | M | 28 | 5 months | 7/13/2004 | 2 | Trigeminal Neuralgia | I keep gaining weight, feel tired after a night's sleep, hungry all the time, stumble and nearly fall often, brain's in a fog, sleepy most of the time. I was on 900mg and told Dr. I could not take it; he said take 2 at night; couldn't do that either, so I cut myself back to 1 at night and still feel bad! Have had this pain for 25 yrs & have decided I'd rather have the pain (& that's really saying something!) than this drug! | This is the third time I've been put on this drug and it gets worse each time. | F | 75 | 5 months | 7/30/2006 | 2 | bipolar II disorder | fatigue, depression, weight gain, blurred vision, weird headaches at the rear base of the skull and behind my ears as well as behind my temples. Irritable bowel syndrome calmed when decreasing dosage from 1200mg/day to 600mg/day. I'm looking to try something new as it just is not helping with my hypomania moods and I feel lethargic on this stuff (which is not my nature) | I've heard and read wonder claims about this drug, but it seems to have done little or nothing for me. | M | 43 | 5 months | 3/8/2006 | 2 | femural lateral nerve damage | Moody, angry, nightmares, dizziness, faint feeling, migraine | I hate this medicine, but I have tried to lower dosage and the prickles and pains in my leg became worse in doing so. My leg nerve damage is a result of abdominal surgery - I woke up from surgery with a numb right thigh. Then after the pain meds from the surgery wore off, my leg started getting stabbing pains and constant pins and needles sensation. I can't even stand to touch my thigh, like even putting on lotion. I was told by a neurosurgeon that this type of nerve damage may or may not heal and if it will heal, the healing time is 12 to 18 months. I had a bad migraine spell about 10 years ago but not again until the last few months on this Gabapentin. Anyone else out there have faint feelings and headaches while on this? Also, has anyone weaned off Gabapentin, and if so, at what rate. I'd like to try it myself without going to the Dr. and paying for him to maybe say reduce dosage maybe 100mg a day and I don't know for how long. But the warning to not stop this medication without talking to your doctor scares me -- like will I have seizure even though I've never had one? And if you slowly wean, are there NO problems? | F | 62 | 5 months 400 3X day | 8/12/2011 | 1 | BECAME VERY DEPRESSED ALMOST SUICIDAL. STILL HAVING BAD EFECTS FROM IT, AFTER STOPPING IT OVER 2 MONTHS AGO. | HOW DO i GET BACK TO NORMALITY. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE .THIS DRUG HAS RUINED THIS YEAR FOR ME. | F | 81 | 5 months 600 3X day | 11/5/2010 | 1 | Spinal stenosis pain | Took at night and sedating effects lasted throughout the next day. Disoriented at night and heightened confusion in my mom with slight dementia | Would not recommend use in the elderly | F | 83 | 5 months 100 mg | 6/1/2019 | 5 | Migraine Prevention | Very little, besides some tiredness and dry mouth when 1st starting. This subsided in a few weeks. | About a dozen previous migraine preventative medications were tried and did little. Hydrocodone/immitrex was the only treatment and those are expensive or not pleasant to take! This is not perfect, but reduces the frequency about 60%, greatly reducing the need for other meds and their side effects. Even though its not perfect it gets a five because it has negligible side effects and little tolerance and withdraw issues if ceasing. | M | 35 | 4 months 300 3X day | 7/25/2015 | 5 | occipital neuralgia | None really except for the first day, I slept till noon. After that I had no sleepiness at all. | Was taking 1800 mg per day for pain, numbness and scalp soreness. It helped immensely and right now am weaning off of it taking 300mg two times daily with no noticeable side effects | F | 54 | 4 months | 6/19/2007 | 4 | depression | M | 25 | 4 months | 3/8/2007 | 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 | neuropathy | affects thought process, foggy or slow thinking. | Neurontin did relieve the pain and nerve tingling in my feet and legs immediately after starting the medication. I didn't notice any side effects at first, but now at 4 months, I feel the loss of memory issues and slow thinking. Maybe it's the age, but I'm not sure. I feel kind of stoned most of the time, but that is not a bad thing in my opinion :) At times the pain comes back, but I can take 2 Aleve and that helps and works well with the Neurontin. | F | 64 | 4 months 300mg 3X day | 3/4/2011 | 4 | RLS/nerve damage in legs | Started with 300mg 2 times a day, and 2400mg at night to combat the RLS. This medicine works pretty well for RLS, and my episode per month have gone down quite a bit. Gabapentin was also invaluable for me when I was withdrawing from Vicodin. It made the opiate withdrawal much more bearable. I only had one uncomfortable incident after taking a larger dose one day; I became very manic, wouldn't shut up, mind was racing, and I felt like I was under the influence of alcohol. This has not happened again, but I do get a noticeable mood lift (almost euphoric) from Gabapentin, and it often makes me feel inebriated. | Works pretty well for RLS, but be careful because you can have a nasty withdrawal if you've been on high doses of Gabapentin for a while. | F | 24 | 4 months | 9/3/2009 |