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 |
| 3 | 3 weeks post shingles | Sleepy, forgetful, mood swings | Cut back to 600mg a day due to the side effects. It is somewhat effective, Dr. says it is the best for shingles pain..Who knows? | F | 59 | 3 weeks | 4/14/2009 | 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 | 3 | back paib | Vision disadvantages shaky hands unconscious slurring of words... Extreme weakness... Drowsiness..+ 10.. Zombie... Moments.. Slurring.. Double vision drowsiness... Don't drive.... Passing out.. Occurs.. Also.. At this Dose. Of 600MG | Don't drive my symptoms kicked in about 5 days of taking it... Big shocker... I was fucked up.. | F | 28 | 3 weeks 600 MG | 12/8/2014 | 2 | Fibromyalgia | Knocks me out. Shortly after taking this medication I can not function, very sleepy and disorientaed and I sleep for hours apon waking I am dizzy and uncoordinated. Great for pain relief but not so great if you want to function normally. I am a single mother and need to work and on this drug it is impossible. | Like many others I have had weight gain increased fatigue, increased muscle spasm, and numbness and tingling in hands and arms. I also have increased muscle weakness and severe pain when I'm awake.I was also on Lyrica and I give that a 1 rating it was a hundred times worse. | F | 42 | 3 weeks | 9/16/2008 | 2 | shoulder/arm pain C6&7 slip discs | hot, red, dry face; constipation & diarrhoea; unpleasant taste in mouth | Update...I still have all the side-effects previously mentioned, but now I also have constipation (and random bouts of explosive diarrhoea!), an annoyingly red face that feels sun-burnt (so red, that my friends have commented on it) - I wasn't sure if I had become sun-senisitive or if it is a kind of rash, so I have been wearing high-factor sunscreen with no difference so I conclude it's a kind of rash. I have a horrible chemical taste in my mouth that is present even while I am eating. I wake up every morning totally exhausted, so I think there is very little benefit from taking this drug. I am finding it impossible to do my job too, which is in turn causing even more anxiety and depression....I think I preferred working in agony and only getting a few hours' sleep a night. | F | 37 | 3 weeks 300mg 3X day | 9/23/2010 Patient History | 2 | MS Acute Pain | Fatigue, Loss of Cencentration, Double Vision, Nightmares - and most importantly I have completely lost the ability to have an orgasm...this is so depressing as I'm only 25! | Started off on 100mg three times a day but this turned me into a zombie. Went down to just 100mg at night. Haven't had any sudden nighttime MS spasms since I've been on it (which is a relief) but I still think I'd prefer to have a decent sex life. I'm going to try coming off it this week and take a chance that I might have the pains. This drug is weird - makes you feel like you're not even human. | F | 25 | 3 weeks | 10/14/2008 | 2 | RSD and nerve pain | Terribly wobbly, unfocused, sleepy but can't sleep more than 5 hours, increased urination, increased joint and muscle pain, bottoms of my feet are killing me since I started taking it, bloated abdomen, constipation. Have only been taking 3 weeks and only on 2nd step of my increase to 900mg. Am seriously considering stepping back down and off. Have had RSD for 1 1/2 years and see no difference in pain in arm but extreme pain in places I never had it before | F | 51 | 3 weeks | 7/10/2004 | 1 | migraines | Word retrieval difficulties, memory loss, dizziness, sleeplessness, feeling like I was in a fog, difficulty concentrating, disorganized, confused... | Not worth the side effects. I plan to discontinue taking this drug. | F | 51 | 3 weeks 900 3X day | 10/11/2010 | 1 | fibromyalgia | dizziness,ear infecion, major loss of concentration or ability to funtion, fatigue, mood swings | I am a student in high school and this drug has really been bad. Ive had ear pain for over a week. I was always a good student i had a 4.0 and always cared about school. Since i started taking it i can't focus at school, im really tired, i spell things wrong, i forget what i learned. I was always good at math and now I cant do basic math. My whole mind set has changed and i feel like i dont care anmore. I get angry and then upset. I stutter. I space out. It hasn't helped for my pain either. It's the worst medication ive ever taken. I am weaning myself off. I hope things go back to normal. | F | 16 | 3 weeks | 9/16/2009 | 1 | For nerve pain | Insomnia, burning skin, extreme head aches, blacking out, became suicidial have never been in my life. Black box warning on it for that. I never believed that could really happen but I ended up being the 1 in 500 it's estimated that it happen to. | I guess this is a good med for a lot of people but not for me. When I first started taking it 100mg 3x daily and decreased 100mg a week. The first week I was so dizzy and would sleep nonstop then the insomnia started I stopped sleeping it is now 7 months later and I sleep 1-3 hours a night before taking it I never had any issue with sleep. As I was weening off my skin started burning and itching the head aches got so severe that I would just hold my head for hours. The worst part was fixation on suicide these feelings were so strong I couldn't believe I was having them. I never suffered from any mental illness in my life. But I still would tell myself there's noway I would ever do that. What happened next would change my life for ever. I guess I was in the mixed of a black out because it was never plained and I don't remember to this day but I ended up hanging myself the cord broke I was told and was on life support for 4 days remembering none of it. Medicines affect people in different ways and it did me very wrong but it may work every well for some people. I know now to take black box warnings serious now because before I did think twice about them. Well that's my story god bless. | M | 37 | 3 weeks 300 | 12/8/2014 | 1 | Sciatic Nerve Pain | My pain increased while taking this drug. I had bad pain before taking neurontin, but I noticed my pain was increasing. After two weeks I could not walk. So I went off it for two days after third week, and I could put some weight on leg. I read that others had same experience, increased pain while on neurontin. It also caused me to leak/dribble urine all day. I know doctors will not believe this, but it is true. | F | 54 | 3 weeks 600mg/day | 8/17/2014 | 1 | post op nerve pain in back | Blurred vision, burning eyes, severe muscle pain in arms and legs, sore throat, depression, irritability, withdrawn, hair loss, weight loss, nausea | Horrible horrible drug. I was prescribed this medication for post op nerve pain after a spinal fusion. I wish that I had never even considered trying it. Although it did help with the pain the side effects were not worth it. Coming off of this medication is hell. I am absolutely dumbfounded by the effects of this drug especially for only being on it for such a short amount of time. I felt dead inside and was in more pain then before starting it. Now 5 days completely off med and still battling withdrawl. Severe depression, shaking, night sweats, restlessness, can't eat, can't sleep. Feels hopeless and while still dealing with the side effects. Please never even consider putting the demon drug into your precious body.. it can destroy you. | F | 40 | 3 weeks 400mg dail | 2/3/2016 | 5 | Nerve pain | I just recently started Neurontin and for the first few days felt no side effects and still had nerve pain on the side of my head due to a vp shunt placement. After 3 day of being on the medication, I felt dry mouth, developed hives on arms, some trouble concentrating and focusing and trouble finding the right words to say, this is only right after taking Neurontin. Besides the side effects, I no longer have nerve pain. | I only take 600 mg a day. I have not had a problem w/weight gain at this time. I feel at this time, the medication is worth taking. But only time will tell. | F | 43 | 2 weeks | 10/6/2009 | 5 | Essential tremor | dry mouth | I am very pleased taken the shakes away and no side effects short of dry mouth. Its very good for me | F | 45 | 2 weeks 300mg 1X day | 11/30/2012 | 5 | Chronic all over joint pain | Foggy head, some dizziness, feeling intoxicated with no slurred speech. More irritability and feeling like I could fall asleep any time of day, interrupted concentration and word search difficulty, especially in morning and if ignore my normal bedtime at night | Nearly 100% pain relief, only had 2 times with breakthrough pain that required pain medication. The breakthrough pain was directly linked to intense weather changes. I think I can deal with the side effects for the true pain relief it offers. | F | 43 | 2 weeks 300 3X day | 8/6/2012 | 5 | Ulcerative Colitis, Depression | NONE, A little sleepy but that went away when I started taking it only after dinner. I am taking 100mg/day after dinner. | I have been on Narcotics for 7yrs. following 2 colon resections, in pain, depressed every day and suicidal. After one week of taking Neurontin I was able to stop taking the Oxycontin 80mg/twice/day with NO withdrawls and I feel happy and content. I was also taking Prozac which did nothing and I have also stopped taking also. This drug is amazing as I have always went into horrible withdrawls when I have ran out of my Narcotics. Additionally the severe abdominal pain and depression is totally gone. Since I have only been on this drug for 2 weeks this may be temporary and extremely unusual. I sincerely hope not. | M | 40 | 2 weeks | 9/23/2002 | 5 | bipolar/insomnia | drowsiness during the day. A little stupified feeling at first. | I am sleeping so well it really is a miracle. Combined with Lamictal, haven't felt this good in years! | F | 35 | 2 weeks | 3/13/2007 | 4 | Neuropathy in legs | It leaves me a little groggy in the morning, but nothing like the sleeping pills that i was taking which only induced sleep. With Neurontin, it keeps my legs still and takes the nerve pain away and relaxes me somehow, without making me feel like I'm drugged. My sleep now is comparable to a natural sleep pattern instead of taking, Ambien, or Xanax, which has terrible side effects, and is not supposed to be taken for any length of time, and just knocks you out. I'm very much pleased so far with the Neurotin. | F | 39 | 2 weeks | 2/12/2004 | 4 | stress | Well the only real side effect is i've had no energy. | F | 39 | 2 weeks | 3/8/2005 | 4 | Nerve pain from cavernous angioma | I've been on this drug for 2 weeks now this time. Tried it a few months back at a lower dose and believed it didn't work but at a higher dose its providing relief and actually improved my mood. I'm talking to people in stores, which I would never do before!! I believe it's working great for me | M | 30 | 2 weeks 600 3/day | 3/28/2013 |