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 | Neuro pain hands/feet - undiagnosed | Increased libido, swollen feet at night, weight decrease, better sleep and sleepiness, unexpected improvement in anxiety and depression - thank God | I think I need to increase it another 100, and take it 3 times a day. I am surprised that the depression and anxiety I have are gone, and the pain is too. I had no idea just how much pain I was in, it was not limited to just my hands,feet, legs. I think that the results of the pain were an increase in anxiety and depression. Only prob is the swollen feet at the end of the day and sleepiness, but ginger tea seems to help with that. | F | 41 | 2 weeks 100 mgs 2X day | 8/6/2010 Patient History | 3 | Avulsed Brachial Plexus C-5 - T-1 | Dry mouth, dizziness, lethargic, foggy - impedes ST memory, constipation, loss of appetite, food tasted differently, and weight loss. Possible muscle tenderness and jaw pain. | Although the side effects are costly, I think it's better than Lyrica. Lyrica was tough to get off of and had too many side effects. I've lost weight from my non-appetite, but I'd rather that then the 30lbs I gained from Lyrica (and it's has a weird "fat-lumpy fatness" about it. The best thing so far that helps with the neurological pain is smoked medical marijuana. Sativa for neurological pain; edibles rarely work for nerve spinal pain, but it does help aches and pains from other injuries. Neurontin helps enough but if I find something that works better, I'll get off in a heartbeat. | F | 35 | 2 weeks 200mcg 3X day | 3/30/2011 | 3 | herniated disc | The only three bad side effects began occurring after one week of dosage. First I began having problems remembering things and expressing myself. Then, I began feeling my head spin. I cannot look to one side because the whole room spins. Also, this causes nausea, I guess this is called vertigo. | F | 40 | 2 weeks 600 2X day | 11/25/2012 | 3 | c56 c67 herniation nerve pain | weight gain brain fog | i ve been on it two weeks and have gain 10 lbs i hope the weight gain stops i am a heart patient and cannot have the extra weight idk if its from fluid any thoughts? | M | 36 | 2 weeks | 5/8/2007 | 3 | atypical facial neuralgia | I've only taken it at night so expected it to make me sleepy. It doesn't. Instead I get a bad stomach ache about an hour after taking that lasts off and on all night. I'm up now because I can't sleep. Feeling slightly hyper, and mouth is DRY! Also very gassy. Defnitely does not make me hungry so far. I could stand to gain about 5 lbs, so that wouldn't be a bad thing. | I've had this painful faciel neuralgia for about 8 years. Pain in the left jaw, upper teeth all the way across, teeth very tender and difficulty chewing, extreme tinnitus, tongue pain is intermittant. It got better after a couple of years, but now has returned with a vengeance. I've only been on Neurontin for a couple of weeks this time. I took it years ago for a short while and didn't like it. Mostly I've been on Ativan for years, but it hasn't been working for me for months now, so I have to try other things for relief. The neurologist gave me a sample of Lyrica, and it was terrible! Scary stuff that I wouldn't recommend. Makes Neurontin seem mild by comparison | F | 72 | 2 weeks | 6/13/2007 | 3 | Nerve pain | Extreme faintness, nausea, extreme weakness with no motivation to move a muscle, and blurred vision (wobbly vision). | I have never had any of these side effects until last night. I was making food and it hit me like a train. All of the sudden I felt like I was about to hit the floor. Immediately felt very flushed and hot as well as the strongest urge to fall asleep. I had not eaten anything all day which was probably a big culprit to these effects. After an hour probably of feeling these effects and vomiting once, with some food eaten, I felt so much better and the tiredness wore off. I did have one alcoholic beverage earlier in the day. | M | 22 | 2 weeks 900mg | 12/6/2016 | 2 | Back pain, trouble sleeping | Sore throat, dry mouth, fatigue, VIVID AND DISTURBING NIGHMARES | This medication did help me sleep, did not help my back though I didn't give it enough time to really help. The nightmares were so unbelievably horrifying that it's not worth it. | F | 24 | 2 weeks 300 mg 1X day | 7/10/2011 | 1 | chronic knee pain | woorsening of depression, anxiety, irratibility, aggression and wild mood swings. | I don't believe it was worth the side effects for the little pain relief I got from the drug. I think it depends on what you're taking it for and the other meds you're on. I'm also taking buphrenorphine (suboxone) for pain and it's awesome. I take 10mg of flexeril 2 or 3 times daily as needed. | M | 50 | 2 weeks 300 3X day | 7/24/2012 | 1 | Migraines, sciatica, fibromyalgia | Horrible headaches. Dizziness. Loss of ability to read or make sense of written words. Confusion. Couldn't wake up. No longer could drive. Too sleepy to leave the house or get dressed. I didn't have any of these symptoms before starting this drug. Didn't notice any improvement of nerve pain and had a migraine every day on this drug as compared to once every week or two prior to starting this drug. | Horrible drug | F | 50 | 2 weeks 2X day | 1/28/2012 | 1 | Treatment of migraines... | Severe and sudden onset of depression, so-called "abnormal thinking," severe fatigue and muscle soreness, dizzyness, nausea, general malaise. | I am a 29-year-old female, prescribed 300mg/nightly of Neurontin for treatment of severe migraines. Almost immediately, the side-effects began -- so much so that those close to me, such as my boyfriend and mom, verbalized concerns about personality changes. I consulted with my mom, a nurse for over thirty years, and checked her drug handbook for side-effects only to find listed the very ones I'm suffering from. After only two weeks on this medication, I've taken myself off. I'm hoping the side-effects will abate in a few days once the drug is out of my system. | F | 29 | 2 weeks | 8/29/2005 | 1 | Restless Legs Syndrome | Depression, short term memory loss, drowsy, loss of motivation, unable to think clear and it did not help my RLS. | After doing further research on this medication I would not recommend taking this unless you have no choice. I think this medication is over prescribed and is dangerous to ones health. There are other medications that work better for painful RLS. | M | 30 | 2 weeks | 10/30/2006 | 1 | sciatic nerve-related leg pain | Edema, blurred vision, brain fog, feelings of nervousness and dread | Did not really help pain and side-effects, especially edema in feet, were very annoying. | M | 49 | 2 weeks | 3/6/2007 | 1 | Post accident injuries | This drug did nothing for the pain. However, it did cause SEVERE irritability, feeling of rage, sleeplessness, nightmares, increased dizziness, mania, and seizures. My doctor prescribed this medication without a full diagnosis. My complaints were pain in my hip, leg, foot, and partial paralysis in the leg, dizziness and fatigue following an accident involving a concussion. I called the doctor after one week of not sleeping and was told to continue taking the medication. After another week I had a siezure, called the doctor again, and was told to continue taking it since it was an anti-seizure medications. I have NO history of siezure, nor does anyone in my family. I disconntinued use after that phone call and sought treatment elsewere. Apparantly the cause of the pain was a dislocated pelvic bone, and physical theropy was all that was needed after the bone was put back in place. The effects of the concussion cleared up on thier own after a few nights of pain-free sleep. | This medication is good for those who truely need it. However, it is being prescribe as a blanket drug. This is a dangerous practice with any kind of drug that alters brain chemistry. Those being prescribe Neurontin for conditions other then the manufactures recomendations should seek a second opinion. A dislocated hip is obviously not a chemical nor neroligical issue. | F | 28 | 2 weeks | 12/14/2007 | 1 | Treatment of migraines... | Severe and sudden onset of depression, so-called "abnormal thinking," severe fatigue and muscle soreness, dizzyness, nausea, general malaise. | I am a 29-year-old female, prescribed 300mg/nightly of Neurontin for treatment of severe migraines. Almost immediately, the side-effects began -- so much so that those close to me, such as my boyfriend and mom, verbalized concerns about personality changes. I consulted with my mom, a nurse for over thirty years, and checked her drug handbook for side-effects only to find listed the very ones I'm suffering from. After only two weeks on this medication, I've taken myself off. I'm hoping the side-effects will abate in a few days once the drug is out of my system. | F | 29 | 2 weeks | 8/29/2005 | 1 | Pinched Nerve | Nausea, Fatigue, Dizziness, Vomiting, Dry Mouth, Insomnia, Nervousness, Anxiuosness, Depression, Black Outs, Momory Loss, Impaired Judgemant, Suicidal. | I was on Neurontin for two and a half weeks. Combined with Valiume and Motrin 800, I went completely insane. Never in my life have I thought about, or attempted suicide. Appearantly one morning I tried. Unfortunatly I dont remember why or how. It wasnt unitl the next day I was in the hospital when I had learned what I had done. When I look back at the time when these drugs where perscribed to me, I wonder if my doctor didnt like me and gave me these drugs so I would off myself. Never again will I take these drugs for any reason. Im told by my new doctor that it was the neurontin that set it off. Neurontin should be renamed to the new rotten. | M | 35 | 2 weeks | 6/5/2008 | 1 | RLS and anxiety | Horrible headaches that lasted days on end and never would go away. Dizziness, depression, horrible mood swings, insomnia, horrible dry mouth. | Do a lot of research before starting this medication, it may help others, but definitively made me feel worse than ever. Stopped taking it two days ago, the first day I didn't take it, headache gone. Still a little head tingle and anxious, but I would rather deal with that than the awful side effects. | F | 30 | 2 weeks 600mg | 2/4/2016 | 1 | diabetic neuropathy | Two weeks of only 100mg, didn't help at all with the pain. Stopped taking it after only 2 weeks and never expected to have any type of withdrawel effects. Then 2days later-BAM!-Extreme FEAR,PANIC ATTACKS,ANXIETY. Felt like I was losing my mind and thought for sure I was going to die. Wanted to jump out of my skin! NEVER AGAIN will I ever take neurontin. | F | 60 | 2 weeks 100mg | 10/22/2015 | 1 | Nerve pain | Nausea, feeling dumb and high | Did not help. Side effects were too much | F | 27 | 2 weeks 300 3X day | 1/8/2015 | 1 | lpr/left vocal fold hemiparesis | Drowsiness,"brain fog", worsening depression | F | 65 | 2 weeks 100 mgs 1X day | 12/22/2013 | 1 | to taper from clonazapam | I take 300mgs 3x. Every time I take it I fall asleep or am so tired I cant talk right. i have flatulance so bad and my stomache is so distended and hard it hurts. Neurontin is not helping with clonazapam taper. | F | 46 | 2 weeks 300mgs 3x | 1/4/2014 |