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 | Pain in lower back, butt, and leg | Felt really tired at first but I think it's getting better everyday. | It has helped the pain a lot for me. I can still feel it but it is very dull. It makes it easier for me to tolerate and I can sleep better at night. | F | 38 | 1 weeks 300 3X day | 11/14/2011 | 5 | Nerve pain | Decrease pain, decrease anxiety/depression,increased libido. | F | 30 | 1 weeks 400 3x | 12/20/2011 | 4 | Fibromialga and nerve pain | Foggy feeling in my head but not bad swelling of hands and feet | F | 52 | 1 weeks 300mg | 3/12/2014 | 4 | Cervical and lumbar DDD | word retrieval problems, unbalanced, more relaxed, better sleep, less pain | I took 300 mg. for 5 yrs., then 600 for a month and now 900/day for the last week. In a month I'll have to increase to 1200 per pain doctor's orders. I'm experimenting to see if I can do this without gaining too much weight. So far, if I don't succumb to hunger, I haven't gained and have actually lost a couple of pounds. We'll see if that can continue. I also walk 12-15 miles/week, even though it still hurts to do so and I stagger like I'm drunk unless I completely focus on just walking and don't look much at the scenery going past. I'll probably have to be on this for the rest of my life and doctors will not prescribe me ANYTHING else to help with pain. | F | 57 | 1 weeks 300 3X day | 9/19/2014 | 4 | RSD Right Leg/L5 - S1 Bulged Disc | Only been on it for a week. So far no real side effects other than feeling a little sleepy the next day, but that was only for about 2 or 3 days. | I have noticed already that if I don't take it one day, the pain comes back immediately. Prescribed 300 mg - 3 x's day but only taking one at night because I don't want to be tired during the day. Injury from car accident & surgeries due to accident. I am very concerned about the weight gain I have been reading about. I don't want that to happen. | F | 38 | 1 weeks | 10/28/2009 | 3 | fibromyalgia | Very weird - but about 30 minutes after dosing with 200 mg, when I rub my very long-haired Persian cat "tiny sparks" fly off him and it shocks us both. This is not imagined. Personally, headaches, frequent urination, buring eyes after only 1 week. I only take 400 mg a day. | A few hours after my first 100 mg dose (!) I was relieved in pain in my back, knee and hand, and could stand up straight and walk which I had not been able to do for months. I am very afraid of any side effects that may be coming, and worried about these headaches continuing, but 2 friends on high doses are telling me these side effects will pass shortly. | F | 58 | 1 weeks | 3/4/2008 | 3 | neuropathic pain, endometriosis, OA | extreme fatigue, insomnia, quick tolerance, slow mental process, paranoia, apetite increase, alcohol intolerance, high feeling, balance issues, weak legs | The first two days I took 100mg/day and was exhausted, sleeping for 12 hrs at a time. I stopped for a few days and then took 50 mg 2x day. It wasn't enough for the pain, so after two days of that I stopped again for a day and took 100mg per day, then upped it up to 150mg/day after two days. I notice I am in a foggy state now and while it helps with the pain, I am afraid that if there is more damage to me from degenerative conditions I won't be able to tell. Also, this drug did not help with balance or weakness issues. I hope to get off this drug soon when I can access naturopathic therapy, massage, etc, if I can on medicaid... I'm scared to live with this pain and have so few options. If I have to continue this drug, I'm worried about needing to increase the dose rapidly to deal with the pain. There are so many drugs that I have problems with, I wish there were other affordable, natural solutions. | F | 28 | 1 weeks | 2/20/2007 | 2 | Neuropathic pains in feet/legs | Can't orgasm!!! | I haven't really taken it long enough to realize any benefit in my pain levels, but the side effects are instant! I can't orgasm on this stuff...wtf? Why doesn't anyone else experience this? | M | 30 | 1 weeks 100 3X day | 5/16/2010 | 2 | vulvoneuritis and fibromyalgia | The drug brought on skin pain-- like open sores. I discontinued it even though my doctor said it was obviously | F | 64 | 1 weeks | 4/18/2004 | 1 | Neuralgia in feet, legs | The only side effect was sudden and radical absence of ability to orgasm. That was bad enough to stop taking this PRONTO!!! The difference was so severe and noticeable. | I work in the erotic business so absence of an orgasm would pretty much ruin my career. I can't really speak to how effective it is--my neuralgia was not nearly bad enough to warrant this horrifying and depressing side effect. I've been off it four days and praise be my ability is coming back--somewhat. I am just praying it returns to full strength soon! | F | 47 | 1 weeks 100MG 2X day | 10/25/2011 | 1 | Sleep | This is the most worthless medication I have ever taken. Might as well take nothing. It is completely worthless for me. Did not help me sleep at all. | M | 49 | 1 weeks 300 Mg | 5/24/2013 | 1 | nerve damage crps from arm injury | Chest pains, cannot sleep, swollen ankles and legs, the worst headaches I have ever had...I feel like I'm gonna snap at any moment..dizzy..been on it for 1 week 600mg a day..just flushed it down the toilet..If I have any withdrawls they cannot be as bad as this..also intensified the burning in my arm and hand..and now have major pain in other arm and hands | DO NOT TAKE THIS...BAD MEDICINE | M | 51 | 1 weeks | 2/1/2006 | 1 | chronic pain in my back | I wake up feeling 50 lbs. heavier. My back feels like a truck ran over me. Tired all day. No enthusiasm. My pain has increased by 100%. I have to take more of my normal pain med.s just to be able to move around. I spend more time in bed on my back than ever. Normally when I lay down I feel no pain, But now I'm hurting alot while laying down. The first coulple of days I was feeling much better - by the 5th day I was miserable and have been ever since. I refuse to take this drug any more. This is unactceptable to feel this lethargic. I'm angry at my doctor for not informing me of these potentional side effects. I do know of a natural product that has amazeing healing properties and will not have anyone. Its an antioxident - the second highest in pureity and is only developed in Europe. I've seen living proof of some amazeing things it WILL DO! Its known as the TRUE FOUNTAIN of YOUTH. The write ups on this product you take daily in a capsule (have to take a certain mg. at least - never been any, and I mean any adverse write ups. I have taken it for years and I can attest to it. Email me and I will tell you where to find it. Its not expensive. AND, you can read absolutely everything written about it. One little secret about it is that I have never been sick in the last 7 years. Even when I have stopped it for a while and then started back up. It reverses the ageing process from the inside out. Arthritis and DJD (degenerative joint diease, etc. PS: I've had a career in the med | F | 52 | 1 weeks 600/daily | 12/25/2011 | 1 | Manic Depression | Inability to formulate speech, apathetic, no ability to feel anything. | I can not get the words I want to use to communicate out of my head. How is this supposed to help someone? I feel worse now that when manic. I'd rather be manic and sick that fell like this. At least before this med I could talk and feel my emotions. I'm taking myself off of this and I'm not going to take anything. Neurontin was the last drug for me to try. I've tried them all for Manic Depression and I'm too sensitive for meds. There is no way in hell I'm doing ECT like my prescriber suggested. | M | 32 | 1 weeks | 4/25/2008 | 1 | pain | Intense rage and anger with homicidal thoughts. Dizzy in a fog and hungry. | M | 58 | 1 weeks 300mg 1X day | 4/6/2014 | 1 | Possible nerve problem | Crying everyday for no reason, made me irritated and caused leg pain. | I had to stop taking it after 2 weeks. Terrible drug. My wife said I was a different person. | M | 51 | 1 weeks 100 | 6/9/2016 | 1 | diabetic nurotophy | my father took neurontin for 2.5 year. He had severe mood swings, fell over things, very depressed, committed suicide on april 18, 2003. gun shot wound to head | this is a very powerful drug. I know with in my heart that this drug distroyed my father. He was a retired police officer and my heart. I watched this drug distroy him. He had a stroke, heart attack, had to have his left kidney removed all after taking neurontin. | M | 80 | 900 days | 8/20/2005 | 1 | broken neck | Started at 300 and steadily increased it to take 4 600mg 4 times a day. Did not help pain at any level. Started to loose vision and hearing and it was increased. Became paranoid and began acting aggressive and landed in jail over a property dispute. My lawyers questioned my use of the doctor (Robert Cocran, Nashville pain specialist) and his use of Neurontin. I objected because my sister who is also a doctor in the same building said he was good. I have two college degrees and began not to be able to finish complete sentences or think straight. | Then one night I hear Dr. David Franklin on TV saying the drug is a scam and was marketed for 11 unapproved uses by inventor ParkeDavis and knew it was destroying peoples lives and could not take it anymore and spilled the beans after PD sold it to Phiser. Phiser knew this and still markets it. The only use it was ever approved for is Grand Mal siezures and only in conjuction with another drug. Now they have added Herpes Pain. If you are getting it for anything else, you are being scammed; you are not even a Guina Pig, your a Big Pharma punk. They do not care. I pray everyday to God for justice and he says to read the 10 commandments to see what he is doing to all responsible. God states he will punish their 3&4th generations. He states he gets results when he starts punishing and making sick their grandchildren and great grandchildren because the rich will throw their own children under the bus but knows he strikes a nerve when he takes it out on the grandchildren but this of course takes time, years and leaves it up to the victims to warn the rest of us. BE WARNED! Check the 10 Commandments you are told are the 10 Commandments. God says many churches leave out the part about HIM getting your grandchildren and HOPE that it is not true. God says he would not of told Moses a lie. God states HOPE is the last evil in pandoras box. How is HOPE evil? It is evil when man places his faith in what others tell him to believe is the truth. instead of following his God given intuiti | M | 48 | 400 days 2400 4X day | 6/29/2011 | 3 | Shingles pain | Thinking process has been 'slowed' - feel drowsy by the end of the work day. (More so than usual) Normally had a very high energy level. Take it along with 25mg of Topamaz at night | I still have a lot of pain and itching in my scalp and forehead from the Shingles...it's been since last August. | M | 62 | 270 days 300 2X day | 6/15/2010 | 2 | peripheral neuropathy | I have pins and needles in my feet which occur every month or so. When I first took nuerontin, 200 mg, the pins and decreased but not enough. Doubled my dosage to 400 mg and still had several episodes of pins and needles. Decided to take myself off of Neurontin and am presently having a severe, mean, ugly case of pins and needles. It has lasted for 4 days now an my nerves are wrecked. I hope it starts to subside soon cause I'm ready to fight anything. Constant agony on the pins and needles for now. | M | 120 days | 11/13/2008 |