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 | Trigeminal Neuralgia | Dizziness, Fatigue - very hard to get up in the morning no matter how many hours of sleep I get - never like that before, blurred vision, mental fog, lose train of thought in middle of sentence, can't seem to find the words I am looking for, muscle pain, find myself clenching my fists, just tired all the time - makes parenting very difficult! | Has helped my TN pain tremedously, I cut my dose in half because I do not like living with these side effects, buy my TN pain was so bad that I went back up to my original dose. If there is another drug that will work for you, I would not take this one. I feel desperate - I need to take it right now until I can find a safer alternative. I feel I don't have much quality of life. | F | 41 | 45 days | 1/29/2006 | 3 | leg numbness/tingling | At 600 and then 900 mg/day, very slight memory problems and mixing up letters and words. When starting and increasing dose, drowsiness & dizziness, but these faded to quite mild within a couple of days. In summary, pretty mild effects compared to some other drugs I've taken, though my dose is fairly low. | I'm not yet sure how much this is helping my leg pain/numbness/tingling (secondary to a spine injury) because these things improved somewhat while taking oral steroids just before starting the Neurontin. The improvement has held while I've been on the Neurontin. I'll have a better idea of the benefit when I further increase the dose (as my doc recommended), or when I someday taper off and quit. | M | 50 | 45 days | 9/19/2009 | 2 | Fibromyalgia?, Diabetic | extreme pain and full feeling in ankles, knees (especially), elbows and wrists, shooting pains down legs and feet, and from elbows to fingertips,vivid dreams, crying when waking up from dream almost nightly, frequent urination (almost nightly), tachycardia, changing of clothes nightly one to two times, most recent symptom bleeding from vaginal area | I originally started taking this about a month and a half ago 300 mg 3 capsules at nighttime for general achy flu like aching all over my body. well this drug has resolved that problem, but the problems listed above have all occurred since taking neurontin about six weeks ago. The biggest one that my doctor's have noticed is that my heart rate has increased from 80 something to 135. Gave blood two weeks before started taking neurontin, and my heart rate was ok, not even mentioined. since then have had two or three doctors mention the fast rate of my heart, spent seven hours in emergency room (told to go there by my endocrinologist) and had almost every test imaginable, which came back normal, and all I received afterwards was that they didn't know what was causing my fast heart rate, and to have my endo check to see if could be my meds causing it. Went to give blood a few days ago, and was almost disqualified because my heart rate was too high. The pain that I was having before w | F | 52 | 45 days | 9/7/2008 | 2 | Fibromyalgia | none | 900mg 3x a day. Didn't even feel like I took it. No effect. | F | 19 | 45 days | 2/7/2009 | 2 | Possible neuropathic pain due to di | Anxiety, agitation, weight gain | Started with 300 mg a day and slowly titrated to 900 mg a day. While titrating I had very bad morning anxiety and agitation, and I gained 2 kg in just two weeks. My neuropathic pain didn't subseed maybe because it wasn't neuropathic at all. I h gave it a try but it wasn't for me. | F | 44 | 45 days 300-900 MG | 5/30/2019 | 1 | severe, almost daily migraines | I felt like I was drugged out of my mind. It felt like my brain had been turned off or at least knocked into slooooow motion. It was very difficult to think, talk, and even walk. It felt like the medication side effects were worse than the disorder. I could not function at all, and wanted to sleep nonstop. | It did nothing to eliminate or reduce the severity or frequency of my migraines. | F | 41 | 45 days | 2/8/2005 | 2 | Insomnia, fibromyalgic pain | Extreme brainfog, unable to focus on anything, slurred speech | I was taking this along with Remeron (anti-dep) and the combination was absolutely awful. I told the doc that I didn't want to take Lyrica because of the dementia it causes while on it, but he still insisted that I try this (similar to Lyrica and apparently also lowers the energy level) in order to sleep better and without benzodiazempam. I think it's a poor sleeping aid (I couldn't do without the benzo anyway) and the total loss of vitality and ability to think and talk during the day makes it totally not worth the trouble. I prefer the benzos to any of these strange alternatives, they give me no side-effects, I sleep well, feel better as a result, and have no trouble to take a break. | F | 42 | 40 days | 12/7/2008 | 1 | RSD | 2-3 times a day, I would have these episodes where I would either just fall asleep all of the sudden or become so weak/tingly in my arms/head that I couldnt move at all. They lasted about 2-3 hours each time. I've weened off the medication 4 days ago and its still happening. It never happened before neurontin and my doc says thats it. | F | 18 | 40 days | 9/20/2004 | 5 | stiffness and pain in neck-Headache | extreme pain in left foot (foot was highly damaged in an accident which began all of my problems) | I took my very first pill (300 mgs before going to bed) and three hours later I got up to go to the bathroom and could immediately sense that I was better. The stiffness and pressure in my neck which led to debillitating headaches was miraculously better. I continued to take the 300mgs each evening for a week as the doctor advised. I then increased the dosage to 300mgs morning and evening and developed neuro pain in my left foot. The pain would not occur with weight bearing but when lifting the foot off of the ground. I could not believe that the neurontin was the cause and the pain persisted. Finally I cut back to the entry level dosage and the foot pain lessened. I did another test with increasing the dosage and the foot pain returned and is still with me. I will decrease the dosage again possibly even going below the 300mg level...perhaps trying 100mgs three times daily. I hope to find a level that will allow the improvement in the cervical and cranial neuropathy but preven | M | 66 | 30 days | 5/28/2006 | 5 | pain | none | M | 84 | 30 days | 2/26/2005 | 5 | Severe pain in left side of face | None to speak of. | This drug has improved my quality of life significantly. Previous pain was so bad I could not get out of bed some days. Was eating migraine headache pills and sudafed just to function. Dr.'s kept treating me for sinus issues. ENT said had none and sent me to neurologist. Bonus is that I know sleep through the night. Feel so good have started running again. Feel great! | F | 41 | 30 days 400 mg 1X day | 6/18/2011 | 4 | hot flashes | dizzyness. especially if I am exercising | F | 46 | 30 days | 6/29/2005 | 3 | chronic pain | fatigue | M | 36 | 30 days | 7/30/2004 | 3 | Migraine and Back Pain | I had a full head of hair 30 days ago and now I am completely bald. | I haven't had any pain since taking this drug | M | 48 | 30 days 600 MG 3X day | 11/18/2010 | 3 | neuropothy, leg pain | blurred vision, possible joint pain in left knee, occasional nausia, sometimes high (euphric) feeling | Med helps at first but I have to keep taking more and more, takes the edge off but doesnt kill the pain and wake up several times through the night due to back and leg pain. Lyrica is better but I have no insurance and cant work much so I take this becouse it is cheeper | M | 42 | 30 days 900 3X day | 5/23/2012 | 3 | Bipolar / Psychlothymia | Wow! You know that feeling when you've just had three beers on an empty stomach? I'm just starting to increase my dosage of Gabapentin up to a functional level. And boy, does it make me feel GOOD! Starting yesterday, I've been taking 600 mg in the morning and 300 mg at night. I've lost all interest in eating until about 7pm at night. Yesterday, I spent all day reading weblogs. Today, I spent two hours at a computer store playing a demo game on the X-Box. When I stepped away from the machine- Whoah! I felt higher than a kite! But now I'm starting to crash and mellow-out. I had a couple donuts to eat. Maybe I feel this way because my blood sugar is low. Maybe I'm just acclimating to the medication. I've only been at this dosage for two days. But I'll tell you-- two years on Lamictal didn't do a damn thing for me except make my hands ache and twitch and give me a cyst on my tongue when it swelled-up. Gabapentin.... Oh, that the stuff... WHeeEEeEEeeeee! | I've been on a non-functioning dosage for about a month now to build up to a full dose. I've been at 700mg for two days. | M | 35 | 30 days | 2/3/2006 | 3 | shingles | Moody, sleepy ,bitchy.forgetful | My husband is taking 3600 a day... What is this going to do to him ? I'm very concerned. They really dont say you cant drive while taking the meds but he is out of it most of the time.. | M | 47 | 30 days | 4/30/2009 | 2 | Periferal and centr. neurop. pain | Difficulties breathing/Dysphnea. | Neurontin helped me for almost a month, but ended up with giving me problems breathing. So I had to drop it, unfortunately. Because it gave me great pain relief. | M | 33 | 30 days | 12/14/2009 | 2 | All over body pain | Initially I experienced improved sleep and improved ability to fall asleep. Then I had a few days in which my pain was greatly reduced, had a lot more energy, and my mood was elevated for the first time in many months. Then, suddenly I started to spiral downward. Pain went up, sleep worsened, had lots of nightmares but what was worse was severe and dangerous mood changes. I was suicidal, desperate, impulsive, crying all of the time. Unfortunately, I can no longer take this drug and am disappointed since it looked very promising at first. | F | 43 | 30 days 400 mg 1X day | 1/16/2012 | 1 | Nerve pain | Weight gain but no neurological side effects like foggy brain | Didn't do a thing for the nerve pain at this relatively low dosage (200 mg 2xper day) but DID cause me to gain 6 pounds in a month. Maybe it would work better for the nerve pain at a higher dosage but I can't afford to keep gaining weight. I hope it works better for you. | F | 60 | 30 days 200 mg 2X day | 3/30/2013 |