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 |
| 1 | Leg pain | Where to start? Was prescribed for elderly (but very independent pre Neurontin) father. Pain escalated severely. Added pain where there was none before Neurontin. Confusion. All kinds of mental/mood/sleep problems that were NON EXISTANT prior to taking. What a bad drug this was. Wow! | My 80 year old father was taking this. Within one day, he was a different person. For the worse. Confusion, mood changes and his pain went from moderately bad to off the charts crippling in just one week on this med. Suddenly he couldnt even drive a car (pain and brain). Could barely stand up. He was bedbound within 4 days of this 'miracle' drug. Just wiped him out in every way, physically and mentally. I'd be very careful with this med, esp. for the elderly but even if younger. It's potent and when I tried to take him off after just one week, wow, he fell apart even more for about 5-6 harrowing days. I guess these were withdrawls, after only 1 week? He had sudden severe headaches when coming off. Disoriented, agitated, couldn't sleep a wink. He had NONE of these before the drug. None. He was a mess. Scary scary stuff. | M | 80 | 7 days | 6/29/2006 | 1 | herniated disk c5c6 | dizzines, pin and needle sensation in all my back and tingling in the fingers. Also burning feeling in my back after taking 900 mg daily for one week | F | 54 | 7 days | 11/25/2008 | 1 | Chronic pain, autoimmune neuropathy | This was my second attempt at taking this drug. Years ago I took a much larger dose and stopped because it made me literally freak out. I agreed to try it one more time at a much lower dose. On the 7th day I bumped up the dose as directed and went to bed. Woke up and felt afraid. I was groggy but agitated and felt like I wanted to punch or hurt my partner. That scared me terribly. I am a gentle person. I was pacing back and forth. I felt very afraid and crazy. I called pharmacy and my doc. Was told to stop immediately. Scariest reaction EVER. Incidentally, my nerve pain was worse during the 7 days. Feel much better today but can't wait until this med is out of my system completely. | Horrible! Made me feel afraid of myself. | F | 48 | 7 days 100 1X day | 5/6/2018 | 1 | Lyme disease | Headache, dizziness, blurred/double vision , stuttering speech, memory issues, confusion , SEVERE acne | Don't take this!!! Only took 100mg at night for a week and had severe confusion, speech and vision issues. Already have these symptoms I from my Lyme disease . SO not worth it. Same effects with lamictal. Don't take these meds if u have Lyme disease cuz they will mess u up even more cognitively!!!!! | F | 21 | 7 days | 3/28/2017 | 1 | Nerve pain | Anxiety, poor balence, rash, itching, blurred vision, swelling of face -feet-hands, feeling sick, rapid heartbeat. | For me neurotin was horrible! No help just added to my problems. | F | 7 days 100mg 6X day | 3/18/2017 | 4 | anxiety, opiate, benzo withdrawl | side effects included some blurred vision, lazyness, hunger | it really helped me out long term as far as staying clean and stopping the head aches and anxiety associated with benzo withdrawl. i had a seizure when i was taken off 6mg Xanax a day that was leagally prescribed. then i was put on 900mg.neurontin 3xday and it has helped me stay sane since discontinuing the xanax regement. It also helped to some degree coming of strong opiates. drug has helped a lot with anxiety associated with these problems. | M | 26 | 6 days | 2/3/2008 | 3 | neck pain | Bad dreams,mood swings,sleepy,deep pain...not as bad. I can move my neck at least. Feel drunk,will this stop? | F | 43 | 6 days 1-2at bed | 6/23/2013 | 2 | Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia & MS | Weight gain (about 20 pounds, but I also quit smoking at the same time), major flareups of IBS, chronic diarrhea once I reached a dose of 600 mg 4 times per day, abdominal pain. | Unfortunately this med didn't help either the face pain or the peripheral neuropathy I have from MS, or I might have put up with the side effects just to have some relief. When my face really flared I felt like I wasn't taking anything. The withdrawal symptoms were *exactly* like opiate withdrawals. | F | 33 | 6 days | 12/18/2007 | 2 | anxiety and nerve pain | constipation, bloating, diarrhea when eaten with food, no energy, munchies almost like when stoned | didnt help much with anxiety. helped with pain a bit but with all the side effects no thanks. | M | 26 | 6 days | 2/3/2007 | 2 | Nerve pain from spine | After only 6 days I had to wean myself off because I gained 6 lbs thanks to my severe hunger pains in my upper stomach area. Even after eating the hunger pains barely went away.. I tried water, I tried protein, I tried sugar, I tried carbs, and nothing worked until I started weaning off. The nerve pain for which I received this medication was less pain and discomfort then this medication and just not worth it. The nerve pain did dwindle a little bit, but I will never take it again | F | 51 | 6 days 100 1X day | 8/13/2022 | 1 | bulging disc lower back &leg pain | constipation, gas, always tired as to where I could not work or drive , ringing of the ears | made leg pain unbearable ! why should anyone pay for this poison! | M | 58 | 6 days 300MG 3X day | 7/25/2014 | 1 | My nerves in my hand | My hands shake and I drop everything I can't even use the phone but was on 400mg now I am on 600mg and that when the shaking started | F | 51 | 6 days | 7/27/2015 | 1 | sevier nerve pain in legs. | Memory loss, agitation, extreme tiredness, sores on mouth and sore throat thought was getting sick so took longer then got so bad that stopped taking med started coughing up skin from throat it hurt worse than tonsel taken out couldn't eat for 4 days breathing problems lungs felt heavyand short of breathe been a couple weeks off it and so short of breathe can't walk 150 yards without sitting down. My family told me not to tell this one but I amnd it made me depressed and I got so hostile and aggressive I got a knife and held my husband hostage while I gripped cause I felt he wasn't listening. Thank GOD he knew it was the medicine making me that way. Looking back it has almost scared me out of taking any medicines it made me crazy it scares me to remember how I felt. I also got suicidal. | This is very dangerous medicine. I am so worried now knowing medicine can really make you want to die or hurt someone else. My throat still hurts and now I can't hardly breathe I feel restricted and my lungs ache and are heavy. I walk some or go out in heat then I can barley breathe I pray this goes away. I also still feel depressed and what I did on it makes it worse. I am so glad my husband knew it was the medication that did it and reacted in a way that made it better instead of worse. I could be in jail and my whole life ruint and his to it made me feel like i had every right to do it and it was over forgetting to put ice in the cooler. I pray for anyone who takes this. I also coughed up big pieces of skin from my throat. Sores stayed on my mouth til a few days ago. I have never had sores on skin anywhere. Hey but it did take my pain away worth it? ( you decide).... | F | 38 | 6 days 300 mg 1X day | 6/2/2011 | 5 | Fybromyalgia + Spinal Stenosis | None | Immediate relief from back, neck and leg pain and don't feel like a zombie like I did on amytriptylene. So far this has been nothing short of a miracle for me. I appreciate that it is early days but so far it's brilliant. I am hoping that I don't develop a tolerance and end up on mega mgs daily. My main concern is weight gain as I did have a craving for sweet stuff last night, fingers crossed it was a one off due to high level of activity yesterday, not possible previously due to pain. | F | 59 | 5 days 300 3X day | 8/31/2013 | 5 | trigeminal neuralgia | dizziness, trouble concentrating, a kind of | at 2700 mg per day intolerable pain is GONE, side effects can be tolerated if WILLING to push through them. well worth that effort in exchange for living pain free. | F | 44 | 5 days | 10/17/2004 | 4 | back and nerve pain and tingling | I have felt very "high", a bit dizzy but wow!!! Pain is so much less and I can sleep at night, better at least. My hand would shake and that had stopped too! So far, so good. | I am hoping it continues to work for me. I was so disabled by my pain. I am walking better too! | F | 58 | 5 days 30 mg 3X day | 6/1/2013 | 3 | Shingles | Feeling like I'm loopy and drunk. Stomach problems, headache. | Helps with the pain and itchiness | F | 53 | 5 days | 7/9/2017 | 2 | Carpal tunnel pain, pain in arms. | Feel drugged 3 hours from taking. diminished clear thinking. Feel like I am floating outside my body. Feel ready to pass out. Vivid dreams. Can sleep through my alarm clock. Almost late for work. Increased clumsiness. | No noticeable reduction to pain. Supposedly I am to take it 2x daily after day 3 and then after day 6 3x daily, but no way will I. I don't like the feeling I get after taking it at night, so nope can't imagine wanting to feel that way during the day and at work. | F | 33 | 5 days 300 1X day | 9/22/2016 | 2 | 3 herniated disks in lower back | dizziness, SEVERE HAIR LOSS, SKIPPED/MISSING PERIODS, bloating, irritability, pain underneath my feet, blood-shot/red eyes, nausea | There's NOTHING in the literature about hair loss or missed periods. My OS switched me to this drug after I started having side effects from Lyrica (same ones I mentioned under side effects). Lyrica dosage was 50mg 2-3x/day at first then up to 75mg 2x/day) Neurontin wasn't any better (100mg 3x/day). When I called and told him that the side effects were continuing, if not getting worse, he told me to immediately stop taking it. No weaning off period; just stop it cold. I've been off for a little over 36 hours now, and I'm more dizzy/light-headed and nauseous than I was before. My BP is a little elevated, but not completely whacked out. All of my docs. think the elevated BP is from the stress of these medicines and trying to come off of them. This cure was great at the beginning, but now it's worse than my back pain. Granted I don't mind not having my period; my husband and I aren't having any more kids, but the loss of my hair is a BIG problem! I'm now using narcotics (Vicopro | F | 39 | 5 days | 1/9/2008 | 2 | menopause related neuropathy | sedation, sleepy, can't get out of bed. Now, on it a week, my skin is itching like crazy and I will have to stop. | On a low, low dose, 10mg/day, and it has helped the pain although not as dramatically as nortryptaline did. Very sedating, and I can't deal with the skin itch. | F | 50 | 5 days | 1/31/2005 |