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 | Post Mastectomy Pain Syndrome | Started taking 300mg at bedtime 5 days ago for an excruciating, burning pain that I have in the area of my surgery. (I have been on morphine for 9 months, and I'm becoming tolerant.) I've experienced an INTENSE headache within 1 hour after waking up every day from the 3rd day after taking this medicine. I feel very dizzy and my thinking is clouded. It's scary. I plan to ask my Neurologist to try something different. | I have been presecribed this in the past for neuropathy related to shingles. It had no effect whatsoever at that time, except for making me dizzy and unable to think clearly. | F | 46 | 5 days | 9/23/2007 | 1 | back pain | I felt like I was swimming in GLUE. This medicine is awful. | F | 33 | 5 days | 3/28/2007 | 1 | Nerve pain | Terrible diarrhea, cramps, nausea and burning in chest. Bad anxiety. Dizzy, loopy, anxious, felt high and drunk. Head stuffed and ears muffled. Never felt this way before taking this rotten drug. 5 days is enough of this drug. Don't take it unless you like feeling like shit! | M | 46 | 5 days 100mg | 12/12/2016 | 1 | pinch nerve | Nightmares dreams were crazy | F | 53 | 5 days 200mg bid | 6/10/2015 | 1 | right knee replacement-nerve pain | dizziness, short term memory loss, severe mood swings, weight gain, minor chest pains, sleepless nights, blurry vision, kidney pain, I showed symptoms of just about every side effect. | This medication has not been of much help to me. I first went to the pain management doctor for pain management due to a failed partial knee replacement, a revision and then a total replacement all in a total of exactly 7 months to the day. This pain doctor convinced me that I had nerve damage to my leg and I agreed to have the lumbar injection, which did not work. I've refused to have any more lumbar injections and now this pain doctor has decided that he couldn't help me. Neurontin has been a nightmare for me. The side effects are horrible to the point of feeling like I was going crazy. I have now started taking myself off of them, and the side effects are slowly going away. It was truely the worst thing I have gone through as far as taking medications. | F | 53 | 5 days | 4/3/2008 | 5 | Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome & OA Pain | Drowsiness after 3rd dose of the day. | So far so good, I'm able to live not just exist. Ehlers-Danlos is life long, though I was diagnosed at 30. I tried various other meds over the years for the chronic pain/fatigue/joint problems etc.., nothing worked until Gabapentin. I was reliant on crutches, I barely went out etc... I'm on low dose to start but already I can walk unaided & almost pain free. I'm sleeping better too. So far for me it's a miracle drug. | F | 35 | 4 days 100 3X day | 8/25/2014 | 3 | Fibromyalgia | I feel like I am taking a combination of "speed" and codeine. My body still hurts a lot, sometimes my mind feels sort of "swimmy", it keeps me awake which is causing me to move around more and end up hurting more. My mood is improved, however I find that I am also constantly clenching my jaw involuntarity and it is starting to hurt. Also my joints (especially knees) hurt and didn't before. | F | 42 | 4 days 300mg 3X day | 3/19/2010 | 2 | Nerve pain in legs | On 4th day, awoke from sleep with CRUSHING CHEST PAIN! Thought I was having a heart attack. | Looking up side effects, I realized it was the Neurontin that caused the chest pain. EKG showed no heart attack. Stopped immediately. | F | 70 | 4 days 300 mg 2X day | 12/30/2013 | 2 | Nerve Entrapment Pain & poss MS | took at night, first morning, whoah, hang-on the world is spinning which lasted a few hours, didn't dare drive, extremely tired. Leg didn't hurt though. Second morning, less dizziness, still extremely tired, could drive though. Third night, had to take 2 pills 6 hours apart to get relief. Fourth night, refuse to take more than 1 pill as surgery is in two days and tomorrow I won't take it. | Interesting how quick the dose had to be increased to get relief. Other pain areas that are from irritates nerves settled down immediately and stayed settled down as long as they were not re-irritated. Was somewhat a staggering drunk the first two days on it and took several hours to feel awake. After taking the dose, the problem area became almost locked in position, not wanting to bend normally. Somewhat dulls one's perceptions and releases inhibitions, where I did stuff I ought not to have, nothing criminal, but I may later regret those actions. After halving the previous night's dose, the pain is as if I had taken nothing at all. | F | 31 | 4 days | 11/16/2009 | 1 | Chronic pain, 4 herniated discs | Extreme exhaustion. (It was almost like I went comatose every night...could've slept through a hurricane) Coordination issues (could barely walk, very dizzy), lowered libido, unable to achieve orgasm...took a week after discontinuing the med to regain sexual function. | Don't let your doctor push you onto this drug, especially if you don't believe you have nerve pain. This drug shouldn't even be on the market. Too many Cons, not a single Pro. No pain relief whatsoever. | F | 30 | 4 days 100x3 | 6/4/2016 | 1 | leg pain | I felt like I was floating out of my body, tired, was talking to dead people, and could not sleep. I felt very afraid, weak and moved like a zombie. It did not stop the pain, burning, numbness and tingling in my legs. | F | 55 | 4 days 300 MG 2X day | 9/30/2010 | 1 | Neuropathy/ entire rt side | I was quite frankly, stoned. I was lightheaded, dizzy,tired and zombie like while on it. I developed purple circles under my eyes and looked like a junky. | F | 59 | 4 days 100mg 3X day | 1/8/2011 | 1 | Bipolar agitation | Easier to describe side effects I DIDN'T have. 1) Horrible vivid dreams; 2) drugged, confused, zombie-like state; 3) crippling short term memory loss and confusion; 4) Double vision | Paranoia isn't part of my bipolar diagnosis, but after being prescribed Neurontin, I accused my doctor of trying to kill me. An exaggeration, but the experience was so overwhelmingly negative for me, I simply can't conceive of this drug helping anyone. In fairness, I tried Topamax and Seraquel too, and neither had benefits close to justifying their horrible side effects. (Seraquel turned me into a manic frothing animal, and topamax made me stupid and fearful.) | F | 43 | 4 days | 12/21/2005 | 1 | Diabetic Neuropathy | Dr. prescribed for neuropathy in feet. I also had had a stroke and a severe staph infection plus a strong diabetic episode 2 months earlier. Had been thru home physical therapy & could complete all recommended leg/ankle/foot exercises. After taking Gabapentin (Neurontin) for just a few days, I almost could not walk. Feet & ankles seemed frozen. Had to have weeks of additional phys. therapy to be able to rotate ankles again, walk without walker (graduated to a cane), flex feet up to toes, etc. Also experienced dizziness, nausea, just feeling awful. That was in Nov. 2006; even now, my balance is poor, cannot walk without a cane. | My Dr. doesn't really believe there was a problem, noted something minor in my file. Even the physical therapist described my muscles as "waking up." I would recommend extreme caution when taking any of this type of medication. | F | 64 | 4 days | 1/14/2008 | 5 | anxiety, insomnia | Slight brain fog in AM. | I just started taking it again, but I have taken Neurontin before, for longer periods, for anxiety and insomnia. For me it is a wonder drug. I feel happier, more relaxed, and I sleep thru the night. I don't need much, just 100 mg. at bedtime. Those of you who are experiencing side effects might try reducing your dose. They do make 100 mg. pills. | F | 48 | 3 days 100 mg 1X day | 2/25/2011 | 4 | neuropathy fm chemical exposure | Started at 800 mg only at night, as I felt disoriented and did not want to drive on it. After a year I was able to take it during the day time. At first it made me feel very drunk, but that effect generally does not appear until very late at night now. It helped with my sleeping a TON, as my leg pain becomes quite terrible toward the end of the day. Now I take 1800 mg a day, and that seems to work. | I don't know what I would do without this drug. The peripheral neuropathy in my legs is very pronounced--to the point that, before I was prescribed neurontin, I would find myself pounding my legs with my fists and considering suicide. The neurontin has a "numbing" effect on my nerves in general, making it much easier to function. I do have to say, though, that I CAN drop off anytime, anywhere. | F | 42 | 3 days | 6/10/2007 | 3 | pain ed | Very hard penis | M | 41 | 3 days 600 | 4/24/2012 | 3 | Chronic thoracic back pain | Neurontin makes my pain medication work better. I can tell a difference if I don't take it with my other meds. However between this & the Estradiol I'm having to take after complete hysterectomy. I've gained 25 pnds & my hair is now falling out by the handfuls. That wasn't happening before I had to add the Estradiol though ! I need a different HRT bad ! | F | 41 | 3 days 300mg | 9/29/2014 | 1 | Migraines | Acne Dry patched skin Unbalanced Slurred speech Angered Weight gain Heaviness Exhaustion the next day Time slowed | I would not recommend this to anyone with migraines | F | 20 | 3 days 300 | 1/22/2016 | 1 | Migraines | Taken at night. Get sleepy quite quickly. Then sleepy and groggy all day. Horrible, horrible diarrhea, and the ringing in my ears is defening and never stops. Feeling of electric shocks shootinh through my head all the time. Dizzy and brain fog, agitated and short tempered. I am just not myself | F | 49 | 3 days 300 mg | 7/30/2017 |