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 | Pseudo seizures | Interaction with other RX. Drowsy. Hard time getting off of it. | F | 34 | 4 years 600 | 7/12/2012 | 5 | Trigeminal neuralgia | Typical dry mouth and headaches at first which improved over time; slight hyperactivity, sometimes with simultaneous drowsiness; some effects on memory. Improved mood and sociability to a considerable degree. | Started Neurontin in 2008 for right side trigeminal neuralgia (nerve pain in the face—sometimes known as the "suicide disease") and have continued taking it since then for this condition as well as for other chronic pain conditions (osteoarthritis of cervical spine, possible concurrent fibromyalgia) and the associated depression that resulted. I had a doctor try to increase my dose to 2400 a day, but got really irritating and irritable, with more memory issues and drowsiness. Went back to 1800 and was fine. It doesn't completely take all the pain away, but rather dulls it. Trigeminal neuralgia causes sharp stabbing pains in the face, and a dull ache is preferable. There were long periods of time in which I couldn't work, and I have lost jobs due to the inability to work caused by this condition. I am a now full time student at community college, planning to apply to a nursing program, and any initial problems with memory and cognition have no longer been a problem. Ironically, the pain relief provided by Neurontin, ibuprofen, and Tramadol for the last year has greatly improved my cognitive abilities and focus. It's as if the fog has lifted. I get straight "A" grades in school, and am generally in a good mood these days, after a decade of depression. | F | 32 | 4 years 600 3X day | 7/5/2012 | 4 | fibromyalgia,chronic back pain | foggy memory, nausea , diarrhea, headaches, dry eyes | I was prescribed this medication to treat my fibromyalgia and lower back pain from 7 back surgeries and a spinal fusion. The original dose was 300 mg 3 X a day and 900 mg at night...I have experienced great success with this drug and am now down to 900 mg at night only. Although there are a few side effects, other than the diarrhea, they are tolerable for the relief I am experiencing.. | F | 55 | 8 months 900MG 1X day | 7/2/2012 | 1 | fibromyalgia | Calf pain, confusion, short term memory loss, low back pain, swelling of feet/hands. | F | 28 | 2 months 300 | 7/2/2012 | 1 | back pain lyme disease | Swelling of legs, hands, and feet. Fuzzy thinking, mouth sores,ears feel full of fluid, sinus swelling,dizzy, skin feels like it is burning | This drug should be take off the market !!! Awful ! After only 3 months I am in a living hell. Trying to cut down to 150mg , twice a day. I feel like a hamster on a wheel spinning. If I don't take it the pain returns, if I do take it I feel awful. Also forgot to mention the awful paste taste in my mouth, that feels like a desert !! DO NOT START THIS DRUG !!! | F | 57 | 3 months 300mg 2X day | 6/30/2012 | 3 | sciatic pain | After only 1 week, Neurontin, at 300 mg a day, helped relieve my troublesome sciatic thigh pain, but I began to feel muddle-brained and impatient. Took myself off after only 23 days, because instead of my usual 'sweetness' I was becoming very impatient especially with my dear husband, 'treating him like a little child', as he expressed it. His darling bride of 48 years was suddenly just not very nice. I considered what he said and realized I was snapping at him numerous times a day because I was just plain annoyed with him and what he said. Now after a week off the pills, I am back to my normal pleasant self he says. | F | 76 | 23 days 2X day | 6/10/2012 | 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 | heavy head feeling in the morning, constipation, some bad dreams. | I think it's helpful for some of my pain and to help me sleep longer at night. Before I started taking this drug, I could only sleep a couple of hours at a time without waking up in pain. However, I still have to take my pain medication with the Neurontin. | F | 52 | 1 years 300mg 3X day | 5/13/2012 | 3 | pain ed | Very hard penis | M | 41 | 3 days 600 | 4/24/2012 | 4 | fibromyalgia & nerve pain: DDD | It does make me sleepy sometimes and I have to be careful not to sit too long or my ankles swell. I don't know that it has helped as much with the fibromyalgia but the nerve pain in my feet...it is a godsend. If I am late for a dose I know it. My feet and legs burn horribly. I tried to wait on getting it refilled and by the end of one day I had trouble walking because of the pain. Its not a perfect drug, but the slightest delay in taking it proves it helps me. | F | 36 | 2 years 600mg 3x d | 3/29/2012 | 1 | cervical disc herniation and radicu | dizzy, i cannot sleep. does not relieve pain. | uesless, worthless garbage medication | F | 51 | 60 days 900mg 1X day | 3/22/2012 | 3 | fibromyalgia to block nerve pain | A lot of eye issues. Darting back and forth, also couldn't read, and became like I had side blinders on. I only saw what was infront of me. Also early am aggitation. I'm not sure how well it helped for pain because other testing was going on. Gave me a lot of energy especially when I increases the dose to 2x daily. 3rd week, I became kind of a cleaning manic. Seemed like an uncontrollable compulsion. So much so I couldn't stop and was injuring body so much. I went back down to 1 pill and no pain relief. Infact worst all over pain week ever! So I'll be done with this med soon. Think dr was a tool. Didn't listen when he also wanted me on a muscle relaxer. They work but give me migraines so I told him I couldn't take it. So no meds that work (he won't allow me my pain pills. So he left me with nothing that works for over a week and made me suffer until next week. Not the dr for me. Pain specialists don't listen. Its not them in pain.But they sure hit my ins hard! | F | 40 | 4 weeks 60mg | 3/15/2012 | 3 | cyst on spine pressing on a nerve | The only side effect that Neurotin seems to have is that I stay so hungry all the time. This is the third time that I have taken this medication, and each time I really put the pounds on. After my 2nd back surgery I was put on 4800mg like I am on now, and my feet swelled so big they looked like they could burst at any moment. This time I am taken lasixs hopefully I will avoid the huge feet this time. | I have been in so much pain that I can't live a normal life, and at the dosage that I am taking now it really does help with the pain. | F | 63 | 3 months 600mg 8X day | 3/5/2012 | 4 | Severe neuropathy | Beneficial results for neuropathy in both legs after 3 back surgies. Advised to take 800mg and go to bed due feeling high and out of it. | F | 58 | 3 years 800mg | 2/28/2012 | 5 | polythemia vera | if you want to stop that itchy skin due to polythemia vera try this medication it is the best. tried hyroxzine ng. TRUST ME THIS IS THE BEST | F | 56 | 2 years 300mg 1X day | 2/20/2012 | 1 | Fibromyalgia pain | Worked a little for pain in beginning but then I began feeling very nutty and had terrible homicidal/suicidal thoughts and mood swings. I became a different person. I hated being on it | F | 37 | 2 months | 2/7/2012 | 4 | mononeuritis multiplex | none | i'm down to 400mg once per day, medication still effective. great pain killer for neuropathy. | F | 26 | 4 months 400 mg 4X day | 2/3/2012 | 3 | nerve pain, anxiety | At the dose I take none. | I have 2 issues with this drug. One; tolerance builds up fast! I literally built up a tolerance to it in just a few weeks and the good feeling went away and the pain all came back. 2nd issue is I can't go higher then 300mg total without feeling brain-dead and all herpa-derp. Occasionally I'll take a higher dose if the pain is too much but considering how fast tolerance builds with this med (at least with me) I always go back down to my original dose since I know taking extra will help some. It does help with my anxiety a bit along with muscle weakness and its better then some of the other alternatives I've tried so I keep taking it. | M | 32 | 3 months 100 3X day | 2/2/2012 | 3 | MS pain ans muscle spasms | Feeling high, loss of coordination and balance. Can not focus. But helps with muscles greatly. Had a nightmare, i dont even remember what it wa but i woke everyone up because i screamed out loud. I woje up shaking. But i like th high feeling it gives me. | F | 31 | 1 months 600 mg | 1/30/2012 | 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 |