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 |
| 4 | anxiety and for mood | skin problems, severe constipation. | This medication was prescribed to me for anxiety and sleep. It really has helped me in this way but of course there are side effects. One of the biggest things about this med is that it seems to stop working or I became tolerant very quickly. | F | 52 | 5 months 600mg. 3X day | 8/13/2011 | 2 | femural lateral nerve damage | Moody, angry, nightmares, dizziness, faint feeling, migraine | I hate this medicine, but I have tried to lower dosage and the prickles and pains in my leg became worse in doing so. My leg nerve damage is a result of abdominal surgery - I woke up from surgery with a numb right thigh. Then after the pain meds from the surgery wore off, my leg started getting stabbing pains and constant pins and needles sensation. I can't even stand to touch my thigh, like even putting on lotion. I was told by a neurosurgeon that this type of nerve damage may or may not heal and if it will heal, the healing time is 12 to 18 months. I had a bad migraine spell about 10 years ago but not again until the last few months on this Gabapentin. Anyone else out there have faint feelings and headaches while on this? Also, has anyone weaned off Gabapentin, and if so, at what rate. I'd like to try it myself without going to the Dr. and paying for him to maybe say reduce dosage maybe 100mg a day and I don't know for how long. But the warning to not stop this medication without talking to your doctor scares me -- like will I have seizure even though I've never had one? And if you slowly wean, are there NO problems? | F | 62 | 5 months 400 3X day | 8/12/2011 | 2 | Back pain, trouble sleeping | Sore throat, dry mouth, fatigue, VIVID AND DISTURBING NIGHMARES | This medication did help me sleep, did not help my back though I didn't give it enough time to really help. The nightmares were so unbelievably horrifying that it's not worth it. | F | 24 | 2 weeks 300 mg 1X day | 7/10/2011 | 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 | trigeminal neuralgia | No side effects | this medicine has helped somewhat but still have some pain so now the Doctor has added Vicoprofen to take when pain is severe | F | 77 | 3 years 400 mg 3X day | 6/25/2011 | 3 | nerve pain on my leg | At the beginning I was drowsy..the doctor told me to take it before bedtime and I did, he also told me to increase the dose to two a day, which I have not done. I am waiting to see if perhaps physical therapy might help my condition... | Slightly scared at the beginning because it mentioned that this medicine was for seizures...but I am glad they have this comment column so that we can get educated on the medication. | M | 60 | 3 weeks 300 1X day | 6/19/2011 | 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 | 2 | chronic pain | In the beginning mild dry eye and feeling thirsty a lot. Starting around 300mg/day, started feeling 'spaced out' and heavily tranquilized, dizzy, hungry, difficult to concentrate at work, and worst of all: depression. Felt sad and tearful and had no control over these emotions. Very unlike me. I was at 700mg/day when I decided to wean off. | The side effects affected my work and sense of well-being. It was NOT worth waiting to see if they would wear off. I know some folks who take 3600mg/day and are perfectly fine. I guess I'm sensitive to it. | F | 37 | 7 weeks 200-300 3X day | 6/17/2011 | 1 | fibromyalgia, poor insur. coverage | none | I have fibromyalgia and have been taking Lyrica (it's wonderful) but my insurance won't cover it so it's super expensive. I thought I'd try Neurontin, but it doesn't do ANYTHING. It doesn't take away my pain at all, so I'm going back to my $182/bottle Lyrica. | F | 23 | 3 days 300 mg 3X day | 6/14/2011 | 5 | neurofibromatosis | M | 53 | 5 years 1200 1X day | 6/6/2011 Patient History | 5 | spinal stenosis/leg and foot pain | None | I am lucky that I have not experienced any of the unpleasant side effects. I also take MSM. | M | 50 | 2 months 600mg. 3X day | 6/2/2011 | 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 | 4 | anxiety, insomnia, seizures | Mild dizziness, sedation, calmness | Loved this medication for my anxiety and insomnia. Other meds for my seizures had/have massive side effects but my Dr. didn't feel this was an appropriate medication to control my seizures and I didn't want to duplicate side effects so I stopped. I had no weight gain, in fact lost weight as I felt so good and started running again. | F | 46 | 5 months 100 mg 3X day | 5/20/2011 | 1 | possible facial nerve pain | F | 43 | 300 mg 1X day | 4/19/2011 Patient History | 2 | Neuropathic Pain | Anxiety, restlessness, muscle aches, felt high and spaced out. | In my case, I found the side effects of this drug to be dose dependant. At 900mg a day I had no real side effects but only had a partial resolution of pain. Moving up to 1800mg a day totally got rid of the pain, but made me high as a kite and gave me bad anxiety and jitters. I am currently trying to wean back down to 900mg and hopefully the side effects go away. I am not convinced this drug is as benign as the docs make it out to be. | M | 27 | 3 months 300mg 3X day | 4/18/2011 | 4 | neuropathy in toes | Initially some drowsiness, which passed in a week or so. | I can judge the effectiveness of this dosage by the fact that if I decrease by even 600mg the burning and pins and needles sensation returns. I would prefer not to take this much, but by experimentation lowering the dosage it's obvious it's working. I don't like taking this much and not knowing what potential side effects there could be long term. | M | 60 | 2 years 1800 2X day | 4/8/2011 | 2 | seizures | Can not do more than one task at a time. I forget EVERYTHING!!! Sometimes I think things are moving that my husband says aren't. I have had loose stool since I started the medicine. I can not ever seem to catch my breath and I am a bit more easily irritated. It has not controlled my seizures. Weight loss is IMPOSSIBLE!!! | F | 37 | 3 months 100mg 2X day | 4/5/2011 | 3 | Avulsed Brachial Plexus C-5 - T-1 | Dry mouth, dizziness, lethargic, foggy - impedes ST memory, constipation, loss of appetite, food tasted differently, and weight loss. Possible muscle tenderness and jaw pain. | Although the side effects are costly, I think it's better than Lyrica. Lyrica was tough to get off of and had too many side effects. I've lost weight from my non-appetite, but I'd rather that then the 30lbs I gained from Lyrica (and it's has a weird "fat-lumpy fatness" about it. The best thing so far that helps with the neurological pain is smoked medical marijuana. Sativa for neurological pain; edibles rarely work for nerve spinal pain, but it does help aches and pains from other injuries. Neurontin helps enough but if I find something that works better, I'll get off in a heartbeat. | F | 35 | 2 weeks 200mcg 3X day | 3/30/2011 | 5 | post-polio syndrome chronic pain | slightly giddy mood, a little excited. reminds me of cocaine, but that was 35 years ago and I was a kid experimenting. But it does remind me of the total sense of wellbeing. | It's almost scary. Did someone touch me with a magic wand? I haven't felt this loose and flexible in decades. I have a bounce in my step and I feel good. My pain is dramatically reduced. I'm afraid to believe this is happening. I've had chronic pain and extreme fatigue for so many years. It's like a liberation. It really is. | F | 61 | 2 days 600 mg 3X day | 3/29/2011 | 1 | herniated disc lower lumbar | Fatigue, extreme sleepiness, dry mouth, depressed mood swings, suicidal ideation, sexual dysfunction, nightmares, cognitive fuzziness | This drug did not do much for my pain, I still have to take hydrocodone. It made me extremely tired, to the point I was falling asleep at 7:30, sleeping for 11 hours, and still nodding off behind the wheel while driving. Extremely vivid and disturbing nightmares, fuzzy thinking, dry mouth, very low depressive mood swings, suicidal ideation, inability to orgasm... I did not like it, it does not work for me. Evidently, you either love it or hate it, going by the reviews on this site. | F | 38 | 7 days 300 3X day | 3/23/2011 |