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 | numbness in legs and arms with move | Took 300 mg for two nights. Felt goofy and sluggish the first day. The second day I woke up ok but felt really weird. Mental fog then right side of face and head felt like it was burning while the left side of face esp nose felt like it was swelling. Said wrong names of people I know well! | Don't risk it. I had to be driven home by coworkers and on the way I took two benedryls for an allergic reaction and went to sleep. | F | 34 | 2 days | 11/13/2009 | 5 | L4 Disc Herniation | This has been a wonder drug for sciatic pain. I still have a herniated disc after re-herniation after microdisc. in 7/9 wonder now if I needed surgery in first place if was put on neurontin sooner. 300 3x a day. side effects manageable. Some weight gain maybe, but am not exercising as much. try it | Great medication ....start out slowly if it makes you tired initially...like at 100 mg | F | 43 | 3 months | 11/10/2009 | 4 | degenerative scoliosis | "Brain Fog" occassionally, word loss, forgetfulness, weight gain...hmmmm, it may have turned me into a ditz. Just kidding, the side effects are mild, and I certainly do not get high as some others have posted. | I was ready to wait my turn for extreme back surgery (read up on it sometime) at the hospital ER. I was put on 300mg 3 times a day. With the occassional help of hydrocodone it made my severe problem, liveable. No longer do I have an icepick buried in my lower back, and a lump of burning coal resting on my leg just above my ankle. I will deal with the side effects in exchange for the relief. | M | 53 | 28 months | 10/30/2009 | 4 | RSD Right Leg/L5 - S1 Bulged Disc | Only been on it for a week. So far no real side effects other than feeling a little sleepy the next day, but that was only for about 2 or 3 days. | I have noticed already that if I don't take it one day, the pain comes back immediately. Prescribed 300 mg - 3 x's day but only taking one at night because I don't want to be tired during the day. Injury from car accident & surgeries due to accident. I am very concerned about the weight gain I have been reading about. I don't want that to happen. | F | 38 | 1 weeks | 10/28/2009 | 4 | nerve pain | Felt foggy at first, but that subsided. Noticed recently that I've gained weight and have been concerned with hair loss. Have had some on and off depression,and I do find that I forget things frequently. | I tried to cut back to 3 300mg per day, but I couldn't stand the nerve pain, so I went back up. The side effects outweigh the pain. | F | 44 | 9 months | 10/26/2009 | 2 | sciatica, leg pain and tingling | brain fog and dizziness | Decided to give neurontin a second try after my first experience several months ago. No different this time. Took 300 mg at night after 10 hrs of sleep I can barely function.Was prescribed 1-3 caps per night. Can't imagine taking 3, I'd be comotose.I know I should give this drug more than 2 days to work, but I'm not willing to feel like a zombie while it does the job. I know this drug works for others including 2 of my friends who have been on it for years, but unfortunately it's not for me | F | 75 | 2 days | 10/22/2009 | 4 | Transverse Myelitis | Some weight gain, terrible hair loss (which I have stopped with generic rogaine 5% 1Xday). Extreme fatigue but TM causes that too. | The worst is how dependent I am. Without it the nerve pain is beyond what I can endure. Dosage was 300mg 3Xday, now 4003X. I fear having to take this in increasing dosages. I will know in another year or so if I am one of the lucky 1/3 of people who recover. TM is rare so there is no research $. Neuro can just prescribe meds & cross fingers. | F | 64 | 5 months | 10/19/2009 | 2 | migraines | weight gain and hair loss. | Taking 1800mg a day, gaining weight and losing hair everyday! I'm asking to go off and back to Topamax. I am concerned that my hair may not go back to "normal" for me. I still have a headache everyday too. | F | 45 | 3 months | 10/18/2009 | 1 | Off label back pain management | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG FOR ANY OFF LABEL USE. I have suffered thses side effects for almost 10 years. The drug company, Pfizer, has settled some law suits but they make literally 100's of billions of dollars on this usage, and have only paid out a few billion, so it is profitable for them to continue to market it to doctors who are encoouraged to prescribe it for any type of nerve pain and even psychiatric conditions. I developed Meniere's disease. Symptoms are vertigo, ear ringing,nausea,hearing loss. This side effect never went away, nor will it, and has rendered me disabled. It is a disease that has no cure nor any consistently effective management techniques. One never knows when it will strike and I have had acute episodes that have lasted over a month. It feels like the absolute worse case of motion illness you can imagine. Often one cannot even walk or lift one's head. One can not even move one's head slightly without making it worse. The acute symptoms are managed with l | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG FOR ANY OFF LABEL USE, or any drug for off label use. Basically "off label" means there is no verifiable data that supports that the drug is useful in any way for any conditions not specifically approved. This means there is no data nor any information being officially compiled about the off label use. The drug companies can and do just make up the idea that it is useful for other purposes other than those for which it is approved., and they are not suppose to market it for off label use but they do. Thery have had to pay the "whistle blowers" billions, but not enough that the products aren';t still profitable. If one makes $1 Billion and only has to pay out $100 million out in settlements, they will continue. This is a common business practice. The auto industry is known for this. It is cheaper to pay off the families of the dead than to fix the problem. You may recall the gas tank explosions that would have reqired a change costing less than $50, but it was still cheaper to let some consumers burn up, than to fix the car. | F | 57 | 90 days | 10/15/2009 | 3 | fibromyalgia | I have taken this drug for about one week this time.I also took this drug in April of this year but stopped. My side effects are memory lost, sometimes i jumble words up or just plain forget what I was about to do. The first time i took it i had some thoughts of self harm but that has not been the case this time. | This has helped some with the pain. Not as much as i hoped since the pain can be bad. I don't want to be addicted to pain killers so this is really the only option. I was also given lyrica but decided not to take it after hearing bad feed back. I also have diabetes so that might contribute to my pain. | F | 31 | 7 days | 10/13/2009 | 3 | Peripheral Neuropathy -non diabetic | Memory loss (went from 4.0 college student to a 3.0) and that in only 8 short weeks. I cannot remember jack sh*t. Laziness, weakness in the entire body. Zero sex drive. Dizziness, blurred vision, moments of binging for sweets (Never done that before prior to this medication) | I began taking this drug 4 months ago. I started out at 200mg every 8 hours which was near impossible to keep up with. I had funny dizzy type feelings at first then it went away. I was fine pain gone, then pain back, doc upped me to 600mg every 12hrs. Ok pain gone, now I cannot remember anything. NOTHING! I ask people things twice then ask again. My college classes are getting so difficult I cannot hardly do it. I was a 4.0 student! Not anymore. I haven't gained any weight, but have no sex life period any longer. I get strange feelings that come over me, insomnia you name it. While the pain is gone it isn't worth it I have to find something else. I check out lyrica and cymbalta and I am terrified of them too! | F | 37 | 4 months | 10/8/2009 | 5 | Nerve pain | I just recently started Neurontin and for the first few days felt no side effects and still had nerve pain on the side of my head due to a vp shunt placement. After 3 day of being on the medication, I felt dry mouth, developed hives on arms, some trouble concentrating and focusing and trouble finding the right words to say, this is only right after taking Neurontin. Besides the side effects, I no longer have nerve pain. | I only take 600 mg a day. I have not had a problem w/weight gain at this time. I feel at this time, the medication is worth taking. But only time will tell. | F | 43 | 2 weeks | 10/6/2009 | 5 | disc herniatian L4 | Some memory problems, forgetting words. Initially was drowsy...drunklike, but that went away. I think the side effects are pretty manageable for the great gain. | This drug worked wonders for my sciatic pain after a microdiscetomy. I was on a lot of vicodin...and have propensity to abuse opiates. So neurontin really helped take the need for narcotics away. It does seem to take a bit to work but I do notice it helps the pain soon after. I usually need to take it up to 4x a day. I usually take 100mg as needed in am and pm and at bedtime I do 300 mg. | F | 43 | 5 weeks | 9/23/2009 | 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 | 1 | fibromyalgia | dizziness,ear infecion, major loss of concentration or ability to funtion, fatigue, mood swings | I am a student in high school and this drug has really been bad. Ive had ear pain for over a week. I was always a good student i had a 4.0 and always cared about school. Since i started taking it i can't focus at school, im really tired, i spell things wrong, i forget what i learned. I was always good at math and now I cant do basic math. My whole mind set has changed and i feel like i dont care anmore. I get angry and then upset. I stutter. I space out. It hasn't helped for my pain either. It's the worst medication ive ever taken. I am weaning myself off. I hope things go back to normal. | F | 16 | 3 weeks | 9/16/2009 | 4 | migraine prevention | felt "stupid" at first, gradually that went away | cut down on frequency and intensity of migraines by about 1/2 | M | 61 | 4 years | 9/13/2009 | 4 | fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome | I cannot take 900 mg daily as my dr prescribed because I do medical transcription and midday I was totally wiped out and unable to work; very sleepy, brain fog, blurred vision. I now take 300 mg am and 300 mg p.m. After 1 day I had a drastic improvement in the RLS; gone completely, and it had suffered badly with this. It has helped enough with the fibro that I can tell a difference, but not a huge difference. Without a midday dose I can work fine, but definitely need it for pain about 5 p.m. which begins to become almost intolerable. | I have gained 45 lbs taking Neurontin only 9 months. SO I decided to wean myside and see what would happen. I weaned slowly over a 2-week period. After just 1 day of no Neurontin IMMEDIATELY the RLS returned and kept me awake at night with leg pain. But the really scary part - I believe to have tremor-like seizures in my head; it felt like I had a drill turned on in my skull for a few seconds that left a taste in my mouth and my teeth sore. I stood this for about 1-1/2 weeks of these seizures increasing to 3 a day average and I jumped back on the Neurontin. It tooks another 2 weeks for my head to "feel normal" and the seizures just gradually weaned away. So, no matter how large I get (I am 230 now) I will be too afraid to ever stop the Neurontin again. But I tell myself it is worth it for the leg pain to be gone. I would toss and turn all night and feel a deep ache in both legs and a feeling as if electricity was running up and down my legs, even in my feet. To have that gone and be able to sleep is worth wearing a size 20, although a devastating blow has been struck to my vanity. | F | 59 | 9 months | 9/12/2009 | 5 | chronic pain due to neck injury | I am so depressed and am having suicidal thoughts and am at the end of my rope. I think it's time for me to get some help. This drug has been a lifesaver so far as almost totally eliminating my pain, but recently have woke up screaming from nightmares and this depression will take my life if I don't do something soon. | F | 47 | 2 months | 9/4/2009 | 4 | Stage 3 Lyme w/Neuropathy & Tremors | Dizziness, loss of coordination, drowsiness, word-finding difficulty, articulation errors, pooling of fluids in hands and forearms, numbness/tingling in lips and tongue, headaches. | The first couple days I felt foggy-headed, but otherwise great. Symptoms disappeared with no other side effects. I'm taking only 300mg daily, an hour before bed. After 3 days, side effects began to appear and increase steadily. Though distracting, they are still preferable to the condition they are treating, which seems to be controlled. No more seizures disrupting sleep. No more "clenched" feeling in throat. No more constant muscle tremors and random twitching. The side effects are increasingly annoying, however, particularly the poor hand dexterity and puffy feeling in fingers, making it difficult to perform precise small-motor functions. It's getting difficult to write with a pen or use the computer keyboard without frequent typing errors. | M | 52 | 12 days | 9/4/2009 | 4 | RLS/nerve damage in legs | Started with 300mg 2 times a day, and 2400mg at night to combat the RLS. This medicine works pretty well for RLS, and my episode per month have gone down quite a bit. Gabapentin was also invaluable for me when I was withdrawing from Vicodin. It made the opiate withdrawal much more bearable. I only had one uncomfortable incident after taking a larger dose one day; I became very manic, wouldn't shut up, mind was racing, and I felt like I was under the influence of alcohol. This has not happened again, but I do get a noticeable mood lift (almost euphoric) from Gabapentin, and it often makes me feel inebriated. | Works pretty well for RLS, but be careful because you can have a nasty withdrawal if you've been on high doses of Gabapentin for a while. | F | 24 | 4 months | 9/3/2009 |