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 |
| 3 | Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain Syndrome | Clumsiness,dizziness, forgetfulness, tiredness, sleepiness, and extreme weight gain | I have been on Neurontin since 2002 starting out with taking 2800 mg per day. It has decreased my symptoms dramatically, however I have gained about 20lbs per year. I was never an excessive eater and my appetite has not changed. Now I am battling obesity. Exercise unfortunately is not an option for me because mobility is a problem for me. I fell a few times because of Neurontin and now I have damaged my rotator cuff in my right shoulder. Right now my physician and I are discussing gastric bypass surgery to rid my body of this offensive weight. I don't have an appetite as it is and so the surgery might be pointless for me. If I stop taking the Neurontin, my quality of life will decrease because my pain is so severe. I forgot to mention that I am a disabled social worker and I miss work terribly. I feel like I am caught between a rock and a hard place. | F | 48 | 6 years | 3/8/2008 | 3 | fibromyalgia | Very weird - but about 30 minutes after dosing with 200 mg, when I rub my very long-haired Persian cat "tiny sparks" fly off him and it shocks us both. This is not imagined. Personally, headaches, frequent urination, buring eyes after only 1 week. I only take 400 mg a day. | A few hours after my first 100 mg dose (!) I was relieved in pain in my back, knee and hand, and could stand up straight and walk which I had not been able to do for months. I am very afraid of any side effects that may be coming, and worried about these headaches continuing, but 2 friends on high doses are telling me these side effects will pass shortly. | F | 58 | 1 weeks | 3/4/2008 | 4 | Cervical Spinal Fusion | I definitely lose focus and am forgetful. Tiredness only when I take 2 in the evening. I started taking 400mg 3x daily and now take 600mg 4 times daily. I do drink wine alot and I guess this may intensify the side effects. The side effects are not a problem with me and I will continue to take this until the Dr. says to stop. | My whole body went numb due to degenerative disks and my spine curving taking my spinal cord with it. It has been about 10 months since my surgery and my hands and arms still feel very numb. I can do everyday tasks with no problem but I know when I am due to take my Neurontin because I seem to feel alot more numb. I really am afraid to be off these because I don't like that numb feeling. | F | 43 | 9 months | 3/1/2008 | 4 | Peripheral Neuropathy/Feet | Drowsy, relaxed and a bit spaced out, can't find words (but I had that problem before). I am a recovering drug addict and I don't want to take narcotics or benzos for pain. However, I still need to be careful with this drug as the side effects make me feel a bit high. | Just started with this TX. This week taking 100mg twice a day (100 mg am/100 mg pm). Started a 100mg in the PM. Dr. is increasing the dosage gradually (100mg per week) to find the right level for me. I think that is a very good idea. Nothing has worked so far to relieve the pain in my feet. And I am bit desperate at this point. This seems to be helping. I am hopeful. | M | 44 | 10 days | 2/25/2008 | 1 | Spinal Stenosis / Sciatic Pain | Can not remember words, legs tremble, General tiredness. I am only taking 600mg in the evening. I am told that the dose is very low, but at first 300mg worked than stopped so it was upped to 600mg. Now this is marginally working so the Dr. wants to up the dose. The side effects are horrible. | In addition to the mentioned side effects, I developed a cough. The Dr. says it is not possible to be related to Neurontin, but the longer I stay on it, the worse it gets. I AM WONDERING IF OTHER HAVE DEVELOPED A COUGH, | M | 64 | 6 months | 2/8/2008 | 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 | 1 | peripheral neuropathy | long-term memory loss and word-finding difficulties, hair loss | I was never told about the possible side-effects from neurontin. I feel betrayed that I have had to discover and live with the long term effects after the fact. | F | 43 | 1 years | 1/31/2008 | 5 | nerve pain in both arms | brain fog from this or the fibro - I don't know, weight gain or eating too much, | Nothing else has helped my nerve pain more than this - it's a godsend. I don't want to go off of it b/c it works so great for me. | F | 42 | 18 months | 1/27/2008 | 4 | fibromyalgia | drowsiness, blurred vision | I have been taking 100 mg in morning and 200 mg at night. For a while, the night dose was very sedating, but the sedation seems to come and go (maybe it has something to do with whether or not I take it shortly after eating something or not). Has done wonders for the nerve pain and achy feelings I have with my fibromyalgia. I guess it's a "user's milage may vary" drug (meaning you may or not have a good experience with it). My grandmother and father have also taken it with no problems (both for neuropathic pain). For me, it's been a life saver. | F | 30 | 1 months | 1/27/2008 | 5 | migrains due to head injury | brief spots of depression, dependency, sleepiness | Gave me my life back, before I was on the drug, my head would hurt so much that I could not go to work or even school. Now, I can operate almost as well as before my car accident. My depression has gotten worse, but I think that is because of me...not the medicine. What small side-effects I feel are nothing that I can not handle. I take b12 every day to deal with the depression. I have noticed a lack in sex-drive, but no cure for that yet. I also take a small dose, 300 mg a day I believe. | F | 21 | 1 years | 1/25/2008 | 3 | Hand pain of unknown origin | Some dizziness, feeling spacey, slight vision disturbances | I started on Neurontin 100mg two times a day and it didn't seem like it did anything at all. My doctor then upped the dosage to 300mg two times a day - it seems to help my hand pain a little, but not much. However, I do seem to notice some dizziness and spacey-ness after taking it, and the vision in my left eye (which has always been a little worse than my right eye) seems to be worsened after taking it. That's about all the side-effects I've noticed to date. | F | 25 | 5 weeks | 1/25/2008 | 1 | To Help nerve pain post L4/5 Fusion | Developed severe joint swelling and pain in hands, fingers, wrists, ankles, knees and hips. Got so bad I could do nothing, I just wanted to scream. | This was not a posted side effect, my doctor had not heard of this, nor could he find anything about it in the PDR. The effect went away as soon as I stopped taking it. He contacted the company and they told him that it was such a rare side effect that it wasn't worth putting on the warning label. My Doctor suggested that they think about that a little more as this effect is very serious when it does happen. This was 8 years ago. I will not and have not taken it since, and would not recommend it to anyone I know. Just the fact that THEY decided that this side effect was rare did't make it any less disabling. I was disabled enough from a failed spinal fusion, I didn't need their help in making the pain I already had to endure worse. | F | 52 | 10 days | 1/25/2008 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder | Weight Gain. A weird dizzy feeling when I hadn't taken it for 2 days. | After unsuccessful attempts at taking other meds (Wellbutrin, Celexa, Lexapro, to name just a few) and being treated for depression, I was put on this as I have three immediate family members who are also on it. It works great for them! Seemed to work for most part for me at first. Started taking small doses (200-300mg) and now am only up to 400 mg. At first it made me VERY sleepy so I began only taking it at night and still do, however the "sleep like a log" feeling has subsided. It helped for my racing thoughts, and mania, but after almost a year of being on it, it is the ONLY reason that I can attribute my weight gain to. I am 5'4" tall and have consistently weighed about 135-145 lbs MAX since high school, but now I am at or just over 150, which just makes me more depressed. My pants don't fit, my stomach is huge, but butt is big, I feel like CRAP physically. Someone else posted they'd rather be fat and happy than thin and crazy, but I can't take this extra weight. I | F | 30 | 1 years | 1/24/2008 | 2 | Chronic daily headaches | dizzyness, fatigue, general stupidity, memory problems, felt a little high occasionally, there are more but i cant remember them!! | this really didn't work for me at all. i hope the side effects go away soon, they were actually fun at first and didnt affect schoolwork that much, they still dont but they make social interactions more difficult, i cant remember a thing, i cant complete a thought and then when i try to go back to it i've forgotten what it was | F | 16 | 2 months | 1/20/2008 | 2 | lower back pain | Ravenously hungry with seemingly no ability to judge when I was full. Foggy brained, memory and word recall debilitated, forgetful. | Amazing, I mean truly amazing for my back pain. Completely took pain away like magic, but because of the other side effects, I asked to be taken off this medicine | F | 41 | 3 months | 1/19/2008 | 4 | peripheral neuropathy pain | ringing in my ears that eventually got so loud i thought i'd go insane. couldn't even hear myself think. | was a fantastic mood stabilizer. calmed me down, made me able to still be rational and logical even in intense pain. what a toss up between the pros and cons. sigh | F | 47 | 10 months | 1/16/2008 | 5 | Leg pain, twitching, shaking | First dose was -insane-. I have never felt so loopy before! Side-effects are nothing new to me, and that was the worst. Otherwise weight gain over the time period taken thus far. | I began taking this drug several years ago after finding a good neurologist. I began with 300mg/day, now on 1200mg/day. Until recently this has helped a great deal with pain, now having to augment with Lyrica. The two together may make the average patient go a bit crazy with all the side-effects. Now I'm on my way to a fibromyalgia diagnosis. Regardless, this is a VERY stabilizing drug that takes TIME. I mean a LOT of time to work. Don't give up after two months because you're in a 'fog'. It does get better, it just takes time. | F | 26 | 3 years | 1/15/2008 | 5 | trigeminal neuralgia | dizziness, sleepiness, numbness (which is good in my case), some shortness of breath or fatigue, inability or want to concentrate. pain relief!! | I don't take this as prescribed.. I'm supposed to take one the 1st night then 2 the next day and then 3x a day after. This drug saved me from myself with the sudden pain of trigeminal neuralgia.. it saved my life! Opiates, alcohol, nothing would take away my facial pain (I didn't know why I was in pain).. it felt like someone shot me in the face but I didn't get to die or get treated for it! It's crazy expensive if you don't have insurance but it's worth every penny for this condition. I don't know about other conditions or why others take it, I just know it works for what they call the "suicide disease" which I have. I tend to have outbreaks of pain when I am stressed at work or sick or occaisional pms.. I only take this when I have that pain coming on and it takes it right away, it numbs it right up. It's the only thing that works. I have taken it maybe 6 times in the past 12 months. I don't understand why the doc wanted me to take it so much (I don't like dr's, I don | F | 38 | 2 years | 1/14/2008 | 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 | 1 | sciatica, L4-5 reherniation, FMS, | severe numbness in hands up to elbows. unable to rest arms on bed or sofa arms. all funny bones extremely painful. caused memory problems and brain fog. unable to think of words. Unable to make decisions. Depression and hopelessness was unbearable. Incredible weight gain. | started at 300mg day up to 1800mg. told no side effects. hubby said I started complaining of tingling in fingers shortly after starting neurontin. Had nerve conduction study and EMG and was told severe carpal tunnel and surgery was necessary. Said no. Weaned off neurontin over 4 days with dr. instructions and within 10-14 days all the numbness was completely gone and funnybones no longer painful/tender. | F | 51 | 7 months | 1/13/2008 |