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 | Avascular Necrosis/ Nerve pain | Leg weakness, restless limbs, tired,sleepy, high. | I've been taking this drug for a while. It's my go to when having severe leg pains due to arthritis, and avascular necrosis. | M | 23 | 7 years 1200 | 4/27/2015 | 1 | Sciatica | While taking this drug I felt extremely dizzy, nauseous, a horrible dry mouth, malaise, and depression. | It is difficult for me to envision anyone wanting to stay on this medication, unless it is your only resort, and your last resort. Please… Please… Please avoid this medication! | M | 43 | 1 months 300 3X day | 4/27/2015 | 3 | Pain | Dizzy, anxious, tired (but unable to sleep, asthenia, dry mouth | Works well for certain types of pain, but lots of side-effects! | M | 35 | 20 days 900MG 1X day | 4/25/2015 | 1 | Migraines | Intense anger, easily triggered, Thoughts about self harm and harming others. Disassociation during some episodes | F | 37 | 30 days 900mg 1X day | 4/11/2015 | 2 | seizures | very addicted have horrible withdrawals I go to the emergency room to get prescriptions very easy to get if I don't have it I can't sleep anxiety | F | 36 | 10 years 3600 mg | 4/8/2015 | 3 | Chronic Back & Neck Pain/Tension He | Poofy hands, poofy tummy. Most certainly water weight and gas from constipation. Sometimes "trippy" feeling. Relaxes me. Weight gain, but I was also on Remeron, and I was eating all night, waking up, eating a lot. Gabapentin does not make me want to eat a half a box of cereal like remeron did. | I don't have withdrawal effects. There are days, sometimes weeks where I don't need it, then my back or neck acts up again and I take it. When I don't take it, I notice my "poofy" goes away. | F | 38 | 4 months 2000 mg 1X day | 4/1/2015 | 5 | siatic nerve pain | I was on lyrica at first but was too expensive. So my dr put me on neurontin. It has helped me with the nerve pain. I was in a car wreck back in 1994. As yrs went by started having problems. So in 2011 I had lower lumber surgery where they went and put a window in one of my discs so the siatic nerve had somewhere to go. | Great medicine | F | 41 | 5 years 100 mg | 3/31/2015 | 1 | back/nerve pain | Groggy, fuzzy thoughts, dark thoughts, heart pounding, could not sleep when I stopped the drug, anxiety, could not put my words together, lose train of thought before speaking | I have been off this drug for 6 days they say, Dr and Pharmacist it should be out of my system? I am still having my heart beating hard for hours and then it stops and starts again? unable to fall asleep. Very evil pill, I am hoping I can get beyond the side effects soon. | F | 68 | 2 months 1200 4X day | 3/25/2015 | 4 | spinal stenosis | After reading side effects from others I now understand my hair loss and extreme weight loss. I thought something was wrong with me. | Works well, but I've lost so much weight. Not good. Hair was midway my back, now its less than midway my neck | F | 50 | 5 months 900 mg | 3/21/2015 | 3 | nerve pain | I have gained 50 pounds in 8 months can't lose the weight | M | 46 | 8 months 800mg 2a d | 3/15/2015 | 1 | fibromayalgia | Blisters in my mouth, sore throat, weight gain, scabby breakouts on my face, neck and head; ( | F | 49 | 1 months 30 mg | 3/12/2015 | 5 | Diabetic but to get buzzed | First time u get so buzzed u can't move but it's fu*in cool | For Ur first time take 3 800mg pills and wait about 2 to 3 hours and you'll be comatosed, trust me it feels great ! | M | 34 | 1 months 800 | 3/5/2015 | 3 | MS pain | Impaired cognitive skills Loss of memory Impaired speech Hallucination Emotional, crying Blurred vision Inability to comprehend Blanking out Oversleeping | I had to stop taking this medicine because of the negative impact it had upon my cognitive skills. It was very good for pain, but the side effects were quite dangerous | F | 42 | 2 months 900 3X day | 2/26/2015 | 2 | neck pain | hair loss, bloated/weight gain, gas and digestive issues, not much pain relief but as I taper down I'll be able to tell just how much or little it helped. | As an anticonvulsant, it seems odd that not many people rating this drug are on it for seizures. I'm going to tell my doctor that I won't be taking any more drugs for off-label purposes. If he doesn't want to alleviate my suffering by prescribing me a medication that was actually manufactured as a pain reducer, I'll be purchasing medical-grade marijuana and shopping online for narcotics. My condition is irreversible and untreatable by surgery. What does it matter if I'm dependent on narcotics at this point? I need some relief. | F | 58 | 5 years 2700 mg 1X day | 2/23/2015 | 5 | Severe Anxiety / Depression | Increased energy, mood stability, decreased anxiety | I usually would be reluctant to review a medication after only three weeks but the benefit for me in terms of anxiety reduction, has been immediate and quite amazing in comparison to various benzos used in the past. My social anxiety and depression had reached a level that was disabling...at times I found it difficult to move. The first dosage made me feel a little tipsy (so I thought ) but actually I was just experiencing massive relief. I am attempting to take as low a dosage as possible to avoid any potential side effects - cannot afford any additional weight gain that other meds have caused. I'm cautiously optimistic and keeping my fingers crossed. | F | 51 | 3 weeks 300 mg. 2X day | 2/22/2015 | 5 | Methadone withdrawal, 85mg | Nothing except that it removed all the terrible symptoms of Methadone Withdrawal and I recovered completely in 7 days. Even slept | However,I was taking clonidine and the extremely low blood pressure caused temporary blindness. Combined with Adderall, Methadone was easy... 85mg no less | M | 24 | 7 days 9000mg | 2/9/2015 | 1 | Neuropathy | All of the bad side effects mentioned earlier except suicidal, bu thoughts there at times. It has really affected my hearing and I can barely converse with anyone any more. Had i known it could do this, I never would have started it. I am trying very hard to stop it with bad withdrawals. | Horrible, horrible chemical! | F | 75 | 2 years 200 mg 3X day | 2/4/2015 | 1 | Nerve pain | Nausea, feeling dumb and high | Did not help. Side effects were too much | F | 27 | 2 weeks 300 3X day | 1/8/2015 | 2 | general pain from THR - scar tissue | Felt "stupid" overall and "spaced out" - not so much pain relief, a little, not worth the long term effects of long term mental compromise. Have taken this drug off and on for years....NO MORE!! | Have stopped Neurontin for the second time. Was prescribed once before. Scar tissue pain can be resolved through massage, techniques available online. Painful initially, but worth the effort, pain lessens as more massage is done. Scar pain virtually eliminated, but must stay w/ it. SAVE your brain from Neutontin!!! | F | 60 | 28 days 300mg 2X day | 1/3/2015 | 1 | Spasticity | extreme weight loss, no sex drive, head, ache's , falling all the time . I feel like my skin is crawling . I have gained 30 pounds in 5 months and no really eating that much. Feet burning and the Dr. said it was neuropathy that's funny I never had it before the back surgery . We'll after reading this blog and finding out what was the cause of my issues I am done with Neurontin . | M | 58 | 6 months 300MG 3X day | 12/23/2014 |