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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NEURONTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | back paib | Vision disadvantages shaky hands unconscious slurring of words... Extreme weakness... Drowsiness..+ 10.. Zombie... Moments.. Slurring.. Double vision drowsiness... Don't drive.... Passing out.. Occurs.. Also.. At this Dose. Of 600MG | Don't drive my symptoms kicked in about 5 days of taking it... Big shocker... I was fucked up.. | F | 28 | 3 weeks 600 MG | 12/8/2014 | 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 | 3 | CFS/Possible MS | Head feels heavy, slight vertigo, and a shorter tempere. Had a slight headache, nausea and stomach ache, after the first day, but couldve been due to a migraine I had the day before! The "heavy head" feeling is what bothers the most. | Still giving my body more time to adjust. I fall asleep much easier now, but still wake up at night. Had no fatigue for the first two weeks, but it hit me like a ton of bricks 2 days ago. Aches and pains arent as noticeable and no migraines since I started. Really hoping that this will stop the horrible migraines I get several times a month! | F | 38 | 3 weeks 100 3X day | 3/22/2011 | 2 | shoulder/arm pain C6&7 slip discs | hot, red, dry face; constipation & diarrhoea; unpleasant taste in mouth | Update...I still have all the side-effects previously mentioned, but now I also have constipation (and random bouts of explosive diarrhoea!), an annoyingly red face that feels sun-burnt (so red, that my friends have commented on it) - I wasn't sure if I had become sun-senisitive or if it is a kind of rash, so I have been wearing high-factor sunscreen with no difference so I conclude it's a kind of rash. I have a horrible chemical taste in my mouth that is present even while I am eating. I wake up every morning totally exhausted, so I think there is very little benefit from taking this drug. I am finding it impossible to do my job too, which is in turn causing even more anxiety and depression....I think I preferred working in agony and only getting a few hours' sleep a night. | F | 37 | 3 weeks 300mg 3X day | 9/23/2010 Patient History | 2 | MS Acute Pain | Fatigue, Loss of Cencentration, Double Vision, Nightmares - and most importantly I have completely lost the ability to have an orgasm...this is so depressing as I'm only 25! | Started off on 100mg three times a day but this turned me into a zombie. Went down to just 100mg at night. Haven't had any sudden nighttime MS spasms since I've been on it (which is a relief) but I still think I'd prefer to have a decent sex life. I'm going to try coming off it this week and take a chance that I might have the pains. This drug is weird - makes you feel like you're not even human. | F | 25 | 3 weeks | 10/14/2008 | 2 | RSD and nerve pain | Terribly wobbly, unfocused, sleepy but can't sleep more than 5 hours, increased urination, increased joint and muscle pain, bottoms of my feet are killing me since I started taking it, bloated abdomen, constipation. Have only been taking 3 weeks and only on 2nd step of my increase to 900mg. Am seriously considering stepping back down and off. Have had RSD for 1 1/2 years and see no difference in pain in arm but extreme pain in places I never had it before | F | 51 | 3 weeks | 7/10/2004 | 2 | Fibromyalgia | Knocks me out. Shortly after taking this medication I can not function, very sleepy and disorientaed and I sleep for hours apon waking I am dizzy and uncoordinated. Great for pain relief but not so great if you want to function normally. I am a single mother and need to work and on this drug it is impossible. | Like many others I have had weight gain increased fatigue, increased muscle spasm, and numbness and tingling in hands and arms. I also have increased muscle weakness and severe pain when I'm awake.I was also on Lyrica and I give that a 1 rating it was a hundred times worse. | F | 42 | 3 weeks | 9/16/2008 | 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 | 1 | For nerve pain | Insomnia, burning skin, extreme head aches, blacking out, became suicidial have never been in my life. Black box warning on it for that. I never believed that could really happen but I ended up being the 1 in 500 it's estimated that it happen to. | I guess this is a good med for a lot of people but not for me. When I first started taking it 100mg 3x daily and decreased 100mg a week. The first week I was so dizzy and would sleep nonstop then the insomnia started I stopped sleeping it is now 7 months later and I sleep 1-3 hours a night before taking it I never had any issue with sleep. As I was weening off my skin started burning and itching the head aches got so severe that I would just hold my head for hours. The worst part was fixation on suicide these feelings were so strong I couldn't believe I was having them. I never suffered from any mental illness in my life. But I still would tell myself there's noway I would ever do that. What happened next would change my life for ever. I guess I was in the mixed of a black out because it was never plained and I don't remember to this day but I ended up hanging myself the cord broke I was told and was on life support for 4 days remembering none of it. Medicines affect people in different ways and it did me very wrong but it may work every well for some people. I know now to take black box warnings serious now because before I did think twice about them. Well that's my story god bless. | M | 37 | 3 weeks 300 | 12/8/2014 | 1 | Sciatic Nerve Pain | My pain increased while taking this drug. I had bad pain before taking neurontin, but I noticed my pain was increasing. After two weeks I could not walk. So I went off it for two days after third week, and I could put some weight on leg. I read that others had same experience, increased pain while on neurontin. It also caused me to leak/dribble urine all day. I know doctors will not believe this, but it is true. | F | 54 | 3 weeks 600mg/day | 8/17/2014 | 1 | post op nerve pain in back | Blurred vision, burning eyes, severe muscle pain in arms and legs, sore throat, depression, irritability, withdrawn, hair loss, weight loss, nausea | Horrible horrible drug. I was prescribed this medication for post op nerve pain after a spinal fusion. I wish that I had never even considered trying it. Although it did help with the pain the side effects were not worth it. Coming off of this medication is hell. I am absolutely dumbfounded by the effects of this drug especially for only being on it for such a short amount of time. I felt dead inside and was in more pain then before starting it. Now 5 days completely off med and still battling withdrawl. Severe depression, shaking, night sweats, restlessness, can't eat, can't sleep. Feels hopeless and while still dealing with the side effects. Please never even consider putting the demon drug into your precious body.. it can destroy you. | F | 40 | 3 weeks 400mg dail | 2/3/2016 | 1 | migraines | Word retrieval difficulties, memory loss, dizziness, sleeplessness, feeling like I was in a fog, difficulty concentrating, disorganized, confused... | Not worth the side effects. I plan to discontinue taking this drug. | F | 51 | 3 weeks 900 3X day | 10/11/2010 | 1 | L5\S1 displacment | @600mg/d I felt no pain relief from the numbness/burning down my entire leg and had slight headache. 2 days later up to @1800 day, went to hard heavy head aches, but pain was gone.. i could walk!! with in a week was very depressed, became homosidal... heard my own voice in my head... was told I was crazy, keep takeing it see a Shrink!!! | in 3 weeks every one told me they could see me changeing, my "pain mngmt" doc didnt even take me off... i had to pleed with my surgen that i might kill somone, now its Lyrica 150mg x2 lets see if the spiral down get any worse... | M | 24 | 3.5 weeks | 3/27/2007 | 5 | bulging disc, spinal stenosis | Initial spaceness...and sometimes feeling foggy...but that improved...some weight gain but can't say it was neurontin because I also had 6 + weeks of relative inactivity due to the pain. Dealing with pain/headaches (constant chiropractic visits for six years, I think I was depressed and have noticed a positive mood improvement from using the neurontin. After four weeks on this med...I am having some calf muscle mild cramping...not sure if this is related to missing or cutting down dose? May also be from cervical situation. Med's work differently for everyone but this has been a blessing for me...Thank God!! I think it is very effective for nerve pain...Vicodan didn't even come close to touching... Also Lorezapam helped with muscle tightness... | I had a recent onset of severe pain from prior auto accident ..C5/6 bulging disc, significant spinal stenosis, cord compression, foraminal narrowing causing nerve irritation and significant pain from neck, under scapula, across shoulder area and down left arm. It took two to three weeks @ 300mg 3x's per day and it virtually stopped the nerve pain under the shoulder blades and down the arm. I was scheduled for an anterior disectomy with fusion and have postponed surgery for another consult because of the pain relief...however still not up to par so we'll see. I am afraid to wean off the med's and have that pain return but need to so I can make a better decision if surgery is really needed. | F | 55 | 4 weeks | 5/22/2007 | 5 | Chron pain from surgical adhesions | First few days I felt like I'd drank 2 glasses of wine each time I took it. After a week, this stopped happening and my body adjusted. It has helped me sleep much better at night. Most of my pain is gone as well as the anxiety the pain was causing me. | I would recommend that anyone in chronic pain give this medication a try. | F | 52 | 4 weeks 300mg 3X day | 12/12/2010 | 5 | synovial cyst with right facet join | fatigue, fuzzy thinking, very deep sleep, constipated | Sciatic pain was at a 10 (meaning horrors!) prior to using 900 mg/day Neurontin. Now pain is gone until medication wears off. Have reduced Vicodin and Percocet out of the mix. Will be having surgery to remove cyst soon. | F | 58 | 4 weeks | 12/12/2006 | 5 | neuropothy, herniated disc | Brain Fog, Memory Problems, Low Back Pain, Decreased Coordination | M | 54 | 4 weeks 200 mg x 3 | 10/28/2013 | 3 | Yes | Fatigue, Depression, Thoughts of suicide, nasuea. | I had my 2nd back surgery, which after 3 weeks resulted in being hospitalized again b/c I got MRSA in the incision area. I have no reflexes in my right foot and since the last surgery have been suffering from pain down the back of my legs. I was put on nuerontin, b/c I was tired of being on pain killers. I have noticed some differences in my day to day activities, but still have pain and taking pain killers. I have also been on depression meds for 4 years. It worries me that I am having such terrible thoughts. Even on how to do it so my family does not have to clean up the mess. My depression has been under control until the third week of taking the neurontin. I go in to see my doctor again here soon, but thinking I should go sooner. | F | 33 | 4 weeks | 1/3/2010 | 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 | S/P laminectomy,severe sciatic pain | Sleepiness, dizziness, very vivid dreams, dry mouth, and cry at the drop of a hat. | Dizziness not as bad after 2 weeks at this dose, vivid dreams continue as does the sleepiness, vivid dreams, dry mouth and crying jags. The medication helps somewhat but I continue to need to take Percocet with it, and at this time, I can still only stand for 20-30 minutes, and sit for 5-10 minutes, without the pain becoming very severe again. I am concerned about some of the other side effects that I have read about, particularly the memory loss. | F | 55 | 4 weeks 300 mg 3X day | 11/7/2011 |