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 | neuropathinc pain | Memory loss, headaches, nausea, confusion, extreme anger outbursts, crying and self harming thoughts | F | 29 | 4 months | 12/20/2007 | 1 | Headaches | Brain fog, memory loss, using the wrong words, dizzy, heart racing... | Now since i stopped taking it i cant sleep at night, muscle weakness in my leg, and really bad headaches | F | 22 | 4 months 300mg | 6/5/2016 | 1 | RSD CRPS post surgery | I have trouble remembering speaking certain words. I had blurred vision hard heavy heart beating rapid heartbeat at times. Emotional. Severe rash on leg and foot. Numbness. Shooting eye pain shortness of breath and chest pains | F | 43 | 4 months 300 -700 | 9/11/2014 | 1 | Anxiety | Bad hair loss | My hair fell out and it was ineffective | F | 43 | 4 months 2X day | 1/8/2014 | 1 | connective tissue | i had every side affect,that has been written,i wound up in a coma for 15 days on life support they said i had died several times,they wanted to pull the plug thank god i did not have a living will, or the plug would have been pulled, it has lrft me with brain damage,more pain than ever,blurred vision,unstable walking i can go on for ever,i thank god every day for giving a second chance att life and believe i am here to warn you abvout neurontin and other drugs please lok into everything u are taking some of the drugs that are prescribed has not been approved by the FDA for the purpose that you need it but the script companys wine and dine are doctors to push trhese drugs on us. please do your research DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG or anyother till you have read avbout it PHIFZERis one of the company to be really concerned with i hope u don t mind my bad writting but it take it all out of me t have even written this but when i saw it i had to resond if u need to speak with | please do not take this drug this was finally labled in jan 30 2008 danderous like it always should have been.this drug was for siesure medicine only, thats the only thing the FDA has approved it for | F | 49 | 4 months | 3/25/2008 | 5 | interstitial cystitis | 1st few days feel very hyper, like a speeding feeling (not that I've ever had speed). Weight gain of about 1 lb a month even after trying very hard to keep it off. | I love this drug!! No side effects, just took all my pain away like I have never had IC! Is amazing!!!! By the 3rd day I was pain free!! I'm upset about the weight gain though. 5 lbs in 5 months on a 1200 calorie diet and exercise. I am on 4 x 300mg daily. | F | 34 | 5 months | 2/17/2009 | 5 | Chronic Neuropathic Pain | Initial drowsiness occurred but overtime this side effect faded | For weeks before starting Neurontin (concomitantly with another anticonvulsant, Lyrica) I had to go to the hospital about once a week for shooting electrical pain from my L5/S1 region all the way through my toes. The Neurontin (and Lyrica) helped control my eletrical pain, hypersensitivity/allodynia, and also acute episodes of muscle spasm in my low back which always preceded hospital trips. Neurontin is a great drug but I think the related Gaba drug, Lyrica is better (but I am a weird case because I take both, most people choose one). I do have to take flexiril for thoracic area muscle spasm, and hydrocodone for the less sharp pain that the anticonvulsants do not eliminate. | M | 20 | 5 months | 1/4/2007 | 5 | insomnia | word retrieval problems--didn't necessarily link it to neurontin, but after reading others' side effects, I am pretty certain that's why it's happening. If I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I am a little unsteady on my feet. Also, when I wake up in the morning, I can be a bit wobbly, but it goes away once I get up and have coffee, shower, etc. | I have suffered from insomnia for many, many years and tried klonopin, xanax, and I can't remember the names of about three other medications. None worked. The neurontin is working. I never wake up in the middle of the night and stay up for 2 hours like I used to. I am not saying that I sleep beautifully every night, but I sleep. My irritability from lack of sleep has decreased dramatically. | F | 45 | 5 months | 4/17/2007 | 4 | Neuropathy neck pain(CM in Spinal C | Mental fogginess, tired for the first week then it completely subsided. | Would give this a 5 since it has worked great for the burning in right foot, neck pain, restless arm and itchiness in left arm following a bleed from a CM in my spinal cord, but over the past month or so I started having some speech issues(slurred) and loss of words and alertness..confusion..weaning myself off to 300 twice a day..my doc wanted to try Cymbalta, but I'm apprehensive to try it due to the bad reviews, so I'm hoping that taking just 300mg will do the trick. I can't deal with the speech issues and loss of words any longer otherwise I would stay on this medication...it gave me my life back. | F | 38 | 5 months 900mg 3X day | 2/18/2010 | 4 | Head pain related to brain injury | Severe dizziness, fatigue, constipation, poor wound healing, rashes, hair loss. The dizziness and fatigue diminished greatly with time. After being on for a few months, I started developing skin wounds, rashes and infections that would not heal. Then I noticed that I had bald patches forming on my scalp. I did not notice hair falling out because it affects the forming follicles which turn into something resembling a carpet fuzz. As hair falls out it is not replaced or is replaced by weak and thin hair. Hope it grows back. | This is a very serious drug that I believe should only be used as last resort for short periods of time. I was told that brain chemistry will change to accomodate this medication over prolonged use. I hated being on this medication, but it helped my severe head pain when nothing else would. | F | 41 | 5 months 200mg 1X day | 5/4/2010 | 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 | 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 | 4 | bi-polar disorder | i take this in combination with many medications. weight gain and fatigue are the most prominent side effects though this could be linked to the lithium i take as well. Used to take Lamictal but had to stop due to rash | Decent medication, set aside from cost. | F | 33 | 5 months | 12/23/2003 | 4 | PLS-Post Laminectomy Syndrome | Extremely chatty :-) , feeling like a "zombie", sleepiness, memory issues, VERY edgy, when decreasing the dosage I've had terrible eye twitches, mood swings and the edginess has gotten worse. | Overall, it has been a GREAT drug for me! I feel that it really has cut down the amount of pain that I would have had without it. I have been able to distract myself (for the most part) from the side effects. | F | 32 | 5 months | 3/9/2009 | 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 | 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 | Small fiber neuropathy hands/feet | First few weeks I couldn't sleep more than 5 hours. I was exhausted but couldn't return to bed. I still have trouble falling asleep. I don't know if it is the medicine or the situation but I went into a terrible state of depression at the beginning of this. I was taking 800mg x3 now I am down to 600mg x3.Gives me terrible dizziness and headaches during the | I am still on this med, unfortunately, It is the only thing that takes the pain away. | M | 28 | 5 months | 7/13/2004 | 3 | anxiety, depression, insomnia | Weight gain, feeling spaced out, midday tiredness, low energy, unable to remember words. | I wrote a review for Neurontin about 6 weeks ago and couldn't have been more pleased. I thought this was the drug I had been waiting for all of my life. My depression, anxiety, and insomnia were greatly reduced and I could still have organsms. Then, about two weeks ago, it stopped working. I was so disappointment - my insomnia and anxiety (but not the depressive thoughts) returned. My shrink upped the dose from 900 to 1200 mgs at bedtime. Symptoms have not improved and my insomnia is worse than ever. On top of that, the increased dosage has caused me to be extremely tired, lethargic and I am now experiencing the word loss (I gave a talk yesterday and noticed how difficult it was - I had given this same talk numerous times and could not remember my presentation.) I am so upset and disappointed because I thought I finally found the right medicine for me. To make matters worse I took my old sleep inducing standby - Klonapin. With the Neurontin in my system the Klonapin had an antagonistic relationship and I was awake all night! Want to wean off before I gain more weight and lose my job. I really can't blame the Neurontin for the weight gain - it could be because I am too tired to exercise. | M | 56 | 5 months 1200 1X day | 3/12/2010 | 3 | Vestibulitis | Weight gain. With a healthy diet and 60 mins moderate exercise 5 days/wk, still gaining .5-1 lb per week. Eye twitches. Sleepiness, but I take it at night so I get a good night's sleep. | It has helped a bit, though I need some PT for some of the pain. I can't decide whether to go off or stay on it, it's the only thing that has worked at all, but the weight gain is really frustrating. I'm on a fairly low dose at 300 mg/day, and I'd say the pain is reduced about 15%. I don't want to increase dosage for fear of my side effects increasing. | F | 24 | 5 months | 8/9/2006 | 2 | bipolar II disorder | fatigue, depression, weight gain, blurred vision, weird headaches at the rear base of the skull and behind my ears as well as behind my temples. Irritable bowel syndrome calmed when decreasing dosage from 1200mg/day to 600mg/day. I'm looking to try something new as it just is not helping with my hypomania moods and I feel lethargic on this stuff (which is not my nature) | I've heard and read wonder claims about this drug, but it seems to have done little or nothing for me. | M | 43 | 5 months | 3/8/2006 |