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 |
| 2 | menopause related neuropathy | sedation, sleepy, can't get out of bed. Now, on it a week, my skin is itching like crazy and I will have to stop. | On a low, low dose, 10mg/day, and it has helped the pain although not as dramatically as nortryptaline did. Very sedating, and I can't deal with the skin itch. | F | 50 | 5 days | 1/31/2005 | 1 | Post Mastectomy Pain Syndrome | Started taking 300mg at bedtime 5 days ago for an excruciating, burning pain that I have in the area of my surgery. (I have been on morphine for 9 months, and I'm becoming tolerant.) I've experienced an INTENSE headache within 1 hour after waking up every day from the 3rd day after taking this medicine. I feel very dizzy and my thinking is clouded. It's scary. I plan to ask my Neurologist to try something different. | I have been presecribed this in the past for neuropathy related to shingles. It had no effect whatsoever at that time, except for making me dizzy and unable to think clearly. | F | 46 | 5 days | 9/23/2007 | 1 | back pain | I felt like I was swimming in GLUE. This medicine is awful. | F | 33 | 5 days | 3/28/2007 | 1 | Nerve pain | Terrible diarrhea, cramps, nausea and burning in chest. Bad anxiety. Dizzy, loopy, anxious, felt high and drunk. Head stuffed and ears muffled. Never felt this way before taking this rotten drug. 5 days is enough of this drug. Don't take it unless you like feeling like shit! | M | 46 | 5 days 100mg | 12/12/2016 | 1 | pinch nerve | Nightmares dreams were crazy | F | 53 | 5 days 200mg bid | 6/10/2015 | 1 | right knee replacement-nerve pain | dizziness, short term memory loss, severe mood swings, weight gain, minor chest pains, sleepless nights, blurry vision, kidney pain, I showed symptoms of just about every side effect. | This medication has not been of much help to me. I first went to the pain management doctor for pain management due to a failed partial knee replacement, a revision and then a total replacement all in a total of exactly 7 months to the day. This pain doctor convinced me that I had nerve damage to my leg and I agreed to have the lumbar injection, which did not work. I've refused to have any more lumbar injections and now this pain doctor has decided that he couldn't help me. Neurontin has been a nightmare for me. The side effects are horrible to the point of feeling like I was going crazy. I have now started taking myself off of them, and the side effects are slowly going away. It was truely the worst thing I have gone through as far as taking medications. | F | 53 | 5 days | 4/3/2008 | 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 | 3 | neck pain | Bad dreams,mood swings,sleepy,deep pain...not as bad. I can move my neck at least. Feel drunk,will this stop? | F | 43 | 6 days 1-2at bed | 6/23/2013 | 2 | anxiety and nerve pain | constipation, bloating, diarrhea when eaten with food, no energy, munchies almost like when stoned | didnt help much with anxiety. helped with pain a bit but with all the side effects no thanks. | M | 26 | 6 days | 2/3/2007 | 2 | Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia & MS | Weight gain (about 20 pounds, but I also quit smoking at the same time), major flareups of IBS, chronic diarrhea once I reached a dose of 600 mg 4 times per day, abdominal pain. | Unfortunately this med didn't help either the face pain or the peripheral neuropathy I have from MS, or I might have put up with the side effects just to have some relief. When my face really flared I felt like I wasn't taking anything. The withdrawal symptoms were *exactly* like opiate withdrawals. | F | 33 | 6 days | 12/18/2007 | 2 | Nerve pain from spine | After only 6 days I had to wean myself off because I gained 6 lbs thanks to my severe hunger pains in my upper stomach area. Even after eating the hunger pains barely went away.. I tried water, I tried protein, I tried sugar, I tried carbs, and nothing worked until I started weaning off. The nerve pain for which I received this medication was less pain and discomfort then this medication and just not worth it. The nerve pain did dwindle a little bit, but I will never take it again | F | 51 | 6 days 100 1X day | 8/13/2022 | 1 | My nerves in my hand | My hands shake and I drop everything I can't even use the phone but was on 400mg now I am on 600mg and that when the shaking started | F | 51 | 6 days | 7/27/2015 | 1 | bulging disc lower back &leg pain | constipation, gas, always tired as to where I could not work or drive , ringing of the ears | made leg pain unbearable ! why should anyone pay for this poison! | M | 58 | 6 days 300MG 3X day | 7/25/2014 | 1 | sevier nerve pain in legs. | Memory loss, agitation, extreme tiredness, sores on mouth and sore throat thought was getting sick so took longer then got so bad that stopped taking med started coughing up skin from throat it hurt worse than tonsel taken out couldn't eat for 4 days breathing problems lungs felt heavyand short of breathe been a couple weeks off it and so short of breathe can't walk 150 yards without sitting down. My family told me not to tell this one but I amnd it made me depressed and I got so hostile and aggressive I got a knife and held my husband hostage while I gripped cause I felt he wasn't listening. Thank GOD he knew it was the medicine making me that way. Looking back it has almost scared me out of taking any medicines it made me crazy it scares me to remember how I felt. I also got suicidal. | This is very dangerous medicine. I am so worried now knowing medicine can really make you want to die or hurt someone else. My throat still hurts and now I can't hardly breathe I feel restricted and my lungs ache and are heavy. I walk some or go out in heat then I can barley breathe I pray this goes away. I also still feel depressed and what I did on it makes it worse. I am so glad my husband knew it was the medication that did it and reacted in a way that made it better instead of worse. I could be in jail and my whole life ruint and his to it made me feel like i had every right to do it and it was over forgetting to put ice in the cooler. I pray for anyone who takes this. I also coughed up big pieces of skin from my throat. Sores stayed on my mouth til a few days ago. I have never had sores on skin anywhere. Hey but it did take my pain away worth it? ( you decide).... | F | 38 | 6 days 300 mg 1X day | 6/2/2011 | 5 | neck pain/cervical stenosis | very thirsty, dry mouth, achy in the morning | I take it with prescribed medications-800mg ibuprophen and ultram. Adding neurontin has almost made me pain free which has increased my love for life again. I feel so much more productive and my energy level has increased to the point I want to spring clean around the house and do things I haven't been able to do since my neck problems started 8 months ago. My dose prescribed is 3 pills twice a day at 100 mg each. Good luck to everyone out there in chronic pain...my prayers go out to you! | F | 49 | 7 days | 4/18/2005 | 5 | Tri-geminal neuralgia | some light headedness, mild balance problem, hypomanic thought process bordering on euphoria immediately after dosing. 300 mgs 3x per day | The skin senisitivity in my scalp and face which was a pre-curser to the pulsating electric shock type pain in my face disappeared over night. Once the senistivity of my skin goes away I know I will not have a full blown episode. I also had a problem with weakness in my right tricep muscle, since starting Neurontin both arms feel like they have equal strength again. | M | 51 | 7 days | 12/21/2006 | 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 | 4 | Anxiety | Dry mouth | I have just been taking this for a week now. I am very impressed with its effectiveness. Since I was 15 I have had terrible anxiety. This medication has taken that away. I do notice that I am able to work out harder and longer. I notice that I sleep much better, waking rested. My appetite has not increased, may have decreased a bit even. So far, I love this medication. I know I am less sharp but the anxiety help has been well worth some brain cells! | F | 38 | 7 days 100 mg 3X day | 9/28/2011 | 3 | Anxiety | I feel incredibly spacey and cannot make the words come from my head out to my mouth. I am constantly searching for a simple word or idea - I sound and feel like an idiot. | F | 32 | 7 days | 11/14/2004 | 3 | Disks: 4-5 Central, 5-1 Collapsed | Male Sexual Disfunction, it did help with greatly with leg pain, but not worth the trade off. Slept very well. | Would have been great if it did not cause "male problems." Kadian (time released morphine) alone does much more help with seemingly no side effects so far. | M | 34 | 7 days | 6/18/2007 |