If he can’t tolerate opiates, wouldn’t be able to use T-3.
Gabapentin is the new normal. Not worth a hoot to most, HIGHLY Addictive, lots of bad side effects. Prisons use it for injured, most stolen too, as they cook it into something else.
It’s what they pushed Intractable Pain Patients on. Weight gain was a big issue for many.
I don’t like gabapentin at all
Don’t find it addictive whatsoever
Some think it enhances opiates
...HIGHLY Addictive...
Thanks for noting that. I thought you were wrong but I looked it up.
Taking gabapentin 7 years ago for RSD (CRPS) at 300mg a day, I blacked out, found myself parked in front of a grocer’s with no memory of driving there, holding a shopping list I couldn’t make sense out of. Drove the 3 miles back home and threw that crap away.
Neurologist then Rx’d nortriptyline saying, let’s get you off of those opioids. Except the medicine stopped my bowels for five straight days. At the lowest possible dose too. Tried it again a couple weeks later same side effect.
Was prescribed Lyrica. I felt like an observer in a continual panic attack for two weeks on that and said nope not happening. My pain specialist keeps trying to implant some device in my spinal cord says he no longer wants to prescribe opioids, but I’m fine on about 90 Percocet a month.
I have tried anti-inflammatory, herbal supplements of several varieties that Southeast Asian Indonesian tree leaf opioid supplement that makes you want to vomit. I’ve tried capsaicin I tried CBD oil, CBD gummy‘s CBD capsules do you not like being high and haven’t been able to work for the past year for paying VA is currently reassessing my 90% disability rating and I’m contemplating growing opium poppies in the near future. Just so I have a source of an affective pain medication. Yes I do eat boatloads of Tylenol Percogesic on occasion, and NSAIDs worsen my tinnitus to the point my ears hurt literally. Opioids flat out work for pain management. I would just be happier if I could get more of them at lower doses I can function, but the pain syndromes are catching up to me.
Taking gabapentin 7 years ago for RSD (CRPS) at 300mg a day, I blacked out, found myself parked in front of a grocer’s with no memory of driving there, holding a shopping list I couldn’t make sense out of. Drove the 3 miles back home and threw that crap away.
Neurologist then Rx’d nortriptyline saying, let’s get you off of those opioids. Except the medicine stopped my bowels for five straight days. At the lowest possible dose too. Tried it again a couple weeks later same side effect.
Was prescribed Lyrica. I felt like an observer in a continual panic attack for two weeks on that and said nope not happening. My pain specialist keeps trying to implant some device in my spinal cord says he no longer wants to prescribe opioids, but I’m fine on about 90 Percocet a month.
I have tried anti-inflammatory, herbal supplements of several varieties that Southeast Asian Indonesian tree leaf opioid supplement that makes you want to vomit. I’ve tried capsaicin I tried CBD oil, CBD gummy‘s CBD capsules do you not like being high and haven’t been able to work for the past year for paying VA is currently reassessing my 90% disability rating and I’m contemplating growing opium poppies in the near future. Just so I have a source of an affective pain medication. Yes I do eat boatloads of Tylenol Percogesic on occasion, and NSAIDs worsen my tinnitus to the point my ears hurt literally. Opioids flat out work for pain management. I would just be happier if I could get more of them at lower doses I can function, but the pain syndromes are catching up to me.
Addictive? BS
To my knowledge, it's primarily used for nerve pain, which I have, after four major lower back surgeries.
Not worth a hoot to most, HIGHLY Addictive, lots of bad side effects.
Mood changes, especially if alcohol is consumed in enough quantity, blackouts can occur and more.
I cannot tell you it's addictive, It's lost most of its effect on my nerve pain and I'm weining off of it currently. You have to gradually taper down to almost nothing otherwise seizures may occur. I'm half way through the tapering down period and so far, so good.
Weight gain was a big issue for many.
Absolutely correct! I took off 70lbs of the 90lbs I've put on it since I started taking it, and that was NOT easy.
My pain management specialist is switching me over to Lyrica, which has its own side effects that I have to monitor myself for. Ugghh. Hopefully the Lyrica at least works for my nerve pain (neuropathy from knees down in both legs.)