It doesn’t help his pain, he says.
I had a ruptured disc L4/L5, and the pain was unbearable as I waited for surgery. For about 40 days immediately prior to surgery, I took 300mg/3x daily, and it eliminated about 95% of the pain. Very helpful in that limited period.
Ugh, I just got off of Gabapentin. I was on it for about a year and a half for nerve pain caused by a wound. I was tired most of the time and did nothing but sleep. I hate pills and couldn’t wait to get off it.
And it does weird things to Your Eyes!
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Not scientific, but my dog was on gabapentin for over a year for pain. We just had her put down for severe dementia. Maybe it was related, I don’t know. But when I first saw that article in a medical newsletter a couple of weeks ago, I became suspicious. Her behavior started seriously changing about 4 or 5 months ago. And now she’s gone. :(
Who counts the number of prescriptions they have tallied for a specific medication? I sure don’t . Maybe another doctor will issue this same kind of report about gabapentin, but measure it in the LENGTH OF TIME one has been taking it.
That, I would easily be able to recall, should I ever have to.
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I know several people who take it for neuropathy and it seems to help them.
Perhaps the lower back pain was muscular skeletal in nature rather then nerve pain.
Which would explain why it would have side effects.
Caused problems in my mom, IIRC.
I was put on gabapentin while I was a teen for migraines, and my memory hasn’t been the same since. Putting someone on it while their brain is still developing ials not the best idea.
The drug slows the firing of synapses to prevent nerve pain. Enough said.
It can also be abused, and we’ve been getting a lot of fake scripts for it during the last year or so.
Doctors are passing out Gabapentin like candy ever since they had to put the brakes on opiates. I took Gabapentin for a few months for back pain. That $hit makes you feel weird!! And constantly sleepy. I had to get off of it. Turned me into a zombie.
I am prescribed it 3 times daily and get it filled but don’t take it as it doesn’t help and I can’t count to 20 when I do take it. It pisses me off I have to hurt because so called conservative politicians have a thing against oppoids as they are the only thing that helps. But I can’t get them, and I was tboned by a semi last November.
I took it after having nerves severed when my left lung was removed for cancer. They did it through my back, between my ribs and it felt like they severed my vagus nerve branch on that side.
Screwed me up a lot.
Stopped taking it after three weeks as it was causing fatigue and I kept feeling worse as time passed rather than better.
I take it at 100 mg when pain gets bad.
When a doctor was prescribing it I said I only take 100. He said too low. I thought too bad .I am not taking 600 mg. I had done so after a hysterectomy and it messed with my eyes and i stopped
I am a special case because I have genetic problems with drugs so I don’t like to take anything
I took it for several years, came to the conclusion that it wasn’t doing me any good, and quit. FreeRepublic is what I take to keep my mind sharp. It has worked so far. Gabapentin never did anything for pain, as far as I could tell.
If taken as prescribed, this drug makes you stupid and forgetful. I took it for a week for severe sciatic nerve pain in my right leg. Advil 600 mg worked better. I still have a big bottle of gabapentin that needs thrown out.
Some comments on gabapentin. In my fifties it had zero effect on my pain or my ability to function. In my seventies I had every side effect, acting stupider than usual and it still had no effect on my pain. However, mixing it with OTC arthritis ointment diclofenac and DMSO (horse liniment) and putting it on a particular spot does work. (Not medical advice. Consult your shaman.)
I’ve been taking gabapentin for 10 years now for low back pain and I’m pleased with the results.
I have peripheral neuropathy and cannot do without it.
They give it for neuropathy- it never helped me, atheist not enough to justify the cost. Was,on it a long time too. There are 2 others in the same line, pregabalin and Lyrica, wo Der if they are involved too?