Posted on 01/18/2024 9:36:01 AM PST by ConservativeMind
- Gabapentin (Neurontin, Gabagamma)
- Gabapentin extended-release (Gralise)
- Gabapentin enacarbil (Horizant)
- Mirogabalin (Tarlige)
- Phenibut (Anvifen, Fenibut, Noofen)
- Pregabalin (Lyrica)
If you are on any of these, and you have COPD, you are at increased risk of accelerated COPD problems.
Thanks for the info! My husband has COPD and is on lyrica for chronic pain.
Oh my God I had no idea that gabapentoids were so dangerous! Thank goodness for Medical Xpress where every article is important.
Yep- was on gabapentin years ago, and have COPD- not on it anymore-
Fine! I’ll switch to morphine for my neuropathy pain!
Yep...it’s a dang if you do dang if you don’t...It’s a balancing act.
The doctor had me on gabapentin after a drunk driver ran over me. It didn’t do squat.
Has anyone seen any effect from taking this drug?
Hell yeah I’m with you
And relaxes the diaphragm
Gabapentin didn’t do much for me honestly
it only helped very slightly- but wasn’t worth the $$ so i quit it
I thought those were the things that lived underground on that movie “Tremors”.
supposedly ALA Alpha Lipoic Acid is claimed to help with neuropathy pain=- but I didn’t feel any difference- many of the so called ‘natural doctors’ call for using ALA- but my understanding is that once the nerves are dead or damaged- there is no reviving them again-
I just had an ingrown toenail breaK off and work it’s way through my toe, and pop out the end of my toe- thankfully the neuropathy helped mask the pain of that ordeal by quite a bit- only when it got it’s worst did i feel the pain from the nail sliver-
it’s weird though how the feet can be nearly dead to feeling, but still hurt
Gabapentin - found it to be good for neuropathic pain, however it absolutely blew my of memory to the point I found myself repeating work assignments as I had no memory of having already completed a task the day before. Or being in a parking lot a couple of times with no idea why I was there. Stopped the med noticing these severe issues.
Gabapentin is the only thing that holds my excruciating foot neuropathy at bay.
Just in the last six months was tested for COPD.
Negative. NO COPD at all.
Has completely suppressed my diabetic neuropathy, allowing me to sleep without pain in my feet.
>>Has anyone seen any effect from taking this drug?
It controlled my wife’s temporomandibular joint pain. It had reoccurred after she took Zoloft, and it was severe to the point that I thought she’d stop eating. Increasing the dose controlled it again.
“Has anyone seen any effect from taking this drug?”
me ... but totally negative ... a couple of doses and i thought i was in Hell ... worse drug i’ve ever tried to take in my life ...
i was prescibed it for neuropathic pain from a nerve damaged in my forearm by a cardiac catheterization procedure ... fortunately, one of my docs suggested IV infusions of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) for neuropathy and after two infusions, the pain was permanently cured ...
Hope it remains that way for you- especially if it’s working-
“supposedly ALA Alpha Lipoic Acid is claimed to help with neuropathy pain”
works best when infused intravenously in large doses ... cured neuropathic pain in a forearm nerve damaged by a rough cardiac catheterization procedure ... also cured iatrogenic neuropathy post medial branch nerve ablation of the cervical vertebra ...
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