[ConservativeMind]

From Wikipedia, these are:

- 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.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Flaming Conservative]

Thanks for the info! My husband has COPD and is on lyrica for chronic pain.

[webheart]

Oh my God I had no idea that gabapentoids were so dangerous! Thank goodness for Medical Xpress where every article is important.

[Bob434]

Yep- was on gabapentin years ago, and have COPD- not on it anymore-

[null and void]

Fine! I’ll switch to morphine for my neuropathy pain!

[Osage Orange]

Yep...it’s a dang if you do dang if you don’t...It’s a balancing act.

[Sequoyah101]

I thought those were the things that lived underground on that movie “Tremors”.

[AlanSC]

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.

[Hot Tabasco]

gabapentinoids

There's a word you don't hear very often.

[CFW]

Every time I go to the doctor about chronic pain in my foot and ankle they try to prescribe me Gabepentin. I tried it once for three months a few years ago. It did absolutely nothing but make me gain weight and seemed to mess with my thought processes.

My sisters and I have assorted but different ailments (hey, we are getting old!), and everyone of us have been prescribed that drug. It didn’t help any of us. My oldest sister who trusted doctors and took every dang drug they prescribed, including the stupid clot shots, took it for years and at the end was taking something like 3600 mg a day. She developed COPD, then cancer. She died last September.