A doctor may, of course, prescribe any drug for any reason, including off-label indications. The risk is that the patient pays for untested effects and undocumented side-effects. It's a crapshoot that occasionally pays off - one prominent rheumatoid arthritis drug turned out to be extremely effective against psoriasis. You could also kill yourself.
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Thanks for posting.
I was just prescribed Lyrica for unrelenting fibromyalgia and other nerve pain. This was of interest to me.
As a result, Neurontin has been used for problems like migraines, social phobia, attention-deficit disorder in children, gastric ulcers, restless leg syndrome, essential tremor, osteoarthritis, backache, insomnia, anxiety, bipolar disorder, panic attacks and withdrawal from cocaine and alcohol — all known as off-label uses.
Sounds like this compound could useful when FR servers go down for a spell...
I suggest observation of some one on Neurontin for a period of time.....then observe them coming off of it. Of course it helps all types of chronic pain and complaints. It turns you into a real mind-numbed robot.
Dreadful effects. This is a drug than can cripple and kill, and IMHO, they're still looking for a proper (and safe!) use for it.
Be careful.
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I am no doctor, but this sounds like the severe sciatia my chiropractor had fixed in 10-12 visits.
Pain pills might have masked those symptoms, but they would not have dealt with the problem.
My back and leg were still not completely up to snuff for 6 months or so, and required the occasional visit for adjustment. After that I was fine. Five years later, I put a stripped 390 engine block on the stand by myself with no crane, (not that I'd reccommend doing that for everyone), with no ill effects.
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