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Anyone tried using red light therapy?
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I read your profile about the Gabapentin. Gabapentin is insidious. It stole a whole year from me. I slept probably 18 hours a day. I weaned off of cymbalta and weaned off of Gabapentin. But read that getting off Gabapentin can cause heart issues!!! So you are like stuck once you start!!! I take only 1 at night to hopefully keep my heart from pounding so hard.
Today, I did physical therapy and did several hip flexor positions. It wasn't hard, it was steady positions and stretching. An hour later, I felt a humming in my feet. I hadn't felt that before. It was pleasant for once. It gives me hope too. I must have a nerve being closed off at the hip to my feet. It makes me motivated to continue with hip stretches.And core work. I am exhausted though, and look forward to recuperating enough to have stamina to continue with the exercises. Gabapentin is a catch all drug. It seems like every one I know/ or their spouse is on it. I was prescribed 8 Eight a day by a neurologist. I complained to my GP and he said cut the dose in half. Which I did. And then I cut that in half, and then half again, ending up at 1 a day.
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Aweful drug ..I weaned myself off it…. I use mild sleeping pill at night…and Carvedilol for my fast heartbeat… only feel it sometimes at the doctors office until I get relaxed..
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I have lower limb lymphedema as a result of cancer. My former primary care doctor prescribed taking Gabapentin three times a day. I felt so odd and not myself for months. One day being so spaced out I almost caused an accident. That woke me up. I realized since taking the Gabapentin I had brain fog and was not myself. I decided right then and there to stop taking it. Fortunately I had no ill effects doing that. Shortly after I had a scheduled visit to my cardiologist and reported to him what I was taking and what happened. He was aghast that I had been prescribed that much since he only prescribed it for sleeping difficulties, one before bedtime, when needed. I also told my new primary care doctor (fired the one who had prescribed it to me and also another medication that the pharmacist told me was "black boxed" and he didn't suggest that I take it so I never picked it up) ... the new PC doctor also said that
was not the medication for me to take 3x a day. I now only take one every few months if I'm having nerve discomfort before bedtime. Thanks for the info on the exercises and glad they are helping. Go natural whenever possible.