@lindmissi

Hello and welcome to Mayo Connect. I'm a Volunteer Mentor with Mayo Connect; I am not a medical professional and I can only offer you my personal experience. We're all here to share our experience in hopes of helping others with similar situations, understanding that each individual is different and what helps or hinders one person may not apply to other people.

I was prescribed Gabapentin 300 mg 3x day, for my chronic back pain. I found during the 6 months I took it that I was losing my memory. Large amounts of time disappeared and I was always in a brain fog. I thought I was getting Alzheimers. I was just goofy, and at one point had a small fender bender, im sure due to the Gabapentin. I decided that day to get off it. It seems as if doctors, mine was a pain doctor, prescribe Gabapentin for everything now. When I told my pain doctor I wanted to stop taking it, he got mad at me and wanted to know why. I explained my reaction to it and said k didn't think it was helping me. He would not help me withdraw and said I should just quit. I knew that was wrong from what i had read on Mayo Connect. After I withdrew with the help of my pharmacist over 3 months, I discovered that my pain improved. I think it made me feel more pain than i was actually having. I will never take Gabapentin, Neurontin, or Lyrica which are all related again. I think its a bad drug personally. I was even wondering if drug companies were giving doctors kickbacks for prescribing those medications. Probably just my imagination. Good luck with finding out what you need to help you. Please let us know what you find out from your doctor about why he has prescribed it for you.

Gail B
Volunteer Mentor