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after years of use one day my feet and ankles started swelling. Dr. said it was the Gabapentin so I slowly stopped and she was right. The swelling went down so now I can no longer take it,
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I know there needs to be Billboard Signs that say;
WARNING
! GABAPENTIN MIGHT GRAB YOU !
Then follow up ad saying: :"Gaba might grab ya!" ...so it is remembered!
This drug was not intended for the variety of other ailments it is used for now. It has become a kind of "Aspirin" This drug is used increasingly by physicians for more and more ailments INCORRECTLY! It is important to know this is not NOT a "cure all drug! Check on it's history! It is a money maker for the Pharm Industry!! Seriously, I speak from experience. I took it under my Doctors orders. The first week was OK, I seemed to be better, and THEN, my throat completely closed! Had I not had help here, at that time, I would have died. Be careful!
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Really now? See i was wondering about this. I started off on it just fine, it helped a lot with my peripheral neuropathy. It still does help with the burning part of it at least. As for the numbness and hyperalgesia? Honestly it feels almost like it's made both of those worse. Also, my weight has been pretty steady for years and continued to be for the first 9 months or so of taking the gabapentin. However, within the last 6 months I've gained about 30 pounds and really rapidly. Also, if im on my feet for longer than an hour or two my ankles and feet swell like someone dumped a pound of salt into my bloodstream! Which, as random as this is going to seem, brings me to the next issue that has me baffled. Have you or anyone else reading this really, had an issue with your hair falling out, thinning, as well as developing a totally new texture to your hair that you've never ever had? I've always always had super thick, frizzy and coarse hair. But since I started taking this? First it started out with my hair just thinning so I bought like all the bosley shampoos and whatnot but then it was just coming out in clumps!!!! So I kept with the shampoo but also switched up my multivitamin to a prenatal and added dha and a bunch of others like a collagen and biotin supplement.... it helped as much as it could I guess. But now? Now it's developed this insanely just unnaturally soft texture! Like baby hair but softer! It's just now kind of filling back in again but it's still just unnaturally soft.