Gabapentin 300mg: what are the short and longterm effects?

@brainhealth, Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant medication used to control seizures and, in some cases, to treat nerve pain. See more information from Mayo Clinic:
- Gabapentin (oral route) https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/gabapentin-oral-route/description/drg-20064011

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You say that you were prescribed gabapentin to calm overactive nerves. Can you elaborate?

I have trigeminal neuralgia. I got up to 5200mg of gabapentin. It was the worst drug I’ve ever taken. It took a year to wean off. Even when I started for nerve pain the side effects were so intense but I was avoiding my last effort: neurosurgery. Not only did I not avoid it I had it 6 times. I’m thrilled for people it word for. It was the worst prescription I’ve ever been on.

A pain specialist doctor at a prestigious University pain clinic. My dosing kept going up.p over to you. Because my pain would go away and I wouldn’t approve. I had had all kinds of procedures done to see if those procedures would help. Not one did. One procedure actually permanently damaged, my trigeminal nerve in my face, so the right side is now permanently numb on the outside (lake when you come home from the dentist) but totally on fire on the inside of my mouth and half of my tongue, my lips, half of my chin. Just half on my face where the nerve is. There was a 98% chance that the procedure would work and take my pain away. 😭 I fell into the 2% that not only didn’t work but permanently damaged my face another whole time I’m still taking gabapentin and my surgeon said we need to start weaning you off that drug. and that’s when he started whining me and about six months after that surgical procedure that didn’t work I had my first MVD and that did work for eight months. I was pain-free and it was glorious 🙂

A pain specialist doctor at a prestigious University pain clinic. My dosing kept going up.p over to you. Because my pain would go away and I wouldn’t approve. I had had all kinds of procedures done to see if those procedures would help. Not one did. One procedure actually permanently damaged, my trigeminal nerve in my face, so the right side is now permanently numb on the outside (lake when you come home from the dentist) but totally on fire on the inside of my mouth and half of my tongue, my lips, half of my chin. Just half on my face where the nerve is. There was a 98% chance that the procedure would work and take my pain away. 😭 I fell into the 2% that not only didn’t work but permanently damaged my face another whole time I’m still taking gabapentin and my surgeon said we need to start weaning you off that drug. and that’s when he started whining me and about six months after that surgical procedure that didn’t work I had my first MVD and that did work for eight months. I was pain-free and it was glorious 🙂