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Chronic Pain | Last Active: Feb 25 8:30pm | Replies (937)
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I was on gabapentin for only 1 week. Pharmacist was surprised because of all the allergies I have to fibromyalgia medicines. I was to take 200 mg morning and night . Pharmacist said start only with 200 at night. then, 100 morning and 200 night , then the 200 morning and night. I had many side effects, just like I did with lyrica. very tired, unbalanced, ended up with blurred vision.
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@1kay2 I, too, only took Gabapentin for a very short time (right after total knee replacement) thinking it would help with the pain. I then read up on the 'possible' side effects and got very nervous after reading them. One thing that started immediately was belching...I mean really loud belching..something I've never experienced. I decided to wean down off Gabapentin and titrated down VERY slowly (plus, I was only on 600 mg daily for only a few weeks) and it has been several months since I stopped it...But I still have blurry eyes (and I had cataract surgery on both eyes years ago and saw 20/20!) and the belching continues! Last night, I finally took a Nexium, and it did help!