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Don't mean to chime in on your conversation. I certainly don't mean any disrespect. I have found that Lyrica works better for me than gabapentin. I have used it for about 13 years. I do have some side affects but nothing terrible like I've heard other people talk about. My issues began with a bad fall I took on my kitchen floor. It primarily works the pain associated with my spine. I have vertebrae in a couple different places slipping over the top of each other and 4 osteophytes (bone spurs) in my cervical area that are touching my spinal cord. It does help a little with my tethered cord and Tarlov cyst pain as well. I can't say that I notice much of a difference with the neuropathy though. I've had multiple doctors over the years tell me that everyone is "wired" differently and what works for one may not work for another. You just need to try different things to see if they help.
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I don't think we should identify a drug as a scam unless we can quote reputable medical literature to back up that claim. The article in the NYT criticizes prescribing practices, but does not claim Gabapentin itself is a scam. And how horrible is it that doctors are being discouraged from prescribing opioids and therefore forced to search for other options that may ultimately be completely ineffective 🙁
I am a bit sensitive about this topic because I remember being prescribed anti-depressants several decades ago, and virtually all of my close friends tried to convince me to stop taking it because they heard 'bad things' about anti-depressants. The truth of the matter is: That drug saved my life. Regardless of the horror stories my friends heard about anti-depressants, it literally saved my life. They obviously had no idea how depressed I was, how close to death I was - or they never would have tried to convince me to let go of my medically prescribed lifeline.