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Gabapentin side effects?
I am a regular on the Mayo Board! I don't know what I would do without it! Our doctors don't want to discuss openly the things about illnesses and side effets of drugs and other things. Anyway, my question to all of you is Gabapentin and it's side effects. I have been on it now for 6 months. My doctor raised me from 100mg. to now I am on 400mg. three times a day.
The problem is my tiredness! I happen to be in a friends office yesterday and she was taking some medicine. She said she was taking Gabapentin. I asked why and she said she had, had shingles back when and it still helped with the pain. I know the drug is percribed for many things that is why I take it for my issues.
I told her I had been taking it for about 6 months. She asked if I had been tired all the time, just out of the Blue. OF COURSE I SAID YES! She said it took her a year before she got out of the tiredness.
Let me know if any of you have experienced the same thing. Also let me know at what dosage you may be on? I know this is all confidential!
Again Thanks to The Mayo Clinic and Everyone who is kind enough to be open with their lives!
Sundance!
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Don't stand fro it. Get Lawyer and sue.
I hear you and know how lucky I am to have a PCP who tusts me and prescribes an opiod.It is the only thing that helps my pain and allows me to function. And even that is not 100%...it's in addition to Lyrica, and now Nortriptyline. The nights when I have maxed my allowed number of hydrocodone and can't sleep from pain, I turn to an extra strength THC pill. Absolutely crazy.
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1 Reaction@iceblue Trial and error is what it is about as we age and now with narcs,opiods being taken off the market I just heard where Lyrica will be next . I have been fortunate that my Dr. still can give me my Tramadol I don't abuse it either . We need a new President who wont do this to us.
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2 ReactionsI agree for many reasons!
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2 ReactionsOverkill! Mainly stupidity and paranoia.
i have been on gabapentin for years . This is used for nerve damage (pain)
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It's on label use is for controlling seizure disorders. The reference to off label uses means Doctors prescribe it for other purposes but it has never been double blind tested for the off label uses. There is only anecdotal evidence that a drug may have other uses. It's how many of our drugs get to market for many different uses. It's also how minors end up being given drugs that have only been tested on adults. The latter situation is very common with antidepressants. If neurontin and Lyrica are really effective pain meds why haven't the manufacturers conducted the research to demonstrate that? I wonder...
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1 ReactionI'm not a fan of the current President butour problems with pain meds and the withholding of same began prior to his election. Why do you suppose the Congress and the Senate passed and President Obama signed a law forbidding the Drug Enforcement Agency from investigating the manufacturers of opioids? Primarily the Saclar family and the companies they control. This was April 2016 at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever seen. Se the washington Post story, "The Drug Industry's Triumph Over the DEA". I believe it was because they didn't want the truth to be told about the origins of the addiction crisis in America which DID NOT start with honest Doctors and pain patients.
What is a THC pill?