Our doctors may be great but the medical establishment as a whole and the drug manufacturers in particular don't give a tinkers damn about anything but making money. This problem plagues our entire society. No moral principle, no law, no regulation, no sense of human dignity is allowed to impede the ability of gangster capitalists to make more and more money. What you suffered from more than your medical condition is what is referred to as "off label" uses of drugs. When you design or develop a new drug for one purpose you have to prove it is at least minimally better than existing drugs now in use or that it has some benefit for the purpose you declared. Once that requirement as been met, and the drug is assumed to be safe enough for human consumption, doctors can prescribe it for anything they choose to. They can also prescribe a drug to children that has only been tested on adults. This happens all the time because it is considered to be unethical to test drugs on children. You are right. Gabapentin is a seizure drug, not a pain med. It has not been tested for that use. There is only anecdotal evidence that it may work for pain as well. Well there is also anecdotal evidence for faith healing and the Loch Ness Monster. Anecdotal evidence is not science. If this drug was an effective pain med it's makers would do the tests to prove that, but it's not so they don't. Pain and how we experience pain is so subjective and so dependent upon our state of mind as well as being something which comes and goes from day to day that anecdotal evidence is absolutely worthless when it comes to the ethicacy of certain drugs for pain relief. Couple that fact with the present state of affairs and the pressure being put on the medical community to not prescribe narcotics for anyone for any reason, all sorts of things that those of us with years of experience in this area know are not effective are being pushed on the public with wild abandon. As my Neurosurgeon/ Pain Specialist put it, "It's a bunch of bull____". Pregabalin, successor to Gabapentin is priced by whether or not you take it. 50 mgs. per day costs the same as 1200 mgs. per day. If that doesn't raise a red flag with you I have a swamp I'm developing for luxury homes I like you to buy into. People with real medical issues, especially older people like me are not the problem that has led to the opioid crisis. We are the low hanging fruit however. We can be blamed and shamed and have our meds taken away so the politicians can look like they give a damn. If they do care, why did both houses of Congress pass and why did the President sign a law preventing the Drug Enforcement Agency investigating the drug manufacturers? Don't believe me? Google it The Washington Post among other news outlets wrote about it extensively. Wake up, fight back and sue your doctor for failure to provide care.