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Neuropathy: Anyone have any experience with gabapentin?
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You are fortunate, I took it for three weeks and couldn't remember anything. Where I put the laundry, couldn't do my crossword puzzles, and was angry most of the time. I QUIT IT....and just take my INSULIN and my Glucophage and a tiny blood pressure pill LISINOPRIL. AM TRYING the relatively new METANX which is supposed to clean out the veins in the body and flush them out. GABAPENTIN made me forget my own name and a lot of other normal things. I am 76 in a few weeks. WILL JUST LIVE WITH THE HOT SPLASHES OF PAIN in the legs and feet until I find something that works. Had a DOCTOR in the ER tell me the truth, they DO NOT KNOW how to fix anything with late term DIABETES which I have since May of 1995. TWENTY SIX YEARS SOON...it worsens over time. Saw a NEUROLOGIST, he took an MRI of the spine, and gave me GABAPENTIN which I cannot take. Now what? I get everybody is different and responds differently with meds...GUESS that is true...GOOD LUCK...M.,
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Cymbalta helps me 12 years with neuropathy. Gabapentin 800 mg at dinner 60 mg Cymbalta at breakfast. no tingling or pain in feet which are numb
It took me over the course of a year or more in-order for me to feel anywhere "normal" - I take 1200mg total over the course of the day.
I guess what I'm saying here, is that, at-least in my case it can take months, not weeks, to get used to gabapentin effects to become... tempered.
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Have you tried CBD cream or lotion? No high, no side effects. Doesn't cure but can take it down a notch so more tolerable. I'm 75 and have been using it 3 years--it helps, but you have to experiment and find the dose that works for you.