@lilrav I'm glad you have an upcoming appointment. I was prescribed gabapentin too, but I didn't want to take it. What it does is deaden the nerve pain. I had asked my neurologist about it, and she said it was effective, but took time to achieve that after so many doses. I'm not a medical professional, so I can't offered advice. This was prescribed to me when a doctor was pushing me more toward rehab therapy when I really needed spine surgery. Sometimes, this could be used as a failed therapy to justify surgery to the insurance company since they also look for ways to see what could solve a problem instead of the expensive surgery that they don't want to pay for. I didn't need gabapentin because I was managing the pain OK, and my physical therapist was also doing some things to block pain signals with a Dolphin neuro stimulator used on the nerve roots in my neck.

I hope you will you share your experience after your appointment.

Be careful on gabapentin, depending on your dose. I would take it at night right before bed, that helped with the dizzying symptoms. During one of my hospital stays after spine surgery they had me on such a high dose that every time I tried to get up to move for PT or OT, I would get dizzy, nauseous and threw up. So I quit taking it altogether. Good luck and make sure you let your doctor know if you have any issues while you are taking it.