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Anyone here dealing with peripheral neuropathy?
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In the New York Times last week, there was an interesting article on Gabapentinoids, noting, among other things, that there is little evidence that they work for pain, and consternation as to why doctors prescribed them so frequently. See https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/well/live/millions-take-gabapentin-for-pain-but-theres-scant-evidence-it-works.html
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I take gabapentin; my doctor explained that it's not a pain-killer, it's an anti-seizure medication, it calms down my nervous system so that my nervous system stops sending out false pain messages. When my body feels like it's on fire but there is no fire anywhere around, my nervous system is sending me a false pain message. It feels like real pain to me. Pain killers will kill any pain anywhere in the body, gabapentin won't do that, it only does one thing: it calms the nervous system, which helps epileptics and people with neuropathy, no one else that I'm aware of. Peggy