Gabapentin side effects?

It's just crazy to me, that with all the medical advancements, nobody can fix neuropathy!

A lot of it is food that we eat but if you don’t eat you get skinny I lost 25 pounds not good I’ve gained about 7 pounds back by eating more but of course, having more pain

She did mention it, but she said they were about the same. My insurance requires generic meds, but I could certainly try it to see if it works better. I went to a podiatrist, and she prescribed a compound cream which consists of gabapentin, lidocaine, clonidine and 3 others that I can't remember. It helps for about 3 or 4 hours.

When I first got shingles in 2019 I tried a lot of stuff in it up on gabapentin. I was on 2400 mg a day. I finally got down when I finally quit. I was on 900 a day you have to get off very slowly. I’m glad I did, they say Lyrica is even harder to get off of but I haven’t been on that long enough. It really made my pain worse.

I wasn't putting down alternative therapies. The wrong drugs are not an alternative therapy, they are malpractice. Pt is great for delaying back problems as is stretching. Hypnosis is an alternative therapy are is Qigong, yoga, acupuncture and ,many other forms and they all have there place. For late stage chronic pain that is not going to get better or abate, for pain that will only progress as you age, as you become more disabled, stretching, exercise and PT may help but they are not an alternative for real pain management. Narcotics have there limit, they can only do so much but reverting to what might have been appropriate or useful when you you were 40 is a cope out on the part of medical professionals. The fact that some people were given narcotics which they misused and became addicted to does not make it ok to throw real patients who used their drugs as they were meant to be used and did not abuse them, under the proverbial bus. I am a Qigong practitioner, an energy healer. That's an alternative therapy. As good as it is, and as skilled as I am, I cannot correct the damage of a crumbling spine or the lasting ravigis of radiation and chemo therapy. The congress passed a law preventing the DEA from investigating the drug manufacturers. This was done because these same manufacturers are almost certainly selling their drugs on the black market to drug dealers just as the manufacturers of Quaaludes were in the 70's. Think about the number of overdose deaths and ask yourself if you raelly think well meaning doctors could be responsible for a problem of this major scale.

I am taking 300 MG capsules 3x per day.
About a year ago I started seeing a new doc who prescribed the max 1800MG per day (300 MG 6 times per day). I lost ALL muscle strength. Could not even crawl! I stopped taking all Gabapentin and this side effect (ataxia) went away.
I am now seeing another neurologist and informed him about my history. Gabapentin is helpful to me in lower doses and I have not noticed any side effects (other than constipation). I looked up the clinical trials of Gabapentin and ataxia is mentioned as a possible side effect. Now I research the clinical trials of any FDA approved drug that I am prescribed!

Wow…. that was a heavy dosage regime. I took it and I could have slept around the clock. So I took it at night but it gave me wacko psycho dreams .. stuff you don’t even want to know is lurking in your brain. I just stopped it.