I have had peripheral neuropathy for several years. Recently, the pain has increased. I am currently taking gabapentin 600 mg. Would like to discontinue as I don’t think it is effective.
Welcome @faithmulqueen, Sorry to hear that your gabapentin treatment is not controlling the neuropathy pain. I only have numbness and some tingling with my neuropathy so gabapentin doesn't help me as it's only for pain relief. Have you talked with your doctor to see if there may be other medications that would work better?
I have had peripheral neuropathy for several years. Recently, the pain has increased. I am currently taking gabapentin 600 mg. Would like to discontinue as I don’t think it is effective.
I've been on gabapentin for years (900mg/day) for bipolar but it has not had any apparent effect on the neuropathy in my ankles & feet. I've now gone to wearing women's nylon thigh-high stockings + garter belts for relief of the symptons. Size Large act by compressing.
Six months after having an Abbott ProclaimPlus FlexBurst360 SCS implanted, living with less foot neuropathy pain but still enough to deprive me of sleep six or seven nights out of 10, I've learned by experiment to just shut the dadgum thing off. I've lately enjoyed four or five stretches of up to 20 hours of little or no pain with it off. It works sometimes, backfires other times. Abbott doesn't do much if anything to educate its customers. I've learn more from experimenting--or from Mr. Artificial Intelligence. Anyone else?
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Welcome @faithmulqueen, Sorry to hear that your gabapentin treatment is not controlling the neuropathy pain. I only have numbness and some tingling with my neuropathy so gabapentin doesn't help me as it's only for pain relief. Have you talked with your doctor to see if there may be other medications that would work better?
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I've been on gabapentin for years (900mg/day) for bipolar but it has not had any apparent effect on the neuropathy in my ankles & feet. I've now gone to wearing women's nylon thigh-high stockings + garter belts for relief of the symptons. Size Large act by compressing.
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Six months after having an Abbott ProclaimPlus FlexBurst360 SCS implanted, living with less foot neuropathy pain but still enough to deprive me of sleep six or seven nights out of 10, I've learned by experiment to just shut the dadgum thing off. I've lately enjoyed four or five stretches of up to 20 hours of little or no pain with it off. It works sometimes, backfires other times. Abbott doesn't do much if anything to educate its customers. I've learn more from experimenting--or from Mr. Artificial Intelligence. Anyone else?