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Has anyone gotten complete numbness in legs from gabapentin?
I started taking gabapentin for peripheral neuropathy almost a month ago. Over the last week my legs often go completely numb from the knee down. I can only assume it is the gabapentin. Has anyone else had this happen? Is it normal? I don’t have a doctor’s appointment for another six weeks, and I would like some first-hand information from other gabapentin users.
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I have had no side effects from Gabapentin. I would recommend notifying your doctor. Wishing you all the best.
I had a similar reaction to Gabapentin less than two weeks after starting it. It was a couple of years ago but legs achy and not normal. I stopped taking it immediately.
my legs also reacted badly with gabapentin, but when I lowered the dose I was prescribed (900 mg a day!), it eased up significantly. Instead of three doses, I took one 300 mg dose. It gave me moderate help, but I did not like the brain fog or how it changed my gait. I walked like I was drunk when I took it. It didn’t help enough for me to keep taking it. I still haven’t found anything that does.
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1 ReactionI was told to take Gabapentin for numb feelings in my toes. I took one 300 mg tablet. I went to sleep and woke up feeling horrible. That was the last time I took a Gabapentin tablet. I think that prescriptions made in foreign countries and the FDA not being allowed to visit these places are not safe. I only take prescriptions manufactured and distributed in the USA. Be careful if your product is distributed in America but who knows what foreign country it is manufactured in?
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1 ReactionI wonder if that’s what happened with my pantoprazole? I took it for almost 2 years and suddenly with a new prescription, my stomach started hurting within hours. When I told my doctor, he said he had multiple patients complaining of the same thing. Is any medication made entirely in the USA?
IIRC places like WalMart do their own testing on imported [and likely domestically produced] drugs.
Did you contact the pharmacy where the medication was purchased?
I do take Gabapentin. Leg numbness has just recently blown up. Unclear if there is any connection.
No, I haven’t. Honestly, I had no idea you could request to know where a medication came from. Thanks for that info!
I don't know what size town you live in, but if a med suddenly stops working or causes issues and a prescribing doctor says that he has heard of similar stories, then I would be asking at my pharmacy to look into it and see if there has been a recall or possibly even initiate a recall. IIRC for example all CVS pharmacies get their stuff from specific suppliers so it might even be already known that a certain lot or lots have issues and probably should have been pulled from sale. Imported drugs are supposed to be tested before being released for sale, but doo doo still happens.