User Reviews for gabapentin oral

my doctor put me on this medication for chronic headaches. before hand i would take excedrin extra strength a couple times a day with little relief. i take 100mg 2x a day & now i have little to no headaches. i’ve also noticed it has helped my mood and my anxiety!

Three hundred mg. at night for treatment of chronic long term insomnia, combined with reduced dosage of clonazapam. It helps but not a lot. Its the clonazapam that really works well. Unfortunately its an opiate and doctor is trying to wean me off it. Not sleeping wall at all.

Trouble side effects very dizzy nausea depression will never take again. This was all with 1 dose of 300 mgs

Dr. Started me on gabapentin for shoulder nerve pain many years ago. helped a bit. But it is a TRUE MIRACLE drug for root canal surgery. I started taking it in the afternoon of a day when I had a root canal the morning that was really starting to hurt as the anesthesia wore off. ABSOLUTE MIRACLE DRUG! Completely stopped the root canal pain in its tracks, and kept it away. Never felt another twinge. I got off gabapentin when my shoulder problems improved, but every time I go in for oral surgery, I take gabapentin and I never have any post-op pain. More recently, I started having some neck pain issues, and the neurologist put me on a total of 2400mg / day. seems to be helping. zero side effects. Read More Read Less

Firstly, did not seem to help seizures much. Two weeks after starting meds had episode of multiple seizures, one of my worst ever. Gabapentin also made me feel high, especially during first week of taking it, immediately had concerns of possible addictive qualities. Normally I have trouble remembering to take meds, but not this one because was always waiting to take more. Side effects also untolerable - brain fog and slower thinking processes, sleepiness, and worst of all became emotional zombie. I was always in a good mood, and it did wonders for my anxiety, but always the same mood - unable to feel excited about good news or feel sad in appropriate moments (i.e. hearing a close friend had still born baby, no emotional response). This emotional stasis also killed my sex drive and made it impossible to have orgasms. Waited a month to see if side effects would decrease over time, but still terrible. Tapered off as soon as I could consult with doctor.Read More Read Less

I was prescribed Gabapentin for Sciatic nerve pain on 1/27/23. Today is 03/27/23. I will be discontinuing use in 7 days. Please have a very serious conversation with more then one health care provider before taking. I wish I had never heard of this stuff. It did not improve my pain. The combination of it with prednisone, hydrocodone and tramadol has trashed my stomach. I cant sleep, I'm dizzy most of the time. I don't have anxiety issues, but I've had 3 panic attacks since I've been on it. It's the only thing I've been on the entire time. I'm having suicidal thoughts. Good luck getting your Doctor or their nurse to listen to you. I was treated like a junkie nutjob. The only side effects that were reviewed with me were dependency and suicidal thoughts, probably only because they were legally required.Read More Read Less

It is a miracle drug for my foot nerve pain due to lack of blood circulation.

I suffer from pain in my lower section. Muscles, joins, nerves. Pain is tolerable during the day, but very bad at night. Lack of sleep is killing me. I tried all over the counter NSAIDs with zero benefit. Tylenol and aspirin are also not helping. My doctor put me on Prednisolone, also a waste of time and money. Now he wrote a prescription for this Gabapentin. I'm reading the paperwork that came with it. All I see are potential negative side effects. Worse yet, it says that this medicine may take 6 to 8 weeks to work. Seriously? What about NOW. I can't postpone my pain for later... This so called medicine should be taken off the market ASAP. Read More Read Less

I was prescribed Horizant ER (600mg/day) for severe RLS. After three weeks, this drug has not provided any relief whatsoever. Would not recommend.

Gabepentin worked wonderful for my trigeminal neuralgia. Took 99 percent of the pain away..I was prescribed 300x 3x a day. I couldn't handle the side effects. Severe weight gain/ water retention , forgetting things. Please don't cold turkey off this medication.

My opinion Gabapentin will either work for you or it will not. If it is not the right treatment for you it could make you high if it's the correct pill it will give you relief There's no right or wrong for anybody it treats a plethora of medical conditions. For me it worked wonderful I started at 100 mg and 6 mo. later they graduated me to 300. After 2 years in I was moved to a 600 mg three times a day. That worked great. I would occasionally I miss a day I would miss a few doses it didn't seem to make a difference so I decided to stop. I wanted to do that because I had taken it for a long period, I've been okay. Today 1.5 years later I decided the nerve pain is getting pretty intense again Monday I'll ask my doctor to restart Gabapentin. Again I will start at 100 and move up to 300 mg after time, that is how it is designed to take, long-term. Starting at a 300 could defiantly create getting sick.The Best to All! Read More Read Less

I was put on this medication when I got diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I was on it for 3 months and it did not help with any of my pain. The only thing Gabapentin helped me with was my RLS (which was nice) but that's not why I took it. I wanted my pain gone and it didn't help with any of that. I will say, not everybody reacts to medications the same way, it is different for everyone. With that being said, do not be afraid to take this medication either. I had zero bad side affects and I am someone who usually gets all the side affects possible. Read More Read Less

I've been taking Gabapentin for appx six years. At first it was difficult to tolerate but that's because the dose was too strong. Once you find the dose that works for you, it really works great on my severe nerve pain. I adjust my dose as needed. I've been taking 400mg 3 x day, but have recently been prescribed 600mg. I'm supposed to take it four times a day but three times is enough for now. There was a time a few years ago that I was taking much more and also times that I just take it at night. It's just the nature of my issue so Gabapentin is easy to change doses as needed. The effect changes with coffee or certain types of food and definitely if you take other meds so be mindful of this. I take it with 5-10mg of baclofen and the two medications together work well. However, if I take them together more than once a day my body can't handle the combination and it will literally knock me out. You have to know what works for you. I definitely prefer Gabapentin over any opiates as those numb my head and I don't like that feeling.Read More Read Less

I used to take 300 mg for sleep at night but then my doctor prescribed 100 to take during the day for anxiety. This was too much for me and I got depressed. I've been off of it for a while, and I was having an anxiety attack today. I took it (100 mg), and within minutes I was feeling better. If it causes depression, then I'm gonna have to deal with that, but I love what it did for my anxiety.

Gabapentin only works on my nerves in my feet. My fingers hurt all the time. And getting up in the morning is terrible it feels like withdrawal. It takes me about 4 hours to get back to normal. People should really do there homework before using this medication.

Taking gabapentin for nerve pain. Side effects are terrible had to stay in bed for days .So tired day and night and dizzy. I wish there was something u can take to stop being tired. It's dreadful it's a shame because it does work but side effects are terrible. I am trying to get off it. Only take 900 mg a day 1 -300mg every 8 hours sometimes u get break through pain doctor told me to increase to 1-600 mg every 8 hours no way . One 300 mg makes me waisted please be very careful with this medicine.Read More Read Less

Was taking gabapentin it's terrible.Had to take a weeks vacation because. I was so tired . I am on 3 weeks and still very tired.

I have Charcot Marie-Tooth (CMT) which is a degenerative nerve disorder. It seems to help with the nerve pain and the spasms. I'm also a former opiate user which I had started using recreationally in my late teens right when I was beginning to have more and more issues due to the Charcot. The opiates allowed me to work two jobs and be independent for myself until the tolerance got higher and I was sick without them. I started methadone when I was 30-31 and am still on it, but have been decreasing a little each month to see how my body feels without it. The gabapentin has helped with the slight discomfort from the methadone reduction, but it's hard to gauge its full effectiveness until I'm off the methadone. I'd love to be pill free, but my body is only getting worse and when I try to "workout" or play disc golf I get really sore and with my disorder I'm not sure if it's good or bad. I do have less spasms on the gabapentin and the nerve pain seems to go under the radar a bit.Read More Read Less

My mother had been taking this medicine for 3 months 2 600mg 3 times a day! She eventually got dizzy and fell in her house and broke her neck! This is not a good drug! Shame on the medical staff giving this!

I have extreme pain in the tibial nerve just ahead of the tarsal tunnel. There is no indication of what's causing it, its thought its the nerve itself. Nothing worked until I was given Gabapentin. We worked up to 1000 mg. 3 times a day. Now my pain is less frequent and minor.