I was put on neurontin over a month ago for nerve pain due to a severe herniated lumbar disk. The 1st pain management dr. only put me on 300 mg a day which helped very little. When I was ready to go for an epidural for the pain, a new dr. put me on 900 mg a day - and then the medicine really worked. I still had epidurals to help stop the swelling but the neurontin has been a wonderful relief for the nerve pain. My other options was to be doped up on addictive percasets that would have made me a zombie...I'll take the neurontin....