Neurontin and nerve pain

I was first prescribed Neurontin in November of 2008 for cervical disc bulge touching my spinal cord causing severe nerve pain in my left extremities. I was prescribed narcotics and eventually prescribed Neurontin. The side effects from Neurontin, at that time, were seemingly intolerable, but as the narcotics were decreased several months later, I found the Neurontin was actually effective and did its purpose. The side effects from the Neurontin were not that great to outway the pain factor I had. I believe this drug does its job!!!!

i have been on neurontin for nerve pain in my legs due to vasculitis for a few weeks now. i have only noticed a small increase in appetite. my eyesite seems to be out of focus, but its so bad anyway that i have no idea if its the neurontin or just my eyes, and minor headaches i had no pain relief either........absolutely no improvement at all. my doctor just raised my dose from 900 mgs a day to 1200 the other day. still no pain relief but i am now getting a bit dizzy. i guess we will see what happens!

I have been on neurontin for 3 weeks due to nerve pain from a cervical disk. Last week I went to the doctor and it appears I have a bad urinary tract infection and a little incontinence. The pain is bad and I cant work right now. After searching the net I found on the manufacturer site that the above is an infrequent side effect. I guess I am one of the few.

you people are a trip, don't you have anything better to do with your lives?
most of you are a hypercondriac and don't even know it, did it ever occur to any of you that you may have other problems? or was that too hard to face the truth about yourselves? if Neurontin was all that bad, don't you think that, that would have all been out? I knew there was some wackos but you guys take the cake, GET REAL!

I have been taking Neurontin for 2 months. I didn't think it was really helping because I still couldn't function normally. I have had 3 disk surgeries on L4/5, and still have severe pain in my right hip and down my right leg all the way to my foot. I am told there is scar tissue build-up in the area causing the nerve pain. I started taking Neurontin in small doses and have built up to 1200mg 3 times a day. I still couldn't walk more than 20 feet without leaning on something, but the pain was noticably less severe. My doctor put me on Trileptal instead, and the first day off the Neurontin was a nightmare...the pain was worse than ever. I went back to the Neurontin immediately. I have experienced some weight gain, but have attibuted that to no exercise. It does seem to make me forgetful, tired and somewhat depressed, but without it, the pain is completely debilitating. I want my life back, but I don't know what to do from here. Neurontin has helped the pain to a more tolerable level, but if I still can't even walk, I'm not even close to functioning normally. If anyone has a suggestion, I would love to hear it...thanks.

I have been on Neutontin for about 8 or 9 years. I still experience side effects that I just can't get rid of. I take 400mg 4 times a day. I have swelling of my abdomin, hands, legs and feet. I feel drunk and ditsy. I have memory loss and find it very hard to concentrate. On the up side, I am very happy and feel as though I can accomplish anything when I take it. I have the courage to do things I normaly wouldn't do. I am taking it for seizures and also nerve pain from a back injury. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this.

I take Neurontion 800mg 5 times a day for nerve damage due to a gunshot. I've taken it for about 3yrs. and still I never know how it will effect me, sometimes it makes me drunk and see double, other times nothing. But my memory is shot. I can't stop taking it, for nerve pain it's the best to help kill the pain. just hang in there.

my doctor gave me neurontin a couple days ago for nerve pain steming from my back. i am having aweful side effects. i'm drowsy but can't sleep, i have problems with concentrating, blurred vision, headache, nausea, stomach pain, i am halucinating both visually and audibly, rapid heartbeat, spaced out, uncoordinated, my teeth feel like they are ringing, twitching, and just feeling like i am drunk!!! the worst part of this medicine is that it doesn't even do anything for my pain!!! i called the pharmacist and he told me to stop taking it. i am in a great deal of pain everyday, but i'd rather be in pain and feel normal, than feel in pain and feel aweful!!! i just hope that this isn't a permanent feeling!!!

I've been taking Neurontin for about 2 months (300mg 3x/day) to lessen the pain of occipital neuralgia.....the pain is still present, but not disabling. This is the only medication I am taking.

Side effects I've experienced are extreme fatigue the first couple weeks....then, tired often if I don't get enough sleep. Another thing I've experienced is weight gain and increased appetite - Big time!! All I want to do is eat.

I'm forgetful and miss doses often. If I skip two doses, the pain comes back full force and I'm in bed for a day.

wish you all the best.

Someone here mentioned one pupil was "unequal", which I found interesting: I had an eye exam a couple weeks ago for eye pain; it was noted that my left pupil was more dialated....this is a first for me. However, overall, my eyes are good...

I have horrible nerve pain of the right hip and leg ,all the way down to my toes, after two four level bone fusion sugeries.This has been going on for three years so they put me on Amytriptyline to help me sleep. Because the pain was waking me up after three hours of sleep. Then they put me on Neurontin 900mg a day for the nerve pain and my world turned upside down. I was tired all the time,weak, and it was very hard to concentrate and function. I had to stop taking it because I didn't think it helped my pain enough to put up with all the side effects. I'm on new medication and this one is much better then neurontin. To all those other people out there good luck I know how you feel, it would be great to feel pain free for just one day again!

I have horrible nerve pain in my right leg from the knee down into my foot after laminectomy and diskectomy 8 months previously. I began taking Neurontin, and experienced dizziness, lack of coordination the first week or two, but a dramatic decrease in the numbness, tingling and pain in my leg and foot. I have stopped taking Neurontin because of stomach pain, bloating, dyspepsia, really miserable, this was while I was on 40mg of Prilosec. I am now on Amytriptyline. It helps somewhat, but not nearly as much as the Neurontin. I am frustrated, because I don't know how to live with this constant distracting and painful condition. It's difficult to walk because of the severe pain in the ball of my right foot. I would really like to take the Neurontin, because I saw such improvement with it, but there always seems to be a side effect that makes it impossible to take a drug that helps. Same with anti-inflammatories, that also rip my stomach apart. Please help with any suggestions.

Dukes

My Internist doctor prescribe me Neurotin for a nerve pain.
I took only one pill of 100mg, well in the moring I felt sick, nausea... the strange thing was that I see dreams passing through my sight. This never happen to me. I went to my family phisician he discontinued he immediately.
Thank God my mother and brother prayed with in the name Jesus to cleanse from this drug.

I was prescribed 300 mg. x 3 per day of neurontin a month ago for tailbone/nerve pain. By the third day, I noticed my leg felt like it was asleep. This has progressed over the past month to the point where now my left leg is tingling and numb and sometimes my left arm is the same way. Could this be the neurontin?

I can' deal with the spaciness, light headedness, and weird dreams, but this numbness/tingling feeling is driving me crazy. Should I stop the neurontin? Anybody else have this?

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....

My Father took Gabapentin for less than 2 weeks as a pain med for nerve pain caused by cancer along with Morphine and within 1 day of starting Gabapentin he could hardly move and rapidly became debilitated to the point of paraylsis. We took him off the Gabapentin ourselves. He has been paraylized since October 28th, from the waist down. Any other readers affected in this way???

After taking 200 mg a day for 5 months I developed hives on my stomach and love handles. The itching is driving me nuts. Anyone else have this and could it be kidney damage at this low dose?