Neurontin and tiredness

I am a 34 yr old woman who has has diabetes for 23 yrs. I have extreme neuropathy in my feet and can be in pain for days. I am on a dose of 7200 mg of Neurontin A DAY. I wen t through all the dizziness, memory loss, tiredness and sleepwalking that I could do, however I could not decrease my dosage because of the severity of the neuropathy (burning and pain the feet due to diabetic complications). I just want people to know that I have been taking this dose for 3 yrs now and all the side effects have gone away except for the tiredness now and then. I still have some burning that is severe, but I know if I got off the Neurontin, I would surly die!

Not sure how to respond to you but I am doing so through here.

I have adapted to the ataxia (what I call walking into walls), tiredness, some short term memory loss etc. I still have some of them and I have been on it for a year, maximum dosage 1800 mgs. Now I am on 900 mgs. I guess I want to get off because I cannot stand the "hypoglycemic" feeling I get from it. Feeling weak and hungry, also I have gained weight on Neurontin. All along I have never really "believed" that there was such a thing as Atypical Facial Pain but as I come down off the drugs wierd things happen. My neck begins to hurt me is the one side effect of lowering the dosgage of Neurontin.

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