Neurontin....

[soxfan]

I have started taking Neurontin for two reasons. First to help with the nerve pain in my calf and foot and secondly to help with my sleep quality. I took it Monday night along with my 1/2 tablet Klonopin and woke up in the night feeling really spacy. I got up to get some water and I felt so weird....

The next morning I felt so hung over I could hardly function. I only took a 100mg tablet along with .025 Klonopin. Tuesday night I didn't take one but I took one again at about 5pm last night and today I feel the same...totally hung over and feeling weird.

Anyone else ever taken this and felt this horrible after such a small dose. I kind of feel like I am not here but in outer space....ugh....

 

[minkeygirl]

It's does that to you. Makes you feel high until your brain gets used to it. I felt like I had smoked some killer weed! Lol.


After about a week I think you should be ok.

Just an unasked for comment. I gained quite a bit of weight in this so you might want to adjust your eating and see how it goes.

 

[soxfan]

I am not sure if I am even taking enough to help with sleep...but it certainly didn't make me feel better rested! I had read that weight gain is a possibility but I don't know how high a dose I will even get up to if I continue taking it. Thanks for the input....I don't feel spacy anymore but incredible tired...

 

[minkeygirl]

I took it years ago. I started with 800 mgs/day and got to 3200 in a week! I was wasted the entire time. In fact I stocked up on microwave stuff to prepare for that week

It never helped me sleep. It did seem to help my brain for about 8 months and then it just stopped.

I had been "feeding " some personal issues with food at the time, so I'm sure that didn't help with the weight issue.

But I remember every appointment the doc asking me if I had gained weight. Id say yeah but I had a death in the family and so I was eating

He never once told me that neuronton can cause weight gain and maybe I should watch it.

I don't know if dose makes a difference in gaining weight but I gained about 60 lbs in 8 months.

Worth a shot for the pain.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Soxfan, I was put on it for nerve pain and sciatica back in 2000. I could not stop sleeping on it and having weird dreams. Actually, I am not sure I ever really slept on it...or just dreamed. I couldn't keep my eyes open. I was a mess after awhile. I was up to 600 mg. But even lowering it, it made me extremely depressed to the point of where I was wanting to end my life. After about 2 months, I quit it.

Did it help with pain? Somewhat..only because it dulled me so much and made me feel exhausted so I wasn't really thinking of the pain.

I would stick with it, and write down how you do and see how you feel. IT can help many with pain, but it can cause some "brain" side effects.

 

[CFS_for_19_years]

Lyrica (pregabalin) is an improvement over Neurontin (gabapentin). It will still make you gain weight but it won't make you feel quite as spacey. It's used a lot to treat neuropathies. I've taken both and much prefer Lyrica, both for pain and sleep.

 

[soxfan]

@CFS -My doctor did mention Lyrica too...to be honest the nerve pain is bad but I can live with it. I only have it really bad when I am in a crash or extremely exhausted. I really don't like feeling even more tired than I already do each day. It seems as though it takes 24 hours to wear off.
I think for now I am just gonna quit taking it because I have so much going on (moving) that I need to be somewhat functional.

@Misfit- I do feel just so tired and listless. I have enough problems with my brain that I don't think I want to add any more...

@Minkey-I have no idea how you started off with so much. I think that would make me incapacitated for weeks! The most I have ever taken is 200mg and that wasn't even all at once.