Gabapentin Weird Side Effects (Skin, Psychological, Eyes)
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- Gabapentin Weird Side Effects (Skin, Psychological, Eyes)
Gabapentin is a medication used to treat partial seizures and post-herpetic neuralgia. It is a GABA analog, and since GABA is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter, it acts as GABA to inhibit neuronal activity in general. However, due to this mechanism, gabapentin can cause a wide variety of side effects, which we discuss in this lesson.
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It affected my eyesight, change my personality, and made me neurotic.
One has to weight the bad against the good as with everything. I am only taking 900mg Gabapentin daily so i don't have any side effects yet, luckily.
I’ve been on 3600 mg a day for seven years. It is for CIPN. Chemo induced peripheral neuropathy. I have slowly been weaning myself off and I am down to half a pill twice a day once when I get up, and when I go to bed.. I’m trying to control the pain by controlling my diet. Certain things make pain a lot worse such as alcohol, bread, and pasta, starchy, food, and any form of sugar. Alcohol will send me to the hospital in pain. So I have not had alcohol in eight years. I’m stating all this here in case others are looking for a way to help control their pain while getting off of gabapentin
THANK YOU.
I hope you will find relief for your pain ❤
I was given gabapentin for fibromyalgia pain. I tend to be sensitive to drugs so I asked the doctor to give me lower dose pills so I could taper up. He wanted me on 1,200mg to increase to 3,600mg. So I took ONE 200mg pill to start. The next three days were a complete blur. I was sedated to the point of being completely dysfunctional. My doctor said if I'd taken any more I would have ended up in the ER with respiratory failure. Thank God I followed my instincts and started on a partial dose otherwise this stuff could have killed me.
I have been taking Gabapentin for severe anxiety for about three years now and it doesn’t give me a lot of side effects. I do have a tremor in my arms, but that isn’t too bad - I would rather have that than the extreme anxiety I was feeling. I was gagging before I went to work because of anxiety, I couldn’t even get the medications down my throat without almost vomiting. I was in fight or flight mode throughout the day, and every hour with students was a frightening experience for me. It has really changed things for me, but lately I have been eating the pot gummies and I have to say, those work better. Those are the best things I have ever had for anxiety!
Ditto.
I never heard of a use for anxiety.
@@phillycatladyI used to work as a registered nurse in behavioral health, and it is prescribed a lot as an anxiolytic and mood stabilizer in people with mood and personality disorders.
@@bnic9471 at what dose level?
What dose level? I tried pot gummies and even after eating the whole bag ..maybe 5 of them… felt nothing at all. Sure wish I had.
I have been clean and sober for about twenty years. I was prescribed this for nerve pain. Damn! I got a quick buzz from my first dose. I almost started abusing it. I flushed it and told my NP not to prescribe it to me anymore. That’s my story. For me gabapentin is addictive.
Pretty basic doctor's knowledge that they're not supposed to give someone with an addictive personality or addiction issues shouldn't prescribe addictive drugs. This why I gave up on the AMA medical pharmaceutical system. It's a waste of money.
@@cookielapaz8927 There are multiple off-label uses in psychiatry, including treatment of alcohol use disorder. Speaking as someone who actually does prescribe psychiatric medication, if you're this clueless, you should leave it to the professionals.
Some meds do more harm than good. I was in pain and this was the first thing my doctor wanted to put me on. I immediately said no and went home.
It was the only thing that helped me with pain from shingles so that I cold actually sleep. Also when I have a bad sciatic attack. Oddly, it’s also recommended for my dogs to calm them before a vet visit.
Next time try cannabis oil. It's not addictive, doesn't need a perscription, doesn't upset your stomach, and works very well.
Gabapentin has helped to save my life. I take 700 mg 4 times a day along with having a spinal cord implant. My doctor wanted to try something different and after a month I was begging her to put me back on Gabapentin.
Key point!! After a month you're begging for the addictive narcotic.
@@cookielapaz8927 not necessarily when you’re in that much pain in your spine and it’s helping and then it’s taken away from you you beg for it to pain is one thing that people have a hard time living with! I know I have a tumor in my spine and my back pain is horrendous and actually the gabapentin has been helping me so I don’t know but don’t judge
Years back I was prescribed Gabapentin for several months. Wierd things I noticed: twitching in my face, especially when trying to speak. Can't remember the other things but It was not helpful at all.
I was on it years ago. Took it for 30 days and did not renew it. Then I was on Lyrica. I liked it better than Gabapentin, but I’d rather not have to take that one either.
I had multiple falls on my bike, bruised ribs, and fell down an escalator at a train station. I realized it was going to kill me from an "accident" and I stopped taking it. I am not sure that it ever helped my sciatica from a ruptured disc. The doctor was surprised that I had these side effects. When I stopped taking gabapentin I was fine again. I was also prescribed the related pregabalin, same problems.
Yeah, Falls/Accidents are more likely when on these meds i guess. So people have to be informed about this so that they can take precautions when for example attempt to climb stairs and so on. Guess most doctors doesn't Care enough for their patients to tell them these little "details".
I try to cut back and the nerve pain and itching is unbelievable and unbearable idk
I took it for a week, I felt unsure and unstable of my footing. Terrible drug. Just say NO to prescriptions.
Neurotoxins are no joke.. been damaged ten years from psych meds I was told were "safe and effective"
Gabapentin has been a life-saver for me for diabetic neuropathy. Only side effect I've noticed is myoclonus sometimes
Get real stop the carbs and bad food.
@@quake2u I'm type ONE diabetic. It's caused by genetics and is an autoimmune disease. It has NOTHING to do with weight or diet. You're thinking of type 2 diabetes
@@quake2u wow what an assumption on your part. And with only a mere sentence from MarkAlexander! There are those who do everything right and still battle health issues; who are any of us to judge what relieves them & eases their individual journey??
MarkAlexander - so glad for you, that you find relief in any way. I've known many with various forms of neuropathy who are grateful for Gabapentin's benefits, esp when nothing else improves their quality of life like it does.
@@joan.nao1246 Thanks :) I also have type ONE diabetes, which is completely unrelated to diet or your weight.
It was given to me recently because I broke a thoracic vertebra. When I first went to ER due to extreme pain, the doctor said I needed pain management. I have been shoved through 5 doctors now and it has been 5 months. For the first 2 months, I was screaming in pain, and no one would address the pain. I finally got angry and decided I was going to figure out the homeopathy that would work. It took me 5 days, but finally, the severe pain was gone, but it was still aching and hard to move around. They also recommended Physical Therapy, but I still have not been able to get that because of the Medical System. They started me on Gabapentin, and it sort of works, but I wake up in the morning unable to see. It is very frightening, and it is also wobbly walking. I am 70 and was worried about my memory being affected by this drug. I usually avoid these new drugs. I need to get off this stuff.
I actually fell a few times whilst on it and stopped taking it. It made me dizzy.
Yes you do
@@infinitejest441 me too.
What did you find worked for the severe pain?
Why no morphine?
Hmm. I haven't had any side effects and have been taking Gabapentin for about 4 years.
I only take one 100 mg when my lower back pain is preventing me from walking, sitting up or moving. It works for me. I get rare debilitating lower back pain once or twice every 6 months. I only take it when needed not every day as a prevention but when needed.
Very helpful medication for short time of 2 months in treating my nerve pain in back from epidural infection of L-spine. Grateful for this med. but using it long term as a lot of you have for years would be concerning
After few months of using Gabapentin in some people causes essential long term memory Wipeout, that is all your atm pins, login passwords. Scary experience might last for few days then comes back. Worse scary is one can't access atm, log into accounts thinking about backup of the pin numbers & passwords !!
This happened to my doctor himself & once to myself. Strange F☆up side effect & GABA from vitamin stores maybe don't do that.
That was the last straw for me, when I couldnt remember my PIN.. Plus the gambit of other things! A year post now and thank God there is improvment.
SUCH A DANGEROUS DRUG-I REFUSED TO TAKE IT.
It was prescribed to me for severe neck pain after a neck injury. My personality did a 180 - from kind and loving to violent and homicidal ideation.
It made my blood pressure and heart rates go up, I felt hyper and was out of the normal “Gabby”. I could not shut up. Just talk talk talk. I was aware I was babbling but could not make it stop.
A lot of people report being more talkative on it.
Thank you for this video
thanks for sharing
Thanks, very useful information, I had couple of these side affects myself and another side affects I had it was swelling my hands and my feet, also I started to have a bavk pain years ago when I started Gabapante, they should phase it out with so many side effects, I had memory problems , cognitive issues, suicidal affects, I totally stopped them and everything is gone.
Thanks for sharing this.
My aunt stopped taking it after realizing gabapentin was what was causing her legs and feet to swell up. Unfortunately, my mom is still on it despite warnings from me (after much research on it) and my aunt. It seems to me she may have many side effects from it, but she has tried to stop taking it before and the pain and increase of restless leg syndrome activity is just too much for her to bear. She has ocassional leg and feet swelling, cognitive and memory issues, trouble walking and with balance. Possibly even the 'target' shaped lesions shown in this video appearing on her legs.
It just does not make sense to me that doctors don't have structured cessation procedures for certain medications, or that pharmaceutical manufacturers don't have smaller dose packets available for those who choose to stop taking certain drugs. Well, I know why things like this don't exist. It's just sad, and so wrong.
I was on 3600mg/day for a couple years, now down to 300mg. My legs have been so damn swollen on multiple occasions that I could barely walk and thought I was going to die. I even had tests done on my heart, an ultrasound on my legs to look for a bloodclot... NOT ONCE have any of my docs ever mentioned this as a side-effect (or any adverse effects for that matter...)
I recently had 4 hours of memory testing because I've been telling my docs for years that I feel like I have dementia since getting on gabapentin. They told me it's because of "my depression" and dismissed any possibility of the massive amounts of drugs they were giving me that are proven to cause memory damage...
I've taken gabapentin for many years, I haven't had any of tykes problems! It helps me with my back problems and I'd be lost without it!!!
I take it for trigeminal nurogal pain.
I take it for severe sciatica pain.
@@CrissCrux
That’s why my sciatica is better too! I haven’t had any side effects from it, have you?
Great description images and clear explanations to explain vocabulary.
You were absent for a long time
Is everything okay ?
You're not making comments on Medicosis channel anymore
Hi Wael. I'm still here!
@@alanwaterman1328 great 👍
Yeah, I had the misfortune to be prescribed Gabapentin. What they don't tell you about the nystagmus side effect, is that it is both sides, and the movement is so rapid that it is the equivalent to being blind, but as I'f that wasn't enough, it hits without any warning signs, and induces immediate disorientation, nausea and vomiting, and loss of balance, so injuries from falls are common side effects of the side effects. Or if you are unfortunate enough to not be informed of the possibility of this occurrence, and happen to be driving a car, well, you may be lucky to even survive.
This is not a drug, it is a toxin.
I am on a 300mg dose 3 times a day. Last November I developed double vision in both eyes. I haven’t been able to drive safely since. I weaned myself off. The pain from 5X C-spine surgeries got the best of me. I went back on. My doctor says the dose is way too low to cause double vision. MRI with contrast and 3 eye surgeon’s consults later with multiple tests on other things. I have to stop taking it. I have been on to many pain medication to list.
@@bethmartin3730 Not giving medical advice. But let me tell you about my experience with Contrast MRIs. I have had 3. The first was about 20 years ago, no issues, the second, i had after suffering a TIA, which slightly reduced my kidney function. the third however, caused a reaction that injured my kidneys severely. I now require dialysis 3 days a week, 4 hours at a time. Just something to consider. there are risks.
It clearly states on the leaflet to not drive.
It's a know thing that there is a need to read it before using.
So does every med you take. My doctor said it won’t affect me. It’s a low dose.
@@Ma-oh6xo Funny. That's not what my leaflet said, it said use caution and waiting to see how it effects you. Also note, that is not always an option for people who live alone, and have to get to appointments like Dialysis 3 times a week. Even more important, you can stop taking gabapentin and have this happen to you weeks later. My point was, not to let them prescribe this to you in the first place.
This explains why my Mother began this RX in retirement care.
I have been on this medication for 3 months for severe sciatica pain and thankfully I do not have any of these side effects.
What a dangerous drug I thought it was only for cats my cat was given this by the vet now I know why the cat lost the ability to walk. was put down after she lost the ability to walk.
I'm so sorry about your cat. I am realizing how much these drugs have damaged our lives.
Vets are apparently now going hog wild , especially with dogs... hadn't heard as much with felines...Sorry they damaged your cat.I got off it cold turkey & it was 4 days of HELL.
Got through it. Never again !
Yes I was given gabapentin and I recently wend myself off of the medication I was taking it 100mg three times a day. It was given to me for restless leg syndrome. And I took it over ten years. At first it was helping with my restless leg syndrome but over time I started to have problems with my balance, blurred vision, dizziness, and I had constipation and pain in my left side of my abdomen. I had fatigue and pain in my feet I couldn't put my feet on the floor with our having pain. I have lost of memory and back pain . Muscle pain and aches, sore throat, runny nose etc. I have been off of gabapentin for two months now and my body has totally improved. I feel so much better and I 'm moving better .and my memory has improved.
I already take a seizure medicine and I didn't know that it was used for seizures and I was having more seizures because of this medication I had swelling in my right foot 🦶🏾. I even had tingling in my feet
Take turmeric. It help me so much with planter fasciitis. After 2 month in it I felt the different it is a miracle.
I asked my Doctor about my tremor and he told me that he doesn't have another drug that can treat my diabetic neuropathy. I get dry skin and anxiety also thin skin.
I Love your Kliban kitty. I just Love them.
How about Benfotamine ?
It has saved my life and allowed me to sleep.
Ive known patients that absolutely cannot take it due to side effects, but others take it w/o side effects. Ive been on doses as high as 2400mg per day, but that was only post spinal surgeries & not a dose i could stay on. Now, I only take 300mg at bedtime. It truly helps me with severe spinal nerve damage, but i do realize that it (as with many drugs) could be dangerous at continued high doses. Its a good med for those that can take it in a safe manner
I quit using this medicine after 1 day. I woke up in severe pain because I almost bit my tongue off while sleeping. It was a very quick, uncontrollable, strong bite. Scary
I took this for pain. I was supposed to take it everyday, but it made me cry everyday and have dark dark thoughts. I'm not a depressed person. It's so insidious, i couldn't connect it to the medication at first. Got back my mind when i got off of it.
It’s horrible and didn’t do anything for what I was taking it for, fibromyalgia, and it changed my behavior made me borderline psychotic and just made me feel really weird, like my nerves were all buzzing at the same time.
I swear I had a near death experience. I left my bed floating up and up until I finally woke my self up and fell back to my bed. Not sure what happened I will never try it again ..
It's so hard to get off of. And you just can't stop taking it suddenly.
There was another comment about someone quitting after 10 years of use and they stated that within 2 months they felt amazing. I stopped taking opiates, Adderall, Benzos, and antidepressants seven years ago and have yet to fully recover. I am still way better than I was on them.
Yes, weaning is very important.! I'm a nurse and havecseen people not offered so taper with shingles treatment and ended up in hospital.
I like it.
I knew someone who went on it and her whole behaviour changed, she screamed at me (her best friend) in a way I had never seen before that scared me. Shortly after that she started hitting her partner, I would come by few times a week and he started to have cuts and bruises on his face. She admitted she hit him and that she had been changing since the new medicine and I ultimately had to drop her as a friend because it was starting to scare me.
I knew one other person who also was more prone to fits of rages after being put on this "medicine".
It also really does a number on your stomach so I would not recommend if it were up to me
Gabapentin made me see beautiful swirling pastels with birds it was so beautiful but a little scary but I also didn’t care at the same time.
Can you Please do a video on Topamax / Topiramate…
Thank You 🥰
I take this too. I've read that it also has many horrible side effects !!!
I have experienced generalized edema, though it gravitates to my lower legs. I have a predisposition to third-spacing, however.
My ankles and feet got so puffy that I quit taking it.
It's a known side effect and unfortunately was not included with this video.
I had terrible side effects that came in very slowly over many years both from gabapentin and lyrica. It about a year to get off the medication and about two more years for my nervous system to recover.
I will never take that crap again. I was prescribed that with tramadol and prednisone. I was a hot mess. I did not know my left from my right.
I was put on this for nerve pain and it started cramped up my kidney on my right side and I peed alot of blood I stopped taking it and then no more cramping and no more blood when I would pee!!!
Good for you, it can cause acute kidney failure. I hope you informed your dr and they checked your kidneys, and they're ok.
@@floof5231 Well two months later I had to go back to this doctor and he thinks I was just being uncomplient he did not believe me and no he did not check for nothing, he tried putting me on Maripex but something he said to me got red flags in my mind he said " dont be surprised if you find yourself walking around Wal-Mart for hours at a time" and in my head I said WHAT so I picked it up on the way home and researched it, Maripex causes like 5 different addictions, ok I was already on pain meds because I have alot of back problems and had a failed back surgery so when I had to go back and see him and I told him that this med is to risky and it has ruined people's lives and the company that made it has had many lawsuits because of it, he told me if you don't take it I will take you off your pain meds I said I won't take this one l will try something else that is not so risky and he said no and took me off everything that helped me and that was the last time I saw him so I requested my records and oh my goodness I was speachless when I read them he put lies in it of things he said I said that I never said and other untrue things so I made a complaint and supposedly it's being investigated!!!! Yeah we'll see!!!! I have no doctor right now having a hard time finding one right now, I'm going to keep trying I hope I find one that is trustworthy!!!!!!!!
How common is trigeminal parasthesia?
I was prescribed gabepentin with baclofen and something else in vaginal suppository. Can it have same affects if not un pill form? For pelvic floor dysfunction. Any advice appreciated!
Ask your gynecologist for a pessary for pelvic floor dysfunction. It provides support.. They are made of silicone and come in many sizes and shapes. The right one will maybe enable you to get off the gabapentin.
It makes me tired. It also makes my limbs feel heavy so I get clumsy. Same goes for pregabalin.
Wow, just wow. Need high dose for pain management 😮
I’ve taken Gabapentin (1800 mg) for years and I have had none of these effects.
❤I take 600mg at night. Really good. Relaxing. I have fibromylgia pain.
Be careful though. No drinky please.😊🙏❤️🌿🕊
I'm on this for fibro. I went off of it a couple of years ago and got to the point where I could hardly move. I went back on it and can function. Now I'm having a bad flare. If I miss a dose I'm in terrible pain, but feel sick overall for about 4 months
maybe all your overall sickness is from the drug, maybe
I almost died from Steven's Johnson Syndrome
Geez. I am glad you made it. Did you have any lasting complications?
I took it many years, with pain pills, I wonder if Im having problems from this
Rash, liver problems, blurry eyes, nausea
it never affected me menally because I really focaced on it to work for me pain wise
Im shocked by some comments in here!
I don't understand why would people feel anger towrds a chemical substance?
It does have a huge list of side effects, that's why for example my doctor tried to work out the dose with me by starting from the smallest possible and ending on smallest one that was effective.
However even if it has side effects, it's working well for some people, and for the ones that it does not work, and for the ones that for some reason feel anger towards the pill- chill out and just keep on looking for what works best for you.
Don't try to take away the pill from the market, just because you had bad experience, as it's life changing for others and can help with many troublesome issues.
This stuff does wonders for when my cats hear fireworks...I didn't realise it was prescribed for human use, too
This makes my post lamenectomy pain bearable. Lay off.
Now because there are support groups with people openly discussing like UA-cam platform people are not keen so it’s now been thrust on animals for nervous cats and dogs who “need “ to be calmed down …. Yep they need to make money …. Not anyone I know will take it nor their pets !
Gabapentin is prescribed for me to eliminate tremors. But it is not working! I’m having double vision. I already have anxiety and the Gabapentin is just making it worse. I want off of it! I have a poor memory. I think my doctor is trying to destroy me! 😮I have a runny nose quite often. Yikes!
Go off them slowly. I did so myself last year, spent almost 3 months to safely come off 3600mg pr day.
What is Gabapentin used to treat what illnesses? No idea what you talking about but interesteding
Nerve pain, shingles , degenerative disease
Pain & anxiety & more ...
MS relapsing/remitting
I was put on it when I herniated 3 discs in my neck with nerve impingement. I went from pain level 20 worst pain I’ve had wouldnt wish on my worst enemy to 0
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with this med ,I've been on gabbapenton fir years ,I know no medicine is good for our body's, I am meaning, it's not all natural, I tryed the gabbapenton for my neuropathy and it took a while for it to get the full effect for the medicine to work and I kept taking it on a daily basis ( the right way it was prescribed, ) i would stop taking it and not giving it time to work ,I am a person who wants results right away ,well ,that's not how some medicine works ,it ended up working great ,I don't like the fact that I have to take it but if I stop taking it my neuropathy starts up again ,my hands swell and the pins and needle feelings come back and other symptoms that are unbearable.
Its similar drug Lyrica is available in lower doses than 100 mg but your doctor may not prescribe it that it is a Schedule V controlled substance🧐
Whyyyyy is this being prescribed to children though? I was put on it due to nerve damage in my shoulder. Guess what it doesn’t help? Any pain what so ever 🙄
Guess I was lucky. I never noticed a thing while on it.
It's easy to say that a drug should be illegal. If you are the one taking it due to diabetic neuropathy or chronic pain, it's not that easy.
Gabapentin gave me nystagmus. 😢One eye
I take it now I wonder
Mine give me incredible dreams. Not just at night. If I doze off during the day, I can live through the most amazing lifetimes before I wake up. I’ve started writing them down. A trick cyclist would have a field day with me.
It makes me tired and blurs my vision. It's supposed to help my back pain, but it doesn't. Thinking of going off it. Surgery is in two weeks anyway.
My side effect. Was boils of the skin. Taking a med that gives me a infection.
It made me and my daughter in law have muscle spasms! My fingers would twist up and i could not move them .
Gabapentin was really bad for me. Actually most pharmaceutical drug have bad to server side effects on me. No thanks!
It's also to treat seizures on dogs
Weird that this vid showed up for me. My dog just started taking this yesterday. He's 15 with a brain tumor and takes 50mg at night. Does anyone know if these side effects could happen to him?
Yes, there is another comment where a woman said it caused her cat to lose its ability to walk.
I’ve had two dogs that were prescribed this for pain management. One tolerated well, no side effect. The other severe stomach upset. Discontinued use for her.
@@maryvalent961, Keep the usage short, as it causes terrible withdrawal and is now considered a controlled substance.
It made me lose a few IQ points on that stuff. It was given to me for sleep and anxiety, which is definitely off label. I gained a lot of weight too. When I tried to quit I had a grand mal seizure and was hospitalized. Finding a dr to understand that the withdrawal is hell was very difficult. I was told over and over that this medication is benign but I lived through it so I know. I had to find a specialist to help me tapor off and it was miserable. It took 6 months and another 3 after being off completely. It’s dangerous, it’s addictive, and it’s horrible
This is dangerous... I've seen someone use it and withdrawal and its scary..
You should stop taking it only with a close collaboration with your doctor. You doctor will be slowly lowering your dose, and then there is practically no danger.
@@Ma-oh6xo i don't take it.. and also it is dangerous to take.. assuming you don't research Gabapentin adverse side effects and Gabapentin psychological side effects.. along with it causing medication induced psychosis and more.. i don't take medications at all.. I am holistic.. and this is exactly why.. Also I only listen to Holistic Doctors who care really about people's health..
@@Ma-oh6xo they deleted my comment but i do not take those.. or meds.. but they deleted some very important information to this comment.. so sadly i can't tell you what it is because the author doesn't like the truth spilled out
Did zero for me, supposedly helps with shingles pain. Nope. Made me feel awful. Zero pain relief
It's to treat seizures on dogs or canines
No problems for me just a relief in symptoms.
However, did have Angioedema after being prescribed Ramipril and taking 2 doses.
Congratulations. You are the one of twenty that the treatment actually works for. Realize the power of your mind.
@@edie4321 🤣
@@edie4321It probably works for most people.
What a terrible drug.
Stay away from this poisoning
I was on 1600 mg daily & felt suicidal. I stopped taking it!
Didn't touch anything for me
I’m on 900mg x3 per day we always call our weird heads as gabby head xxx
Wow I wonder why I was prescribed this medication when my back was out😮🤔😕oh yea I forgot I was a lab rat.😉
I was given this for hot flashes. In the past it was called neurontin and given by psychiatrist.
Time to wean.
Bad news it throw me from wall to wall totaly alegic to it
F ...k
Over years of possible experience in drugs given in prescription medication for treatment purposes of extremely
Difficult circumstance .
I have been much better off not taking a drug with side effects unhealthy to recover 😔 😕
The side effects of prescription drugs can be worse than the symptoms of what we sort help to get some relief for.
Especially in drugs used for medical treatment of mental health problems 🙃 😮
There is a non negotiating relationship between those whom give us medication 💊
If we say I didn't like the side effects when I researched, they will not like 😤 or not treat you anymore
Because you didn't take the poisoning
I gained 30 pds in 45 days.
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Hey it's only thirty six dollars for the entire prescription
Gabapenten is literally a death sentence!!! I was on the lowest dose for about a year and I ended up in the hospital. The effects it had on me were too many to list on here. I got almost every side effect on here, especially the severe ones. It’s taken my body from 2017 to present 2024 for these issues to heal. Still a few lingering issues, but humongously better.
Please don't spread misinformation. Yes it has adverse effects like any drug, there are those who tolerate it better and those less, but if it is prescribed it is for a reason, it is not given randomly. It's not "literally a death sentence"
@@Roudjde I lived it! You can say whatever you want. I’m sure some people do fine on it. But the side effects I had and several people I know had very bad reactions. But like I said my symptoms nearly killed me. As a nurse I would never recommend it.
@@sherryroberts1821 As a doctor I often prescribe it, even my dad uses it for a neurodegenerative disease. Even aspirin is not tolerated in some, medicine is a statistical science, not anecdotal
@@sherryroberts1821 i hear you. It is way over prescribed for random ailments. The only predictable quality of it is sedation, a sedated patient is easier to control and possibly manipulate. Our personal testimonies are NOT spreading misinformation. Silver lining is all the side effects will be taken seriously and not given willy nilly by the medical corporations. I remember the huge lawsuit of neurontin, hence why its only called by generic now.
@@sherryroberts1821If you "lived it" then that means literally it was not "a literal death sentence".
Words have meanings and literal IS LITERAL. You wouldn't be alive to post about it. Just stating facts.
I was given this for pain because what are they going to give you if they don’t like to prescribe opioids. Over my long life, I have been on a lot of medications and by far, this one was the most terrifying. I know some people say it “saved their life” but I will not ever take it and I will not give it to a dog (there is a dog version to this). The worst part of this medication is that it made me so mentally out of it that I had no self awareness of all of the physical stuff it was doing to me. Never ever ever again. If anything is illegal, this crap should.
Omg this stuff sucked for me! Everyone is different but for me I felt absolutely drunk & functioned worse on it!
What the heck do you take for pain that's legal?
You can see my other post. I mention control your diet and cut out any alcohol sugar, starchy, food, pasta, bread, rice. As soon as I eat any of these things, I have pain that’s increased. This is for neuropathy by the way.
Try Kratom. M. Speciosa
These side effects are probably dose related.
EFFECTS, not AFFECTS.
This is the new hand-out! If you sneeze or fart they write you a prescription for gabapentin. Makes people go psycho! Rewires people's brains.
What?
I took one tablet…
Woke up 19 hours later.
NOPE!
I had surgery on my back a few years ago and was given Gabapentin to take.
After being on that for about two-three weeks after the surgery I knew I didn’t want to be on this long term.
I had a neurologist who said I could take unlimited amounts of it without side effects.
For a torn brachial plexus from a broken arm.
Wow 😮
Whaat? Yours and few other comments make me feel, that the issue in not the pill itself, but some uneducated doctors.
My doctor was starting from very small dosages, and left me for a time with the smallest one that was working, and then when we were ending, we were lowering the dose in some etaps.
Looks like some doctors prescribe huge dosages!