gabapentin side affects?

Hi All,

I have been on Gabapentin for 2 years now and i don't get these spaced out feelings. I am on a lot of medication due to back and neck problems. I take Gabapentin 300mg 6 times a day also Amatripaline 30mg. This never did anything for my pain so I went to the Pain Clinic and seen a consultant who after examinig me also prescibed me a Drug called Pylexia SR which I take 100mg twice a day. This has helped me and keeps the pain at bay a lot longer.

Hi,

I now take pregabalin as a diff. dr thought it had a better side effect profile than gabapentin, I was on 1800 mg a day of gabapentin for a few years, for peripheral nerve pain stemming from 3 prolapsed discs in my lower spine. It was like a magic bullet once I was over the initial side effects, which took 4-6 months to be honest. after 6-12 months of it being great though I noticed side effects with my concentration, similar to EAD in film Still Alice, losing words, forgetting names and what I am talking about mid sentence....it got no better swappng to pregabalin either, if anything I have got worse., I was well educated, 2i in Pharmacology 20 years ago at Uni, but I am left trying to discontinue pregabalin very SLOWLY now, as side effects coming off either of these can be horrendous, so if you do come off take it slow, very slow !! Speak to dr / pain clinic who put you on these, when I first reported this side effect and effects on my short term memory my dr dismissed them, but I found info online in USA where they talk more openly about problems with meds - I was right all along, now I don't know if I will ever get my congnitive function back or not. No one knows !!

Maybe you are taking too much. I was told that when I started having numbness on my face and neck. It was the start of my 6th day. I stopped the medicine. It maybe me so irritable and not sociable. Anything I heard I was ready to contradict it. I did not feel myself. The pain behind my head was horrible and the body aches. I started to have slurred speech and my thoughts were not in order. I wanted to say something but couldn't remember the name of thing so common.I still have the numbness on my face. Yeah it helped with the pain but made me so confused.

I was on Gabapentin and got so tired of the weird feeling I went cold turkey. About 3 days later, I couldn't move my legs to walk.I ended up in the hospital. So whatever you do, don't go cold turkey.

I feel you i been on it fora few weeksand im feel like azombiei havebad anxiety dizzy tired blah weird feeling depressed i stopped it cold turkey and ended up in the er with a high heart rate makes me nausea a pee alot im. Going to mydr to put me back on lyrica not tomention i still have the nerve pain

You can go to sauna and steam

Visit chiropractic doctor, not under NHS

Have an MRI scan done

Stretching exercises regularly

Can also have cupping done- work wonders eventually

Best wishes

Hey I know it's been along time since this post but are you still in Gabapentin?

Is there a natural source

Sleepy and slight dizziness are the effects that it gives me.  But on the bright side this medication really works for me.  Just wish those two side effects didn't happen. But nothing is perfect. Right?