Sudden Withdrawal From Neurontin (Page 6) (Top voted first)

I have been taking 600 mg of Neurontin 4x a day for about 2 years and recentlty ran out of this medication due to excrutiating slow service from mandatory mail order RX company.... I was extremely agitated during this time (approx. 5 days), nervous, stressed out, etc. Has anyone else had these symptons as a result of sudden withdrawal from Neurontin? I can't understand why this happened, I felt so scared and lousy for that time. Is this a known reaction for this med? I haven't been able to find an answer. I take it for relief from carpel tunnel syndrom. Thanks

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I would get it checked now! Never heard of withdrawal doing this but who knows!
Good luck. Keep us posted

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Thank you for your reply. I feel reassured that this is the remnants of gabapentin still in my body and/or my body adjusting to it. I still have a slightly stiff neck in the morning and shoulder, upper back, and neck pain but the symptoms are very slightly less with escj passing day. I wish I had never taken this terrible drug!!

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I have just started taking Grapentin after reading all the comments I think I had just as soon have the pain. I am taking it for Fibermyalgia. I have been feeling a little depressed and I am on Paxal also.

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Neurontin is satans drug!! I took it for 8 years and went to jail and had to stop taking it cold turkey. I woke up a week later in the icu bc I had went into kidney failure and pancreatitis. I had to be put on dialysis it took weeks to even be able to speak. You sweat so much you feel like your melting! It's the worst feeling ever! Good luck!

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I took Gabapentin( Neurotin) because I had a triple spinal fusion that didn't go well and had severe nerve pain from the surgery. I ran out because I took an extra one during the day, which I didn't normally do. OMG! I had the worse withdrawal symptoms. I thought I was dying. I woke up in a cold sweat. As the day progressed my heart rate increased, I had palpitations like I was on a roller coaster, diarrhea, anxiety from hell, could not eat, crying spells, increased blood pressure 174/110. I was just about to call an ambulance when my husband said try taking a Gabapentin. He gave me one, as he takes them too for nerve pain from Gillian Barre, and within 20-30 minutes, everything settled down. You must taper these down over many months, do not suddenly stop taking them if you have been taking them for a long time and or, on a high dose.

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I am so glad I went back and read this!! I am completely fine now, but I have told my knee surgeon that I will not take it when I have the other one done!! Severe, almost palpable depression, rapid heart beat and horrible nausea. My anesthesiologist told me to take Lyrica next time!

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There is normally a lot more information available than what you get from your doctor or pharmacy, when they give you a prescribing leaflet with your prescription, they are only allowed to list a certain amount of side effects and some basic information, this is from the FDA with the theory that they do not want to scare people away from taking needed meds. To get more information and details, you actually have to look for the physician's prescribing information, sometimes it is also listed under full prescribing information, and they usually don't make it available to the public, as they just want Doctors and pharmacists to read it.

However, you can usually find these online by doing a search, so to see if it contains anything relevant to what you are looking for:

PDF Cache: pfizer / download / uspi_neurontin.pdf neurontin full prescribing information &hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

http:/­/­www.crazymeds.org/­neurontin.html

http:/­/­www.pfizer.com/­pfizer/­download/­uspi_neurontin.pdf

I am also disabled and suffer chronic pain, however, this drug did not work for me, no matter how high my doc raised the dosage. It is funny that way, it only works for some people for certain types of nerve pain. It can also be affected by what other meds you are taking, including opiates. Opiates tend to make it work better in your body and strengthen its effects, so if you are taking it concomittantly with those, then your withdrawal symptoms can also be affected by that.

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Just pored over pfizer's documentation. To be fair, the incidence of patients aquiring epilepticus status on withdrawal is only about a tenth of a percent more than participants withdrawing from a placebo.

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i have been on 1600 mgs of neurotin for about 10 yrs i want to quit i have weaned down to 1200mgs i am concerned about quitting after being on it so long is there any danger?

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YES GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR FOR CARPEL TUNNEL , NEURTON IS AWLFUL DRUG WHEN YOU RUN OUT. SWEATS, CLAMY SKIN, HEADACHES, AND NAUSE. J

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Sinda,
I too use Neurontion and six months ago was using 600-mg. per day. I decided I was fed up with all the strong pain pills I was on and began detoxing in January 09. Once I successfully got off Oxycontin, I began lowering the dosages of all my other drugs by about 25% each month. When I got my Neurontin down to 200-mg. per day without too much of an issue, I thought I would just quit it the following month. After a few days without it, I found my self going through much of what you have described. I went back to the 200-mg. and have remained there for three months now. I also found that it is very helpful for my pain level especially since I have discontinued the high dosages of Oxycontin I had been using and reduced my use of Norco, for breakthrough pain, by 25%. Today I will be reducing my Norco dosage another 25%, which will be 50% less of the dosage I had been using for many years up to January 09. Slow reduction of your medication's, watching your bodies response to the reductions,is the safest manner in which to get off of any drug. Even when a medication is not considered addictive, the body has become reliant upon it's regulation of certain areas of your bodies system and overnight discontinuance can stress the body to the point of causing heart attacks, blackouts, unstable gate and a host of unlisted side effects. If you want to get off it, reduce your daily milligrams each month by about 25% and in this manner you will discover if you want to go all the way off, or stay on a low dose because you realize that it does help your pain level. Anyway, that is what I've done. I decided to stay at 200-mg. a day because I found that anything less allowed my pain level to run amuck during my day. However, I feel great that I did reduce it by 400 MG.s in just a few months without an issue.

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Wow, hearing how others wake up edgy and feeling like you're on speed was great. I've been having all these tests thinking it was my heard, carbon monoxide, you name it, I was looking for anything that could be causing these early-heart-racing's. I didnt know at the time that I could be suffering withdrawals, but had started taking a Neuroton so that the heart racing wouldnt set off a seizure. I noticed that within 45 minutes, my heart would calm down. But what's so odd is that I've been on this drug over 10 yrs and could take it whenever I wanted to. Now, if I dont take it within 5 hrs, I'm doomed. The dr suspects I've become tolerant so need more. But what are the rest of you taking to replace the Neurontin?? (I take it as a secondary backup to Dilantin). Also, have you noticed your feet like they're stuck in clay?Thanks for any input....

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I have been taking neurontin for about four years for Restless leg Syndrome. I have one of the worst cases of RLS and actually causes the same symptoms in my legs and abdomen. I tried many different types of medication and nothing worked. I literally spent years of my life with poor sleep and was physicall debilitated from sleep deprivation. Neuront is my miracle drug. It has changed my life as I am now rested and do not fear going to bed but rather enjoy sleeping. It truly changed my life and I cannot say enough good things about what this medication has done for me.

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can neuronin cause heart attacks?

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I, too, wonder if my new symptoms are from neurontin. I was only on 500 mg per day and was falling asleep and could not drive anymore. The doctor has reduced my neurontin to 300 mg per night, but now in the middle of the night I wake up with feeling like I am going to jump out of my skin! My legs thrash, my spine feels jumpy. I have stopped taking Ultram ER due to the same problems with a required mail order pharmacy. I have been off of Ultram for almost 3 weeks, and the doctor reduced my dosage of neurontin 8 days ago. I am not sure which one or both are causing my problems, but I think I will wean myself off of neurontin slowly and try to get free of both of these meds. Good luck to all of you sufferers!

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I take Neurontin 800 mg 4 times a day. I was recently fasting for 2 weeks and had an episode where I didn't even remember things people said I did. I had also taken an Imitrex 100 mg. Is it possible that I would have gotten high from this and not remembered things?

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neurontin helped me with from herpes in my nerve system/makes me awful tired tho

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I was on neurontin for about 2 years for atypical facial pain caused, probably, by nerve damage during endoscopic sinus surgery (necessitated by a root canal gone bad!). I titrated VERY gradually off, it has been 4 months, and I am having neuropathic pain in my fingers and hands. Anyone know anything about this?

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I am a breast cancer patient who has been on neurontin for 6 years, I had to have back surgery and I use it for nerve pain, 400 mg, three times a day, I am trying to discontinue the medication because I havae gained so much weight and also because I have been on it for such a long time, has anyone else gained weight on this medication?

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I have been taking Neurontin for several years and whe I don't take it, I feel as if I am having a panic attack. The fear response is almost unbearable. I wish I knew how to get off it with out feeling panicky!

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