neurontin and ms

Hi does anyone know of this or take it in the treatment of MS and what does it do, my neuro has put me on neurontin

I am taking Levothyroxine for my Thyroid and Tizanidine for my thigh pain. I also take Neurontin for my feet and restless legs. Tizanidine works but makes me very sleepy. I hate to take drugs. I have had Primary Progressive MS for over 16 years. It helps for some reason to put weight on my thighs and of course a blanket. I have a very good MS Dr and also a neurologist for my primary Dr. Just curious if anyone else is experiencing similar symptoms like with the thigh pain and cold.

Thanks for the suggestions. We'll add carbamazepine (tegretol), codeine phosphate (Panadeine Forte), gabapentin (neurontin), and prochlorperazine (Stemzine) to the MS tracker as treatments. We'll also add double vision, but since burning pain is covered under pain, we'll be leaving this out for now. If you want to track more specific types of pain, please use the Pain Tracker in conjunction with the MS Tracker.

Has any one heard of or experienced being on Cymbalta and/or Neurontin and where the side effects suddenly became MS like symptoms after being on them for a year?

It sounds as if your symptoms are making your life unmanageable, and all you are given is Mobic, an nsaid with a bad side effect profile, and Neurontin? For MS, nsaids rarely work, except to help with pain caused only secondarily. For instance, if you favor one leg, the other may get overworked, with sore muscles or worse symptoms, but there's nothing really happening with it that helping the ailing leg wouldn't fix. As to the Neurontin, very possibly your dosage isn't high enough.

s police department FB page that they had a list of drugs that are being abused and some arrests have been made and Neurontin has been included. Just never really see much about it and heard that it really is great for some people for nerve pain. (I believe it was originally an anti-seizure medication.

Hi and welcome, In short yes, people have been previously dx-ed with other conditions before being dx with MS eg fibromyaligia etc. Though "I have tingling (pin & needles) in my feet going up my legs and hands. " would not actually be typical for MS because of it being 'all' peripheral's and MS would more typically present unilateral sx's.

I am still testing to figure out the cause of the lesion - tumor/MS/transverse myelitis/something else. A doctor prescribed Neurontin starting at 300MG/day and then increasing up to a possible 3600Mg/day.

My neuro is ridiculously conservative. I had left side pain and muscle spasms so bad that I basically didn't sleep for a year. She prescribed flexeril and Naproxen (prescription strength Aleve). She might as well have given me tic-tacs. I got a little relief but not really. She finally tried me on Baclofen, but I couldn't handle it. I am not on flexeril and neurontin and it has mad a difference.

s awful. My doctor prescribed prednisone and neurontin to calm the nerves down. It took a day or so but made a huge difference. Lyrica is basically a newer, slightly tweeked form of neurontin so it would have done basically the same thing as the neurontin. Cymbalta is also used to treat nerve pain so your neuro was in the ballpark. Good luck and hope it resolves soon.

when i was first hospitalized in o4 the drs said that there was either a case of lupus going on or something like ms. lupus was actively persued and ms not, as my ana was 180 which was extremely hign so thats my story. what else can mimic ms?

My first neuro who diagnosed and then disdiagnosed me was talking about those drugs as first line in the the treatment of MS. Then a GP I saw recently offered me these drugs also when I was telling him about the sensory stuff and burning sensations. I decided not to take them for now. Of course, like all meds some have side effects, so its a matter of finding what works for you with minimal problems. Am sure some others here can chime in on this one!

s not a narcotic. I have MS and, as HelpinUtah alluded to, Neurontin is prescribed, in general, for nerve pain. My neurologist has had me on Neurontin for MS related pain in my legs, and I can tell you it's not habit forming. I presume you have some type of similar symptoms for your doc to prescribe it (?). I hope this helps ..

I've had MS for 25 years and for 20 of those years was fine. In the last year I have had two excerbations and have suffered declining neurologic function. My leg pain was getting worse and the tingling/numb feet were permanent. My neurologist recently prescribed Neurontin relatively low dose. I started 300/mg at bedtime for 7 days and then added 300/mg in the a.m. At first, the bedtime dose knocked me out but as the days wore on I did not react as badly. Then the daylight dose started.

Since May I have been having increasingly painful senstations and parasthesia in my arms and legs and hands and feet. Worse on left side. Fatigue, braing fog..... I don't know if any of you remember but my LP showed increased intercranial pressure and IgG. Mri w/wo contrast at 1.5 tesla was normal. The neurologist thinks it is MS but is doing tons of tests to rule out other tings. I see him again in 2 weeks. Well, I started Neurontin about 3 weeks ago.

t stay on it) and Neurontin with Neurontin being the only medicine that provides any relief so far. This is not rebound headache as I rarely ever take OTC or any other medicines except for Neurontin. HELP PLEASE from anyone with experience with this. Family needs me and I need to get back to normal.

It severely affects my ability to walk, stand for any length of time - more than 20 inutes, balance, etc. I take several meds for the pain; Cymbalta (120mg), Gabapentin (Neurontin) (2700mg) and Oxycodone (60mg). The pain clinic I attend is considering switching the narcotic to dilaudid (a morphine based drug) and reducing the oxycodone to a breakthrough drug. I am on SSD. I have to say that it was a quick process for me.

The problem many people have with Neurontin and meds like it is they start at two high a dose and increase too fast. That maximizes the sides effects and they stop it, when it might have worked wonders. Then it goes on their *bleep* list. Neurontin is not used for sleep unless the problem with sleep is with neuroapthic pain or paresthesias. We had a pain management doc visit us a while back and he wrote a couple Health Pages for us. You might be interested in both.

I take Neurontin, 2 at night and I'm supposed to take one during the day, but I can't b/c I get too drowsy. I have noticed weight gain, and here lately I'm having major tingling, pins and needles, burning, numbness, pain and the neurontin isn't touching it. The heat I think is the culprit. If anyone else has ideas for the numbness, please share!! :) Blessings and good luck!

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