Neurontin for narcotic withdrawal

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Avatar m tn ve heard that neurontin or gabapentin is great for stopping the nerve pain associated with withdrawal. Has anyone had experience with this?
Avatar f tn Looking for people's experiences with Neurontin 1) in general and 2) specifically if its helpful for withdrawal. The poll is for people's experiences using Neurontin during withdrawal - not necessarily FOR withdrawal but just if you used during. lso let me know if you feel like it, what it actually helped with. If you have other experiences with it, please comment on this post and let me know. I was prescribed it weeks ago for facial pain, but I havent filled it.
Avatar f tn s not a controlled substance. Neurontin can work great for sciatic pain so hopefully it helps you get some relief.
9704730 tn?1405741284 Thx for the imput. I am terrified of the neurontin but it makes the withdrawal symptoms bareable. What does everyone think of that.
1551327 tn?1514045867 O my I just started withdrawal from methadone and have been taking neurontin at night because it kicks me out but I don't want to go thru withdrawal from this also now I'm really freaking
Avatar n tn do you thing the neurontin will help if i get sick . i still have to work and i am kind of scared but i have only been taking 4-5 perc for the last week.
Avatar n tn My doctor wont renew my script till the 13th, and Im trying to figure out what im going to do for pain. Im scared to go thru a withdrawal period these next few days, but more so, the pain Im going to occur. Ive tried to supplement using excedrin since it has similar "ingredients" ( acetaminophen and caffeine). This is the first day without taking my prescribed medicine. I dont have a headache, nausea but I do have pain.
Avatar f tn //www.medhelp.org/posts/Addiction-Substance-Abuse/Has-anyone-tried-Neurontin-for-opiate-withdrawal/show/571210 http://www.medhelp.
Avatar f tn If you have been using Lortab then try Ultram, it would be like the effects of a baby aspirin. I did use Ultram 6 pills a day with Vicodin to help the painful times. I finally said I can't affford all this medicine (at the time 11 meds) so with the doctors help, I slowly got off of Ultram. I took about 6 weeks to do it and had no side effects or extra pain. I've been off of it for over a year after being on it for >4 yrs.
Avatar f tn I have been on Percocet for 10 years and then was taking Ultram to not have withdrawal but after reading all the horror stories on here about Ultram, I tried the Neurontin. I have been on it for 3 days and no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. I am shocked. I heard it is not addictive either so I'm staying on it for a week or two and then stopping to see if the Perc are out of my system.
Avatar f tn Wellbutrin helps with the drug cravings and Neurontin helps with withdrawals for me. I take those meds for depression and anxiety too. Neurontin helps me get to sleep and stay asleep longer. I can wake up to go to the bathroom but can go right back to sleep. I couldn't befpre I started on this medication.
Avatar f tn Got some neurotin quit everything cold turkey amd been perfectly fine for the past month. So yes it works for withdrawal symptoms!
Avatar n tn Well I can't be more thankful to be an addict. It has taught me more in the last 2 years then everything my parents taught me growing up and everything school tried to teach me. To make a long story short, (since most of you know how this goes) I got hurt snowboarding. Was prescribed hydrocodone. One thing led to another and 2 years, 100 thousand dollars and countless broken dreams later I am walking out of rehab after a 90 day stay. I tried methadone, suboxone, tapering, controlling....
Avatar m tn A physician may be able to prescribe you some Neurontin (gabapentin) for general malaise, anxiety and muscle cramps, Requip for the restless leg syndrome and possibly something like Seroquel low dose for the insomnia. The reason for this longer depression and insomnia symptoms is because Tramadol, besides affecting the opioid receptors, has an effect on the serotonin receptors in the central nervous system.
Avatar n tn so you are familiar with neurontin?
9704730 tn?1405741284 They put me on neurontin to help control my symptoms and I tried to fight them because I read that neurontin is another med that will cause withdrawal symptoms when discontinued. However they said it was the lesser of 2 evils. I feel dizzy and fogged up all the time. My bodyis still crawling until I take the neurontin. I feel super sleepy all the time. I have terrible anxiety. Can anyone tell me if there is anything I can do to help the affects of feeling dazed and dizzy???
1035021 tn?1296820707 Cold turkey hurts like hell but at least its over more quickly than the tapering and truthfully I couldnt taper my dose because I am addicted to it. There is another form of pain meds that isnt narcotic or synthetic narcotic call Neurontin? I have heard of it but dont know anyone who has taken this. Maybe check into that. As for withdrawls, xanax helps and so does clonodine. xanax for anxiety and skin crawling and clonodine for blood pressure and jitters.
553001 tn?1218811768 Hi Stacy, I just found out yesterday that Neurontin really helps with the withdrawal symptoms. I have been on Percocet for 10 years so I know what you are going through. I tried the Neurontin for the first time today and I couldn't believe it. No withdrawal symptoms whatsoever and I should have been in major withdrawal by 3:00 pm and I still was fine. And the best part of all was I wasn't craving a Percocet like I normally do. I just was shocked.
Avatar f tn I just want people struggling with the debilitating side effects of vicodin withdrawal know that they don't have to suffer. Ask your doctor for neurontin or gabbbapentin. I am a 3 year severe (20-30) norco addict and I decided to stop the maddness but was afraid of the muscle pain i've felt before. With neurontin I have none of those spasms cramps or depression and mood swings. It also gives me no "high" feeling at all so its not a temptation for abuse or addiction.
Avatar m tn I am not sure what else you can take or what you are looking for. Any Narcotic is potentially addictive, so if you have had problems with them in the past they would be hard to get off of.
1310633 tn?1430224091 So, I've started seeing a new PMdoc here in sunny Houston, as my old PMdoc filled me full of Opana & Dilaudid, which only lead to... Carl: "Hi, my name is Carl, and I'm an addict." NA Group: "Hiiii Caaarl." Not saying that it was the PMdoc's fault that I ended up hooked & abusing my meds or anything. Step 1 (I am powerless...
Avatar f tn Treatment involves early recognition of the syndrome, an effective physician–patient relationship, graded withdrawal of the narcotic according to a specified withdrawal program, and the institution of medications to reduce withdrawal effects
1831932 tn?1318014686 I been on purks for 4years been taking pill for 15years in June 2008 I fell off a roof about 40 feet busted me up real good broke my back got a steal cage around my back bone broke my pelvis got a steal plate broke my right leg it got a peace that runs down from my knee to my foot broke it bad that my healoff my foot gone they put a cadaver bone and 2 bolts to walk on well they fused it to so it like a peg foot it don't do much so I got a lot of metal in me I hurt all the time and I can'