Neurontin and kidney
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Yes, it's always a tricky balance of whether to medicate or not, especially wrt pain. But "grinning and bearing it" has it's consequences as well both physically and mentally.
I'm in a different boat than you since I'm already decompensated and a liver transplant is a known necessity. On top of that, I'm down to one kidney so the choice was made to spare the kidney vs the liver (easy choice in my case but not yours I think).
Most days it still feels like my kidney is still there and hurts exactly like it did when I had kidney infections or kidney stones. When I had my surgery they cut me from back ribcage to the front below my bladder so there is a lot of nerves that were severed during the surgery. Most of the time if feels like my kidney is huge and taking up too much space inside and under my ribcage, so the pain is not just right in the nerve endings.
Right now with all the problems I am having, I have been weaned off the Neurontin, and am just avoiding any streneous activity at this time. I am going back to dr on the third and am going to ask to be re evaluated at that time. Right now they are using narcotic pain relievers since my cancer has returned again. I know that a slew of different medications are being used off market for neuropathy. You are in my thoughts and prayers, I know how painful and irritating this can be.
After than we got her we checked out every 6 months. Just recently we found another cycst on the same kidney. Our family doctor reffered us to kidney specialist and there we were advised to have our own kidneys checked out to see if there is a family trait to it. They have also done a genetic test. All these results came out negative. But then again the specialist said we still have a small chance that we might suffer from polycystic kidney disease.
For copax, there is a small percentage of patients (2%) in after marketing studies who experienced kidney or flank pain, and I read about an instance of kidney failure, but seen no reference to the actual percentage or instances of how many. I'll dig for the source for you if you are interested.
As far as provigil, you may find more information if you look for post marketing adverse reactions,kidney/renal (as key words) problems for modafinil.
What kind of doc looking into this for you?
Now, my kidneys leak blood all the time (yes, i pee blood all the time now)...and that is not solely from the Neurontin, because i had a kidney birth defect, but it had never developed into this next "bleeding" stage until after the Neurontin Nightmare Year. And there are other issues which i still have to this day ...although i'd call them echo's...since none are so violent or long lasting as they were during the worst of it while i was on the highest doses of Neurontin.
My husband has had CPPS since developing radiation-induced ulcerative proctitis and has tried everything suggested on the Prostatitis Internet forum with no success. Besides medications for the proctitis, he is taking Neurontin in a low dose and is increasing it to see if that helps. Now he has blood and protein in his urine which the doctors say shows kidney dysfunction. What causes kidney dysfunction? How serious is it? Could that be part of his CPPS pain?
Hi,
Did you ever find out what's causing the pain in the upper left side? I have the same thing! My fibro doc said that it may be a shingles or zoster attack. It causes pain in the band area of the body and people who had chicken pox as a child are prone to an attack. He gave me Neurontin and I got better. But, lately, I've been having more pain and beginning to wonder if it's something else. If you find out anything, let me know.
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Restless Leg Syndrome is associated with kidney problems, pregnancy, and iron deficiency. And you don't have to be anemic to be low enough on iron to experience RLS. If you have restless legs, you should have your serum ferritin checked: This is a measure of body iron stores-not just your hemoglobin and hematocrit, which is what doctors test for when they suspect anemia.
That is what I call Tweeks, you get tweeked and more pain for about three days to a week. I was on Neurontin and actually have myofascial pain but they thought it may have been a nerve at first. The neurontin didn't do a thing for me. I was on 1200mg/day and it took me two months to get off of it because I got insomnia and had to take benedryl to get off of it and be able to sleep. It is low on side effects except feeling tired and dumb.
I have been on Neurontin (Gabapentin) for 7 years and recently the pressure in my eyes is high and it's possible the drug has caused this. My pupils react slowly to changes in light and my left one is always bigger than the right. I have extremely bad neuropathic pain all over my body and I have tried many other drugs but none work that well and I am not sure what happens next.
I was given some sample bottles to try, but after reading the possible side effects and the possible effects from stopping its use, I decided to try some other ways of dealing with my neuropathy.
This is all so interesting and I thank you for sharing. I take Neurontin ONLY at night bc it helps me sleep but I otherwise hate the way the drug makes me feel. It surprises me that it is abused, but that would explain why lyrica is controlled-it must have some abuse potential. The kicker on this all is that I don't have an addictive personality. I allowed myself to become addicted this time, but I'm in my late 40's. If I ever get out of this mess,I'm not going back.
Hi j503,
I want to welcome you to the Pain Management Forum and let you know that we are glad that you have found this Forum. I nedd to let you know taht there are NO Doctors on this Forum ONLY CP (Chronic Pain) Patients that help each other with their own expertise and experience that they have gained from their own Pain issues.
I'm sorry that you aren't getting any relief from your Neurontin.
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