Neurontin for chronic back pain
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Thank you for replying.The pain in my back will radiate from the upper right side of my back to my shloulder, I took the neurontin for about 5 weeks, it made me feel kind of fuzzy, a weird feeling. The pain doesn't feel like its in my stomach, it's about 2 inches to the right of my belly button and wraps up and around to my back. Very wierd, I don't know what to do at this point, do you think it could be gastro related?
My pain management dr has put me on Neurontin to help with thoracic back pain, I have herniated discs that basically are not going to be fixed, no doctor wants to touch it. My question is how is this drug for long term treatment of severe pain, he also has me on Norco but I am hesitant to take because of addiction potential. If anyone has any input please let me know.
both are also used for treatment of chronic pain, particularly chronic pain that is thought to arise from too much nerve activity.
I have not heard patients complain of withdrawal symptoms from neurontin, although I do usually taper it off just out of caution. While the jerking of your body might be related to suddenly stopping the medication, it is hard to see the numbness as related-- at least not as a direct effect.
My 10 year old son was perscribed gabapentin/neurontin (in combination with a few other drugs) for his nerve pain. It definitely helped but the side affects are a huge trade-off. He gained a considerable amount of weight too but I attruibuted that mostly to the fact that all he did was eat, sleep & be foggy - and wasn't able to be his normal active self. He's since been off the meds and the weight has come off too as he's now able to resume most his normal activities.
He put me on neurontin and recently gave me a cream of benzecaine, lidocaine, and tetracaine. It is working much better than the neurontin but, when the medication wears off, the pain is as severe as before.
My surgeon has sugested if the ointment did not work, he recommended I have another facial surgery in hopes the nerves causing the pain will be disrupted and the pain would go away. He said there would be no charge so I am not worried that he is trying to get more money...
Most of the time I still use the same number of pills per day of everything but I can switch up the schedule to get a milder or stronger effect depending on if I am having a good pain day or a flare up day. On flare up days, when I take the neurontin in conjunction with either percocet or valium 2 hours after the extended release morphine gets going, I get super fuzzy for awhile but my pain flare also goes down a lot too.
HELLO I AM A 30YO FEMALE, FOR THE PAST 2 YEARS I'VE BEEN BATTLING WITH CHRONIC PAIN. IN MAY 2008 I HAD A FUSION AT C6-C7. BEFOR THAT I HAD A FALL ON BLACK ICE! I HAVE PAIN EVERYWHERE! I HAVE NECK, BACK, SHOULDER, ARM, HAND, FINGERS, KNEE, AND SOMETIMES FACE PAIN! ALL TH ... [More] IS BEEN GOING ON FOR 2 YEARS NOW. BUT THE FINGER PAIN JUST STARTED ABOUT 3 WEEKS AGO. ALL THE OTHER PAIN IS ONGOING! IVE HAD MANY OF MRI AND X-RAY!
Talk to your doctor and try to get some help in finding out if your pain is nerve based because if it is Neurontin can help. Neurontin is used for nerve pain. Also you can talk to your doctor to find out if some of the pain is from muscle spasms because there is a medication that might help called flexeril. It's a muscle relaxer but in my experience not a very strong one so it may help.
Have you been diagnosed with depression or fibromyalgia? Lyrica is used for both of these disorders.
I thought that stuff was kind of scary too. I have major chronic pain from spinal cord damage and require narcotic painkillers for it. There are doctors out there who dislike narcotics for any reason and the last time I had surgery one of those pain specialists was consulted. They insisted on putting me on neurontin, and it really messed me up. Even when I thought I had things under control again I didn't really. I was falling down all the time!
I take Neurontin for severe nerve pain at disc, low back, legs and feet. Nerve pain started immediatley after sed/ta disc surgery. Have taken neurontin for 8 years. Gained 40 lbs within in 6 months of starting Neurontin. Started losing hair when began Neurontin. Fortunately I had lots of hair to start with but 8 years later, I will soon have to wear a wig because of the dramatic hair loss. Also frustrated that cannot get the 40 pounds off either.
Especially considering my health, I have low back issues, have had major back surgery, permenent nerve damage that affects my legs and also was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a year and a half ago at the age of 27. I have been on medication for my back issues for almost 2 years, I take Norco 10/325 4 times a day and Neurontin 300 mgs 3 times a day.
I have suffered from chronic back of leg/hamstring pain for 10 years. Pain in both hamstrings - that is worse when sitting or sleeping. During deep massage, the pain can be brought on by extremely deep pressure, which for me, feels like scratching an itch. It comes on for months and them it goes away for months. I don't sleep well, I'm a light sleeper and I have 3 small children that are up a lot. I am in pain right now and even taking oxycondon doesn't help.
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.
Since then, I have had referred pain which gives me bad headaches. I have worked with a Physical Therapist for a while and he feels that it is coming from the first 2-3 true ribs and neck area. I have tried trigger point injects which did not work well. I had been on different preventative meds for headaches (nortryptyline, depakote, lyrica, topomax) for 5 yrs but stopped due to side effects. I have not tried neurontin and was prescribed this by my family physician.
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