If anyone else is taking neurontin for nerve pain, can you tell me what your experience has been?

I have taken neurontin for years as an adjunct to lithium. However over time the way I have metabolized neurontin changed and made me very tired. I fell asleep momentarily on the road and got into a car accident. I am now on a lower dose. My surgeon suggested I take this for post decompression and fusion pain, but I am afraid to get overly tired.

It does work for a while then they up your dose wish I had never started taking it so hard to get off

Hi I take gabapetin it worked well for the first few months my doc then changed my dose to a lower one now I'm getting the withdrawal symptoms not nice no sleep chest pain weakness nausea no appetite sweats rapped heartbeat

Hi, I have been taking it for 4 years or more. I had a pinched nerve with serious neck vertabra damage. I was prescribe 300 mg per day. My only side effect was drowsiness. I changed the dose to 1 300 mg per day and all was well. I could barely walk at the time and doing great within 3 weeks. I continue to take the one dose per day and I am on my feet about 9 hours per day, 6 days per week in a retail gun shop. At 72 years old that even surprises me. I could not have done it without the medication. I forgot to tell you that before the medication I could not sleep in a bed, I had to sleep in a chair.

My guess is you need to get the dosage adjusted and believe in the medication. Best of luck!!!

Hi. I was prescribed it and had exactly the same symptoms. I was told to increase the dose slowly up to my recommended maximum/minimum. My body got used to it, but once I'd been on my maximum dose for a while it really affected my mental state - to the point of being prescribed antidepressants. I realised it was this drug, so slowly dropped my dose down, to where I felt I had my 'mind' back. It definitely helped with the nerve pain though.

I have been taking 2400 mg a day for years, no psychological effects what so ever. Some people claim some effects, but I'm not one of them. Some get sleepy from antihistamines... not myself. I think people hear rumor's a lot, and that by itself could harm someone. Talk to your qualified doctor, take what hear online with a grain of salt.

I feel like I am completely drunk. When I first started taking them I fell over walking downtown in the sidewalk because I was so wasted. Doctors just hand them out like candy. I now only take 100 mg rather than 300 mg

I've taken gabapentin off and on for some years. Yes it causes drowsiness best taken at night. Mine are 300 mg and I take 3. For sleep and nerve pain. Sometimes it increases the shock feeling in my legs. This is just recently. Prior to now just sleepiness

I was given Neurontin for nerve pain also. I never felt high or anything like that. The only thing I noticed was I was a little off balance at times. But it has help tremendously with my pain.

I took Neurontin years ago, got up to 2700 mgs per day, didn't help me at all, plus I felt like I was walking thru fog all the time.

I'm taking neurontin for sciatica, all it does for me is making very tired.it is not helping the pain,I'm taking 3x100g.allan,Eastbourne, England

I just started 300mg and it make me feel out of it, can't keep my balance and when I get up in the morning out of bed I bet humbling around. I'm gonna call my doctor tomorrow and let him know that that dosage is too high for me . I don't like feeling this way, maybe you should tell your doctor , this nerve problem in my neck up through my left side head is no joke so you take care.

I have been taking gabapentin since February and have gained about 20 pounds since then.

It has been a life saver for me. I have a bulging disk that is pinching a nerve in my neck. Nothing made it any better. I had been in pain for 10 years. I finally went to a pain clinic where he told me to try it. It has been the only thing that actually makes the pain stop. It has never made me high though.

I was just given a new dose of this medication and yes it makes you feel loopy but it also relives the pain from nevre damage in my lower back and down my leg it just takes some getting used to