I'm glad you guys brought this up...I am taking 1200 mgs of gabapentin every 6 hours and it works pretty well for me...

While at lunch today one of the guys was telling me about his wife who has diabetes. She also has PN, from the diabetes I assume but not sure. She took neurontin for 10 years. The husband said that the long term use of neurontin has caused a great deal of other medical problems for her. He was trying to explain but wasn't very clear. But he did say that "neurotin chokes out the oxygen in the bloodstream" and the only way to correct this was to have blood transfusions. I asked when she started the transfusions and she has not yet started. He did mention the lawsuit and "the billions of dollars paid out to the states to settle their cases." So, I don't really know what he was trying to say other than to scare me away from neurontin...