I have had diabetic neuropathy for a few years, however according to my neurologist it's reversing which nearly knocked him over because he's never seen it happen in any of his patients before. This is hard for me to talk about because of what the Neurontin did to me, I mean the Lyrica was psychologically damaging just as Cymbalta was I became very suicidal on Lyrica and Cymbalta but the Neurontin nearly killed me and I'm only learning now that I wasn't just in ketoacidosis, I was in either metabolic or lactic acidosis which according to some recent research I've done is exactly what happened to me a little over 2 years ago, I'd been on the starting small dose of neurontin for a few weeks and it made me so tired and sick all the time, I was forgetting things and could barely get out of bed to see the doctor who prescribed me the medication, but I did go I told them what was going on and they lowered the daily dose but upped the nightly dose but when I tried to explain that I just didn't feel right that something was wrong they ignored me completely, with in 24 to 48 hours I was laying on my bedroom floor literally dying, the medication had severely dehydrated me and yes I was drinking massive amounts of water, I woke up my heart was pounding I was so sick to my stomach and I had a horrible headache, when I finally threw up I got much worse I really thought I was going to have a heart attack or a stroke. I was lucky to live through it, especially with out having a massive heart attack, my sodium and potassium levels had dropped so low the doctors were very scared and told me if I hadn't have gotten to the hospital when I had I would have been dead. I wasn't allowed to eat for several days because there was next to no water in my body at all, I could hardly breathe I felt like I could feel my body shutting down and dying. The next day it hurt just to breathe, my whole body hurt so bad from going through what it had because of that medication that even my family who saw what I went through and how hard I had to fight just to survive were surprised that I lived. I had to take huge doses of potassium while I was in the icu and was talked with about changing my doctors and never taking the medication again, which at the time I was on tramadol as well which that caused issues with my heart murmur so they told me to stop that as well. But the main culprit was the neurontin. For a little over 3 weeks I had badly blurred vision because of what had happened, it did go away eventually and my eye sight is fine now but it was still a very scary ordeal for me. I think these days especially because of the economy that doctors look for the bigger pay out for prescribing a medication then what's best and safest for their patient. I've been doing a lot of research lately because of something a specialist said to me this past week and I'm not liking what I'm seeing, in some cases yes it can help some people, however neurontin and several other medications including anticonvulsants that doctors are using to help treat nerve pain as a whole, not just neuropathy, are in consideration for being recalled because of how dangerous these medications are especially when they don't know what the effects of long term use are in these patients. I may not be a doctor or have a medical degree, but that was on a website a real doctor had put up to inform people. I was even told by the specialist I had seen this past week that he hasn't even researched a medication he was trying to give me and I really felt like he was trying to push it on me by saying if it were them they'd be begging for it. The same specialist also said that nerve conduction study's and emg's are bogus, which obviously I don't believe him other wise there would have been no basis for the carpal tunnel release operations I've had. At this point until doctors can not only be honest with me but do the research and understand fully what it is their giving me then why should I trust them? I trust certain ones but lately it seems like I'm being yanked around when they can't even do the research to back themselves up, if your a doctor it's your responsibility to know what your giving to a patient and essentially our lives are in your hands, if you don't feel right and your on neurontin I strongly urge you to seek medical attention and request that medical professionals or a hospital do blood work immediately to check your sodium, electrolytes, potassium etc., like I said I'm not a doctor but speaking from what I went through it's not something to be ignored even if it's just your gut feeling that something isn't right if you at least get the tests done at least you'll know and make sure your doctor checks them frequently.