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Old 04-21-2010, 09:45 PM
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Default Neurontin? Good and bad effects....

Here is the prescribing info put in your med packets in MICROPRINT?
http://www.pfizer.com/files/products/uspi_neurontin.pdf

Go to page 22 and read 'other adverse events during all clinical trials' Any of this familiar? Keep reading and grow hairs? Scary stuffs. For me, it'd caused hallucinations and the prescribing neuro kept wanting to up the dosage-I was a semi-functional zombie under THAT doc! Do recall? Falling asleep in mid-sentence in a meeting? Hearing the conversation around me? And completing my sentence about 15-20 minutes later...totally coherently..no less. It was Frustrating? understatement!
Changed docs, changed life, changed outlook! Literally, when I went to see neuro #2? I asked him, can you get me off this STUFF? PLEASE? SOON? As in yesterday? And new doc said yep. I cried all the way home from doc appt then slept for about 10 hours! Part relief, exhaustion and hope.

There is a wide menu of options out there? Just test and trial your doc's knowledge of them to go thru the trials and errors of WHAT is RIGHT for YOU!

My heart goes out to you, I hope you can find the 'right' meds that work for you! 's - j
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