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Originally Posted by mrsD View Post
Gabapentin is not a great pain reliever anyway.
It worked for me the few times I tried it before trying RLA. One of the articles I cruised mentioned it works for about 30% of PN patients who tried it - nothing on dosage, duration, etc., and I didn't think to save the link as I was running down the enacarbil form....

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One thread over at Cafepharma suggests that the RLS approval was just to get it on the market so that doctors could be persuaded to write for it "off label".
Hmmmm... Why doesn't that surprise me?

Well... like I said (figuratively), I was hoping for some hope for others....

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