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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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I was also put on Gabapentin for radiculopathy. I retained water and gained weight. It also made me loopy.
My doctor took me off it, and I had done research on another drug called Topamax, so we tried it. It's GREAT. No water retention and NO feeling loopy. In fact I LOST weight on it.
Ask your doc about it. I only have to be on 400mg of it after many years of taking it and it STILL WORKS! usually by now, it would have quit working, but it hasn't!
Perhaps your doc will put your husband on it. I'm not saying that your husband will have the same results. He might have side effects. I don't know. Perhaps he'll retain water, but usually it's not so bad, from what I've read. Best of luck and God bless. Hugs,, Lee
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recovering alcoholic, sober since 7-29-93;severe depression; 2 open spinal surgeries; severe sciatica since 1986; epidurals; trigger points; myelograms; Rhizotomy; Racz procedure; spinal cord stimulator implant (and later removal); morphine pump trial (didn't work);now inoperable; lumpectomy; radiation; breast cancer survivor; heart attack; fibromyalgia; on disability.
Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live..
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