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Originally Posted by tkrik (Post 818110)

Just a couple of tips when taking Neurontin. I got these tips when I first started taking it. Take it around meal time and with lots of protein. If you're taking it in the a.m., make sure you eat a higher protein breakfast. For some reason that really helps. I can't remember the reasons they gave and I've never seen those tips again but it does help. Also, drink plenty of water when taking it. That too helps.

Neurontin can deplete your magnesium and vitamin B12 (I just learned that one) so make sure you get plenty of it in both your diet and supplements.

It took me about a week to get used to it and I rarely get that loopy feeling now. I take 300 mg in the am and 600 mg at night. This is the highest dose I can tolerate. They've had me try to increase it but I just couldn't.

I hope you start feeling better soon.:hug:

Thank you! I will try that! Hopefully I can tolerate it. Something has to give, I have a Halloween party for my kids and nieces and nephews to do this weekend, then a Halloween parade for my daughter on Monday, then trick-or-treating. Oh yeah, and company coming for tomorrow night. This just gets through the end of this month!

Why do I have to fall apart right now dang it?! It's okay, I just have to find a way to deal and move on. Thanks again for all of your help!

Nemsmom, just went to my neuro today and am starting the Neuronitin tonight. My pain has kept me from working. My dr gave me another month off to see how this new med works. Hopefully it won't make me loopy as others have said it has made them feel that way. I was just wondering if your weather out there makes you feel worse. I have a friend on the Washington coast and she said it's cool and damp...so I was just wondering.

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Originally Posted by carebear01 (Post 818849)

Cool and damp usually doesn't bother me at all, I love the mild weather! It's the drastic changes that I can't handle. We have had a lot of back and forth of sunny to rainy back to sunny. Of course that's Oregon, you could have sun, then hail, then rain, then back to sun in just an hour or so.

I am going to have tell my my doctor that I can't do the Neurontin during the day time because I can't walk straight when I take it no mater what I do! I hope you do better on it!

I have had severe unrelenting pain for a couple of years now, recently they put me on Baclofen and it is wonderful. I can do things that I thought I would never do again, like ride an ATV. I can clean my house! Spasisity is very painful if left untreated. I have been on Nuerotin for a few years...it didn't help much, though. It only treats the sx of the pain, not the source of the pain for me. I wish you much luck, I know first hand how bad it can be and will fight like heck before I ever end up in that much pain again.:hug: