I find eating food a distraction from pain.

If you find that your legs and feet swell, and/or hands, early on using this drug...suspect edema.

If you find you are just heavier, and clothes don't fit anymore, then that would be more like weight gain.

It is possible to get both side effects.

Heavy carb consumption can lead to peripheral edema too.

--certainly, both gabapentin (Neurontin) and pregabalin (Lyrica) are associated with weight gain, and edema (water retention) if a well-documented side effect of both, but most of the anti-seizure drugs also seem to be associated with a carb-craving effect. People's appetite's seem to increase as if they are getting ready for a hibernation state--it's been speculated that the centralnervous system suppression of such drugs may be part of that mechanism.

In the end, you really have to be aware of this and watch what you eat.

Oh this explains the craving for French Cruellas and chocolate cream pie, which BTW I never had an interest in before. Uh-oh.