[Stacy2012]

I was just reading that I should not be taking magnesium with gaba, some said within two hours, some say not at all.

It is a little confusing. Do you gaba users still take magnesium?

Also, I have never had constipation problems and now two days after gaba I am. What do I do to fix this? I actually upped my magnesium until reading the above. I take flax seed, fish oil, etc.

Ringing in my ear is way way worse today.

Also, I am hungry all the time today. I noticed this after I ate breakfast and wanted to eat again 30 minutes later. Having read about the weight gain side effect of gaba now I am scared.

Although, some say the weight gain is bloat and water weight, in any case, this is making my feet actually worse, which may explain why my diuretic is now helping relieve pain and swelling in my feet.

Any help or suggestions with dealing with side effects of gaba would be helpful. I can keep reading the net but prefer to hear from people on this forum that I feel I trust more. I beg to hear something positive as of now its depressing. more drug issues. I know you all have discussed this way too many times here but please endulge me.

[mrsD]

Magnesium complexes gabapentin so you have to space ORAL forms of this supplement away from the gabapentin.
There is no interaction with the topical forms of magnesium.
If you don't space them orally, the gabapentin won't be absorbed from the GI tract well.

[ChaucerFan]

Stacy, so sorry about your horrible experience with that doctor. I had something similar with my first visit to my first neurologist. Second visit, he was like a different person. So maybe they just need to establish their authority, or something.

Regarding gabapentin, I read somewhere on this board that it's helpful to space it out during the day, so I persuaded my current neurologist to give me a script for four smaller doses throughout the day, rather than one big one. That may be why I haven't had the side effects that you mention.

I'm fortunate to have a rheumatologist who has dealt with erythromyelalgia. She's seeing me this week to do a possible workup. Meanwhile she told me to drop Celebrex and then try aspirin. I noticed that dropping Celebrex seemed to help with the swelling and redness. I then found one of Mrs. D's many helpful posts (what would we do without her?), and it listed swelling of lower extremities as a possible side effect of Celebrex. I hadn't known that gabapentin can have the same side effect! Since it helps my PN, I don't want to drop THAT. And people like your doc wonder why we're skeptical about "western medicine."

[Stacy2012]

Yes, many at the em forum say it causes swelling but I think all these class of drugs do. I spent all day reading about drugs, I dont see any reason to stop this yet and go to another when the side effects of the others are the same or worse.

I guess I will just keep going but at some point if the swelling gets too bad that is when I will call it quits, the swelling causes extreme pain and my diuretic is only .25 so its not much. The ringing in my ear is horrid loud.

Im stuck with this doctor for now but after I get test results back if she refuses to consider EM I will look for another doctor.