Sudden Withdrawal From Neurontin (Page 14)
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I have been taking 600 mg of Neurontin 4x a day for about 2 years and recentlty ran out of this medication due to excrutiating slow service from mandatory mail order RX company.... I was extremely agitated during this time (approx. 5 days), nervous, stressed out, etc. Has anyone else had these symptons as a result of sudden withdrawal from Neurontin? I can't understand why this happened, I felt so scared and lousy for that time. Is this a known reaction for this med? I haven't been able to find an answer. I take it for relief from carpel tunnel syndrom. Thanks

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My son, age 42, has been on mega doses of Neurontin, Celexa, Hydroxyzine, Temazepam and Dilantin for bi-polar and seizure disorders. The doctor added Abilify to the mix and within 3 days my son was so confused that he didn't know his name, birthday or how to dress himself. I took him to the ER and doctors there took him off everything with the exception of 3 (800 mg) Neurontin, 1 (40 mg) Celexa, and 1 (30 mg) Temazepam, and 3 (100mg) Dilantin per day. Soon after this sudden withdrawal he started having abdominal pains and loss of appetite. He has had every test for gastrointestinal problems, gall bladder and pancreas, and nothing's shown up. I am at the point where I don't know what to do. After reading the posts on this site I believe he is having withdrawal from having the doses of all these drugs lowered at one time. His PCP put him on Bentyl a week ago but I don't see much change in his health. Any suggestion?

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YES GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR FOR CARPEL TUNNEL , NEURTON IS AWLFUL DRUG WHEN YOU RUN OUT. SWEATS, CLAMY SKIN, HEADACHES, AND NAUSE. J

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i have been on 1600 mgs of neurotin for about 10 yrs i want to quit i have weaned down to 1200mgs i am concerned about quitting after being on it so long is there any danger?

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I am also going through Neurontin withdrawals. I was on it for 7 months for RSD pain caused from a fall through a window. I weaned myself off (though maybe not as slow as I should have) over the course of a week. I was on 1, 800 mg per day. It has been five days and I have terrible stomach cramps and pain, nervousness, cannot sleep, and am extremely tired. I can't seem to find any information on how long these withdrawal symptoms should last? Any info is appreciated. And is what I am experiencing normal?

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I took one pill of Neurontin and I could hardly breathe, was extremely dizzy and then fell. They use this medicine for many things. It was designed for epileptics but they now use it as an anti-depressant, etc. You are experiencing withdraw symptoms which will subside if you don't take it anymore. Lots of luck.

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Go to defective drugs.org and find the danger in this drug.

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If you read the medication pamplets that are provided with the prescription, in the side effects that are listed with the prescription it list that it is important to take as prescribed and not miss a dose. Additionally there is information regarding Sudden WITHDRAWAL FROM THE DRUG CAN CAUSE SEIZURES. If you are running low on your Neurontin ask your doctor if he can prescribe you a short term presciption to get you thru the 5 day wait, or if you should space out your drugs so they will last for the full 5 days. Sometimes, your doctor can also provide you with samples to help you in these situations. Don't try to handle this on your own, but contact your doctor. I had a drug that I was running low on, and it was a necessary prescription...my mail order pharmacy sent it overnight mail due to the delay in the doctor's office getting the prescription to them. Let the health care provider and mail order pharmacy know your situation. They are there to help you and keep you healthy....

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Just pored over pfizer's documentation. To be fair, the incidence of patients aquiring epilepticus status on withdrawal is only about a tenth of a percent more than participants withdrawing from a placebo.

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A Google search of gabapentin withdrawal also reported nausea, somatic pain, respiratory infections in one elderly patient, and in other rare cases epilepsis in patients who didn't have a syndrome before.

This unnerves me. I was taking gabapentin for rehabilitiation after surgery for carpal tunnel release. My doctor gave no warning about cutting gabapentin, so when the refills ran out, I didn't bother refilling.

Now I've been in extreme, unexplained nerve pain up and down my spine for four days, and I just now dredged up the reason why, along with the fact that I could've had a seizure any of the times I've been driving.

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I am so very glad they helped. You will even come across some websites that have a page or a pop-up that asks if you are medical professional and if you say no, they will not let you access the info, saying it is only available to professionals, so you have to do some clever searching to find what you are seeking.

If you search, using an engine such as google, make sure to always include the words full prescribing information and then the name of the drug, or physician's prescribing information with the drug name. That is the only way to find out all the real information that is out there.

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Wow, I've just did some reading in the websites you graciously sent to me and am shocked and amazed! I am lucky I only experienced nervousness - it could have been so much worse! Thank you, this is the info I was trying to find! It is outrageous that such important information is withheld (or at least extremely hard to find.) I am going to use these websites to do more research about the other prescriptions I am taking. I clearly don't know how to do a search well - the websites I reached did not have anything much beyond what was in prescribing leaflets. d Best Regards, Sinda

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There is normally a lot more information available than what you get from your doctor or pharmacy, when they give you a prescribing leaflet with your prescription, they are only allowed to list a certain amount of side effects and some basic information, this is from the FDA with the theory that they do not want to scare people away from taking needed meds. To get more information and details, you actually have to look for the physician's prescribing information, sometimes it is also listed under full prescribing information, and they usually don't make it available to the public, as they just want Doctors and pharmacists to read it.

However, you can usually find these online by doing a search, so to see if it contains anything relevant to what you are looking for:

PDF Cache: pfizer / download / uspi_neurontin.pdf neurontin full prescribing information &hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

http:/­/­www.crazymeds.org/­neurontin.html

http:/­/­www.pfizer.com/­pfizer/­download/­uspi_neurontin.pdf

I am also disabled and suffer chronic pain, however, this drug did not work for me, no matter how high my doc raised the dosage. It is funny that way, it only works for some people for certain types of nerve pain. It can also be affected by what other meds you are taking, including opiates. Opiates tend to make it work better in your body and strengthen its effects, so if you are taking it concomittantly with those, then your withdrawal symptoms can also be affected by that.

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Yes, it did subside, thank you. I was however looking for info specific to Neurontin, why it would cause this specific reaction; how it works, etc... I am handicapped, on several (too many!) prescription meds, but have never had a reaction like this from sudden withdrawal and I realized I did not really know very much about Neurontin despite reading info provided from pharmacy when dispensing prescription. I did talk to my Dr. at the time but he did not have this specific info.

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Almost any med, or substance, even you morning coffee, will cause some withdrawal symptoms when you have been used to having it in your body for awhile, and suddenly stop taking it. Did it ease when you finally started taking it again? If you have any concerns or problems, you should speak with your doctor.

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