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(Message started by: denisebyrd on Mar 5^th, 2004, 6:37pm)

Title: starting neurontin soon
Post by denisebyrd on Mar 5^th, 2004, 6:37pm

Has anyone out there tried neurontin? I have tried verapamil and depakote, both without success. My doc started me on lexapro two weeks ago. It's an ant depressive SSRI and after 3 weeks of that he wants to try neurontin. I just wondered if anyone out there has tried it and had success or had bad side effects from it? I guess at this point I could give a rats ass about side effects because the headaches are escalating in frequency even though I am a chronic. Denise

Title: Re: starting neurontin soon
Post by t_h_b on Mar 5^th, 2004, 6:46pm

I took Neurontin for a couple of months (before I had clusters) and never did get used to the side effects. No fun at all. I would personally try almost anything before being on that again. Probably you won't have the problems I had with it, my MD seemed a little surprised at how much it affected me.

Have you tried melatonin? Talk to your MD about it. It's helped many people, including chronics. I take 0.5mg but people take all sorts of doses up to 12mg. Maybe you could give that a shot first. Also you might try lithium with verapamil--that's helped many people, too.

If my CH gets out of control again, I'm going for the psilocybin.

Good luck.

Title: Re: starting neurontin soon
Post by Renee on Mar 9^th, 2004, 10:14pm

Neurontin gave me NO relief, just side effects!

good luck
renee

Title: Re: starting neurontin soon
Post by no-one on Mar 10^th, 2004, 8:27am

Hi,

I am on neurontin now 2,700 mgs a day. This is the second time that I've been on it.The first time this other Dr. had me start on a very high dose and I couldn't handle it. As for side affects, just start out on a very low dose and bring it up SLOWLY, I was told that if I started to have side effects from the higher dose to go back down for awhile and try again. That seemed to really help this time. I am not really sure if its helping or not, since I started it in the middle of a cycle, which still hasn't ended YET.

Sorry I really couldn't be of much help