Gabapentin Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Neurontin, Ratio-Gabapentin, Gabatin
What is Gabapentin?
Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant medication used as an adjunct treatment for partial seizures and for the management of postherpetic neuralgia. Off label it is used for the treatment of social phobia and chronic pain.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Treat my mood condition(s) | 51 |
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14 |
| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 30 |
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| Other | 30 |
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3 | ||
| Anxiety | 19 |
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8 | ||
| Insomnia | 11 |
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2 | ||||
| Fibromyalgia | 5 |
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1 |
See all 140 patients currently taking Gabapentin
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Gabapentin. See all 25 dosages ►
| 100 mg as needed | 100mg as needed | 2 300mg as needed | 300mg as needed | 3 300mg as needed | 600mg as needed | daily | 100 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 600 mg daily | 900 mg daily | 1000 mg daily | 1200 mg daily | 1600 mg daily | 1800 mg daily | 2100 mg daily | 2400 mg daily | 2700 mg daily | 2800 mg daily | 3000 mg daily | 3200 mg daily | 3600 mg daily | 4000 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Doctor's advice
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10 | 31% |
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Did not seem to work
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10 | 31% |
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Side effects too severe
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6 | 19% |
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Other
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6 | 19% |
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Expense
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3 | 9% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 3% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 3% |
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Personal research
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1 | 3% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 32 patient evaluations
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- Big Baz
- Sex: M
- Depression: 4
- Emotional: 3
- Compulsion: 4
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 2
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: None
- 63 M
- Function: Low
- Distress: High
- See profile
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- Big Baz
- 1200 mg daily
- since Aug 17, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Nerve pain (neuropathic pain)
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips helped with sleeping, eased overnight pain. See full evaluation
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- shinsain
- Sex: M
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 1
- Anxiety: 1
- Mania: 1
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: Moderate
- 29 M
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
- See profile
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- shinsain
- 600 mg daily
- since Mar 30, 2009
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips I will give experience after I have begun the full dosage. See full evaluation
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- micamAnicDuDe1983
- Sex: M
- Depression: 0
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 1
- Anxiety: 1
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 0
- External Stress: Moderate
- 26 M
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
- See profile
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- micamAnicDuDe1983
- 3000 mg daily
- since Aug 02, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Iv'e been on Neurontin for a long time. This is one drug that I swear by and really do like it. I don't get any negative or bad side effects from it and it r... See full evaluation
See all 32 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.