Neurontin (gabapentin) Treatment Report
Generic Name: Gabapentin
What is Neurontin?
Neurontin® is a brand name for Gabapentin, an anticonvulsant 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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| Pain | 111 |
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15 | ||
| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 58 |
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15 | |
| Numbness, tingling, pins & needles (paresthesia) | 52 |
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10 | |
| Aching/Burning/Throbbing/Buzzing tendon body pain | 28 |
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5 | ||
| Other | 27 |
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3 | |||
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 25 |
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See all 276 patients currently taking Neurontin
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Neurontin. See all 40 dosages ►
| 100mg as needed | 2 100mg as needed | 300 mg all the time (24/7) | 300mg as needed | 3 100mg as needed | 4 300mg as needed | 600 mg all the time (24/7) | 600mg as needed | 800 mg all the time (24/7) | 900mg as needed | daily | mg as needed | 10 mg daily | 30 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 250 mg/5 mL daily | 300 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 500 mg daily | 600 mg daily | 700 mg daily | 800 mg daily | 900 g daily | 900 mg daily | 1200 mcg daily | 1200 mg daily | 1500 mg daily | 1600 mg daily | 1800 mg daily | 2100 mg daily | 2400 mg daily | 2700 mg daily | 3200 mg daily | 3600 mg daily | 4000 mg daily | 4800 mg daily | 90000 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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26 | 39% |
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Side effects too severe
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23 | 34% |
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Other
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13 | 19% |
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Doctor's advice
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6 | 9% |
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Course of treatment ended
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5 | 7% |
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Personal research
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4 | 6% |
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Not indicated
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4 | 6% |
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Expense
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2 | 3% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- JesswithMS
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
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- JesswithMS
- 2400 mg daily
- since Apr 30, 2003
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Nerve pain (neuropathic pain)
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips Take as prescribed and if you need to discontinue this medication, make sure you wean yourself off of this drug. Abrupt halt of the medication can cause ver... See full evaluation
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- Mare
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: None
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: none
- See profile
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- Mare
- 2400 mg daily
- since Sep 10, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Probably cuts 85% of nerve pain. See full evaluation
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- beautytransforming
- Sex: F
- Sensation: None
- Overall: None
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: none
- See profile
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- beautytransforming
- 300 mg daily
- since Sep 22, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips I take 100 mg as needed through out the day if the burning is bad. I refer to use 1/2 of a vicoden though because I am afraid of the weight gain associated w... See full evaluation
See all 44 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.