• Effectiveness

  None (for Treat my mood condition(s))
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Advice & Tips: I was never sure why they gave me this medicine. It helped with sleep a little, but gradually did nothing. Doctor said I could stop without weaning off. I couldn't tell any difference.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: depersonalization-derealization, brain fog, mood swings

• Effectiveness

  Can't tell (for Treat my mood condition(s))
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Advice & Tips: It helped with sleep for awhile, but then I couldn't tell what it was doing, except possibly contributing to "depersonalization." Suicidal thoughts went away after I stopped taking it.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: depersonalization-derealization, brain fog, mood swings

• Effectiveness

  None (for Treat my mood condition(s))
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall) (mood swings, brain fog, depersonalization-derealization)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Advice & Tips: Helped with sleep a little at first. Easy to get off of it.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: depersonalization-derealization, brain fog, mood swings

• Effectiveness

  None (for Treat my mood condition(s))
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (mood swings, brain fog, depersonalization-derealization)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Advice & Tips: It did not help me in any way. I noticed my vision becoming blurry several months ago, but didn't realize it was elated to this drug. After a week off of it, my vision is clear again. It seemed to make my depression worse.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: depersonalization-derealization, brain fog, mood swings

• Effectiveness

  Major (for pain)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (drowsiness)
• Adherence

  Sometimes
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 1200 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Definitely helps with neuropathic pains. Advil does not touch skin pain but a few days of Neurontin can. It might make you a little tired though.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: drowsiness

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for stiffness/spasticity)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for pain)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for numbness and tingling with pins and needles)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for whole body ache)
• Side effects

  Severe (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 600 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Neurontin is tough to get used to originally but once thru the first period of adjustment, it's ok after that.

Cost: $25-49 monthly

• Effectiveness

  None (for stiffness/spasticity)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for pain)
• Effectiveness

  None (for numbness and tingling with pins and needles)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for whole body ache)
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Never taken as prescribed
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 600 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Be prepared for potential for hallucinations in your dreams, a sense of unreality mixing with reality in the first week or two... then it quits. I had this happen twice as the first time I quit it immediately scared out of my wits, but then once realizing what's going on, bore thru it, but it's an emotional roller coaster. Then I conducted my own experiment and quit it thinking it wasn't doing its job and my pain level jumped from about a 2 to a 12 til I got back on it again... silly me. It works. Stops the repetitive spasms and reduces the pain to a tolerable level.

Cost: $25-49 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Side effects

  Severe (for Overall) (swelling in legs, feet and ankles)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Somewhat hard to take

Dosage: 1800 mg Daily

Side effects: swelling in legs, feet and ankles

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for Other)
• Side effects

  Severe (for Overall) (dizziness and feeling faint)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Somewhat hard to take

Dosage: 800 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: I've been diligent in the taking of "all HIV medications," as prescribed. The benefit was that the Medication had all but eliminated the numbness and tingling throughout my body which was especially worrisome during the night or whenever I'd been in bed for at least half an hour. The dizziness (one of the side effects) I experienced following getting up too fast from bed or stooping to retrieve somethig was the early warning. That being unbeknownst to me that I'd have 2 Strokes, in the 3:00 A.M hour, exactly 1 week apart. Which lead to my Hospitalization for about 1 week. I'm now on a daily low dose Aspirin regimen and taking the Gabapentin every other day. What occurred with me was "not related to Gabapentin alone. So fear "not," because I wasa taking Calcium supplements without vitamin D (necessary in conjunctrion), which allows the body to absorb the Calcium. The Calcium deposits in my bloodstream, caused the Strokes due to the blockage in my arteries where blood supply from my heart to my brain is vital.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: stroke, dizziness and feeling faint

• Effectiveness

  None (for mood swings)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 200 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: did not work

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  None (for mood swings)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 200 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: less migraines

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 1800 mg Daily

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for fibromyalgia)
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for insomnia)
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for fatigue)
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for brain fog)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for restless feeling in legs)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for stiffness in hands)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for stiffness in knees)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 1500 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Be eliminating the fibro pain & stiffness I was able to get back to treating probably the source of my FMS, which is chronic pain from a curved spine. Also able to recognized I have ADHD.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for fibromyalgia)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for insomnia)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 1500 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Cannot take antacids within 2 hrs of taking pill, so if you have acid reflux, GERD etc it can be difficult to time or coordinate. If I skip a treatment I start to experience pain/stiffness within hours. Helped with sleep more at the beginning then it does now, but still helps.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 900 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: I don't like having to take 3 pills a day.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for pain)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (mood swings, word fishing)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 900 mg Daily

Side effects: word fishing, mood swings

• Effectiveness

  Major (for pain)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (mood swings, word fishing)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 900 mg Daily

Side effects: word fishing, mood swings