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Neurontin, which is known generically as Gabapentin, may be linked to suicide and suicide attempts. Neurontin is prescribed for epilepsy but has been prescribed for numerous off label uses. Neurontin was approved for sale in the mid-1990s as a treatment for epileptic seizures. However, it is believed that approximately 80 percent of all Neurontin prescriptions were filled for unapproved medical conditions.

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#1 2005-02-18 02:26:53

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DEPRESSION?NEUr

fIRST,
TO those of u on the board who have had a loved one who committed suicide I offer my heartfelt sympathy to you.
Second, I suffer from chronic pain. I was put on neurontin and let me stress that at least in my case it immediately causes bad depression-some personality change and moodiness. I was not depressed before this.
As to the use of neurontin for depression or bipolar BE VERY CAREFUL-
it is the anti depressants that are safer over all and are actually helping in the depression case-not the neurontin and in the bipolar case it isn't one of the major usual drugs for bipolar though some doctors use it when first and second lines don't work. Do your research please.
As to weight issues, I can tell you that on just 300 mg.'s I don't gain weight but on 900 mg.'s I literally gained five pounds over night and I am serious.
As to someone who had weird break outs I can say that on 300 mg.s I have slight break outs but on 900 mg.s' I had horrible break outs of cyst acne especially around my mouth and I NEVER have had acne before-especially not cyst forms.
I'm not a neurontin basher. Believe me, for those of u who have to suffer with neuropathich /nerve pain it can really help and no one has any earthly idea how bad neuropathic pain is unless they get the chance to suffer such a horrid misery. There is no pain like it on earth because it is constant burning pain that doesn't leave.
Good luck to those searching.
gbean

 

#2 2008-02-23 13:45:34

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Re: DEPRESSION?NEUr

I suffer from depression and have taken cymbalta and or syrafen for yrs with some relief. I have had this all my life. I am very intimate with the way depression makes a person feel. Last december i was diagnoses with a torn disk in my back and I have bad back aches and the doctor gave me Neurontin. I was ok at first even thou it never really helped the pain I was taking it thinking it had ot get in my system and get to work. Then WHAM like a tidal wave the depression came worse then ever in mylife and I wanted to die like never before. My husband took all my medication from me and hid the guns. I was suisicdal like a manical I was banging my head against the walls ( literally) I could not stop crying I don't mean just crying I was wallowing in it. I was screaming i wanted to die I begged and pleaded my husband to help me killmyself ( can you imagine his pain also at this) I prayed and prayed and cryed outloud for God to help me. Please i ask him please help me see why and help me fix this I cannot belive the pain in my heart and head of the uselessness of life. i just couldn't accept this. Well I am poor and I could not afford to buy my medication for a week and I stooped taking it. I started to feel better in my head. I actually had a good day one day no crying I felt hopeful and not too much pain. I even joked and laughed a bit on the phone with a friend. Then I got my medication and took it. The next day ( today) I felt like killing myself again. over what I ask myself because there was a dish in the sink and i freaked out over it went into the bedroom and hid in the closet and cried hysterically for hours. I was praying still for the good Lord to help me see what is making me feel this pain help me I asked god to help me help myself out of this suffering. ALl of a sudden I thought wait a minute. I have depression I have! This is nothing like I have even felt before so what is ............? Neurotin the name jumped at me and I went and searched it on the internet. O my goodness look what I found here in this forum. I am amazed. I am stopping this medication immediately. It never really helped my back pain anyway and I do not want to kill myself and go to hell and leave behind all the heart ache it would create for the people who love me.
I Thank God today for the wisedom he gave me to see what I need to do to help myself. I thank all the people on this forum who have posted in the hopes to help other people and themselves. I really do in my heart Thank you all. I Thank God for the Internet. Thank you Jesus for the help you gave me and ll the others here and I pray you continue to help people get relife from there suffering. Amen.

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