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My Husband was diagnosed with Bi-polar plus a few added issues (borderline personality disorder and Post traumatic stress (post 9/11)). Not only did ONE doctor give him neurontin but TWO did. I went with him to his doctors on several occasions and told them that he was not getting better but getting WORSE. He tried twice to kill himself, drove his car into another (after NEVER having an accident). I BEGGED them to change his medication but they just kept increasing the dosage.  Then by chance I saw the Dateline NBC report on Neurontin. You should have seen how red I got. I wanted to sue the doctors, but they will claim they were told it was approved. So I will go after the company that lied and almost took my husband from me. I just hope this doe not drag out for years. THEY KNOW they lied and have already admitted it. I just want justice for my husband, who was so changed by the medication he is permanently disabled.

I am so sorry to hear of the troubles Neurontin has caused others. Since I have been on Neurontin, my quality of life has greatly improved. I was diagnosed with Bi-Polar Disorder in 1987. I was put on Lithium around 1987 until about 2000 when I was switched to Neurontin. When I was taking Lithium, I had numerous suicide attempts. Since being on Neurontin, I have had none. What a difference it made in my life! My life is much more stable. It has saved my life. I hope these lawsuits will not impair the company so much that they will no longer be able to produce the drug for all of us that it HAS helped.

This drug changed the quality of my husband's life and has ruined our lives forever.  Neurontin was prescribed for my Husband's chronic pain in 2000.  After which, the pain persisted without any relief.  My husband was not only taking Neurontin, he was also taking about 20 other drugs at the same time.  In late February of this year, he was referred to a Pain Management Doctor that gave him a steroidal injection which had a major side effect on my husband 10 days later.  My husband was already irritable and angry as a result of taking so many drugs, and the effects of the Neurontin did not help his physical or mental state instead it greatly aggravated his mood.  He has been permanently disabled since 1998, and I was his caregiver. 

Anyway, in early March, he flipped out and tried to kill me, himself and all the tenants in our entire apartment complex by threatening to use a cigarette lighter to ignite his oxygen tanks and the propane tanks we used for our BBQ grill so he could "blow up" the building.  I fled our apartment in fear, trembling as I called 911.  Law Enforcement, the Fire Department, the Red Cross and a Crisis Management Team arrived on the scene in hopes of talking him out of his intended deed.  After a five- hour standoff that put everyone there at risk,  :evil: my husband was finally apprehended and arrested.  This incident was reported in the media.  I experienced a deep fear and emotional distress :cry:  that night which still remains with me even today.  Unfortunately, due to My husband 's irrational actions, he is now serving a long sentence in State Prison.  I fear that the Neurontin and other psychiatric drugs he's taken have had an irreversible effect on him.  I can no longer trust him and fear that he may injure me or murder me.  He will never be the man he was when we first were married.  So, I live in fear of him, and was urged to move by law enforcement so he can not find me.

Emotionally and financially, my life was abruptly turned upside down that night because of Neurontin.  For weeks I could not sleep or eat.  I finally sought professional mental health care help to guide me through this process.  Still, I will never be able to forgive his doctors for prescribing Neurontin even when we questioned the validity of it, and even though we reported all the side effects he was experiencing from taking this drug, and nothing was ever done to relieve the symptoms.  [b]Doctors do not listen to their patients.[/b]  We informed the pain management doctor about the meds my husband was taking with a copy of his medications list, but he was still given additional meds in the form of steroids.  WHY?  For financial gain?  What about the health of their patients?  What about their Oath?   When is too much more than enough?

For those patients that feel this drug is helping them, I can only say they are very lucky because it can have a devastating effect on ones mind and body.  Therefore, I'd like to see Neurontin come off the market completely especially if it is not used only for its intended purpose which is to treat epilepsy patients.  My husband is not the only person that has fallen victim of a drug used for off brand use, I have friends that were taking Neurontin and experienced many of the mood altering suicidal symptoms my husband experienced.  It's a bad drug that turns humans into demons. :evil:

I was prescribed neurontin for Bi-polar disorder. Before the drug I did have depression at times. I was only on neaurontin for a little over a month when I tried to take my life. Im not saying suicide never crossed my mined but that was it just a thought. Almost immedietly after taking this drug my thoughts were consumed. Day and night thats the only thought I had. Besides when Sometimes I was so moody I wanted to kill someone else. Finaly I had enough I took My full bottel of clonopin and flexeral. I did die for a short period but thankfuly for God and a team great docters they saved my life. Even though I survived to some family members act like im dead, do to the shame, and embarresment I caused to them and myself.  :cry:  :oops: Im now looking to see them be held accountable for myself and the others who were in the same situation as I. But dont know were to start. I anyone can help me my address is [nathanross262881]. Thanks for reading.