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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 2005-01-18 18:00:58

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yikes Wow this drug sounds scary..i just started it a couple weeks ago. im so foggy headed and not even close to the maximum dosage they have in mind. i hear the same thing ....you will get used to it....keep taking it.  i had surgery on my right arm. i got hurt  working with an alzheimers patient. the surgery didnt work. it was called lateral release....what a joke. now after my surgeon was mysteriously relieved of his duties i had to find another surgeon to take over my care. his opinion is these surgeries dont work and he wouldnt have even done it in the first place. by the way he referred me on to someone else and that dr has given up. he sent me to a neurologist.. that is where where i met neurontin!! im in more pain now than before the surgery. but what fun it is to try to find another dr who will take over another drs screw up. so im just getting thrown from dr to dr and now on this crap. this is an L&I claim and i cant just stop trying things to help myself or they will drop me. im at my wits end here. any suggestions? i dont know much about how L&I works. all i know is i cant work and wont ever be able to do what i done before. im thinking maybe im disabled from about anything. im right handed...how nice that is. im not able to do a damn thing without pain. how do you proove a surgeon messsed up? no drs i have seen will come out and say anything.
thanks...rhondiee

 

#2 2005-01-18 19:49:18

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Rhonda

I know what you mean.. I've had 3 surgeries (1 hand ,1arm, 1cervical) and still have pain and one Dr. is blaming the other. My ortho thinks it's because of my neck, my neuro thinks it's because of my arm. This has been an ongoing process for a year now. I am currently taking Neurotin (for pain) and Effexor (for depression). I don't see myself going back to work in the drunken' state that this medication has me in. Not to mention the memory loss. Thank heavens that I have not had any of the nightmare situations that some of the others with the IC as some others have mentioned. Maybe because I am a  WC specialist and they now that I know my rights.  I feel that at anytime they may challenge me but I will be ready for it. I have gone to their IME Dr. and he agrees with my Neurosurgeon and they didn't like it so I was surveillance. Too bad I caught them! This is pure HELL!!! :evil:


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#3 2005-02-13 20:21:31

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thanks for the reply. sorry i havent been online but i have been so busy with appts and taking strange drugs...,depressed and tired as hell. i had to stop the neurontin. just couldnt take it. now they have me on effexor. not quite as bad. but not working either. the last dr i had said i could work right handed. haha...so work called me and expected me to be there monday morning. what a joke.i had already switched from this dr to another i had seen in the past. that one said no way in hell on the work issue. imagine that a certified nursing assistant working with alzheimers patients one handed..what a joke. not to mention im in a hell of a lot of pain. the risk of reinjury is so high.you would think L&I would just agree to train me in another type of work. they have already spent so much on me it isnt funny. any advice...please. im 45 have done this work for 28 years. im wore out. i love it and cry because i have to stop but dont know what to do about this injury. my personal email is rhondasmith@verizon.net.

 

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