Neurontin vs Savella
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| Gabapentin is used with other medications to prevent and control seizures. It is also used to relieve nerve pain following shingles (a painful rash due to herpes zoster infection) in adults. Gabapentin is known as an anticonvulsant or antiepileptic drug. | Milnacipran is used to treat pain caused by a condition called fibromyalgia that affects the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and supporting tissues. | |||
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| Add Neurontin review Since taking this drug for pain I have been left with numbness that is not going away!!!This is more disturbing than the pain!! So far, so good! I am on the smallest dose currently and it has eased my fibromyalgia pain greatly. I was truly suffering from severe pain in my legs, lower back and hips. Ever increasing doses of narcotics did nothing to relieve it. Through numerous diagnostic tests, a process of elimination pointed to the cause being a side effect of a chemotherapy drug (vincristine) used in my cancer care. I did some research and asked my GP to prescribe Neurontin. Once we gradually raised the dose to 300 mg. ... It feels like it made my tremors, and muscle spasms worse. Doesn't stop the leg cramps, doesn't help with the neuropathy. Overall, I don't think this drug is for me...I feel so much worse, and the shaking is preventing me from eating (without embarasing food drops), I cannot write legibly, and it's even hard for me to type on the computer. I see my Neuro Doc in June...I think we are going to ha ... | Add Savella review My nerve pain is much less painful after starting Savella. Have been on the product for nearly a month but I could feel the difference within the first 5 days of starting the meds. Had been on another rx previously. I have been on Savella for about 3 months now. It worked great when I first started taking it. It relieved my pain, fibro fog, I had energy and motivated. Now that I am on month 3, I have started feeling my pain coming back slowly and more intensly. Also, for the the past week I have been so sick. I feel like I just to need to puke 24/7 and very weak/fatigue. My doctor is closed today, I have an a ... I have had Fibro for many years and have tried so many different things but so far after one week I find Savella to be a god send. The pain relief far out numbers the side effects so anything that helps the pain is valuable to me. My depression was due to the pain that I was at the point that death would be a good thing that is how bad I felt. I am slowly getting over some of the side effects t ... When I first took Savella it was as if my life had been given back to me. I still had pain, but it was not as acute. It cleared "fibro fog" and I had a feeling of missing pieces of myself finding their place(you had to be there). I have taken it since 8/2010 and now, 5/2013, realize that exercise helps to relieve pain more than Savella. Tho Savella helped me over the hump to feeling bett ... SEEMS TO ALEVIATE ALL PAIN BROUGHT ON BY FIBROMYALGIA | |||
