Gabapentin caused congestive heart failure

[jennymsolo]

I'm really having an awful time thanks to Gabapentin. I have congestive heart failure for the second time. My ex doctor refused to give me Lasix, and when I told him I was having symptoms of an allergic reaction he told me to take it anyway. Yesterday I had an echocardiogram and the results were "good". I'm very thankful for that. I've reduced the Gabapentin gradually from 3600mg to 300mg. I have a cough from all the fluid around my heart and lungs. I'm still very swollen. Still trying to get in with a different doctor.

There are tons of lawsuits because of injuries and deaths caused by neurontin, of Gabapentin, Lyrica, and Pregabalin.

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I understand I had some serious withdrawals from Gabapentin I was taking 800, 3 times a day I didnt think it would affect me but it seriously did. Dr put me back on it because it helped my sezuire disorder it don't help my rls like before but I been using compression socks to sleep and it's been helping a bit more.

[lauraflora]

Yikes! Thanks for your warning. I usually try not to take drugs, as much as I can, but just this week, due to a really bad and prolonged case of sciatic (from pressure on the sciatic nerve sitting on a hard little chair back in early December!,) one of the drugs the doc prescribed is gabapentin. So far i took 100 mg the first night, 200 mg the second night. The doc is trying to get rid of the inflammation and relax both the nerve and the muscle involved. BUT these drugs scare me (yet I have to say, in the few days I took them, so far, they have helped tremendously.) So I will watch out and not up the dosage (as she recommended.) If it helps at a low dosage, I will keep it that way.

By the way, my RLS is not so bad as other peoples' on here, and thus I have never taken drugs for it, just a few supplements.

Good luck to you. I hope you get things sorted out. And thanks again for the warning!

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I woukd recommend a chiropractor for sciatica

[lauraflora in reply to Hidden]

Yes, I have been to my chiropractor several times during this problem. Altho he diagnosed it was not coming from my spine (as I knew) which is good, but from compression on the sciatic nerve itself from sitting on the edge of the chair, and made sure my spine was in good alignment, what was making the problem continue was inflammation of the nerve. At his advice, I used ice at times and heat at other times, several gentle exercises, and took certain herbal remedies for inflammation, but I couldn't get rid of it and so had to resort to more drastic measures. Hopefully it will clear up soon.

[jennymsolo in reply to lauraflora]

I have no choice but to take the meds. I have trigeminal Neuralgia- one of the most painful conditions known to medical science. It's progressive so eventually I'll have to have brain surgery or a procedure to permanently deaden the nerves.

As for sciatica, an inversion table is what I use for back pain. I went to chiropractors for 15 years and it eventually made me worse, but I have MS.

[lauraflora in reply to jennymsolo]

My sciatica is not coming from my spine, but from my bum, where I was sitting on the edge of the hard little chair. So it was from compression on the nerve as it starts down the back of the leg. I have had good results from chiropractic over the years - been going to this dr. for about 10 yrs. - and tho it was helpful with my sciatica, the inflammation was continuing the problem.

[lauraflora in reply to jennymsolo]

Also, I have a neighbor who had trigeminal neuralgia, whose grandmother had it also. My neighbor had surgery for it and has never had a recurrence. She did not wait very long after getting it and getting the diagnosis to have the surgery, rather than trying to cope with it. It may be the difference in doctors' advice/medical systems, as I am in the US. (Not that the US medical system is perfect at all - especially its skyhigh costs.)

[Ert223]

Yeah gabapentin in the USA was rejected by the FDA because it caused bladder cancer.

Now the FDA says hey it is okay to take...ah bladder cancer just a minor side effect is all.

Now that I think of it I had a friend on Gabapenten his legs looked like the good year blimp. They had him on 30 different medications. Well needless to say he is no longer with us. Of course he was taking statins...which will clog your arteries with calcium and destroy muscle tissue. Good luck