i went to see my neurologist on saturday he told me to stop taken gabapentine and take pregabline he said to take it next week and not have any other pain med for 1 week will it be any harm just going of gabapentine like that he wants me to try new meds for 2 months and if no good he getting me booked in with a surgeon in birmingham in uk to talk about gamma knife iam realy worried not having any pain meds for 1 week ive only got to be 10 mins late taken my gabapentine and iam in bits with pain will it be any harm going stright of them
Hi , I am taking Lyrica, ,also known as pregabalin. However, I also take LamoTRIGne . It works fine with me and hope it works with you. Why did your neuro ask you to stop taking gabapentin ?
Anticonvulsants need to be ramped down (the old one) and ramped up (the new one). You cannot just stop and start another, in fact it's dangerous. And he should know this!!! Get a second opinion and don't just cold turkey something.
Oh and as far as pain medication goes no doctor should say stop taking it, don't put yourself through unnecessary pain - if you need it you need it. Pain causes some very bad effects in your body (much like stress does - it is stress!) so take analgesia if you need it.
if your doctor isn't competent enough to tell you how to ween off the first med - can you talk to the pharmacy on how to best do this?
Maybe get some lidocaine cream for topical relief as you switch meds
do you want gamma knife - or would you rather go for an MVD?
Kc Dancer Kc said:
if your doctor isn't competent enough to tell you how to ween off the first med - can you talk to the pharmacy on how to best do this?
Maybe get some lidocaine cream for topical relief as you switch meds
do you want gamma knife - or would you rather go for an MVD?
hi ya kc dancer kc he said i was not compatable to have mvd i think that was the word he used cos i couldent realy understand him as he was mostley talking to my husband i will try gamma knife but have to talk with a surgen first ive got some patches there huge i just keep cutting them up to size i want and hide away to imbarresed to let any one see me
hiya seow w he wants me to start these other meds cos he said gapapentine was not working now iam quite happy to stay on them he also wants me to stop my solphdol pain killer with codine in ti ive only took 1 gabapentine today and i can feel the burning on my cheek will go of them slowly in this week ready for next week
Seow W said:
Hi , I am taking Lyrica, ,also known as pregabalin. However, I also take LamoTRIGne . It works fine with me and hope it works with you. Why did your neuro ask you to stop taking gabapentin ?
What made him say that gabapentin was not working with you. Does this med stop your pain? How do you feel about this med?
hi ya seow it did work when i fist started to take gabapentine but it has not been doing any thing for my pain in the last 3 weeks so he going to try me on that other one i hope it works i hate this burning feeling iam having at the moment i have to gaugrauly skip 2 tablets a day then 3 and so on till iam of them and start next tuesday on the other ones
Hi, this gabapentin has been working fine for you till recently. I will say that this is a breakthrough pain and you need to add on some other medicine to help relief it. I feel that it is not wise to totally change the medicine. There was a time that pregabalin not working for me and my doctor added LamoTRIGne . Now I am better, I will reduce taking LamoTRIGne .
Hi Lorraine,
I changed medication from Gabapentin to Trileptal early this year. My neuro advised to slowly taper the gabapentin down over a few weeks while slowly introducing Trileptal. Even though I did this I still had terrible withdrawal symtons. I had extreme dizziness whenever I turned over in bed, I felt like I was falling into a big hole. I also had nausea. It took weeks before I felt OK. So please be very careful to take every step gradually. Hope it goes OK and you get relief from the new med.