Interesting issue with Neurontin came up during my current battle with cancer. Back in 1997, one year prior to my brain surgery I was taking Neurontin at 5400mg per day, 600 am/600mid/600pm. It actually made me hyper which is the opposite of what I heard everyone else say about it. When you go through chemo, you get really bad hot flashes and the side effects of the chemo drug Taxol and Neulasta (what they use to build your immune system back up) is incredibly painful. My oncology nurse told me after the first treatment that if it feels like an elephant is sitting on your chest not to be alarmed, she wasn’t kidding.
When they took the lymph nodes out my arm was (still is) numb from the elbow up and you would get the sharpest pain and no doctor could identify it. You’re on every narcotic pain killer out there and it doesn’t help. They put me on Neurontin of all drugs and the hot flashes went away, the pain in the arm went away and I had a backup to the Dilantin that couldn’t stay at a high enough level. Didn’t even need anymore pain meds and I was only taking 300mg per day. If it sounds like anything you’re going through (hot flashes/pain), you may want to look into Neurontin.
When they took the lymph nodes out my arm was (still is) numb from the elbow up and you would get the sharpest pain and no doctor could identify it. You’re on every narcotic pain killer out there and it doesn’t help. They put me on Neurontin of all drugs and the hot flashes went away, the pain in the arm went away and I had a backup to the Dilantin that couldn’t stay at a high enough level. Didn’t even need anymore pain meds and I was only taking 300mg per day. If it sounds like anything you’re going through (hot flashes/pain), you may want to look into Neurontin.