Re: Re: Update on my daughter's appt w/local MD....neurontin, ultram etc.

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Hi Jodi,

If you ever want to try neurontin etc. again, you might ask your MD to give

you a tiny amount for three weeks and increase it very very gradually to a

therapeutic dose. The dose varies enormously and he/she may have started

you too high. Randee

In a message dated 3/27/2011 6:32:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

jfjinca@... writes:

Topamax caused my total loss of bowel control. It's a rare side effect but

my

motto is 'if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen to me'. lol! As for

pain, it

didn't help all that much. I'm on Tramadol right now, and it helps to some

degree. Instead of the 'pins and needles' feeling, it's more...numb. Kind

of

like when you sit on your foot/lean on your arm or hand for too long. I

see the

pain Dr. on Wednesday and I'm not sure I'm staying with it. I haven't

tried

Neurontin because it zoned me out when I took it in 1994. I took the

generic

(can't think of the name at the moment) and my pain increased so I stopped.

Jodi

>Neurontin is also an anti-epileptic and it helps ALOT of people with

neuropathy.

>Unfortunately, I had untolerable side effects from it but many are able

to take

>it without problems. They (even the manufacturer) don't really know " how "

it

>helps...but it does. I haven't tried Topamax but it probably works in

much the

>same way. Lets hope so...without the side effects

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