Neurologist Consult About Neurontin

I hope that if you are on this EVIL Rx, you will use this page and the one in the link above especially, to have a VITAL talk with your doc, about it. 

 If you look at the very top left side of the neurontin data page I have placed above, you will see that it says:

[If you take too much Neurontin, call your healthcare provider or local Poison Control Center right away.]

The neurologist I met with back then was an extremely nice, competent, good guy. 

I completely believe that he genuinely cares about people and gave me the best advice he knew to give.

One of the pieces of advice that he gave was that if I wanted to, I could take as much neurontin as I wanted for pain relief. 

He said he had a guy who took "thousands of millgrams" of it daily and the guy was doing fantastically well. 

He then added that it wasn't a health threat as it would be for many or most Rx's because neurontin is not processed by the kidneys. (And/or liver?) 

It's been several years and thanks to the memory deficits of my Rx's, I can't recall which he said. 

I was born with half a kidney on one side so I think he said it wouldn't harm the kidneys; but whether or not he threw the liver in too, I really don't remember.

Thanks neurontin for the alleged "temporary" memory loss...

I wish I knew who the guy was that he referred to in my appointment because if years of neurontin usage is (partially?) to blame as to why my memory has taken the hit that it has, I would like to see if he even remembers his own name by now.

Although I believe that doc had pure motives and his input was only to help me, if I hit a person with my car going 60mph accidentally vs. with malicious intent, it doesn't lessen their damage.

Thus, if you are a doctor reading this, I strongly recommend that you print out this page above, or better yet, get an updated one from your local pharmacy and share it in every appointment in which you have a patient on this Rx and/or start a person on it.

We chronic pain people do desperately, seek relief and nerve damage pain is its own special kind of hell. 

But the bottom line is that most patients put their trust in you and take their cues from you.

If you don't know who memory loss is going to effect until it is too late, PLEASE:

-Get in the habit of recommending the natural solutions on the page in the link above that have been effective for me; and I am confident, for many others, FIRST because if they can be well managed naturally, that is best!

-If they do have to be started on neurontin for nerve pain, please recommend that they "check in" with their bodies every few months by going off of this medication for a couple of weeks to see if they even still need to be on it.

People can get well and just be so in the habit of taking an Rx that they may not even realize they were blessed to have their body heal and/or their pain decrease to a level that may be addressed successfully by Turmeric & Bromelain or OTC anti-inflammatories and/or ice packs and moist heat, joint creams, chiropractice care, acupuncture, music meditation, massage and/or physical therapy, etc...

We chronic pain patients are so used to building tolerances and having our doses increased, thereby increasing side effects and potential serious damage, that I'd like to point out that even if a person can't get off of a medication, lowering the dose and thereby potential for damage, is STILL a health victory!

 Please note, I am ONLY speaking of neurontin in the context of when it is prescribed for chronic pain people with nerve damage, sciatica, etc...

I am NOT saying that people who take it for seizures should ever discontinue it and/or that their doctors should have them d/c it as I am not a trained, licensed clinician and would never give such an uneducated opinion.

(I probably have notes in a box somewhere from this dr. appointment.  If and when I find them, I will update this page, so please check back.)

Be Grateful, Be Well

Grace Kelly, God Coach,

CHLC, CPLC