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Also am going to try injections, although I did a long time ago for upper back pain and don’t remember it helping. Talk of lumbar fusion surgery came up. Anyway, my mom has sciatica and was prescribed gabapentin and it made her have horrible dreams and suicidal thoughts. She quit immediately. For Pain "I have severe sciatica in my right leg and horrible back pain due to two herniated discs, and severe spinal stenosis from an injury. I've seen 3 doctors and have tried everything out there. Today my doctor prescribed 300mg of gabapentin 3 times a day. 5 hours ago, I took the first one and AMAZING! I can feel the pain going away!" I was on 1200 mg x 3 per day. It worked. It wiped out my sciatic nerve pain. It took 2 years to get to that dose, because my tolerance kept building over time. When I first started Gabapentin it would just make me sleep all the time. Eventually it had zero side effects at that high dose. Missing a dose did though. Epidural steroid injections may be offered to patients with sciatica of more than six months' duration. (SOR: A, based on a meta-analysis of RCTs.) However, there is minimal short-term Those are possible side-effects, not guaranteed ones. I have quite severe sciatica from a damaged nerve and take 3 x 2 Zapain (30mg codeine phosphate + 500mg paracetamol) AND 3 x 3 300mg Gabapentin to counteract the pain. Gabapentin has worked for me with none of the side effects others have mentioned. I take 300mg once a day at bedtime and this has made it so that I can take my daily walks without pain as well as focus on my physical therapy. My question is, how long do I stay on the medicine? I do sometimes “feel” my low back but it no longer hurts. Gabapentin changes the way the brain and body exchange messages. It calms the nerves by blocking pain-causing neurotransmitters, making gabapentin an effective treatment for sciatica and Has anyone here tried Gabapentin for their sciatica and what where your results? I recently started Gabapentin (300mg, 3x daily) for sciatica in left leg due to pressure on nerve root from protrusion at L5-S1. My pain doc prescribed it as a stopgap until I get an epidural. I started Gabapentin to help with pain from L4/L5/S1 bulges. I’ve been managing the injury for more than a decade but in the last 2 months I have been in constant pain that has majorly interfered with my life. Gabapentin is not approved or indicated for the treatment of back pain. It is an anti-convulsant (anti-epilepsy) drug that's also approved for post-operative pain; it's not approved for treating other types of back pain. 10 votes, 14 comments. All of 2020 I have had sciatic pain due to my herniated disc. At first they gave me high dosage of naproxen which only dulled Gabapentin did help with the burning, the tingling and the shooting pains in my leg and foot. It didn't help me with the achy and worn out pain or the knot of pain in my back. I also got really bad head tingles, like it felt like pins and needles in my brain. The doctor prescribed Gabapentin, and the sciatica has subsided. I feel it occasionally, briefly, and worry! But after a week I have had no side effects from the Gabapentin, and think it's a marvellous addition to pain relief. Will the sciatica come back if/when I stop taking the Gabapentin? Yes, I have. I take Gabapentin for back pain. I was also taking Cymbalta which I've been weaning off of slowly. I've had 2 surgeries. A decompression and disc replacement on my cervical spine and also a spinal fusion in my lumbar spine. I have back pain with most lifting activities that the Gabapentin helps with. Hi I have been dealing with sciatica pain since November 2020. I take gabapentin 900mg twice a day and 1200mg at bedtime. It works well for me but it took almost 18 months to build it up to this level. I had a S1-L5 fusion back in December. My sciatica had only ever been in my left side. A few weeks after surgery my right side flared up for the first time ever. Doc gave me a script for gabapentin and it helped out. Right side pain has completely gone away now. For some people, combining amitriptyline and gabapentin (Neurontin) may help relieve sciatic nerve pain further. But side effects are more likely to happen. Various forms of exercise and manual therapy can be helpful. Currently, I am dealing with an episode of sciatica that is pretty terrible without taking naproxen (500mg/day) and also gabapentin (300 mg daily taken at night) for 5 weeks or so. Functioning at work, doing chores, and driving is pretty hard without it.
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