Re: Question about my sciatica

On Nov 20, 10:55 pm, "jennieandch...@xxxxxxxxx"
<jennieandch...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lori, I tried Neurontin and it made me ultra sleepy. I tried it for
Post Herpetic Neuralgia after getting shingles in my left eye at the
lovely age of 24 oddly enough. The odds of getting shingles at that
age is low but lucky me had it and didn't know it. My daily pain
level is so high that I thought I had a Zit and then once they started
treating the pain we realized how much pain I was in. We had 2 times
that this kind of thing happened to hint that my daily pain was quite
high though, the shingles and then again last year when I got colitis
and had no clue. I went into the ER because I felt like something was
wrong and not an increase in pain. I have learned that when I feel
something is wrong to check it out because I am very in tune to my
body and what is going on. Right now I am trying Lyrica which does
something similar as well as Cymbalta. Thanks so much for the
suggestion.

Keep moving forward,
Jennie
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Hi ((Jennie)),
I didn't stay on Neurontin long as I gained 40lbs in a Very short time
(less than 3wks). Of course it's not listed as a side-effect but I
hadn't changed my diet or anything nor started anything else new.
'course the doc didn't wanna believe me! what's new!
Kindly,
LoriB.o.B.
ps-too bad tho cuz it did help w/the permanent sciatca I have.
Good Luck!
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