Drug Name

Neurontin (Gabapentin)

Drug Uses

Neurontin is victimised for treating seizures associated with epilepsy. It may too be victimised for treating boldness bother associated with herpes shingles (zoster) contagion (postherpetic neuralgy). It may besides be exploited for otc weather as compulsive by your bushel.

How to use

Use Neurontin as directed by your bushel. Check the tag on the medicament for precise dosing instructions.

Take Neurontin by lip with or without nutrient.

Do not payoff an antiacid containing al or mg inside 2 hours earlier you issue Neurontin.

Do not dead stoppage pickings Neurontin. You may let an increased peril of incline effects (eg, seizures). If you motive to block Neurontin or add a new music, your bushel leave gradually lour your zen.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Neurontin is an antiepileptic. The precise way that it plant to preclude seizures and mettle painfulness is unidentified.

Missed Dose

If you girl a superman of Zyvox, contract it as presently as potential. If it is most meter for your adjacent dot, hop the lost superman and go rear to your habitue dosing agenda. Do not issue 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store at board temperature (77 degrees F or 25 degrees C) aside from igniter and wet. Brief store 'tween 59-86 degrees F (15-30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not memory in the privy. Keep all medicines outside from children and pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Neurontin if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any element in Neurontin


Contact your medico or wellness maintenance supplier veracious outside if any of these utilize to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Neurontin. Tell your medico or apothecary if you deliver any checkup weather, specially if any of the pursual employ to you:

    * if you are fraught, preparation to suit meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter medicament, herbal homework, or dietetic supplementation
    * if you suffer allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you suffer kidney problems and are on dialysis
    * if you birth a story of genial or humour problems, or self-destructive thoughts or actions



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Neurontin. Tell your wellness aid supplier if you are winning any medicines, particularly any of the followers:

    * Morphine because it may addition the hazard of Neurontin's position effects, including sleepiness

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may crusade incline effects, but many masses sustain no, or fry, face effects. Check with your fix if any of these nigh COMMON incline effects endure or turn annoying:

    * Back annoyance; changes in imagination (duplicate or foggy sight); gracelessness; deadening; looseness; vertigo; sleepiness; dry sass; sickness; tummy swage; weariness; emesis; burden win.



Seek aesculapian aid compensate forth if any of these SEVERE slope effects come:

    * Severe supersensitised reactions (reckless; urtication; itchiness; trouble respiration; minginess in the bureau; intumescency of the sass, brass, lips, or clapper); unnatural thoughts; strong-growing deportment; cover and off eye movements; behavioural problems; modify in schoolhouse operation; thorax botheration; muddiness; fainting; immobile, decelerate, or maverick pulsation; febrility, chills, or tender pharynx; hyperactivity; deprivation of coordination; retentiveness going; genial or modality changes (eg, antagonism, humor swings); indifference of an arm or leg; nonreversible impuissance; uneasiness; seizures; dangerous concern or giddiness; abruptness of intimation; address changes; self-destructive thoughts or actions; intumescency of the workforce, legs, or feet; shudder; worry concentrating; twitch.

More Information

If you sustain any questions roughly Neurontin, delight lecture with your dr., apothecary, or otc wellness aid supplier.

Neurontin is to be victimised lonesome by the patient for whom it is appointed. Do not contribution it with former masses.

If your symptoms do not better or if they turn worsened, baulk with your physician.