Gabapentin (Neurontin)

SlowSpyder

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Anyone ever take this drug? I have it for back pain (inflamed/pinched nerve), I started taking it just a few days back. Last night I was trying to fall asleep, and I must have started to doze off and I had the strangest dream. It must have started pretty much right as I fell asleep as my wife stayed up to finish some things she was working on and was not yet in bed. I took the 300mg dose maybe an hour before I went to bed.

I dreamed that I was in a completely black void, but off in the distance a little ways was a lion sitting. The lion would lift it's front paw and growl. But, where it's mouth was supposed to be there was an asshole. It puckered a bit and swirled. It still made a growling sound just like a regular lion would. For an instant I looked away, then looked back. This time the lions face/butthole was pushed up against glass, but everthing was the same. It was just pushed up against some clear glass and making different movements. I woke up right after this and as I said I had only been in bed for a short time.

I just thought that was a rather wierd dream, and I'd like to think it was due to the drug. Anyone else ever take that? Have any odd side effects?
 

uberman

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I think the stuff is snake oil. It does nothing for me.

You could discuss this dream with a therapist, but it probably says some really bad things. It's best to forget it and not look back.

Does your Gabapentin look like little cacti or mushrooms?
 

911paramedic

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No, but after shoulder surgery while on demerol lying in my hospital bed, I saw a stampede of horses running down the hall through my open door. That was some crazy shit right there.
 

SlowSpyder

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Originally posted by: 0
Were you injured?

I have 3 bad discs in my back with a pinched sciatic (sp?) nerve. I've gone through lots of physical therapy and tried different things. No injury that I can think of, but I seem to have a lot of arthritis or arthrits like problems at a realitively early age (lots of swollen and stiff joints, blood tests show as normal though).
 

Vehemence

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You're brain is super pissed at you for constantly spelling "weird" wrong, thus torturing you in your sleep.