I was reading about Gabapentin (Neurontin) on Wikipedia, mainly because I took it for years (for migraines brought on by trigeminal nerve damage). I actually forgot I even had fibromyalgia while I was taking it because it helped everything that hurt. But, oddly enough, the constant migraines left after I had the scoliosis surgery! I have been scared to even talk about it, much less brag about it, for fear that they would return after the morphine ran out of my system. They did not give it to me in the rehab either, nor have I had in the almost 5 months post-op either. But, due to arthritis, I have been pretty achy lately and thought maybe i could ask the doctor about taking it again and was just researching it, and something interesting caught my eye that might explain those sudden electric jolts of pain we all have out of the blue... this is the excerpt from the page..
"Gabapentin has also been found to help patients with post-operative chronic pain (usually caused by nerves that have been severed accidentally in an operation and when grown back, have reconnected incorrectly). Symptoms of this include a tingling sensation near or around the area where the operation was performed, sharp shooting pains, severe aches after much movement, constant 'low ache' all day and sometimes a general 'weak' feeling. These symptoms can appear many months after an operation, and therefore the condition can go unnoticed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabapentin
(I wondered how they figure how they can go unnoticed?)
"Gabapentin has also been found to help patients with post-operative chronic pain (usually caused by nerves that have been severed accidentally in an operation and when grown back, have reconnected incorrectly). Symptoms of this include a tingling sensation near or around the area where the operation was performed, sharp shooting pains, severe aches after much movement, constant 'low ache' all day and sometimes a general 'weak' feeling. These symptoms can appear many months after an operation, and therefore the condition can go unnoticed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabapentin
(I wondered how they figure how they can go unnoticed?)
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