Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Off-Label uses for Gabapentin-

I had stopped taking gabapentin to check pain levels, and found that there was no longer the pain I had previously.  I decided to stop for a while. No need to keep taking it if the pain was not there, or so I figured.  

A couple of weeks after stopping, I noticed that I was shaking again.  I had not really thought of it, but my shaking had diminished while I was on gabapentin.  I started it up again, and within a few days the shaking had diminished again.  My tremor had also subsided a bit.  Further research on Gabapentin revealed that so called “off label” uses for gabapentin show a reduction of spasticity in multiple sclerosis. 


As seen, spasticity relates to muscle tone problems causing tightness and inability to relax muscle groups, related to repeated damage to myelin sheaths of nerves.  So, either it is also helping the tightness of Neuralgic Amyotrophy myelin sheath damage, or I have something else going on.  

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