In a world that wants to delete opiates for pain and benzos for anxiety……they gave you something far worse.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/07/11/gabapentin-dementia-research/5501752251695/
Gabapentin. Buyer beware. I have seen first hand the effects of Gabapentin on some patients. Overly sedating, causes memory lapse and decline in cognitive function. They are doling it out like candy for pain patients and patients coming out of addiction recovery programs. They fail to mention the risks of this medication, and they also fail to understand that it can be abused just as easily as a controlled substance med.
Also…..I have stopped Gabapentin on more people than I can count just for cognitive impairment. The “regime” loves to throw gabapentin onboard for elderly patients in lieu of their tiny dose of Xanax they used to take. It has not been a positive experience and has caused more problems than good.
SOME people do very well with Gabapentin. But it should not be the first line med grabbed for everything under the sun (which is the current situation).
What I found in my own experience in using Gabapentin in patients is that it was poorly tolerated, caused cognitive issues, peripheral edema, sedation and did nothing for pain. The truth is that medicine has no answer for chronic pain. Things like DMSO or chlorine dioxide which have shown to work in a multitude of illnesses have been disparaged and labeled as quackery. I am now just beginning my own journey into understanding how these two products work and how they can be safely used. The Midwestern Doctor from the Forgotten Side of Medicine has done a great job on DMSO and Pierre Kory has been writing about Chlorine Dioxide. There are many articles on both on substack. Wonder what other things are out there hiding in plain sight that are labeled as ineffective and dangerous or snake oil?
You are so right Dr Brown. I was in the hospital last year for bad GI pain that could not be explained. Gabapentin was just one of the many cocktail of drugs they put me on. The only thing it seemed to do for me is to make my vision wavy. It did NOTHING else.
Also when i went to my PCP after being in the hospital she looked at the list of drugs (5) they put me on while i was in the hospital she said “you are over medicated”. And yes i was. I steadily got off all of them.