Posted by cecilia on February 28, 2006, at 1:17:11
I have painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Neurontin does nothing. Tricyclics are the other thing you usually see recommended, but I've tried several tricyclics (for depression) and the only one I was able to get to a therapeutic dose on was nortriptyline and that had terrible side effects too, just not as bad as the others. I've read some places that only small doses of tricyclics are needed for neuropathy and and other places that you need to get up to the full dose to do any good. If the latter is true there's no point in bothering, but if a small dose would work it might be worth trying. Anyone know? Oh, I've tried Cymbalta too (for deprssion) couldn't tolerate it. I haven't tried Lyrica, but doubt that it would be that different from neurontin. Cecilia
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