Here is a very interesting article regarding the drug gabapentine. Known mostly by it’s brand name Neurontin, the drug was touted as a medication for bipolar disorder. In reality, it had no affect on bipolar disorder mood swings – even though it took doctors a while to catch onto this. I was given Neurontin in 1998- it was my 22 drug and by that time I had so many drugs in my body, this one only made things worse. I became immediately and dangerously suicidal. No one believed me then!
As you all know, I believe in drug therapy for bipolar disorder. Lamictal saves my life. But we have to be very careful- Lamictal and Neurontin are in the same family of anti convulsants- which proves that medications are not alike just because they are under one family.
Click here to read the article about the Kaiser Lawsuit over Pfizer’s mis-representation of the drug Neurontin.
Julie
PS: Do you feel that we are often just guinea pigs at the whim of drug companies? We need the drugs and many of us love our drugs for how they help us get on with life, but I wish we were more respected as human beings instead of money generating machines.
A salad of Neurontin!
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Do you feel that we are often just guinea pigs at the whim of drug companies?… Move like a Voudou doll… A lot of the cartoons I draw seem to be about meds… I guess we should know better, whay would anyone take a med that causes more thing then it ment to cure… EVEN some of them claim that it may cause the VERY thing we take the med to help…lol