Nerve pain (also called neuropathic pain) happens when the nerves themselves are damaged, irritated, or dysfunctional. It can feel like burning, stabbing, electric shocks, tingling,…
When you have diabetes, high blood sugar levels can damage nerves and blood vessels. The nerves and blood vessels supplying the feet are long and…
Gabapentin is a prescription drug. It comes as an oral capsule, an immediate-release oral tablet, an extended-release oral tablet, and an oral solution. Who Can…
Trazodone is not typically a first-line treatment for chronic pain, but due to its effects on sleep and serotonin modulation, it is sometimes used off-label…
Trazodone’s off-label uses are wide-ranging, mainly due to its complex pharmacology. It is primarily an antidepressant but has notable sedative and anxiolytic properties, leading to…
Neurontin is the trade name for the generic drug gabapentin. It is useful as an anti-epileptic drug and as an analgesic, particularly for pain of…
Nerve pain can be a symptom of many different conditions, including cancer, HIV, diabetes, and shingles. For some, nerve pain is frustrating; for others, nerve…
What is Gabapentin ? Gabapentin capsules, tablets, and oral solution are used along with other medications to help control certain types of seizures in people…
Gabapentin capsules, tablets, and oral solution are used along with other medications to help control certain types of seizures in people who have epilepsy. Gabapentin…
Neuropathic pain is a chronic nerve pain that can significantly impair a patient’s functioning and quality of life. Neuropathic pain results from damaged nerves…
What is Gabapentin ? Gabapentin is used to help control partial seizures (convulsions) in the treatment of epilepsy. This medicine cannot cure epilepsy and will…
What is gabapentin? Gabapentin is a prescription drug. It comes as an oral capsule, an immediate-release oral tablet, an extended-release oral tablet, and an oral…
What is gabapentin? Gabapentin is an anti-epileptic drug, also called an anticonvulsant. It affects chemicals and nerves in the body that are involved in the cause of…
Gabapentin is used to help control partial seizures (convulsions) in the treatment of epilepsy. This medicine cannot cure epilepsy and will only work to control…
Postherpetic neuralgia is a painful condition that affects the nerve fibers and skin. It is a complication of shingles, and shingles is a complication of…
The total number of patients treated with Neurontin in controlled clinical trials in patients with postherpetic neuralgia was 336, of which 102 (30%) were 65…
This review is an update of a review published in 2011, itself a major update of previous reviews published in 2005 and 2000, investigating the…
The gate control theory of pain, put forward by Ron Melzack and Patrick Wall in 1962, is the idea that physical pain is not a…
Gabapentin for the Treatment of Postherpetic Neuralgia Postherpetic neuralgia (post-hur-PET-ik noo-RAL-juh) is the most common complication of shingles. The condition affects nerve fibers and skin,…
Sensory nerves bring information about pain, heat, cold and other sensory phenomena to the spinal cord from various parts of the body. At least two…
Neurontin is the trade name for the generic drug gabapentin. It is useful as an anti-epileptic drug and as an analgesic, particularly for pain of…
Buspirone is used to treat certain anxiety disorders or to relieve the symptoms of anxiety. However, buspirone usually is not used for anxiety or tension…
Buspirone is used to treat anxiety disorders or in the short-term treatment of symptoms of anxiety. Buspirone is in a class of medications called anxiolytics.…