Neurontin short term help?

[coach_walt]

I have had increasing sitting pain + golf ball rectum feeling from what my neuro thinks is pudendal neuralgia. My pt lady does not think it is nerve entrapment.
My issue is that I have had three distint occasions where I went a whole day without pain - to the point where I started to dream that I might actually overcome this. Of course I was back to pain as usual the next day. In EVERY one of these instances I had taken 900 mg neurontin the night before to sleep. I am not taking any medication regularly. Can neurontin have a benefit like that the day AFTER you take it?

[Violet M]

According to this website http://www.rxlist.com/neurontin-drug/cl ... cology.htm the elimination half-life of neurontin is 5-7 hours. So there could be some left in your system the following day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_half-life It is not unusual for PN patients to have almost pain-free days on occasion but if these are consistently tied to the day after you took neurontin it's hard not to see a correlation, right?

Violet

[ezer]

Originally Gabapentin/Neurontin was developed as a muscle relaxant by a Japanese pharmaceutical firm. it is only after it was found that Neurontin was effective for epilepsy that it was acquired by Parke-Davis.
I think you are benefiting from the muscle relaxing properties of Neurontin. The analgesic action is not that quick.

[coach_walt]

Thanks for the info. It sounds reasonable that the neurontin/gabapentin may be relaxing the muscles. I will experiment with it further. This also would mean that the key to my good days is relaxing those muscles somehow.