Gabapentin is a prescription anticonvulsant used for seizures and nerve pain, sold under names like Neurontin and Gralise, and available in tablet, capsule, and liquid forms. Keep reading for details.

High blood pressure adds extra caution to your day, the medications you use to treat health conditions come with side effects, and side effects rarely seem to make sense without a medical degree. That ...

Among more than 52,000 adults tracked for 10 years in U.S. healthcare claims records, chronic pain patients with six or more gabapentin prescriptions had a higher incidence of dem ...

Receiving six or more prescriptions of the drug gabapentin for low back pain is associated with significantly increased risks of developing dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI)--29% and 85%, ...

Many of the prescription drugs that are commonly abused or misused are brands most people have heard of. Painkillers, also known as opioids, are the most frequently abused ones, per data from the New ...

The anti-seizure drug gabapentin is used to treat epilepsy, nerve pain after shingles and restless legs syndrome by affecting chemical messengers in the brain and nerves. Common side effects include ...

Regular gabapentin use appeared to increase risk of dementia by 29% and mild cognitive impairment by 85%, researchers reported n the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. Photo by ...

John Avery was just back from a guys’ golfing weekend and doing dead lifts at the gym in 2023 when he felt a pop in his lower back. A disc had slipped and was pressing on a nerve. After months of rest ...

The temporal relationship between the development of symptoms about three days after gabapentin discontinuation and the absence of any improvements during the administration of benzodiazepines for ...

As with all observational studies, the researchers caution that a solid cause-and-effect link can't be established between dementia and gabapentin; however, they feel that their analysis of a large ...

Sunshine Biopharma’s Canadian subsidiary, Nora Pharma has launched Gabapentin, a new generic prescription drug in the therapeutic class of anticonvulsants. Gabapentin is a generic version of Neurontin ...

April 11, 2011 (UDDATED April 28, 2011) — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved gabapentin enacarbil extended-release tablets (Horizant; GlaxoSmithKline and XenoPort Inc) for the ...