No, neurontin is primarily an anti-seizure medication, that turns out to suppress neuropathic pain as a serendipitous side-effect so well that it's widely prescribed for that side-effect. And actually, I think that did help and work. It's just that neuropathic pain is no longer a significant component of the pain.
Wellbutrin is non-SSRI, I know, and there's the older tricyclics (which were pretty much just powerful sedatives), and there's one or two others that are in a class of their own. But ...... well, no, at this point I don't trust ANY medication whose purpose is to screw with my mind.
I can't take ibuprofen. But acetaminophen is fine, naproxen sodium is fine, etc. (They're just not very effective.) I can't take cephazolin .... but ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, penecillin, tetracycline, vancomycin, methicillin all work fine. Percocet makes me throw up .... but vicodin or Tylenol III/IV are OK. And so on.
Psychoactives such as antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, on the other hand, I distrust as a class. It appears I react very badly to them. ALL of them.
Re: They are getting much better
Wellbutrin is non-SSRI, I know, and there's the older tricyclics (which were pretty much just powerful sedatives), and there's one or two others that are in a class of their own. But ...... well, no, at this point I don't trust ANY medication whose purpose is to screw with my mind.
I can't take ibuprofen. But acetaminophen is fine, naproxen sodium is fine, etc. (They're just not very effective.) I can't take cephazolin .... but ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, penecillin, tetracycline, vancomycin, methicillin all work fine. Percocet makes me throw up .... but vicodin or Tylenol III/IV are OK. And so on.
Psychoactives such as antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, on the other hand, I distrust as a class. It appears I react very badly to them. ALL of them.