Okay, I can't help it.

I told you so.

My psychiatrist, too, put me on this "miracle drug" over 3 years ago. She gave me 300mg a night to start, to see if it would help with sleep. When I "tolerated" it (although for some strange reason began mensstruating very heavily for several weeks although I was on the pill and very much underweight at the time) she increased it to 300x3, "for mood stabilization", I nearly killed myself.

Neurontin is NOT a psychiatric med, as this article well shows. What it doesn't mention (I feel like the lone messanger bringing the news, obviously this company has been far too busy the past 10 years trying to deceptively market its product to do any further research) is that use of neurontin has been linked with endometrial cancer. I haven't any links on this, this is merely the observation of an OB/GYN who happens to be my mother. Note: Please don't freak out if you are a woman taking nuerontin Just make sure to keep in close contact with your OB/GYN, letting him or her know that a link has been established between the two, and watch your own body for signals. My body was obviously reacting to the neurontin, but your's might not. Then again, it might.

As we say over and over again on this board, watch out for yourself, know your body, know your limits. Take the information you get here and research further on your own. Your doctor cannot be expected to know all of this, even if it did break on dateline. (Incidentally, I read a transcription of those tapes in Harper's Magazine several months ago). There's only one way to find the truth, and that's to take it into your own hands.

Obviously, the pharmaceutical companies aren't concerned with truth.