Neurontin is very drying for me, what else is there?

[irish]

CAroline, If you are taking the neurontin for nerve pain many people have used Lyrica instead of the neurontin had better results. Might be worth looking into. Just a thought. Irish

[Carolina]

Good idea, Irish, but I think the drying may be temporary.

Also Lyrica is related in structure to Neurontin.  It's one of those reorganizations of the molecules things.

Related drugs
Parke-Davis developed a drug called pregabalin as a successor to gabapentin.  Pregabalin was brought to market by Pfizer as Lyrica after the company acquired Warner-Lambert. Pregabalin is related in structure to gabapentin. Another new drug atagabalin has been trialed by Pfizer as a treatment for insomnia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabapentin

Hugs,  Elaine

[anita]

You're right Elaine, Lyrica is related...and it also has dry mouth as a side-effect.  But in both cases, sometimes the side-effect will subside after some time.

[irish]

Some people have better luck with Lyrica than they do with the Neurontin. I think that about 80% of the meds that we take cause dry mouth to some extent. I got dry mouth from my thyroid med which was about the first med that I started taking many years ago. Since then many other meds added that cause dryness. Heck, I was dry before I started the thyroid med but didn't know that it was from the undiagnosed Sjogrens. The Lyrica has been advertised specifically for people with the neuropathy of diabetes but helps other conditions also. Irish