gabapentin
- noun
- /ˌɡæbəˈpɛntɪn/
- Specialized
- Amitriptyline, gabapentin, and pregabalin have become well-established treatments in recent years.
- gabapentin and pregabalin
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Examples
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Next is gabapentin, which is marketed under the brand name Neurontin.
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You might have heard of things like trileptal or gabapentin, Lyrica, things like that.
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And we tend to start with gabapentin in our population because it's very useful for sleep if a person does not have depression quantity.
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We successfully treated them with the combination of gabapentin and oxycodone without any remarkable side effects.
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Because of pain and neuropathic complaints, the patient received gabapentin, achieving only transient and limited benefits.
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Off-label medications, such as topiramate and gabapentin, have potential for greater efficacy in alcohol use disorders.
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For the HZV-related neuropathic complaints, neuronal membrane stabilizing agents, such as gabapentin and pregabalin, are the therapy of choice.
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Among the anticonvulsants, sodium valproate (200-1000mg), carbamazepine (200-1200mg/day), and gabapentin (100-600mg tds) are commonly used.
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The doctor prescribed gabapentin to help manage her nerve pain effectively.
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After his diagnosis of epilepsy, he started taking gabapentin to control his seizures.
Synonyms
A medicine that controls some kinds of seizures and reduces nerve pain from shingles
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gabapentin comes from GABA, a brain chemical 'that calms nerve signals', plus the drug ending -pentin. It was named this because the medicine works like GABA to reduce nerve activity, so it helps with seizures and nerve pain.