I don't quite understand how some things operate. I take Neurontin to help with the chronic pain I developed after my stroke. I started on a low dose and went up to a higher dose. The medication is not working to alleviate the pain, by the way. The higher dose was making me drowsy. I called the neurologist's office yesterday to tell them it makes me too drowsy to take during the day.
The last time I was in the office, I told her the medication wasn't working. That was the reason for the increase in dosage. The response to my most recent complaint was to decrease the dosage. How does that help? If the lower dosage wasn't helping the pain (Hell the high dosage isn't helping the pain) why am I even still taking the damn medication? I'm right back where I started. I'm taking the minimum dosage that I already said didn't work. I'm so frustrated.
On top of that, no one has ever figured out what causes the pain to begin with. All I've ever heard is that it happens but is highly unusual. Well, guess what. Nothing about my case has been 'usual' since it begin. I had two strokes at the age of 29. None of the medication has ever worked. All my other doctors gave up and just pushed pills. No one will formally diagnose me with seizures or chronic pain but will tell me that's what I have. No one will help me apply for disability. And now I get to keep taking a medicine that doesn't work? For what? My next appointment isn't until December. And doctors wonder why I get so frustrated with my health problems.
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