Please help

Why is your mother taking Gabapenten? Isn't that a seizure preventative medication?

I'm not a health care professional but that sure doesn't sound like a stroke to me. It does sound like has something to do with her nerves, though, as that is what usually causes numbness. I'm glad she'll be seeing another neuro. Hmmm, have you googled it? Here's one link:

http://www.healthandnutritiontips.net/numbness_in_right_arm/numbness_in_right_arm.html

Here's another:

Doctor's Answer
by CCF-Neuro-M.D.-PW, Mar 21, 2006 12:00AM
Waking up with a numb arm is a relatively common problem. 'Saturday night palsy' is a term for people who sleep with their arm over a chair and wake up with a radial nerve palsy adn wrist drop. During the night, you will turn to the left or right without being aware of it so you cannot be sure what side you have been sleeping on.

Its not that the blood has to recirculate, its that the peripheral nerve is compressed at a point where it is near the surface. It is sort of stunned for a while until it recovers once the comppression is relieved. Usually just taking steps to avoid the compression is enough - a neurologist or doctor should be able to tell which nerve is affected and what measures you could take to avoid compression - positioning, splints etc. Rapid weight loss can put a person at risk for nerve compression, as there is less 'padding' around the peripheral nerves and some of them are near the surface. Also make sure there is no clothing around the arm that could compress a nerve.

Good luck

She's been to two neurologists and they both seem to think they are seizures. Gabapentin is also a nerve medication I think. Sometimes doctors just give you meds when they can't figure out what is wrong with you. I'm hoping someone would have an answer on here. I hate to see her in pain.

I've been to 2 neurologists, an ear specialist, twice in emergency room. I had some odd symptoms that included my ear, pains in head, and was told first that it was neuritis or shingles, then migraines. This lasted two years but in the past 2 months it has simply lifted, gone. Who knows? Nobody, it seems. But I was taking Gabapenten at some point, along with medication for high blood pressure and high cholesterol. On my own, I weaned myself off all those. Now, it's diet and exercise, which has always worked for me. It works now. And, I did go to a chiropractor but don't know how that helped the whole schamoley.

I think a very simple diet with no salt, meat, milk products nor any frozen or prepared dishes does wonders. Try it for couple weeks, see if she feels better. Just common sense.

Hope your mother is feeling better.

Thank you all for your responses. We went to the new neurologist and he seems to think that she's having seizures. So he put her on 200 MG of Carbatrol twice a day. We go back in two weeks. He also said that the MRI shows a small vein in the brain that has bled. He wants a neurosurgeon to look at it. He said that he would probably just watch it and not do anything about it. Hopefully that medicine will work. Thanks!!!