Neurontin

Neurontin (gabapentin) is one of those drugs that looks simple on paper but gets complicated real fast in practice. I’ve been prescribing it for about fifteen years now, and I still have moments where I’m surprised by who responds and who doesn’t. Let me walk you through what I’ve learned—the textbook stuff and the stuff that only comes from messy clinic days. First, the basics. Neurontin is gabapentin, a structural analog of GABA that was originally developed for epilepsy.