Neuropathic pain

Summersea · May 22

My DH has severe bilateral knee pain that nothing is helping. His orthopedist thinks it may be referred from his back and ordered an epidural steroid injection. That gave him just a few hours of relief. I wondered if anyone has any insight into adding gabapentin (Neurontin) or duloxetine (Cymbalta) to see if that would help. He is currently on donepezil (Aricept) and memantine (Namenda). He has a follow-up appointment with his back doctor coming up and I am looking for suggestions from someone who may be dealing with this. Thank you!

Ed's mom · May 22

LO is not diagnosed, I have to say that, yet. Working on the testing and agreeing to a MRI is taking work.

She claims, I don't know what is true. Her true foot neuropathy has spread up towards her knees but totally covers both feet. She has taken Gabapentin but claimed to have every side effect and feared future problems from taking it. Paranoia and being a nurse, bad combo.

She also has taken Cymbalta for pain and said it helped a lot. That was pretoday so it is believable.

I navigate day by day by hour by minute which version of LO I am dealing with.

harshedbuzz · May 23

Gabapentin is not a safe option for older people. It is associated with increasing cognitive impairment especially for those who already are impacted by MCI and dementia.