neurontin has been prescribed "off label" like this for years. Pfizer paid a huge fine for advertising it as an anti-depressant when it hasn't been approved as one by the FDA. It has anecdotal benefits.
"Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc" is a time-honored description of one type of fallacious thinking. It is Latin for "after something. therefore because of something" as in, "when the Superbowl is won by an AFC team the stock market goes up". In this case, it is said by a doctor that after prescribing Neurontin to an epileptic they seem happier, therefore Neurontin has made their patient happier. Enough doctors say similar things and Neurontin is being prescribed for all sorts of things it wasn't approved for. Thats all fine and good until the companuy that makes it claims the drug IS an antidepressant and the the FDA slaps them with a huge fine and families of people that comitted suicide while on the drug start winning civil cases on the premise that if they had been on an actual mood stabilizer they would still be alive.
personally, neurontin made me a zombie. I was in a haze and unable to keep a creative thought in my head long enough to get it going, nearly lost my job and probably still suffer from the ramifications of that experience.
call it gaba pentin, call it elixer of the gods, it is neurontin and pfizer paid a huge fine for selling it as an anti depressant, it isn't one.
Even if I develop epilepsy, I will hope they have a better drug for me because neurontin is on my permanent 'no fly' list.
