Side Effects of Medication
By Amber
@AmbiePam (104815)
United States
October 24, 2025 2:32pm CST
I was talking to my dad today, and I mentioned the side effects of medication. He started talking about Gabapentin (Neurontin), a medication I took twenty years ago that did nothing. He said when his wife was taking it he thought she was getting dementia. He wondered, “Surely God wouldn’t give me TWO wives with dementia (my late mother was diagnosed with it at the age of 46). My stepmom also doesn’t have a family history (my mom did). On a hunch, he asked her to stop the Gabapentin, and she went back to normal.
What is the worst side effect from a medication you have ever had?
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@noni1959 (10868)
• United States
24 Oct
@AmbiePam Thank you. Hers was paralyzing her and she is still in PT and a wheel chair. Still has a lot of drop foot, fire needle type of pain and tremmors. Surgery was in March with over 38 screws. Good news is she was able to take a few steps. 
I hope you are healing. 
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@LadyDuck (485725)
• Italy
25 Oct
The doctor gave me a medication to easy the pain of kidney stones. Those medication were known (I did not know) to cause high heart beat rate. He had to know that I suffer of Tachycardia, my rate went so high that my husband had to bring me to the ER.
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@Tampa_girl7 (53607)
• United States
25 Oct
The worst side effect from a medication that I had was hypothermia. It was scary. I wasn’t aware that it could happen.
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@sallypup (66477)
• Centralia, Washington
24 Oct
I stopped all meds for fibromyalgia cause all of them caused me to be woozy and out of it. I could have fallen. I told one Doc that I tend toward low blood pressure. She gave me diuretics to help my swollen legs even though that messes with the blood pressure. So yup, got super dizzy and almost passed out. All she could say was for me to drink lots of water to curb the side effects.
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@Traceyjayne (6046)
• United Kingdom
24 Oct
The medication they first gave me when I broke my arm made me constipated …..I was warned ….but no one could have told me just how bad it would get …..I had to have another set of medication to reverse this situation.
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@princessmarie (1121)
• Philippines
25 Oct
my baby sister had her wisdom teeth 4 to be exact was extracted months ago and her dentist prescribed her with opiods the strongest pain reliver and she suffered from vomiting, and constant headaches. I told her to stop taking the meds because it is for pain management.
now she is feeling better.
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@princessmarie (1121)
• Philippines
23h
@AmbiePam yeah, and she was taking the medication for 2days I guess when I researched the effects of the medication she was prescribed with by her dentist.
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@xstitcher (36149)
• Petaluma, California
25 Oct
Thankfully, with all of the different medications I take and have taken, I haven't had any side effects (or they haven't been strong enough side effects to notice.
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@wolfgirl569 (124052)
• Marion, Ohio
25 Oct
I had an antibiotic that put me in a foggy state. I stopped it real fast. Another one gave me extreme mood swings.
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@Marilynda1225 (86683)
• United States
13h
That is very disturbing to read about your medication side effects. I don't think I've had any serious side effects from any medication I'm on but I do make sure to check the side effects if 'I'm prescribed something. There are so many t commercials on tv for medications for every single thing and the side effects are scary.
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@LindaOHio (204328)
• United States
20h
I had bronchitis and took Biaxin. I was sicker from the med than I was from the bronchitis. I couldn't eat, I spent all day in bed; and at one point, on the way back from the bathroom, I passed out. Terrible stuff.
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@GardenGerty (166143)
• United States
24 Oct
Messed up digestive enzymes along with body aches and pains, and itching and a rash and general topical sorenesss. My brother takes or did take gabapentin, and my younger sister took it for the pain associated with cancer. Brother does not notice any side effects for him but for Holly, my sister, it made her pain worse.
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@snowy22315 (197867)
• United States
24 Oct
I took an antidepressant once that interfered with my BP meds. It caused a slight arythmia and I ended up in the hospital. I hadn't been eating much that day. I think I only had coffee and a small sweet roll. I think that contributed to it
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@marguicha (228887)
• Chile
24 Oct
A doctor gave me Gabapentin a couple of months ago and when Oscar (my ex SIL doctor) came to see me after I fell he told me to stop taking it immediatly. So there it is, in a drawer. He also told me to stop taking Celecoxib.
@LeaPea2417 (38614)
• Toccoa, Georgia
24 Oct
I have never had a bad side effect from medications.
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@RasmaSandra (90195)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Oct
Now I am glad that I am not on any medication. I do remember way back when I was still at university in NYC I had a very bad bout with the flu and the doc had me on strong antibiotics. When I no longer had any temp I told mom I was going back to class and she said hold off a few more days because i had all those antibiotics in my system and she was right I stood up and everything went black and I fell back onto the bed and was lucky I did not pass out on the street somewhere,
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