What is the best painkiller for neuralgia?

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What is the best painkiller for neuralgia?

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answered Jan 2 by Chambliss (51,900 points)
The best painkiller for neuralgia are anti convulsants such as gabapentin also known as Neurontin as well as Lamictal and Trileptal or Topamax.

Medications such as Ibuprofen, naproxen or Gabapentin stops nerve pain immediately.

Lidocaine cream or lidocaine patches can also help stop nerve pain quickly and using a heating pad can also help.

To sleep through nerve pain try drinking some tart cherry juice before bed which can help alleviate nerve pain.

Also adjust your sleeping position using pillows to support your spine and take a warm bath before bed.

Using a heating pad and wearing loose fitting clothing and maintaining a cool room temperature and taking pain medication can help you sleep through the nerve pain.

The drink that is good for nerve pain is Tart cherry juice, water and ginger tea.

Tart cherry juice contains anthocyanins that help reduce inflammation and alleviate nerve pain.

Ginger tea is an anti inflammatory that can also help relieve nerve pain.

And water reduces nerve stress and inflammation, that can lead to pain.

Being dehydrated can thicken your blood and increase muscle spasms that can cause an increase in inflammation.

Nerve pain is also called neuralgia or neuropathic pain and occurs when a nerve is damaged or irritated.

Nerve pain can feel like a burning sensation or shooting or sharp pain and can affect your sleep, daily activities and mood.

Things that can cause nerve pain are shingles, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, Lyme disease, stroke, certain medications, alcohol use, nutritional deficiencies such as lack of B6 and B12 vitamins.

Autoimmune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis or lead, arsenic and mercury can damage nerves and cause nerve pain.

Gabapentin is what works best for nerve pain but is only available by prescription.

Other medication that work the best for nerve pain are pregabalin, duloxetine and amitriptyline.

Anticonvulsants are the most effective medications that are used to treat nerve pain and they are typically very effective in treating nerve pain but can also cause undesired side effects such as lethargy.

Some home remedies for treating nerve pain are ginger, ice packs, essential oils, Capsaicin, massage, Yogut and Meditation.

Gabapentin is neither a muscle relaxer nor a pain pill but instead gabapentin is an anticonvulsive medication which originally was used as a muscle relaxer and anti spasmodic medication although later it was discovered that gabapentin had the potential to work as an anticonvulsive.

Gabapentin is a strong painkiller when used to treat pain such as nerve pain although it is not considered a painkiller or opioid and instead is an anticonvulsant medication.

The negative side of gabapentin are possible side effects such as unsteadiness, vision changes, clumsiness, trouble with thinking, sleepiness, drowsiness and dizziness.

When you stop taking gabapentin for nerve pain you can experience withdrawal symptoms which include insomnia, anxiety, headaches, dizziness and nausea.

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