My old friend Gabapentin. This medicine helped me for a very long time with my pain from fibromyalgia. Then very slowly it didn’t help. So on to the medicine Lyrica for the pain. I got lucky and had no side effects from either medicine. I also am on Duloxetine (Cymbalta). I am mostly pain free. Even after my bypass I ask them to stop the pain killers because they do not agree with me and I was not in what I consider real pain. I am a believer give them try as you can always stop them and move on. Just because one person has this effect does not mean you will. The suicide.warning was all over the internet about Lyrica and my husband and kids watched me like a hawk. It was worth it! I know I’m lucky that I have a great support system and I hope you all do to.

The benefits you described from Gabapentin can be managed by other less harmful means: CBD will help you sleep and take the edge off at night when itching seems worse at night and no side effects known. Gaba didn't work for me either and I had side effects too. Bathing at night, having fresh skin to put my colloidal silver gel to help heal lesions, jojoba oil for moisture, itch creams to keep me from waking up itching at night works best for me. Sleep is the best medicine to heal your PN, so do not continue with anything that interferes with your sleep is BAD. I take CBD with THC at night to help sleep, along with melatonin and trazadone to keep me asleep. This is the combo that works for me and you have to try different things to figure out what works for you - I guarantee you that if you eliminate gluten, corn, dairy and sugar from your diet, your itching will get better. Also, since our bodies have so much heavy metals and radiation stored in our poor organs such as our liver - you must do detoxes to give your body a chance to restore itself. Look into Jim Humble's Guidebook for the MMS Protocol which cures many mysterious diseases - it has helped me heal greatly. Also, find a EES center near you as this technology is an effective and rapid way to detox your body from all this harmful stuff in our environment (Energy Enhancement System). It works for healing. Your doctors will know nothing about diet or alternative healings, just know that

I tried it but it didn't do much for me. I use Hydroxizine and Dupixent.

They had me on gabapentin for neuropathy in my feet and my fibromyalgia. Then my neurologist upped the dosage to 2400 mg daily and I gained a ton of weight. It didn’t help any of my problems so I stopped it.

Joanne4,
Thanks for your input. I have to try the Gabapentin just in case 300mg a day might give me some pain relief not for anxiety. I always said no to it because of the side effects listed. Can not use Dupixrnt because of cornea ulcers from eye infection and lost vision in my left eye in January from a bacteria different than the PN bacteria. What are we to do? Obviously you have tried many remedies and I am hoping some have worked for you.
Regards Chuck