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Post by gerald on Dec 26, 2019 14:53:36 GMT -5
FDA Warns of 'Serious' Respiratory Problems With Gabapentin Gabapentin, Opioids a Deadly Duo: FDA By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- New warnings about the risk of dangerous breathing difficulties when gabapentinoids are used with opioids or by certain patients must now appear on product labels, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday. Serious breathing problems that can lead to death can occur in patients who use gabapentinoids with prescription opioid painkillers or other drugs that depress the central nervous system. It can also happen to the elderly or to patients who have underlying respiratory conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to the FDA. The decision to order the new warnings is based on a review of data from numerous sources, including case reports, observational studies, human trials and animal studies. Gabapentinoids include: generic gabapentin and brand-name gabapentin marketed as Neurontin and Gralise; gabapentin enacarbil, marketed as Horizant; and generic pregabalin and pregabalin marketed as Lyrica and Lyrica CR.
These drugs are approved to treat a number of conditions: epilepsy, postherpetic neuralgia (pain following shingles), neuropathic pain associated with diabetic neuropathy, fibromyalgia, generalized anxiety disorder and restless legs syndrome. Some doctors also prescribe gabapentinoids for unapproved off-label use to treat insomnia, migraine, social phobia, panic disorder, mania, bipolar disorder and alcohol withdrawal. "With the evolution of the opioid crisis, getting ahead of new concerns or addressing those that are already evident requires examining signs of misuse and abuse as soon as any signal emerges," said Dr. Douglas Throckmorton, deputy director for Regulatory Programs in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Reports of gabapentinoid abuse alone, and with opioids, have emerged and there are serious consequences of this co-use, including respiratory depression and increased risk of opioid overdose death," he warned in an agency news release. Along with the new warnings about potential breathing dangers, the FDA ordered drugmakers to conduct clinical trials to further evaluate the abuse risk of gabapentinoids, particularly in combination with opioids, with special emphasis on assessing the breathing dangers. Between 2012 and 2016, the number of patients who filled a gabapentin prescription increased from 8.3 million to 13.1 million a year, and the number of patients who filled a pregabalin prescription increased from 1.9 million to 2.1 million a year, according to the FDA. In addition, 2016 data show that 14% to 19% of patient encounters with doctors that involved gabapentin and pregabalin, respectively, also involved opioids. www.webmd.com/epilepsy/news/20191219/gabapentin-opioids-a-deadly-duo-fda |
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Post by John on Dec 27, 2019 9:03:21 GMT -5
Ty Gerald
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Post by lavishgail on Jan 11, 2020 5:34:30 GMT -5
Ty so much Gerald!
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Post by shelley on Apr 27, 2020 15:13:33 GMT -5
Gee...I hope that doesn't include Lyrica as well. I've been on both Lyrica (after shingles made me want to scratch into my eye and skull) and opiods (palliative care for air hunger) for years. It would be quite the bit of "black humour" to find out it was causing SOB as well!  |
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Post by lavishgail on Apr 28, 2020 18:01:31 GMT -5
From what I read and understand, it did say Lyrica. Also any opioids along with the gabbys. They have me on both. It scares me. I never had neuropathy up until 3 years ago, and I never had psoriatic arthritis until 5 years ago I think it has something to do with half the medicines I'm on. I'm on a bucket full.
My hubby asked my doctor who checks to see if what med goes with what med? She said she does? She left, now Idk who my doctors are? I'm hoping I'll get a letter? Anyway y'all take it easy.
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Post by lavishgail on Apr 28, 2020 18:05:48 GMT -5
Hi Shelley good to hear from you! I have not had shingles thank God. But I feel awful and itchy from psoriatic arthritis I get all that psoriasis on my feet and and and it itches so bad I just want to die thank God they have medicine for all this but like I said before how do I know if one medicine is interacting with another and given me all these problems she is gone. I never had problems like this until about 5 years ago.
Now I have the worst type of lung disease out their. And oh of course it's like 1% of women get what I have. It's mostly a mans disease they said. Oh yeah...
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