Has anyone had hair loss while on gabapentin?

I am just now noticing this is the reason why my hair is thinning. I suffered a horrible nervere injury. Huge lawsuit pending. I was being administered a shot that hit my sciatic nerve!. I Now have foot drop for life. But like Tom Cruise said in Vanilla Sky "F" my arm! Why is my hair suddenly falling out immediately after this injury?? I was told it was just a natural male progression. NO WAY! I have had Hair like Fabio my whole life. I have been on Gabapentin """"2400 mg a day"""" gang for 2 years now. I am stopping completely. I can deal with the nerve pain over this. After 2 years though, do you guys think it will grow back after discontinuation -- or is the damage done. It took me a while to notice because I have very waivy hair for a guy. Any actual doctors on here or no? Just wondering. Thanls in advance.

Have been taking 1200MG of it for the last 6 months for sleep and have been shedding. Just found out it causes hair loss. I'm now terrified that I will have to choose insomnia or baldness. Is there anything I can do?

I was prescribed gabapentin, first 300mg then 1200 mg daily and within 2 months my hair began to fall out. I didn't know why at first. It didn't bother me too much in the beginning but I was asking doctors why and after a year, my full head of thick hair was making me think I'd eventually go bald. It did help with back and knee pain though. I asked all my doctors what is causing this hair loss and they looked at me like I still have a lot of hair, so what's the problem. We know when something isn't right! I finally narrowed it down to the gab and went to dermatologist and she said she has heard of this so I took myself off gradually. It took three or four months for the gab to get completely out of my system and my hair started growing back. So, the good news, is that your hair will grow back!

I only take 300 mg at night,for my leg pain, and iam loosing lots of hair, how can only 300 mgs make me lose hair, i guess i will learn how to deal with the pain that keeps me from sleeping at night, gabapentin was helping me so much that way, iam really depressed about having to quit, but its better than going bald. Also how long does it take after quitting gabapentin that your hair stops falling out?

Yes I am experiencing hair loss and I've only been on Gabapentin 3.5 months.

I am stopping Gabapentin TODAY! I started it back in Feb 2019 because I was also tapering my benzo (klonopin) and my shrink rx it to me as a "precaution" to not have a seizure. By April 2019 I told my shrink I was losing a good bit of hair. He didn't even entertain it. I investigated... and yes, tapering my klonopin can cause hair loss but AS SOON as I started Gaba my hair shedding got so bad.
I went to my dermatologist October 2019 (ALL my blood work came back perfect). The Dermatologist shrugged off the idea of it being Gaba or klonopin taper and put me on women's rogaine So I have been doing that faithfully every night for over a year and the hairloss got worse.

So now with more than half my hair gone, I told my shrink I am stopping the gabapentin.

HOW LONG until I start noting hair regrowth?
I am SICK of prescription drugs!

I was recently given Gabapentin for my sciatic pain. I started taking it mid September but only at night 300mg. By November, I started to notice my hair was falling out. My brush was full every week and when I dried my hair Id have a pile of hair on my lap. I went to my doctor for my physical and told her about the hair loss. She didn't say much. But she told me that I could also take Gabapentin throughout the day for my pain. So I began doing that in January, (now 1/28/21) and now my hair is really falling out. I am so sick of these Big Pharma's destroying us. Do not take this drug. Now I have to wean myself off of this. I had neck surgery a year and a half ago and my hair was finally growing back in the neck area.. Now I am back to square one with almost half of my hair gone.

I am just now realizing how much gabapentin damaged my hair. My hair was falling out and being washed down the drain so much that I would have to snake the drain once a week. I stopped taking it but the damage is done. I have to just wear protective styles and baby my hair and scalp until my hair bounces back. It’s so embarrassing... each strand is so thin, I have low density fine hair but it used to cover my scalp well and was never lifeless when blow dried. Now it looks like straw when I blow dry it. You couldn’t even tell how fine if was unless you touched it. Now I am embarrassed to have the top of my head showing which is impossible not to do because I’m shorter than virtually everyone. I stopped taking it several weeks ago and my hair no longer sheds. Only a few strands daily. I will NEVER take this medication again.

I've been taking gabapentin for 4 months now and thought I was imagining the hair loss. Yesterday I was visiting my parents and got a different view of the top of my head because of how one of their mirrors is hung and I can see the difference easily. I've got 5 weeks till my spinal fusion then I'm hoping I can get off of the gabapentin and my hair will return. 2 years ago I had a problem with hormonal imbalance that also caused me to lose a lot of hair, I started taking DIM and biosil and little baby hairs started growing in weeks. I'm going to start taking them again too, maybe it'll help slow the hair loss that's currently happening.

I have neuropathy itch. I always feel like I'm getting itchy goosebumps. The best way to describe is to imagine millions of bugs crawling every part of your body... even the tucked away private parts. It's complete misery. Anyway, I was give Gabapentin. I didn't like how the drug made me feel, but noticed less itchiness. Within 6 months, my hair was falling violently. I thought maybe the loss of my father had something to do with my hair falling. So I stopped, and about 3 months later got back on. During that break baby hair started to grow. I started Gaba again. 3 weeks ago I stopped because my hair kept falling. The bathtub was clogged with all the hair that came out. I stopped again. My hair doesn't have the same quality; it's lifeless, and I'm afraid it might not come back this time.

I guess I have to put up with the terror of all the itchiness. I sure do not want to go bald! All I know is that Gabapentin is a really bad drug.

I have been on Gabapentin for over 15 years and I have not had any hair loss. I take it for Interstitial Cystitis, but previously took Elmiron for the IC and experienced a good deal of hair loss with that drug. Good luck to you.