Patients taking gabapentin or pregabalin should be cautioned against operating heavy machinery or engaging in activities like dune buggy riding due to potential sedation and instability, especially in elderly patients who are at higher risk of falls. — Whalespan
Patients taking gabapentin or pregabalin should be cautioned against operating heavy machinery or engaging in activities like dune buggy riding due to potential sedation and instability, especially in elderly patients who are at higher risk of falls.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“You can fall asleep driving. You can fall asleep driving. I tell people don't operate heavy machinery. Don't go, you know, dune buggy riding. Don't blah blah blah. Um there is in elderly patients in particular uh I warn them about falls because you can get a little unstable and again you're using these for the most recalcitrant neuropathic pain typically I'm using these for the most recalcitrant pain in general and so by definition what's the we didn't even do this I'm sorry we didn't define chronic pain but how would you put a definition on that there's various definitions some like to put a time frame on it which I think many of believe is a little artificial. It's not 3 months or 6 months.”