I've been using Gabapentin medication for years now, it is because I had this condition that is called a restless legs syndrome or that sensation that makes you like to constantly kick your legs because they are feeling restless or tense which you would not really understand if you did not experience it yourself.
Now I happened to research about it from books or maybe online too I can't remember. But after I had learned that it was actually the gabapentin which is the cure for my self-researched and diagnosed condition I fashioned a prescription leaflet myself and I wrote the relevant entries therein including signatures and license numbers, and all I finally had the chance to get the medicine for my debilitating illness.
It was the time that I was losing weight when I took the gabapentin. After I took a big 600 mg tablet the symptoms vanished. Plus I discovered that it made me get some restful sleep.
I also learned that it was also effective against insomnia which I had at that time that I started the Gabapentin regimen. So I continued in taking it simply because that I needed it.
But the pain reduction effect of gabapentin that really made a difference since most of my lingering pain was caused by my problematic joints in general. The medicine is like hitting many birds with one stone because it also happened that I am an epilepsy patient as well and gabapentin was a medicine that controls seizures. So I kept on using it with a low dose of around 200 mg after dialysis because its effects lingers for days.