Reza Bidaki, Zahra Sadeghi, Safiye Shafizadegan, Ali Sadeghi, Behrang Khalili, Alireza Haghshenas, Seyyed Mohammad Mahdy Mirhosseini Adv Biomed Res 2016, 5:1 (27 January 2016) DOI:10.4103/2277-9175.174955 PMID:26955622Gabapentin is a common drug used as analgesic and anticonvulsant and also is prescribed for insomnia, depression, obsessive - compulsive disorder and panic attack. We report a case of a 48-year-old man who is prescribed gabapentin because of insomnia, headache, and depressed mood. In the first period of using the drug no complication has been seen. However in the next period, side-effects such as hyperesthesia, scaling and severe localized edema has been observed. After several laboratory tests and imaging, no reason was found for his edema. And after discontinuing gabapentin the pain and edema was quite relieved. We found out the brand of the drug has been switched in the second stage. The point which makes our study special is the incidence of side-effects such as severe edema, scaling and hyperesthesia for the first time because of using gabapentin and changing the drug combination. |