Just thought I'd chime in for this. After my cochlear implant surgery I had all these symptoms. I was put on the same medications. After a while I started havi

Just thought I'd chime in for this. After my cochlear implant surgery I had all these symptoms. I was put on the same medications. After a while I started having seizures. Over time, I managed to stop the tramadol, and the others only leaving the gabapentin. Seizures still happened. (the electric shock thing I used to encounter, was probably related). One day I come across side effects for it and one of the big ones was "causes seizures". So, trying to stop that gabapentin was one of the hardest things I've ever done, such extreme withdrawals, far worse than any tramadol, oxycontin etc. As soon as I had stopped the gabapentin, all my symptoms disappeared, and I've not had another seizure since. What we think happened was I had an infection, that had caused the aforementioned pain and shocks, so we went with the medications which obviously masked a lot of the symptoms. However it wasn't until I was free of the meds, that things were actually better, and it was very easy to pinpoint what was causing havoc with me. When reading about Gabapentin/Pregabalin all over the internet, some people have had such bad experiences with it - and on top of that, doctors give it out like candy in New Zealand as a fix-all, because it's marketed as a very safe drug. I hope your wife is feeling better these days mate! :)