Uh oh, I fear I have managed to somehow miscommunicate in a very major, major way. So very sorry, BirdDancer. I was certainly not suggesting in any way that you whine, have ever whined, or anything of the kind. My experience of you could not be more polar than that. When I got to the end of my post, I , in my mind, did not ever remember it was a response to you, as embarrassing as that may be for me. I was attempting to make a tiny bit of humor, actually, which was quite clearly rather poorly considered and yet more poorly executed. One of the things about living in perhaps the second most liberal city in America, is that everyone asssumes you are an Antifa member and run around rioting and choosing anarchy, or something, because you live in Portland. We PDX residents hear this almost every day now, not infrequently, from our president. I admit that I get tired of hearing that over and over, as it does not represent my personal world construct at all. I am very liberal in a number of social, domestic arenas, and quite conservative, extremely consrvative, actually, on foreign policy matters, for example. There is no party for folks like me. It does not exist. Obviously, none of this has the slightest bit to do with any aspect of you, and I made no effort to make that plain, which was weak and lousy writing on my part Not good. Sorry. For the record, you are an absolute treasure to me. Beyond a treasure. You help me every single day and have nothing but gratitude and admiration for you and what you do.
There is really not a lot more to be said on that particular topic. So very sorry. i need to be more attentive and self-aware. It is a struggle, clearly, sometimes. Please forgive me.

Yeah, the Neurontin, I was on it for years. Oddly enough, I am doing much better after having stopped it. Way better than I was. I don't understand neuropathy or how it acts at all. It is just a great big mystery to me. I will also add that I do not believe it helped my mood stability or anxiety, either. As far as I could tell, it did nothing fo rme, which is why I never tried the Lyrica.