Hello! My doctor told me about this forum, and how helpful and supportive it is - it certainly looks that way! I will be 49 on Saturday, and have been "suffering" from potential menopausal symptoms for about three months now, so a novice, really! The hot flushes were seriously awful, hence my visit to the doctor, and I've been taking gabapentin for nearly four weeks now. Whilst the flushes have subsided to virtually none a day, I've started to put on weight at a frightening rate - my husband and I did Slimming World and lost nearly seven stones between us, and I really don't want to be putting it back on like this. Does anyone else have this experience of gabapentin? If so, did you continue with it, or go back for further advice and a potential alternative? I think, too, that I have another side effect - I always feel as though I've been through a thorough workout at double time, as my muscles ache and ache, and I really feel like an old woman! I barely crawled through my regular Zumba class yesterday evening, whereas I normally bounce around quite happily. I'm an annoyingly cheerful person normally, but these last couple of weeks I could quite happily just curl up with my cat and ignore everyone else. Of course, people expect you to carry on as you normally do, and some get irritated when you don't show your usual enthusiasm for things, or accuse you of being miserable (only some, who just don't understand), and I have found myself experiencing this absolutely white hot rage, boiling up from somewhere inside, and usually over the most everyday niggles that I would generally just brush aside. Initially, I found myself raging against my poor husband, who was left standing dumbfounded on more than one occasion at my outpouring of expletives! I truly do believe that you become capable of doing terrible things at times like this, and I had to tell myself that this was not my normal state of mind and that it would pass, as it did, of course. Thankfully, these feelings of white hot rage have subsided quickly, prior to me starting on the gabapentin. I've chosen, with my family, friends and colleagues, to make light of what's happening to me, because I can't stop it happening, and therefore I shall blame my hormones for virtually anything, if I think I can get away with it!