The Los Angeles Times (9/9, Roan) “Booster Shots” blog reported that, according to a study published in the Journal of Women’s Health, gabapentin, “a medication that is used for a variety of conditions, mostly seizures, may help women whose sleep is disrupted by menopausal hot flashes.” Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center “gave 59 postmenopausal women either 300 milligrams of gabapentin three times a day or a placebo. After 12 weeks of treatment, the study showed significant improvement in overall sleep quality for the women receiving gabapentin compared with those receiving the placebo.” While the investigators “aren’t sure why” gabapentin “improves sleep in women with hot flashes,” they theorized that it “reduces hot flashes, stabilizes sleep, or decreases the amount of time to transition from wakefulness to sleep.”
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