LYRICA Reviews (PREGABALIN)Average Rating: 2.6 (1463 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LYRICA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LYRICA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | neuropoyhy | M | 50 | 2 days | 8/16/2006 | 4 | Neuropathic pain | Drowsiness | Has made pain more tolerable | M | 57 | 4 months | 8/26/2006 | 2 | neuropathy, back pain | tiredness, loss of balance, stumbling, stomach pain | Helped nerve pain but afraid to quit taking it. | F | 61 | 2 months | 8/29/2006 | 3 | diabetic peripheral neuropathy | fatigue, light headedness, loss of balance | Helped with the peripheral neuropathy pain but still have chest pain due to neuropathy. I don't really want ot increase the dosage though. | F | 39 | 3 months | 8/30/2006 | 2 | neuropathy | chest pain, difficulty breathing,difficulty urinating,feel drugged when first start taking,peeling skin on fingers,raised itchy small blisters | This drug worked wonders on my pain, but caused other side effects that made my doctor think I was having heart or pulmonary failure-cost me alot of money in tests-have to now live with the pain | F | 39 | 3 months | 9/1/2006 | 4 | Burning nerve pain in face | The most noticeable side effect was some slight dizziness that comes on quickly for no apparent reason. I can be standing or sitting when it happens. Sometimes it lasts for hours, yet other times it's short-lived. The severity varies as well. | It's been great for the nerve pain I have in my face from surgery I had years ago due to a tumor on my facial nerve. | F | 55 | 3 months | 9/6/2006 | 3 | neuropathic pain from injury | Difficulty urinating, muscle twitching at night, difficulty sleeping, constipation | Doctor started me on 50 mg and wants me to work up to 200 mg. At 100 mg the side affects became pronounced and had to drop back down to 50 mg. At 100 mg I noticed a big help with the pain, but I don t know if I can handle the side affects. I m going to try the 100 mg again in about 3 days and if the side affects come back, I m going to go off of it. | M | 59 | 1 months | 9/6/2006 | 3 | migraine headaches, fibromyalgia | fluid retention, peripheral edema, skin peeling, heels cracking, side pain, tingling in hands | migraines reduced from daily or every other day to about twice weekly or less. no change in fibromyalgia. unsure if I will continue due to side effects. dosage: 50mg in am and 75 at night | F | 55 | 2 months | 9/18/2006 | 5 | shingles pain | Dizziness, edema in face, some "spaciness." Decrease in sex drive. | Very effective at relieving the excruciating pain of shingles (which had affected the maxillary nerve in my face). This drug helped when others did not (such as narcotics) and has made it possible for me to function OK while recovering from this painful ailment. Some side effects, but not so bad that I would stop taking it. Highly recommended. | F | 45 | 22 days | 9/19/2006 | 1 | pudental nerve pain after surgery | After taking it the first time, woke up 3 hours later with palpitations and felt like my heart was going to jump out of my chest. My heart was on full speed. The next morning my chest actually hurt. I would never take it again. | F | 58 | 1 days | 9/23/2006 | 2 | Trigeminal Neuralgia | Increasing amounts of drowsiness to the point I don't feel able to function; some intermittant dizziness; dry mouth | Has not stopped the facial pain from the trigeminal neuralgia; in fact, the longer I have been on the current level (150mg) the more active the nerve pain has been | F | 37 | 30 days | 9/27/2006 | 2 | Trigeminal Neuralgia | Increasing amounts of drowsiness to the point I don't feel able to function; some intermittant dizziness; dry mouth | Has not stopped the facial pain from the trigeminal neuralgia; in fact, the longer I have been on the current level (150mg, 2x day) the more active the nerve pain has been | F | 37 | 30 days | 9/27/2006 | 1 | Neuropathic Pain | extreme fatigue,vision problems (photosensitivity so bad had to wear sunglasses inside), foot and hand swelling, food would not go down esophagus so refluxed during night, could not eat nor drink because of chest pain and dysphagia, confusion, MORE pain. Upon discontinuing this and another drug for neuropathic pain, confusion is gone, fatigue is gone, extra pain that never was there before was gone, can eat and drink, no dysphagia or reflux. BAD BAD BAD DRUG | M | 36 | 30 days | 10/3/2006 | 2 | Fibromyalgia pain | After two weeks on lyrica I have been experiencing dizziness, increased pain, dry mouth and problems with short term memory. | I have called my doctor and am waiting to see what to do about these side effects. | F | 47 | 2 weeks | 10/11/2006 | 3 | Migraine Preventative | Extreme fatigue; decrease in appetite and gain in weight; cognitive impairment (know what I want to say, but can't verbalize); dizziness; insomnia if missed dose | I have been on 225 mg/daily for about 90 days; migraines have been reduced, but can't stand the side effects; daily activities have been difficult to carry out while on this medication; will discontinue | F | 27 | 90 days | 11/1/2006 | 3 | shingles (a very severe episode) | I was on a large dose (200 mg per day) right after my shingles started to clear up. I had an episode of sudden, all consuming pain in my face and head. The large dose however, made me unable to drive the most of two months because of sleepiness. Then my doctor reduced the dose to 100 mg per day. I'm still on it, but I'm going to request we take me off because other side effects have become more of a problem than the drowsiness. I'm having trouble with tremors in my hands and dropping things. When I try to dress, my legs jump around all over the place and makes it twice as hard to dress. My knees feel weak and I feel afraid of collapsing. Its getting harder and harder to walk very far because I can't catch my breath. Sometimes when I'm typing, my fingers and hands jump around so bad, it takes twice as long to type anything. | One reason for the dramatic side effects has been the fact that I already take many other CNS (central nervous system) medications that can also cause twitching, sedation, etc. I was already taking up to the limit to where these kinds of symptoms would begin to occur. When you add meds that intensify those symptoms, then hopefully you can go off them. The other CNS drugs I take already, I don't dare go off them because they are very necessary. I'm calling my doctor tomorrow. I should have called a lot sooner. The symptoms have become a very bad problem. | F | 54 | 4 months | 11/5/2006 | 5 | 30-years daily constant headaches | slight drowsiness first week | After 30 years of no life with daily, constant headaches of no origin and trying every drug and treatment known to man, I finally found relief with time-released morphine (Avinza). Within 2 weeks on Lyrica I went from 240 mg/day to 90. I'm now at 30 mg and will be off in a couple days. Must be the Lyrica. Thank you God and thank you Pfizer. I've never thanked a drug company before, but am trying to track down a real person there to tell them | F | 49 | 40 days | 11/12/2006 | 1 | back pain & other constant pain | like "out of body" uncomfortable feelings, could not drive or concentrate, increased pain & some chest pain, numbing & tingling in fingers with stiffness & arthritic-like symptoms also some uncontrollable shaking, saddened & more miserable, crawling out of my skin, irratable, had to stay home - loss of income - so far - not good | had to increase pain meds & take more xanax; i could not even finish or take the 50mg dose as asked to try. i was told if you can get past the 1st 2 weeks side effects it will get better. I still plan to take when I can & try to do the increase in dose but I am very much off schedule. I am trying to have faith that it may work if I can get past & endure these side effects - it just might help with the constant pain. I do NOT want back surgery & I know I have other problems with my body despite my active job which I love & will be crushed if I cannot continue. I am not overweight but maybe suffer from other yet diagnosed problems, tried neurontin in the past which did not work & had more side effects as I recall | F | 47 | 2 weeks | 11/12/2006 | 5 | meralgia paresthetica | tiredness | tryed a whole bunch of different medications for my neuralgia and all of them had very undesirable side effects...this drug not only had very little side effects, it made it so i no longer need medication for this reason | F | 29 | 2 months | 11/14/2006 | 3 | Fibromyalgia, backpain, vulvodynia | Spaced out, cognitive impairment (demented feeling). Might cause decreased sexdrive and inability to feel sensations. | At first it was like a miracle cure. I took 75 mg and felt lighter, happier and in less pain. The inability to think did bother me though. Though the effect has decreased,I've been using 25-75 mg at night and I believe I sleep better as there's less pressure in the body. The strength of the side effect varies from day to day. The doctors are surprised that Lyrica has an effect on me. I believe I have a stressed out nervous system, hence neuropathic pain, but I don't get much understanding from the docs. | F | 40 | 11 months | 11/14/2006 |
LYRICA (PREGABALIN): This medication is used to treat pain caused by nerve damage due to diabetes, shingles (herpes zoster) infection, or spinal cord injury. This medication is also used to treat pain in people with fibromyalgia. It is also used with other medications to treat certain types of seizures (focal seizures). (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)