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 |
| 1 | spasms, neuropathic pain, spaticity | Awful, kept me awake for hours, and made very agitated, restless. By day 4 psychotic irrational episodes. Never again! Did nothing first my pain although was only 6 days in total before I stopped using it. | F | 39 | 5 days 50 | 2/10/2014 | 1 | Joint pain | Little people sneaking up behind me, felt drunk, couldn't walk straight line, dizzy, pain worsened | F | 64 | 2 weeks 10 | 1/30/2014 | 1 | Fibromylgia | Vision ruined, insane all over intense body itching, feeling horribly drugged & spacey. Swelling & major weight gain. Clumsy & uncoordinated. Helped a little with pain but did not increase quality of life! Would not take again ever! | F | 49 | 9 months 300 mg | 1/23/2014 | 3 | Fibromyalgia and neuropathy | Not many. A little swelling in ankles and urine odour. | I have chronic pain for 2-1/2 years. I took Lyrica with great results but found side effects irritable but I have given it a bum steer. Other medications e.g. narcotics were causing more problems than I thought. Back to the Lyrica and I can now survive on my own. | F | 73 | 4 months 75 MG 2X day | 12/16/2013 | 1 | Anxiety | Kidney pain, increased anxiety, eye pain, dizziness, nausea | Hope to come of this drug asap | F | 55 | 12 weeks 150bd 2X day | 12/12/2013 | 3 | Backpain, insomnia, fibromyalgia | Physical numbness, inability to have sex, feeling spaced out, possibly hairloss | I've taken this for years, but only 25 -75 mg at night with breaks inbetween. A month ago I was told to try 150-200mg for insomnia. At first I felt very "drunk" and lacking in energy in the daytime, but I got used to the drug and only felt a bit spacey. It smooths things out so the effect of insomnia felt less acute, and it might have improved the sleep a bit. However I never realised all these years that my problems with numbness during sex was probably due to this drug! I feel really cheated, as no one told me. On a higher dose I couldn't even dream of having se, .and I sure rather have the benefits of closeness, endorphins, deep relaxation from sex AND a happier husband than have this wierd "high". I also now realise maybe my severe hairloss is due to this drug!! The hairs just get wirey and fall off, and hardly any left now. Doesn't do much for aches and pains. Tapering off is quite hard, makes me very edgy and physically agitated. | F | 47 | 40 days 175 mg 1X day | 12/11/2013 | 4 | nerve damage | My dose has been highered.it makes me tired during the day.but yet when I go to bed I find it hard to sleep.forgetful n foggy headed.50 mg x2 daily has stopped me waking at night so much.sometimes I feel down, but I think thats a side affect of chronic pain not the meds. Leg pain is reduced to a thingly numbness.i recommend it.dont like the hangover feeling n tiredness n dry mouth | F | 30 | 3 months 100mg | 12/10/2013 | 4 | vulvodynia | Some brain fog, poor balance, dropping things | Reduced pain from about a 8-9 to 4-5. Not perfect, but I can sleep through the night now. | F | 27 | 6 months 150mg 2X day | 12/9/2013 | 1 | fibromyalgia | by 3rd day had pounding headache, dizziness, blurred vision, pressure in upper chest, disorientation, profuse sweating on activity, sleepiness, couldn't focus, didn't relieve pain, could barely function, emotional changes, crying, then angry, then screaming, then crying again and have no mental illness nor do i have any emotional disorders. extreme dry mouth, | went off drug on 7th day and experienced 3 days of withdrawl symptoms such as cold sweats, feeling like skin on fire, body radiating heat but feeling cold and shivering. after 3 days off drug all side effects like headache, dizziness etc disappeared and all emotions returned to normal. only other thing is chest pressure led to pneumonia even though had no cold symptoms of any kind before or during the taking of lyrica. | F | 48 | 7 days 25 mg 2X day | 11/26/2013 | 1 | back pain | Short of breath panic attacks vertigo dizzy | F | 59 | 7 months 150mg | 11/25/2013 | 1 | fibromyalgia | Didn't do much for pain. Dr switched me from gabapentin. Gabapentin pain relief reached a peak so he switched me. Not much relief. Shake like I had Parkinsons. Cant remember anything. The worst part...withdrawal. Unbelievable high blood pressure. Worse shaking and anxiety that I've ever had in my life! The more its tapered the worse it gets. How about some more worse?? The clonazepam he gave me for withdrawal worked great the first week...then...the worst psychotic dreams and worsening anxiety ever! I'm afraid this crap is going to kill me. I'm not suicidal. I'm just scared to death these poisons will kill me. My spouse has been amazing but how much can someone take? I love my family to the ends of the earth...and I feel horribly for putting them through this. | F | 47 | 4 months 25mg | 11/13/2013 | 3 | surgery - mass removed from lung | brain fog I can't get my thoughts together, as someone said tired but can't sleep, voracious appetite, problems with balance. | Surgeon gave me Lyrica for my surgery and I will be off it in 7 days. I have three holes in my ribs and no pain. I am not using pain killlers. Can't wait to get off Lyrica but I am amazed how it has handled my pain. | M | 62 | 5 days 125 mg 2X day | 11/1/2013 | 5 | dercum's disease (adipose dorlorsa) | Swollen tongue, hands & fleets, memory loss, trouble getting words out, depression, anxiety, weight gain, can't sleep but no energy, muscle aches, joint pain. | F | 48 | 2 years 50 mg x 2 | 10/28/2013 | 5 | fibromyalgia | relief of pain | this med is great | F | 45 | 7 weeks 150 2X day | 10/19/2013 | 1 | Depression | Dear god what is this drug,I have never felt so ill and wired in my life. I have stopped right now as I found it to be impossible to tell the difference between being asleep and being awake. My neighbours found me in the street in my underwhere , apparently I thought I was shopping at the time! I could have walked into traffic with no idea that I was awake rather than dreaming. Avoid this drug it could literally kill you. | Just say no | M | 52 | 75 mg 2X day | 10/14/2013 | 1 | fibromyaglgia & back pain | Anger.irritated, clumsy, brain fog,forgetfulness among other things. | This drug is a poison & I don't understand why it is still out there. I have read a lot of very bad things about this stuff & a lot of very bad side affects. I guess the manufacturer of this poison must really love money,& has no respect for human life. | F | 58 | 2 months 50 3X day | 9/27/2013 | 2 | Ac/10 and Taxol CIPN CRPS | 1/2012 chemo treatments began ending 5/2012: Many medications after DX Mastectomy. Started Lyrica in July this year: Swelling/Edema in legs, feet, fingers, cannot not "say" or think of words, forgetting everything, issues with weight gain, vision, and coordination. typing this is difficult. I love that my pain level is somewhat better, but it does not seem worth it. I still need 15 mg morphine IR for breakthrough pain. I will stop taking this drug. | F | 48 | 4 months 200mg 2X day | 9/14/2013 | 1 | Anxiety | If anything, has made me more anxious. Concerned about tolerance issues and have noticed even more anxiety when tapering down by just 25mg. Depressed, suicidal and just fed up. Don't know how I'll ever get off! | F | 46 | 6 months 275mg | 9/1/2013 | 3 | 4 herniated disc, spinal stenosis , | Extreme hair loss, sleep 16 hrs, blurred vision in the morning, rapid heart best, bad dry mouth | F | 61 | 1 years 50 | 8/29/2013 | 1 | Neck pain | Dizziness, blurred vision, weight gain, swelling in feet and ankles, excruciating joint pain, muscle pain in thighs | I would rather have my pain then to ever take this medication again. I've been off Lyrica for 3 months now and still have terrible joint pain which is causing me to take an increase in my hydrocodone medication. Unfortunately it did help with my neck pain, but the joint pain that it has created has made my life miserable and am now terribly depressed. Hard to walk down stairs, and difficult to even stand after sitting for 5 minutes due to joint pain caused by taking this medication. | F | 51 | 3 months 150mg 3X day | 8/18/2013 |