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 | Sciatic pain due to disc herniation | Insomnia, brain fog, terrible memory. Bladder incontinence became worse, weight gain of 40 pounds and feeling emotionless. Heart flutters, dark urine and lethargic all the time. | I started on lyrica 2 years ago at 300mg daily. Terrible sciatic pain from L5-l4 herniations. It definitely helped me get through the worst pain until physiotherapy ect started to help, but it never fully helped take the pain away. I feel I was kept on it way to long. After a year I weaned myself down to 75mg but went through a week of awful withdrawals. Nausea, headache, shaking, anxiety. Finally leveled out and stayed at 75 mg for a 8 months till a month ago when I decided enough was enough. The weight gain was awful. I was always 130 pounds so jumping to over 170 was brutal. I had a hysterectomy 3 years ago so some of that weight may have been from that but my ovaries are intact. I was active and ate healthy but this huge belly kept growing. I looked 7 months pregnant. I noticed so many awful changes and the worst was the heart fluttering constantly. A month ago my doc helped me wean off by taking only 25 mg. This time so much safer. It's been a week that I have been free and clear of lyrica but I feel like absolutely garbage. So tired, hungry as hell all the time. But my bladder incontinence has slowed right down! Heart flutters almost gone. I do have a cardiologist monitoring me. I just want my body back even with the chronic back pain. I walk 5k a day and this week I can't do 1k coming off it. Ahhhhh If you can avoid taking this drug its better for you. I want this weight gone. I eat healthy, drink lots of water. Don't drink don't smoke. When will the hell end??? | F | 47 | 2 years 300mg | 6/28/2020 | 4 | For Fybromyalgia, Lupus RA | I still take it and really rely on it and I needed to gain a few pounds according to my Doctor and now I have gained the needed weight plus eight more | Although I need this medication and for pain relief I can feel the extra weight when I walk and it causes severe hip and spine pain so I'm weaned down to one a day | F | 57 | 2 years 100mgs 2 t | 6/18/2020 | 5 | Fibromyalgia | No side effects | Better balance !No pain but The burning on my feet Is less | F | 64 | 10 days 25mg 3 Tim | 6/17/2020 | 1 | Osteoarthritis,fibermaylga,2 spinal | High, confused, way off balance. This should not even be an approved drug. | F | 62 | 2 days 25mg | 6/3/2020 | 1 | Osteoarthritis of spine/nerve pain | Extreme high, drugged feeling non stop, jelly arms and legs, head pain and nausea | This medication is dangerous! The warnings aren't enough and even with only two days of use I had some withdrawal symptoms the first day after stopping. I'd rather take pain meds before taking something like this again! I lost an entire day being in a fog, feeling completely useless under the influence and not safe to drive, etc. I also didn't see any relief from my pain. Not worth it! | F | 43 | 2 days 50/2x | 5/30/2020 | 1 | spine injuries and sciatica | fatigue, constipation, dazed foggy feeling, blurry vision, muscle twitches and spasms. | utterly nasty drug. i am absolutely amazed that its even legal. of the 5 people who i personally know who took lyrica, 4 say that it is a dangerous, wicked, terrible drug. i wish i could go back and never meet that pa. huge regret. i will worry about this every day for the rest of my life. shame on those who created and sell lyrica. | M | 43 | 25 days | 5/18/2020 | 4 | anxiety, insomnia | minor visual problems | alleviate psychosomatic anxiety and depression mood | M | 47 | 6 months 225 | 5/13/2020 | 3 | Shoulder c2-5 arthritis tingling ha | Vivid horrible nightmares...like im in movie saw seriousness. Waking up 18 times in a 5hr period. Heart pounding out chest. As i was starting to sleep i felt like i was sliding of couch on floor and sliding...yet being dragged pulled into.sleep. 3 days...sofar 25mg only... but scared to sleep... and 1st day nothing but not by bedtime...day 2 1 @ noonish 1@ 9pm...day 3 1@ 8ish...it helped my tingles for a good amount of time so i was thinking oh great it will work..but those nightmares i.cant live with... now thinking of it a couple of words were a little gumbley but nothing major...but those nightmares OMG!! | 31 | 3 days 25mg | 5/13/2020 | 1 | Prudendal nerve pain | Dizzy,tired,feeling like I was drunk, head fuzzy, getting dead legs when sitting for a while pins and needle feeling up anus and bottock. Terrible just on low does | Started on 25mg was just getting by on that came off it for a week felt terrible but not sure if it was side effects of coming off the drug. End up back on them at 50mg but now going to come off again each time try to struggle on but side effects to great, get in a situation when stopped that not sure if it's side effects of stopping making me feel bad or the pain have come back again. End up in no man's land with it can't do without but can't get on with it. Best not start it in first place. | 57 | 1 months 2x50mg | 5/3/2020 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | Foggy brain Memory issues Depression Weight gain | 58 | 75 days 225mg 4x d | 4/19/2020 | 3 | to get high | felt good at the start #didn't realize the side effects. put on 10kg | been trying to lower dose to eventually stop taking them it's horrible just as bad as stopping methadone probably will suicide | M | 47 | 2 years 200mg | 4/6/2020 | 1 | Anxiety | Swelling of ankles; wrists; and around eyes and Any little bump or scratch would turn into an abscess and grow unless medical intervention with antibiotics! throbbing head pain like top of head going to explode — at same time I was seeing flashing lights and images— thought I was having a stroke or seizure or close to death JUST FRIGHTENING DANGEROUS SIDE EFFECTS for me and it’s super hard to stop cold turkey but I HAD TO!!!! | It took away all my anxiety and depression, but unfortunately I can not take this drug due to well....feeling close to death either by skin abscess infections that grow and double and very slow to heal even on antibiotics! or I felt something like brain swelling and pounding that was just frightening (while at rest) This lyrica had me scared I was going to die one night—I know some people it really helps their neuropathy and such, but this was POISON for me personally. | F | 51 | 20 days 100mg 2X day | 3/22/2020 | 1 | CPS from stroke/Severe burning pain | Bad Pressure in my head, serious memory problems, time gets away from me and it seems like years have just flown by way too fast, bad pain in my hands when I wake from sleeping, I can't spell anymore and have no interest in thing that are fun. My word recall is very bad and my balance is terrible. I sweat really bad . I also have bad burning pain at times that just dont stop. I fall asleep sitting up and just fall into bed. I'm afraid to drive because when I sit still I fall asleep. I'm not really asleep. It feels more like I'm in a deep haze. If I miss a dose by 30 minutes I get in serious severe pain. Ill never be able to get off of this medicine. The pain is so great that I'm afraid of another stroke. I'm so miserable and depressed on this medication. My hands and feet also swell and hurt. | Although I have severe side effects lyrica does help this pain. I still wish that I had never taken. Because I feel like it has increased this pain that I have. | F | 57 | 4 years 150mg 3xda | 3/8/2020 | 5 | Diabetic foot neuropathy | Zero side effects. I don't know what the problem is with so many people having suicidal thoughts while taking this medication. Might be an interaction with other meds? I suffer from severe depression and had no problems with Lyrica. Once I ran out of Lyrica and didn't get my prescription filled for 4 days and felt no withdrawal symptoms | This drug literally saved my life. My neuropathy pain was so bad I couldn't sleep, walk or get out of bed. Not only did I have the typical pins & needles and burning pain but a constant throbbing that would ratchet itself up when trying to sleep and felt like I was being kicked by a horse in the bottom of my feet. I would fall asleep for maybe fifteen minutes and then be awoke by a brutal throbbing that would just jolt me. Within the first two weeks of taking Lyrica the throbbing was reduced, by the second month it almost gone and now it is completely gone. The pins & needles are reduced significantly to where I can pretty much just ignore them, the amount the pain has gone down is like going from a 10 to a 2. No burning feeling at all any longer. I'm now exercising and taking long walks. Before Lyrica I was at the end of my rope and had tried everything available, including opiates (that did nothing). I was seriously considering what I was going to do because life was no longer worth living, but now I'm feeling so much hope it's unbelievable. | M | 61 | 3 months 75 2X day | 3/3/2020 | 1 | Nerve pain | Compulsive gambling and drinking. Suicidal ideation. High risk taking behaviour. | Was given this because doctors wanted me to stop taking opioids, which I did no problem. Lyrica has turned me into an animal with zero impulse control and I crave alcohol and risky behaviour. I’m going cold turkey as it is out of control. | M | 44 | 24 days 150 | 2/23/2020 | 1 | Herniated cervical disc | Hot flashes and sweats that became unbearable and got worse after going off the drug. Terrible pressure in my head and ears, like my head was going to explode. Crazy nightmares after stopping the drug. Tons of anxiety. Terrible Insomnia. Spacey, hard to focus, brain fog. | I was prescribed this drug at two or three times the dose I needed, along with another so it was hard to tell which one was working. Turns out I think it was the other one. Anyway I was super stoned on both of them for a month, then I lowered the doses. They helped me in the beginning and I enjoyed feeling spaced out and sedated for a while as I'd been under a lot of stress. But in the last couple of weeks the side effects started for Lyrica that I've listed, and I decided to go mostly cold turkey as I haven't been taking it that long. Some side effects decreased right away, and others got worse, particularly the awful sweating at night and associated feelings of anxiety and misery of insomnia. I saw a naturopath today who gave me some supplements to help, and I hope they do. I feel wrecked. | F | 44 | 2 months 75 1X day | 2/19/2020 | 1 | Lupus | Swelling of feet and legs, feet felt as if they were on fire. | F | 44 | 1 years 75 | 1/30/2020 | 1 | nerve damage | I was coming home on a road I'd taken hundreds of time and ended up far from my home.All I remember is getting onto the hwy.. 2. I remember getting into the truck and hit a pole, don't remember starting the truck. 3. Sat down to watch a show and the phone rang and it was 30 minutes later. | Even after I was conscious of where I was or what I was doing, I'd still be confused. | F | 75 | 2 months 30 2X day | 1/25/2020 | 1 | Trigeminal Neuralgia | At first it was okay, but after just over a week into taking it (2 - 50mg capsules a day), I realized that I am in a mental fog. I started becoming severely depressed and having suicidal thoughts where I don't remember ever being like that before. I'm so glad I read up on this before taking this too much longer. | I decided to go off of it because of feeling so foggy and sad. Because of it being a holiday week, I was unable to get a hold of my doctor. I called the pharmacist instead and he suggested taking another week and weaning off of this. I can't stand the way I feel so I am going cold turkey off of Lyrica. Yesterday morning had been my last 50mg dose. I'm still feeling foggy and sad, but am not going to put anymore of that drug into my body. I wish I would've read these reviews sooner than just blindly taking this at my doctor's just prescribing it to me. I have neuralgia, but would rather put up with the pain of that than continue to feel the side effects of Lyrica. | F | 48 | 10 days 100 mg | 11/28/2019 | 5 | Neuropathic Pain | So far Lyrica has really helped with nerve pain due to an old injury. I have suffered for 4 years with this nerve pain, and have tried everything to ease the discomfort. This was a last resort to try, and it has eased the pain to a point that I am not focusing on it so much now. It’s much more manageable to say the least! Not sure how long I will be taking this, but it’s working with no side effects, so I will continue! | F | 55 | 7 days 25mg-50mg. | 10/25/2019 |