LYRICA Reviews (PREGABALIN)

Average Rating: 2.6 (1463 Ratings)

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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)

  

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DATE ADDED
 
 1   F 34 1 weeks
6/22/2015
 1  Fibro Eye twitch, head and arm jerking, leg tremors, insomnia, weight gain. At first I thought this was a miracle drug, because my Fibro pain was gone and I was able to sleep. After 2 months the side effects became distressing. I have tried to cut my dosage, with the help of my Doctor. We have, during these past 4 months only been able to reduce my dosage from 300 mg. to 225 mg. Reducing the dosage by an additional 25 mg. causes severe anxiety. Today my Dr. Has prescribed 30 mg. of cymbalta in addition to the Lyrica. The aim is to give me more sleep and reduce the dosage of Lyrica. I do not recommend Lyrica to anyone. The side effects are terrible and it is too hard to get off this drug! F 67 6 months
300 mg 1X day
6/12/2015
 1  fibromyalgia / leg & back pain Mild dizziness, slightly blurred vision but the worst was bad hearing loss after only a few days on it. SCARY! Won't take it again. F 63 5 days
75MG 2aday
6/11/2015
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 3  Extreme damage to nerves in leg. Weight gain and brain fog Raised my dosage and wonder how much worse side effects could be. F 53 10 days
300
6/6/2015
 3  Neuropathy (Visceral) Signifcant verbal memory problems whilst taking it. Now been off it for 2 years and still have memory problems. Recently had an IQ test and was only 50th centile for short term memory whereas all other domains were 80th/90th centiles. Quite a drop..... Cured the neuropathic pain. Would like to have known beforehand about the likely side effects so I could have made an informed choice. Glad the pain has gone. Disappointed that I can't perform at the same intellectual level as before. M 48 2 years
300 2X day
6/2/2015
 2  DDD Weight gain and only mildly reduced pain F 46 6 months
600
5/24/2015
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 3  fibromyalgia none it does help me sleep at night Every body must react differently to this drug. I take far more than most people on here are taking and it really doesn't help that much.I also take Norco 10/ 325 twice a day which helps the back pain for about 4 hrs.. M 64 1 years
660 mg 3X day
5/19/2015
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 1  Fibromyalgia Completely lost mymind and shot myself in the head No one should ever take this drug M 3 weeks
150 mg
5/16/2015
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 1  fibromyalgia This medication started seizures and causes me to stare off frequently. It made me feel worse than before taking it. Would not recommend to worst enemy. Just more Medical bills. F 21 7 months
5/15/2015
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 5  Chronic Pain (Spinal) Occasionally forget ordinary terms for things but have learnt to speak more slowly and think before I speak and have worked around this as a problem. I havent experienced problems others describe and when I occasionally forget a dose there is no withdrawal at all. F 75 2 years
140mg 2X day
5/12/2015
 5  Degenerative Disc Disease..Fibromya Some dry mouth. Inability to remember names, drowsiness all getting better. This has been a miracle drug for the kind of pain I was in. Helps me to sleep but am able to also do things around the house and walk. Helped tremendously with bursitis in my hip until I was able to get cortisone injection. Have 0 thoughts of suicide like some patients. Will try to slowly cut back but had no side effects once before when I stopped taking it cold. Love this drug...am the kind of person who gets side effects from most drugs but not this one. No weight gain and in fact have lost weight on it. F 72 2 months
200 mg day
5/9/2015
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 5  Anxiety A little bit out of it but not bad enough to give up, I've noticed improvements with side effects each day, day 3 is when it started to really work well Wonder drug so far and no withdrawals from the Benzo and opiates I was on be it small doses, couldn't belive the improvement after day 3, you need to persevere M 38 1 days
75mg x 2
5/8/2015
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 1  Neck pain Insomnia I was prescribed for 42 days by my orthopaedic doctor F 57 1 days
75 mg
5/5/2015
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 1  Toxic Neuropathy Blurred vision, muscle weakness, numb hands, feet, lips,inability to walk normally, loss of balance, falling over, climbing stairs is absolute torture,stabbing pain, electric shock in leg,twitching muscles in legs, body, face tired lethargic feeling on waking sore painful feet and legs. My doctor referred me to a neurologist when I complained of numb little toe on left foot and burning sensation on soles of feet,he did a nerve conduction test and had me on 25mg x 2 lyrica, did nothing for me so tritiated up to 150mg X2 over 2 months burning sensation nearly gone but,inability to attain election or climax.After morning dose I have no real cessation of neuropathic symptoms, evening dose is combined with 2 x 500mg paracetamol and 300mg.codeine(panadeine forte) I then have 75 % relief of symptoms, so I've concluded that all my relief is from the panadeine forte. Not happy and have asked doctor to wean me off and consider pain patch M 61 5 months
150 mg x 2
4/20/2015
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 2  Peripheral nerve pain Nice feeling at first , able to do housework without being in agony PLEASE do not stop abruptly your Lyrica. I did and have NEVER felt so low and depressed . I too as one lady mentioned who lost her sister to suicide thought about death a lot. Very worrying indeed . F 41 1 months
200mg
4/2/2015
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 3  Fibromyalgia pain No side effects to speak of. not completely convinced that this medication reduces my pain , but if I miss a dose I can tell because I am not as comfortable F 46 5 years
450 MG
3/23/2015
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 4  Aching feet, nerve
1X day
3/21/2015
 3  Nerve damage and fli Memory loss as in a second. Concretration. Unable to spell. coodination lack of. Drunk to the point law enforcement should be inform about lyrica users. In fact lyrica user should wear a braclet like diabetics do. Meformon makes some feel drunk I want to get off lyrica. side effects can get u into trouble F 59 1 years
2x 300
3/16/2015
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 5  Fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue Slight trembling of hands ( no good for texting :) ) This drug is the only real drug that works for my fibr and I honisfly mean that , I also take mst 120mg a day which I feel does nothing for me compared to this! Truly a miracle for me M 29 2 years
300 aday
3/14/2015
 3  Nerve pain in arms All of them to some degree, I have decided to stop taking it due to drowsiness and blurred vision, the withdrawal last night was very unpleasant. I would like to be referred to an osteopath for treatment as I can't afford to go without a referral but doctors seem to just want to get patients stuck on medication. This is just not worth it for me and I don't know what else to do.... It works as far as taking away the pain but i've found the side effects intolerable. F 44 7 days
75
3/13/2015

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