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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LYRICA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Fybro | Beginning felt extremely HIGH. After a month or so that feeling subsided. Helped pain more the first couple of months and now it does not seem to work. Weight gain feet ache swelling bloating. All medicines are beginning to scare me. Had horrible reaction to Topomax after years of being on it!!!! Afraid of what these are doing to us. Am slowly coming off now | F | 47 | 8 months 100mg 2x | 3/28/2012 | 5 | Severe anxiety disorder | The first couple times I took Lyrica, it knocked me on my butt. Felt like I was drunk, or had a mild cannabis high. Many doctors have told me that I am an "atypical" case, because medications generally do not effect me like a "normal" person. (ALL Antidepressants make me extremely depressed, and benzos don't work very well for my anxiety and panic disorder) Anyway, I have found that all side effects so far have been positive ones. I have slightly increased appetite, and increased libido - both good things for me because I also have anxiety driven hypertension and my BP meds sometimes mess with my libido. I'm also a thin guy, and the slight increase in appetite is a god thing! | Lyrica has been a wonder drug for me! I have tried SO many medications over the years to get my anxiety under control. As mentioned previously, I am atypical and benzos never worked that well, and I discovered by accident when I had my vasectomy that lortab 100% got rid of my anxiety, and I could also think clearly and felt good from the "warm" opiate buzz. I also have a bad knee that makes walking painful after more than 15 or 20 minutes (it swells) so I got a script for lortab and took it for 4 years, and of course became dependant on them. Coming off any opiate after 4 years isn't fun - but Lyrica got me off them with absolutely NO withdrawl and no bad side effects. I have been taking it for 3 weeks so far, and absolutely love it! I feel great, and can think clearly and function at work with no problem. I have suffered no memory loss, nor hair loss so far, that others have stated. | M | 42 | 3 weeks 100mg 3X day | 3/27/2012 | 1 | Fybromyalgia | Extreme hairloss, weakness, depression, weightgain | I too at first, (50mg), loved the med. Then the 2nd month I was increased to 150mg 2x a day. My hair fell out by the handful everywhere,I couldnt even walk through the grocery store without sitting to rest. My doctor didnt think it was the Lyrica, so I continued it and was tested by my female doctor for hormone problems, but that wasnt it. Then I googled (Lyrica and hairloss), there it was. I then went back to my doctor and he looked it up. Needless to say I began to ween off the Lyrica. What HELL. It took a month to get off due to horrible withdrawl and another month for my hair to stop falling out. Stay away from this med..... | F | 48 | 4 months 150mg 2X day | 3/24/2012 | 3 | Sciatica | My pain is from sciatica which started after back surgery for a herniated disc. I have gained weight, have brain fog, ankles swelled just recently. No libido, always sleepy. No energy to do much. I have made an appt and will be going off this Lyrica next week. This site has helped me make my decision. | AT the beginning Lyrica was the drug for me. It ceased my sciatica to a certain point. The sciatica was never gone though. I have recently started Bowen Therapy which actually relieved the sciatica. I will continue with it. Whenever you can get off a drug the better it should be. | F | 54 | 3 years 75 2X day | 3/20/2012 | 2 | chronic pain and fibromalgia | The 100MG helped some with the pain with few problems. Dr increased to 100MG in AM and 100MG in PM and had related problems. Some of these were insomnia,edema,dizziness,memory loss,hand tremors, fatigue,bloating,and abdominal pain. I also didn't feel comfortable driving because of the feeling of having 1 to many beers. | I am cutting back to 100MG at bedtime over the next week. Had some problems with the 100MG dose but the problems increased greatly with the 200MG a day. Would rather cut back then put up with all the side effects. | M | 61 | 18 months 100 2X day | 3/20/2012 | 4 | Fibromyalgia | fatigue | F | 43 | 110 days 300mg 2X day | 3/13/2012 Patient History | 3 | Fibromyalgia - Severe Aches | Major weight gain, increased desire for junk food, blurry vision esp. at nite, confusion/difficulty finding words & remembering recent events | Lyrica helped w/ the Fibro aches significantly at first, but after a few months, I developed a tolerance so it didn't work very well anymore. The weight gain (over 50#) started almost immediately but the vision problems and confusion/memory issues didn't occur until about the 3 month mark. Had to discontinue so I could return to normal size and so vision and mind would clear up. | F | 38 | 6 months 50 MG 3X day | 3/12/2012 | 5 | Epilepsy | Get tired easily, memory it quite as it was. | This has been the only drug that has controlled my seizures and I've tried at least 6. Apart from the tiredness and ocassional spaced out feeling i think this medication is fantastic so please do not let people's negative comments put you off. Your body just needs time to adjust, just make sure you do not miss a dose and never ever stop taking it unless your doctor weans you off it. Hope ts helps. | F | 31 | 3 years 150mg 2X day | 3/11/2012 | 3 | Fibromyalgia | severe and scary bloating. feeling of being high. groggy. i told my doctor i had these side effects (especially bloating) and he just said "no", couldn't be because they did studies and there were not side effects. then i found online that possibly thousands of others feel this way. i hope that "they" don't take this tool away from us. it is nice to find out real results from real people. maybe they can use this information to improve the medication. after 20yrs of pain, it was nice to be nearly pain free for a few weeks. | works great for pain. has eliminated it like 90%. however the bloating is putting strain on my back mostly. but really everywhere. i have taken opiates responsibly for about 10 years. they are the only other thing that helps (aside from lidoderm patches and ibu profin). together these medications together i am almost pain free. too bad for the side effects. also notice a lower libido, never had this before. actually have always been quite the opposite. im going to take my dose back down slowly to 25 a day and keep on with the other pain meds. hope this helps others in pain. | F | 40 | 1 months 25 3X day | 3/1/2012 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | alarming weight gain, mouth ulcers, depression | I initially wrote a favorable review of this drug, but things went downhill right after. Gained a pound for every day I took it, for a total of 15 pounds, which still hasn't come off. I became depressed and developed painful oozing ulcers at the corners of my mouth. Going off the drug was a nightmare: raging insomnia, severe abdominal pain, profuse sweating. | F | 59 | 14 days 1X day | 3/1/2012 | 1 | Back pain | Caused peripheral neuropathy which never went away 2 years later | F | 36 | 3 months 350 | 2/27/2012 | 4 | Fibromyalgia | some constipation. | Best drug for fibromyalgia so far. It is the difference between being able to work and not. It makes it tolerably miserable instead of overwhelmingly miserable. | M | 44 | 2 years 150mg 2X day | 2/26/2012 | 1 | fibromyalgia | Weight gain. I gained about 15 lbs in a couple weeks. I was feeling no benefits, so stopped taking it. | F | 41 | 4 weeks | 2/24/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Getting my period every two weeks, drowsiness during the day and feeling stoned. | F | 25 | 2 months 50mg 1X day | 2/17/2012 | 1 | Fibro | I thought lyrica was helping my pain. I was prescribed it twice a day, but only took it once at night. I did gain weight and go through a period of losing my hair, however i had been in so much pain for so long i stuck with it. After about 3 years i developed seizures then they stopped. Suddenly last year i developed grandmal seizures. I was out of it. I would nod out. Fall asleep everywhere, couldn't drive or anything else for that matter. Then i ended up in the icu because no one could wake me. I was breathing normally however, my lungs were not absorbing the oxygen i needed. No one knew why. I was in Icu 3 times last year. I have been to doctor after doctor who could not tell me what was happening. Thank God i found a neurologist about 7 months ago who told me lyrica was shutting down parts of my brain. She got me off the lyrica and i had to use oxygen for about two months after i had quit taking it. now no more passing out and no more seizures since i quit taking it. It scares me | It was hard coming off the drug. But I feel so much better mentally now. No more seizures, i now longer need oxygen and i feel like i have woken up from a four year dream.. I seem to have lost that time, but thank God i can make some of that up now. I am no longer intrested in trying newer drugs. I agree with the man who said we need to be given opiates. At least they are natural. I don't want to be a part of drug company experiments anymore. | F | 45 | 4 years 100mg 2X day | 2/12/2012 | 3 | fibromyalgia | MAJOR, major hair loss, brain fog- also called "fibro-fog", trouble sleeping, sometimes have trouble getting my words out. | I am dosing down on this medication because of the hair loss. I can actually see my scalp thru my hair. I would rather be in pain and have my hair. I would recommend for anyone to find alternative treatments if possible. | F | 43 | 1 years 150 mg 2X day | 2/6/2012 | 3 | Residual nerve pain after back surg | I actually had wonderful sleep and pain was decreased. I was very happy with these effects. Unfortunately, I began "losing" words when speaking, had hand/feet swelling and had gained 8#. Doc told me to stop abruptly because of the CHF possibilities. I have had inc depression, suicidal thoughts, mood swings, (return of nerve pain), severe nightmares and night sweats. It has been 8 days since stopping. I do not know how long this will last? | I am interested in people's experiences and length of withdrawal time, please! | F | 45 | 21 days 150mg 1X day | 2/4/2012 | 4 | Depression, anxiety, social fobia | Change of personality, became more talkative (sometimes too much), friendly (sometimes too much)and a little "high". Memory problems. | It is helping me to fell better when I wake up in the morning (actually helps me to wake up); it is also helping me to improve my bad mood and sensation of impending doom. I absolutely interact better with other people. It is healing a little that pain inside. I´ve tryed more than 7 differents drugs for depression all my life and this is the only one that has ever worked well for me. | F | 41 | 4 months 75mg 2X day | 2/2/2012 | 3 | migraines, neck & shoulder pain | Weight gain - worse at higher dose; dizziness which has reduced over time | I have been experiencing chronic (often daily) migraines as well as neck, shoulder & upper back pain for 2 1/2 years. Have been told that I may also have fibromyalgia. Have seen multiple neurologists; pain center; chiropractor; acupuncturist; physical therapists; orthopedic doctor; massage therapists. Have had steroid injections in my neck as well as median nerve ablation at the pain clinic - said No to recommended radiofrequency ablation because all of the other injections only worked the pain up to a higher frenzy. Was put on Lyrica 2 years ago but stopped due to weight gain & only mild pain relief. (It was hard going off because pain noticeably increased afterward.) Newest neurologist put me back on Lyrica and same thing: 20 lb weight gain & mild pain relief. I'm unable to increase dosage due to dizziness & fluid retention (legs blew up like balloons!) I can however tell the difference between being on/off Lyrica and decided to stay on because I can't find anything else that helps aside from botox injections for migraines (can only get injections every 3 months but so far they only last 6-8 weeks - and yes, the injections in my neck & shoulders do help with some of the pain). | F | 48 | 6 months 75mg 2X day | 1/30/2012 | 1 | chronic neck pain, anxiety, fibro | Horrible stomach pain, low back pain- as in kidneys, weak legs - could no longer walk or hike for exercise, MASSIVE daytime sleep- out like I was on dope, personality change- anger, irritable at EVERYTHING, suicide thoughts, deepening depression, loss of memory, confusion over simple word recall-thoughts, etc. They should call it STUPI-MAX, cause you become dumb as a 2X4 on it. Double vision still, days after stopping this POISON. | POISON. 1st two days/nights you sleep, a little pain relief and "think" it could be the miracle drug. THEN-it starts! Woke up HORRIBLE stomach pain, aching legs, weak legs,went for my walk/hike- could barely climb a small hill, mood going towards anger, depression- fighting w/ my wife for no reason,nighttime sleep stops, begin crashing in middle of day like a zombie,leg aches extreme, low back ache scared me as in KIDNEY aching, urine SUPER yellow/dark. As a 20 yr sufferer,I'm 100% convinced the FDA, Pharma and Government are totally CORRUPTED. NO WAY to explain these drugs getting approval after being "tested" in TWO, 3 or 4 week so called "placebo controlled, double blind studies". Doctors, government and police state are scared to death of 3000 yr old "drugs"- simple opiates or marijuana, but hand out like CANDY - these POISONS w/ lists of side effects as long as your arm: suicide, liver/kidney failure, brain damage, organ damage, personality destruction, loss of ability to function in daily life, etc. The so called "doctor's" out is, "Well the FDA approved it." Lyrica is an "add on or sister" drug to Neurontin, Pfizer was sued for- for falsely pushing it to "doctors" as a cure all for nearly every malady known to man. Example- you pay a $1 BILLION fine, after making $15 BILLION by spending $100's of MILLIONS in slick marketing- they DO NOT CARE. Neurontin was coming "off patent" | M | 48 | 18 days 25mg 3X day | 1/29/2012 |