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 | Anxiety | Dizzy and nausea | Do not take this drug, nearly impossible to come off it. | M | 63 | 3 days 150mg | 10/23/2019 | 1 | Back pain | Awful increase in anxiety and unable to sleep | F | 57 | 60 days 50 | 10/22/2019 | 1 | back pain | I gained 6 pounds on gabapentin and my cholesterol went up over 40 points. so I switched to lyrica been dieting since and have gained 2 pounds! | F | 55 | 40 days 100mg 2x a | 10/21/2019 | 1 | Anxiety | Worked for Anxiety for a while but had to keep increasing doses to get same effect. When reducing or stopping had terrible withdrawals of pain, unable to sleep, depression, massive anxiety, flu symptoms, and lots more. | Feel that doctors need to be made more aware of side effects & withdrawls. | F | 39 | 2 years 600mg | 10/2/2019 | 5 | Anxiety & Depression | Helps with social anxiety. I take 900 mgs every 3 days. It’s a wonder drug! | I will continue dosing w/900 mgs every 3 days until my doctor or therapist says otherwise. It has changed my life for the better! I do get the munchies but combat that with daily exercise. | F | 54 | 2 years 900 mg 1X day | 8/26/2019 | 4 | Fibromyalgia, nerve pain | I was instructed to take at night time, but One time I took during the day and was on slow motion all day. I can hardful talk and be understood. At night I do have nightmares but I wakeup relax and with 70% of my pain not gone but much less pain. It the best results I had ever. Need my Lyrica | I had Stopping using Lyrica because of insurance issue and the next day without Lyrica cause side effect immediate. I had headache, heart accelerate, nauseous, dizziness, anxiety and sleepless. | F | 60 | 2 years 300mg | 8/10/2019 | 5 | Herniation L4-L5 w/nerve damage | Early on urinary urgency. It went away in time. Gained 35 lbs in 6 months. I have reversed that with a Keto diet. | This enables me to live full life. It’s not perfect, but without it I would probably have killed myself. The pain was unbearable. 75% relief of pain. | M | 38 | 1 years 150mg 3XD | 7/13/2019 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | Bad initial side effects when I started in 2012, extreme headaches, can still remember them clearly and extreme fatigue, I would literally sleep for 20 hours and wake up for an hour and then start the process again, this went on for months and no one knew what was wrong with me. So going forward to 2019, I have had 29 surgery’s since then, abscess all over my body, head to toe and only after recently watching a documentary about junkies, it’s the same as what junkies and meth heads get. I have been trying to get off this medication for about a year now and am down to the final 150mg, however even doing withdrawal over this period is a waste of time as when you get to the final 150mg, all the symptoms start again and it’s a bad balancing game . I would love to know if any of of the manufacturers have used this drug or would like there family’s too give it a go, it sucks and flooded the Uk market with none of the advertisements and warnings that the USA had, our doctors heard it worked on nerve pain and gave it a go on patients. | Don’t take unless you’re happy to be on it for life with horrible side effects that are not widely diagnosed in the Uk, just put down to your initial diagnosis. I look like the elephant man some days, I haven’t had a normal life in years.... I wouldn’t be as pissed off if I hadn’t had a single abscess until I started taking the Pregabalin, not one doctor to this date has put two and two together.... I have had a few significant mental breakdowns and again nothing before the pregabaline use. | M | 30 | 7 years 600-300 | 6/5/2019 | 3 | Fibromyalgia | It works so very well for the pain and anxiety. However it's so very expensive and not possible to just suddenly stop taking it, at least in my case it's not. But it's the only medication that has helped me. | Must slowly taper down or it could make you extremely sick. Achey all over, constant sweating, vomiting and diarrhea. Major insomnia and constant anxiety attacks and heart palpitations. | F | 32 | 8 years 150 | 6/1/2019 | 1 | Anxiety | Zombie | Ruined my entire life | M | 36 | 7 years 200 | 6/1/2019 | 1 | Bilateral sciatica | Anomic aphasia, flat affect, hair loss, weight gain, skin lesions (hard bumps) on hands, painful swollen hands. | Lyrica is “Alzheimer’s in a bottle”. OFF LABEL USE. I was forced to take this when the CDC put out their guidelines and my doctors no longer allowed tramadol for my pain. Tramadol cost under $30/month while Lyrica cost over $575/month. It’s obviously ALL ABOUT THE $MONEY$. | F | 61 | 2 years 75 mg TID | 6/1/2019 | 1 | Anxiety (Panic, Social and General) | Depression and despair, brain fog and horrible mental deficits, social isolation, water retention, often increased appetite (other times reduced) paradoxically increased anxiety to name a few. This is a horrible, horrible drug for me. As seems the consensus too. Initially it feels nice, euphoric even and I became hopeful it would finally address my anxieties and, as a side effect of such relief would help my depression and increase function. Instead, it got worse as treatment continued. Dose was increased and decreased depending on tolerability. At 600mg daily I was bed bound and feeling extremely depressed. Nothing in life felt worth doing, quite the opposite in fact. Even at 200mg daily it was appalling. I am off it now, just. I used (and I do NOT endorse the following without instruction from a doctor, only describe my own use) diazepam to ease withdrawal. Since I have not been on Lyrica for too long, cutting it back and coming off of it has only made me feel better, obv | How the hell some of these drugs pass into regular use I have no idea. It seems so many suffer while taking Lyrica that one would think the government would conclude risk is not worth benefit. I have never felt quite so 'suicidal' in my life. Perhaps the pharmaceutical industry is as corrupt as so called conspiracy theories suggest. Diazepam and Xanax work fairly well for extreme anxiety with very few side effects, and patients get on well with them ('addiction' can be a problem indeed, but the former drug at least is not THAT difficult to withdraw from.) Yet the stuff of nightmares, at least for the majority of us, like Lyrica are promoted as being better with fewer side effects. Very worrying indeed. It should go without saying, if this is working for you then great. Keep taking it! Don't be frightened by reviews like mine. But if you're suffering then go back to your doctor and demand to be moved onto something else which has been around for longer. In my own opinion too, I would suggest people don't start this drug unless absolutely necessary because I've just been through two months of hell needlessly. Better to use more conventional medications. Even SSRIs, which I do not like because of the sexual and apathy side effects, are vastly superior for me than, as other have called it, this poison. | M | 37 | 2 months Various 2X day | 5/30/2019 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | Burning pain, pins and needles, blurred vision, feeling too high to drive, constipation, manic, rash | Stopping this drug has given me unbelievable pain. Involuntary muscle movements, pins and needles and buzzing, weakness, brain zaps, spasms, twitches, and more. I took my last pill 10 days ago and it’s still going on. Couldn’t get out of bed for 4 days. Pure poison. | F | 38 | 19 days 75 mg | 5/25/2019 | 1 | Back and leg pain by sciatica | Have been suffering Severe skin allergies all over the body since March 2019. I Went to my primary care doctor three times for treatment but the terrible itchy and the severe rash is still torture me up to this moment Tell me how to stop this crazy itch because I have been scratching my skin off . This medicine is my terrible nightmare ever since | Not a good medicine for me | F | 74 | 0 days 50 | 4/30/2019 | 1 | Nerve pain | Severe leg weakness,arm pain,slur speak,off balance, cramping, tendons tighten the list goes on and on | Worse drug ever please don't take this meds every morning I wake up I have to sit on side of the bed for a couple of minutes to make sure my legs doesn't give out on me I normally don't post anything however everyone needs to be aware of this medication | F | 52 | 45 days 75mg | 4/17/2019 | 1 | Fibromyalgia Neuropathy Bursitis RA | At first I took 75 mg. It helped but still had pain. Increased to 120 mg after about a year. Quickly notice confusion but pain mostly gone. I suddenly look 40 years older thinner hair vision blurred to seeing double. I see dips in pages I read now. A year ago I had 20/20 vision. | 1 decided to ween myself off Lyrica and all prescribed medications. Trying swimming daily.with Aveil. Do not recommend Lyrica to anyone. Especially those with drug use history. | F | 59 | 4 years 120 mg | 3/17/2019 | 1 | Fibromyalgia Neuropathy Bursitis RA | At first I took 75 mg. It helped but still had pain. Increased to 120 mg after about a year. Quickly notice confusion but pain mostly gone. I suddenly look 40 years older thinner hair vision blurred to seeing double. I see dips in pages I read now. A year ago I had 20/20 vision. | 1 decided to ween myself off Lyrica and all prescribed medications. Trying swimming daily.with Aveil. Do not recommend Lyrica to anyone. Especially those with drug use history. | F | 59 | 4 years 120 mg | 3/17/2019 | 1 | Nerve pain from a spinal syrinx | Drowsy, lack of concentration, aches and zombie like feeling | Avoid if at all possible. Trying to taper off drug is a nightmare. | F | 71 | 1 years 225 mg day | 2/12/2019 | 2 | neuropathy, MVA cervical injury | Severe fatigue, mental fog, memory loss and inability to recall things. Was told to take 3 per day but couldn't function at that dose. | Withdrawal was very pronounced with serious anxiety, aches and pains all over my body and sleep disruption for many months after tapering off over the course of one month. I now have a B12 absorption issue and have to get injections every month - not pernicious anemia - was not a problem until after this and pain medication (tramadol). It did help the pain but I was able to replace this toxic FDA chemical with CBD extract (Charl Web max).. too bad WC insurance won't pay for it but I'm much healthier so whatever. | M | 41 | 2.3 years 50 2X day | 2/5/2019 | 5 | Nerve pain | When I first started taking Lyrica, I felt loopy, anxious, whiny and super tired for about a month. After the rough start, which everyone has. I was normal again but without debilitating nerve pain. This is a wonder medication! | If everyone could just get past the first month, until your body gets used it, you would be ok. | F | 37 | 4 years 150mg | 1/19/2019 |