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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LYRICA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Anxiety/Depression | Weight gain, Swollen hands and feet, joint pain, sensitive nipples | After 4 years of extreme anxiety and depression that I could not control with medication, Lyrica has changed my life. I tried over 30 different drugs without any relief. Lyrica at 375mg. is allowing me to live my life again. I truly mean this. The side effects are extreme--I'm taking a number of drugs just to counter the side effects; however, I will live with them as long as lyrica helps me. | M | 51 | 9 months | 10/28/2008 | 2 | Fibromyalgia | Dizziness, drowsiness, unable to concentrate, increased appetite. | Just recently diagnosed with fibro and was excited to get rid of the pain but...not so much. Doc started me on 25 mg 2 X a day because I'm only 115lbs. Its not helping with pain and cause unwanted side effects, don't mind the increased appetite though. I'm trying to keep going so it can work through my system and because I paid $40 for it but I'm thinking this isn't gonna work for me. | F | 28 | 10 days | 10/28/2008 | 3 | neck and lower back pain | Blurry vision, dizziness, weight gain, feeling low, headaches, loss of concentration, confusion, forgetfulness. | It seems to control my costant pain due to spinal cord damage caused by motor vehicle accident but I am taking 450mg daily.I'm combining it with panadeine forte, so it doesn't control all the pain I suppose. I would only recommend it for people with severe and constant pain. | M | 45 | 2 years | 10/26/2008 | 1 | Nerve pain in legs and feet | Taking 75mg two times a day--and last night was the last time I will EVER take Lyrica! I think it needs to be studied more..From the first time I took it I could feel the change in my mood, attitude, and thoughts.Increase in appetite,racing thoughts,fog in my head,unable to get up in the morning,feelings of anger and sadness,weight gain...And didn't make the pain go away | F | 28 | 21 days | 10/24/2008 | 3 | Post - Herpatic Neuropathy | No noticeable side effects initially, but after several months noticed hair loss, short - term memory problems, and severe bruising from small impacts that would not have resulted in bruising before taking the drug. intermittent problems with skin rashes. | Lyrica at 150 mg, twice per day reduces, but does not eliminate the intermittent stabbing and constant burning pain due to the nerve damage on my right side, near the belt line. I also use Lidocaine patches applied at night to aid in sleeping. (The pain would often cause me to wake during the night). I have now lost all the hair on my arms and legs, all underarm hair, most chest hair, and am rapidly balding. Bruising, mostly on arms, looks bad but I do not seem to bleed abnormally from minor cuts and scrapes. Short - term memory loss, forgetting names and conversations, is the most disturbing side effect. No significant weight gain. | M | 75 | 2 years | 10/21/2008 | 3 | Prescribed Lyrica initially for anxiety. Developed undiagnosed viral infection leaving me with extreme skin sensitivity and persistent sharp stabbing pain. Started with 50 mg 3x a day 4 days ago . Within 2 hours of taking 50 mg pain had subsided to a manageable level. This is where things start to get weird. I immediatly started to feel depressed and confused with thoughts racing at times. I'm not sure if this correlates at all but I'm experiencing flu like symptoms that have not subsided. I've increased my dosage to 200 mg total and am starting to notice hand tremors. The verdict is not out yet for me but I'm impressed with the theraputic effects. If side effects continue I may be forced to evaluate another medication. Good luck to all the people who live with chronic pain. | If anyone still suffering from a mystery virus and would like to chat, feel free to email | M | 4 days | 10/16/2008 | 1 | Foot neuromas | Depression set in very soon after starting the drug. I then noticed problems with memory and thinking in general - it was a general foggy condition. I experienced heart palpations several times that I don't generally have. I was sleepy more during the day. I had to force myself to do my routine running exercise and I couldn't go nearly as far or as long as usual. There was a general apathy in everything I tried to do. | Though I did have some relief from the pain in my feet, the depression and memory problems worried me a lot!! I had some pretty worrisome thoughts and concluded that the minor relief came at a high price! When I stopped the drug I started to feel the fog lift after a day and then I was able to return to a more normal feeling with regard to the depression.THIS DRUG IS POWERFUL AND EVERYONE SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO READ THIS SITE BEFORE TAKING THE MEDICATION. It may help some with extreme conditions, but for me it is a definite NOGO. | M | 62 | 9 days | 10/12/2008 | 3 | pain from stenosis of the c-spine | Dizziness, brain fog, edema, dry mouth, headache. | I wouldn't necessarily recommend this drug. HOWEVER, I do believe in some cases this medication would be very beneficial. It does help control pain but it seems that I had to increase the dose too often and I was so swollen that I was miserable. The main problem is that if you have to stop taking it, it's very hard to discontinue. I felt like I had the flu for several weeks and I titrated down to 50mg for a couple of weeks before I stopped. Just be prepared for this if you have to discontinue it for some reason. | F | 37 | 3 months | 10/10/2008 | 5 | suspected fibromyalgia | I have not experienced side affects. Maybe a little constipation. | This drug is a miracle drug. I have been in pain for 31/2 years that has gotten worse over the years. The day before I started taking this drug I tried to walk four laps around a track and couldn't do it. I took 50mg before going to bed. Slept great and felt great in the morning. I was able to walk the 4 laps the next day. Leg pain, lower back pain, neck pain and the pin and needle feeling I had has just about disappeared all together. | F | 43 | 3 weeks | 10/8/2008 | 4 | | 10/8/2008 | 2 | Neuropathy | Memory problems, cannot care for self, decreased intelligence, severe apathy. | My friend is the patient. He can't speak for himself in my opinion. He says it helps with pain but complains about memory problems. As an outsider, I also see complete apathy, a sort of locked in behavior, extreme decrease of intelligence, cannot keep track of a simple conversation, lack of reasoning skills and unaware of this happening. By all means, try this med, but ask someone else to monitor you, since you may be unaware of side effects! | M | 53 | 1 years | 10/8/2008 | 1 | posible seizures, fibromyal | major weight gain, and sever swelling of feet legs and hands. I feel like a giant marshmello just puffed up every were. | this medication has done nothing for me to releave the pain from my fibromyal pain. If anything its made it worse due to the swelling in all my joints. If I sit down for more than a couple minuets those first few steps once getting up are so painful. I'll never take this again. I'm currently lowering my does from three hundred milograms a day to nothing. If I had it my way and the doctor hadn't pitched such a fit I would have stopped taking it cold turky. but he went on and on about having withdraw problems and possibly being sent into another seizure from the sudden stop. | F | 45 | 2 months | 10/7/2008 | 5 | RSD/CRPS | VERY FIRST DOSES I was out of it, very confused and slow. But those quickly went away. Now I have very small tremors...but seeing as I'm taking 4 different medications a day, it could be from any one of them. | I don't mean to knock the Fibromyalgia patients, but it sounds like a lot of the negative side-effects effect those patients. Maybe it's not for Fibro. patients. I noticed (I believe I'm the 4th or 5th) patient with RSD/CRPS-which is a terrible disease I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Lyrica literally saved my life. This disease would put thoughts in your head you never thought you were capable of thinking. The constant, unrelenting pain, inability to concentrate or do anything productive because all you feel is that someone is torturing you over and over again and no one will stop it. Well Lyrica is a a life saver. I think for RSD patients it's a miracle drug. I haven't had any main or small side effects that would make me give it up. I literally wouldn't be alive without it. Thank you to the person/(s) who invented it! | F | 21 | 10 months | 10/5/2008 | 3 | Nerve Pain in back and legs | Extreme weight gain--40 lbs in 4 months! Severe edema in knees, ankles, feet, hands. Memory loss, night terrors, severe sweating, dry mouth, early on there was a loss in balance, but that improved after I had been on it a while. | It was a life saver for me and combined with an opiate, it really helped my pain level. However, I keep trying to go off of it because I hate the side effects. They are still there and I am down to a dose of 50 mg three times a week. Each time I try to go off completely, my pain level jumps right back up to being unbearable. I would recommend this drug only as a last resort. | F | 53 | 1 years | 10/4/2008 | 3 | Fibromyalgia/Arthritis | Weight gain; fatigue; very strange nails, they aren't coming off yet but they are thick and the white tip is extending half-way into the nailbed like another posted, also skin around the nail is peeling (I didn't associate this with the Lyrica until I saw the other post that hit my nail symptoms on the head - no pun intended)Lab tested neg. for fungus; now getting headaches/migrains. | I've been on this drug about 8 months. Began with low dose and worked up to 75mg 3x day. Side-effects were too severe with higher doses. After about 7 months, began having migrains. They aren't extremely bad but are definately annoying and have caused some temporary vision impairment. Dr. suggested I cut back my dose. I am now at 50mg 3x day. Headaches have improved but not disappeared. Not absolutely certain headaches/migrains are from Lyrica but highly suspected. Fibro pain is definately better with this drug than without but I am concerned about side-effects at this point. The nail thing is disturbing, along with the weight gain (10lbs), and the headaches. Also experienceing some calf pain and warming that travels from my left mid calf down to my toes. Unsure at this point if it is from Lyrica. The jury is still out for me with this drug. It seems to have good potential if I can get the side-effects under control. | F | 44 | 8 months | 10/4/2008 | 1 | fybromyalgia | headach, constipation, foggy feeling, skin itching, numb feeling on left side of face, brusing real easy weight gain of 25lbs now have virtigo cant eat meats | this was given to me to help the pain it really did but now i have more problems than what i had before i have five kids to take care of and while on this i can not do it i am so tierd all the time | F | 41 | 3 months | 10/2/2008 | 4 | fibromyalgia | initially, hungry at times, sleepy, brain fog | Lyrica side effects are nothing compared to the relief it gives me from the fibromyalgia pain. This medicine helps me with the fatigue mostly too. | F | 52 | 1 years | 9/28/2008 | 1 | nerve pain in foot after foot surg | Dizzy,depressed,tired,sleepy,worried about driving safely. increased appetite, irritable, had to take 2 weeks off work while withdrawing. | Prescribed 2 x 75mg but soon reduced to 1 x 75mg after consult with GP over side effects. Decided the "cure" for the nerve pain wasn't worth the risk and reverted to Panadiene even though not helping reduce the pain much. | M | 65 | 2 months | 9/27/2008 | 5 | fibromyalsia | none | I started out taking 150 a day and then increased after 21 days to 300 a day. The first two days of taking 100mg 3x a day I was feeling giddy but that soon went away. I haven't noticed any weight gain but I do have IBS so that might be why...diarreha. I don't have any side effects from it. I have noticed if I don't take it for a couple of days my legs will start to hurt real bad and I will have trouble walking. I don't see where it is addicting. The doctor seems to be more worried about me being addicted to vicodin...go figure. I recommend it for pain. I'll check back in 6 mo maybe things will be different. | F | 51 | 2 months | 9/25/2008 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | I have weakness,feeling like I only have feet that stumble and a heavy brain and not the rest of my body,head congestion really hard to breath at times like air is heavy and thick.This hit after second pill.Third pill still feel this way but dizzy also,heavy brain feeling is worse and I feel too unstable in legs to try to walk.Tingling in hands with numbness that seems to alternate.I am not taking a fourth pill.I am honestly afraid if I do and go to sleep I may not wake up or I may become paralyzed and I say that because of the odd way my body feels right now.My face feels like it is vibrating,the roof of my mouth is sore and kind of peeling, and strange it may sound,my body feels so odd that it is like my soul is trying to exit on me. | From television advertisements I thought this was my answer,with a few side effects.But after starting it I can say it seems worse than the vioxx I took for several months.I feel the side effects were not stressed nearly enough nor to a high enough degree. | F | 50 | 2 days | 9/25/2008 |