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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LYRICA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | degeneritive disk and leg pain | sleepness, confusion, some weight gain | The benifit I get from lyrica at 150 mg helps. So i will just deal with the side effects, they are not that bad to me. | M | 32 | 2 months | 1/8/2008 | 3 | fybromalygia | First day, 3x's day @ 50 mg. each for a week. Woke up feeling dizzy during night to use bathroom. This morning head little off key. | Was on cymbalta for 1 month first before give lyrica. Cymbalta helped in a week with pain and depression from fatigue. First time in years felt like myself and could laugh and stay awake. Also diagnosed with severe sleep apnea, on CPAP for 1 month also. Sleep so much better. Still on both drugs for now, hoping to go off cymbalta. Don't care to take pills but if lyrica helps overall pain I'll be happy. Worried about side effects, especially weight, so going to do yoga, pilates and swim. | F | 52 | 1 days | 1/8/2008 | 2 | Fibromyalgia | Outrageous headache. Felt like head in a vice. Increased depression. | The first 3 days it was good, so I thought. I was taking 75 mg 2 x a day. The frist 3 days I was up and feeling pretty good and making dinner and having thoughts of doing things again. By the 4th day I was in bed all day with a horrid headache and feeling as depressed as I was before I started. I had high hopes that this was going to work for me and I am dissapointed. | F | 45 | 6 days | 1/5/2008 | 5 | Fibromyalgia | I realized the first day that I cannot take it before bed as it keeps me awake a little. Other than that, NO side effects at all. | I am very happy with this medication. My doctor had to fight with my insurance as I needed to try so many other drugs before approving Lyrica. Nothing else has worked for my pain. The doctor gave me samples of 50 mg and 75 mg and after a couple of days, just 50 mg helped tremendously. I have been on it for almost two weeks now and it is like night and day. I cannot forget to take it or my pain comes back full force though. Finally a medication for fibromyalgia!! | F | 37 | 2 weeks | 1/4/2008 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | I have blurred vision,Severe Anxiety,Gas,Dizzy,Stoned,Extreme Weight Gain in first week,Sores on tongue,Muscle spasms,loss of feeling of bladder,memory loss,agression | I had lost 86 pounds in 13 months and then in Nov 2007 I began Lyrica. In the first 7 days I gained back 10 pounds and became super mean and feeling of despair. I would rather be in pain than to suffer the side effects of this medication! | F | 43 | 2 months | 1/4/2008 | 3 | possible Fybromyalgia, nerve damage | 1st day nausea I threw up the first night. It took 5-7 days to feel some pain relief. I went through the next week great, being able to do physical therapy 3 x's. Then like a light switch I woke up in pain all over and remained in lots of pain for 3-4 days. Luckily I snapped back out of it. I did notice the second week I started twitching under my left eye. It seems to be subsiding. I think my doctor will increase my does since he started me on the lowest 50mg 3x daily. | I had 2 back surgeries in September which resulted in a damaged nerve. I have consistent numbness in some areas and pain in others. I've also gone through boughts of nausea from time to time so after all the gull bladder tests they realized I may have fibromyalgia. I went off Cymbalta to go on the Lyrica. Day one being off I Cymbalta I felt horrible with the worst sciatica in weeks. But then Lyrica did start kicking in eventually. | M | 32 | 1 months | 1/2/2008 | 4 | Fybromyalgia | Blurred vision, headache, some confusion | I have been taking 50mg. twice a day for about 3 weeks. Noticed immediate pain relief but the side effects are bothersome. Anything higher than 50mg.(for me)made me feel like I was on another planet.I also feel hungry most of the time and do NOT want to gain any weight.My PMP says to give it a real chance and I will. I have also noticed a lessening of the anxiety some FMS patients have-I still have to take Lunesta at night to sleep. Any pain relief from FMS is a blessing so we'll see. | F | 3 weeks | 1/1/2008 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | Blurred vision, unable to think clearly, loss of appetite, insomnia. | Neuro told me to take before bed, the following afternoon driving home from work after a day of really not knowing where I was or what I was doing, I almost collided with an eighteen wheeler. | F | 34 | 2 days | 1/1/2008 | 1 | Peripheral Neuropathy | Over 20lbs of water weight gained in 10 months. It just got worse and worse. till my feet looked like balloons. My face also bloated up.I was tired alot also. | It seemed to help my foot pain.I still had jabbing pains up to 30-40 times a day. But that was alot less then before I started Lyrica.My whole foot still remains numb.And now I'm back to very bad pain again. Since I've stopped taking it for the past 7 days my other foot is starting to go numb.But I've lost 8-Lbs of water in the past week. The water weight was just to much on me. I hope to find something soon to help. | F | 42 | 10 months | 1/1/2008 | 5 | fibromyalgia | first few days I had a few incidents of short term memory loss, and confusion. That was at 75mg twice daily. I now take 150mg twice daily. | I am astounded at the decrease in Fibro pain and episodes. I have a grave concern however as I have gained 75 pounds in the 7 months I have been taking Lyrica. I have read that the sudden weight gain may be the result of a combination of drugs I am taking. I need to research this. I take cymbalta and other meds for different problems. I will write again when I get clarity of the combinations. | F | 64 | 7 months | 12/31/2007 | 4 | Leg nerve damage,gave birth | Grogginess, a bit swelling of the fingers, a bit forgetfulness. I am on 50 mg and I started taking it twice daily and am down to one every 2 days. | I was in horrible pain after giving birth to my first child. It felt as if I were sitting on a hot stove burner. Anything that touched my upper leg caused pain. Lyrica has worked for me and has helped me sleep much better. The burning pain turns into a cooling sensation. Now I can enjoy my family again :-) | F | 28 | 6 months | 12/31/2007 | 4 | Fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy | Very sleepy and fog-brain in the morning. I find that if I have something to really focus on, this helps. Stumbled around first few days, then improved. Pain relief within the first week. Been able to wear a real bra for the first time in years without pain. Pain relief seems to have plateaued after about 2 weeks. Am now increasing it because some hip pain has returned. Breathing had been painful prior to Lyrica use. | So far I'm very pleased with Lyrica after giving it a trial period. One has to be patient to get past the initial sleepiness and fog brain. No painful respirations, sleeping better and waking better after 2 to 3 weeks. Glad I was on vacation from work when starting Lyrica. Try to exercise and/or stay active to help with sedation effects. It's changed my life for the better! | F | 62 | 20 days | 12/31/2007 | 3 | 2 Cervical Herniated Disks | I really wish everyone on here would do 3 things in their posts 1) dosage you are on 2) how LONG you have been taking Lyrica 3) What other meds you started around the same time (if any) THEN tell your experience. It doesn't help when someone says "I'm going bald" when we don't know if they are on an excessive dose, another med, or what. ----------- As for me, I have been on 75mg/twice a day of Lyrica for about 2 weeks now. I am also taking Tramadol, but had been on that for much longer, so feel confident about reporting changes since starting the Lyrica. | Initially I was so woozy it scared me. This only lasted the first couple of days, then it turned to just a generalized "functional tired" kind of feeling...not at all like the "drugged out" tired feeling...just a bit tired. My favorite side effect of this drug is that I sleep until 8:30 or so in the morning without interruption! This is HUGE for me. I don't even know how long I have gotten up several times a night, and not slept more than 2 more straight...and not be able to stay in bed past 5am. So, though I feel a bit tired during the day, I also feel refreshed, if that makes sense. As for the pain the combo of this and Tramadol (Ultram) makes me feel very little pain, and sometimes I falsely feel like I have been "cured". As soon as I let it wear off, though, I made painfully aware that the herniated disks in my neck have not gone "away. I will gladly put up with a slightly tired fgeeling during the day, rather than the pain and the ortho sugge | F | 37 | 15 days | 12/28/2007 | 1 | status migraine, daily headache | hallucinations I didn't remember, night terrors, screaming nightmares 3-4x nightly, slept only 3-4 hours *on* combos of sleep meds, muscle tics, racing thoughts, rapid onset depression, made OCD much worse, rapid mood cycling, believed I was being poisoned by meds | I started taking 75mg a night for a week. Then week 2 took 75mg in the AM & PM. That's when the problems started, and my headache was much worse, either due to lack of sleep or the med itself. By day 19 at 3 pills a day I started contemplating suicide and then knew it wasn't even *me* thinking that, I knew I had to get off this drug. I decided that night to wean myself off & placed an emergency call to my neuro that I was being poisoned by Lyrica. I wasn't even up to the full dose of 300mg I was supposed to get to. It took another 2 weeks to wean off it altogether. Getting off it was utter agony!! I've now been "clean" for 4 days and still feel like utter arse, but at least I'm sleeping again. RESEARCH ALL CONSUMER WEBSITES BEFORE TAKING MEDS, NOT JUST THIS ONE. | F | 38 | 32 days | 12/28/2007 | 3 | RLS | depression, fuzzy head, light head, didn't give a crap | worked for rls but stopped it after 1 mo. because of side effects. | F | 48 | 26 days | 12/26/2007 | 2 | nerve pain | sleepiness, forgetfulness, mild confusion | Hardly helps my nerve pain even at high doses. It can only make my 10/10 pain feel more like a 9/10 pain. I am looking for a medication to lower my pain to 5/10 or lower. | M | 35 | 9 months | 12/24/2007 | 4 | Fibromyalgia / Leg Pain | Could be a little fibro fog but I had that long before. I don't think I have any side effects at all from this medication. | I feel that it is helping me significantly. I understand the idiosyncratic natue of medication and believe other patient's reports , but I can only report positive results from this med, and I have tried them all. I am off all Rx Opiods now which was/is my ultimate goal. Now I am increasing my exercise and plan to taper this med if possible in the near future. | M | 54 | 90 days | 12/21/2007 | 5 | Post herpetic neuralgia | none | I have taken it once following severe scalp pain and headache in the distribution where I had shingles about a month before. In about 6 hours it began to work and by 12 hours I was pain free. I took it for about 5 days after that and had no recurrence for about a two year period. I had no CNS side effects and could easily work with the medicine on board. | M | 54 | 5 days | 12/20/2007 | 1 | BE INFORMED! | Lyrica is very much like Neurontin/gabapentin. Beware you may experience same problems with Lyrica as with Neurontin. | Lyrica is not a miracle drug for fibromyalgia! | F | 35 | 2 days | 12/20/2007 | 4 | Fibromyalgia | Dizziness, Gastro-intestinal upset ( constipation, gas, belly pain, nausea ) Pain upon urination and vaginal pain. "Jaggy" and irritable | I take 50mg X 1 around 5 pm. On day 2, I noticed an incredible improvement in my dry eye syndrome. The relief of that pain alone is reason to take this drug. I sleep like a log, and rarely wake up in pain. I dream alot--but not bad dreams. My pain level has improved from a 10 to a 6. My job requires constant bending, lifting, moving and walking, so I will stay on this medication. Hopefully the side effects will diminish in time. If my Dr. wants to bump up the dose--I will refuse. God knows I can't be any more constipated. Ha Ha | F | 60 | 10 days | 12/19/2007 |