Lyrica

[anjel75]

Anyone take this med? I called it on Saturday and forgot to pick it up due to child illness. I have been on it for a month or two. I just plain forgot. Kids come first. So, i had been off of it for 2 days, maybe, and I went upstairs to check on my daughter and I felt like a taser-gun like shock in my back and my legs hurt and then went to sleep(numb). I sat down and it went away. I done that all day yesterday but I could sit down before they went numb. Is this because of the Lyrica or id I just reinjure myself?

[Ghilly]

The reason doctors prescribe anti-depressants for people with chronic pain from fibromyalgia syndrome is because of the effect it has on the body's pain sensors.  There way it was explained to me is that there is a type of pain sensor that is found in the brain and in the spinal fluid whose numbers are greatly reduced by taking anti-depressants.  So many pain management doctors prescribe anti-depressants in the hope that if these sensors are lessened in number, the body won't feel as much pain.  It's not that they are insisting that you are depressed, they're just trying to get your body to respond by lowering the number of sensors that feel pain.  Hope this explanation helps;

Ghilly

[scaredmom330]

I take Lyrica for fibromyalgia and arthritis, which helps, the side effect I hate is weight gain... I have been on it for 6 months and gained 30 pounds....

[deetomershea]

holy cow.
not looking forward to that.

[Patty878]

I am on Lyrica and it has worked wonderful for me with Fibro. My question is has anyone notice their hair thining. I see more and more hair lost. I am older will be 65 but I had a head full of hair and it is really getting thin. I do take other medicines but this is more then likley the strongest one. I take blood pressure and cholestrol and amitripiline. Just trying to pin point the reason. Thank you PTRC

[what2donow]

My dr has prescribed me lyrica and I took it for about 2 weeks but I couldnt handle the side effects.I am off now and to me it is almost eaiser to deal with the actual pain than the med and their side effects.

[tammer76]

Yes. The numbness and shooting pain is due to injury, or you wouldn't of been prescribed lycria. I've been on lycria for 6 yrs. I have progressive nueropathy, and a couple of other things. That is probley what you have. Talk to your doctor about nueropathy.

[Anodyne]

Please keep in mind that when the opioids were approved, the process did not involve as thorough a checklist of possible side effects to be run through with the patients they ware being tested on.  So that list of side effects in some ways is a bit misleading.  You have a cold while you are one of the test patients for a drug, and stuffy nose, cough, sore throat get listed as possible side effects.  Imagine the difference between being asked what side effects you notice, and running through a huge list, "Do you have this?" "Oh, well yeah, maybe," etc.  Look at the percentages next to the side effects.  The ones that are reported in say greater than 5 or 10 percent of patients, or the life-threatening ones are the ones to be concerned about.

That being said,  I too had the severe "loopiness," dizziness and incoordination with Lyrica.  It seemed to help a little but the side effects were intolerable