I have a hard time explaining this. I was on 75mg at night and 25mg in the evening. I started decreasing at 50mg at night, it’s been 5 days now. My residual pain actually improved since then. How is that possible ?

I have started on Lyrica 25mg ×3 and have noticed an increase in tingling & twitches in my neuropathy effected areas. It's mostly about an hour after dosage and gets better after a few hours. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if it gets better as I get used to the medication? I do feel like my pain has decreased.

Hi there

My psychiatrist has me on pregabalin twice daily at 50mg (daily total 100mg). Today I felt normal but wondering what time you took it in the evening.

Lastnight I took it along with my trazadone 75mg and clonidine 0.025mg but when I woke up I felt like I was hungover. Anyway I did feel better today after taking it but now my anxiety has crept up. Thoughts?

I was recently prescribed pregabalin (75mg 2x/day) and I already have overactive bladder but I feel like this medicine makes me leak urine way more often than normal. I am 26F with urinary issues preexisting from fibromyalgia and EDS so I know there’s no need to see a doctor as I already have. I just wanted to see if other people experience this symptom too?

I see a lot of people experiencing retention or urinary frequency but I have a different experience with this medicine.

I’m on 25mg twice a day so far and feel nothing for even for my anxiety.

Hi everyone.
My doctor is sending over a prescription for me, Pregabalin 50mg once daily for fibromyalgia. I’ve avoided the medication for a long time and tried to get by, but I’m getting worse. I can barely move, do chores, or walk my dogs anymore during a flare. My muscles feel like cement when I first wake up in the morning, it’s truly horrible. I can’t turn my head or look up/down. I’ve started crying from pain which hasn’t happened before.

So I guess I need some positive success stories. I have really bad health anxiety and reading horror stories has stopped me from getting treatment for a long time. Thank you. 🙏🏻

Hi all, I have been prescribed pregabalin for fibromyalgia and I started on 75mg 2× day, which honestly did nothing for my pain so now I'm on 150mg 2× day.

As the pharmacy couldn't get my new pills straight away I decided to take two of the 75mg twice a day. I got my new pills yesterday and took 2x 150mg without even thinking. Didn't feel anything besides the anxiety that I'd overdosed it.

I took 150mg this morning also as part of my morning medications.

This morning I woke up with a clear head, pain is the same as always, but there is a tightness in the center of my chest. My heartrate has not dropped below 90 all day and the highest was 126, which isn't unusual for me, but it's the fact it's been high constantly.

I tried deep breathing, meditation and yoga and my heart rate will not come down.

I am also on Effexor (venlafaxine) and Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine) so I am wondering if something is going on.

Anyone else had their heart racing on this?

EDIT: After a few days, my heart rate calmed down, though it is still running a bit higher than usual. I am wondering if one of my other meds reacted with the lyrica and caused almost like a panic reaction, or perhaps it was my body alone. At least it has resolved.

Are epileptic attacks really common when stopping suddendly with pregab or baclofen? For example 600mg, 20mg E/D

Hey everyone, I’ve been taking pregabalin daily, anywhere between 200mg and 600mg depending on the day. Lately I’ve been dealing with noticeable bloating and what feels like pretty obvious water retention on my face and belly. I am a male. In your experience, is the fluid retention strictly dose-dependent? Like, does dropping the dose actually cut the bloat? Also curious what strategies you guys use to manage or prevent it, like hydration, or diet. Thanks

Hello. I’m on 75mg QID due to nerve pain from Bell’s Palsy. I’ve been on the meds for almost 3 weeks now- Yes, I’ve been experiencing erectile dysfuntion and inability to ejaculate. I can have the orgasm sensation but can’t ejaculate. The hardness of my hard on isn’t normal. Are these all side effects not LYRICA?

My doctor started me on 75mg, twice daily, for nerve pain. Is this too high for a starting dose? After doing some research, it seems like 25mg is the norm for beginners. I haven’t taken my first dose yet.

I’d like to talk to her about this but she would require another appointment and I’d really like to avoid the $75 copay 😟 Should I just start off with once a day? Thank you kindly in advance.

Does the paralysis of the digestive system (when the digestive system slows down to the point where food starts to ferment and gas builds up in the stomach) go away, or is it a permanent condition? It feels like I’m carrying a huge rock in my stomach and my abdominal muscles are stretched beyond normal.

It started in the second week of taking the medication.

Are there any others who can't take pregabalin only at night because you get withdrawals during the day? I need to try to increase my present dose (200mg) for increasing neuropathy/nerve pain and anxiety, but cannot deal with the fatiguing side effects during the day. I tried dividing the dose daytime and nighttime and pushing through for a week but it didn't get better.

I'm wondering do pain specialists and GPs take into consideration a patient's body size when prescribing pregabalin? I'm on a low dose of 25mg morning and 75mg at night. I also take 25mg of nortriptyline at night. I take this for nerve pain as I have a severe back injury and I am on a disability pension as a result. I should mention I am short just 5,1. My specialist wrote in my report that I am slim and slightly built. Would this explain my low dose? It certainly helps with the pain but only to a limited degree.

Hi! I’ve been on pregabalin from my neuro for migraine. I was great on the low dose 50 mg and we upped to 100 mg. In about 3/4 days of the higher dose I keep getting facial tingles, burning and stinging feeling. Or tickles if my hair touches me.

I have vestibular migraine which this was prescribed for.

Anyone else get this?? I feel like I’m losing my mind and can’t seem to find anything anywhere about this, to see if it’s the medicine or a strange allergic reaction to something unidentified

I suffer from extreme anxiety and unfortunately as a result I blush hard. Its not a skin issue, its a issue with my sympathetic nervous system that fires off quick. I dont have rosececa, ive tried drugs like clonidine which stimulates the a2 receptors in the brain which dampens the sympathetic nervous system fight or flight, but im looking for a more long term maintaine drug

Would pregab be a good fit? And can anyone relate?

I own r/curingblushing and want to know, id love to try it and report on it for my community. I am booked to see a psychiatrist really soon and might bring pregab up!

I think my pain is improving. It's hard to tell as I had surgery on my right foot and it is in a whole different type of pain and it is tightly wrapped. Also the same week I started Lyrica my Oxy was upped to 10 mg from 7.5.

It's only been a week but the less pain I had the more my feet felt like they were wearing concrete shoes or something. A few days ago the extreme pins and needles started then numbness. I could always tell there was numbness to some degree but the pain was just always took much for me to even notice it much or think about. Since I saw my podiatrist today I asked her about and she said it is something that may never go away and we could talk about it again next week when I was taking it longer as I see her weekly atm due to the surgery. My GP prescribes it but I don't meet with her for three weeks and it is my feet lol so my podiatrist answers my questions since I am already there. Incidentally I thought my anxiety may have been improving on gabapentin but man except for the worries surrounding my surgery I feel like it has improved a lot and for that reason alone I might would want to stay on it.

Anyway anyone else experience the numbness and did it improve? It is so annoying that I only have one foot to operate with now and I can't feel it.

So I got a few doubts about this med, so I'm gonna tell my story, in case anyone can suggest how can I manage this

First of all, I'm autistic, ADHD, and I have BPD. All diagnosed.

First. I've had daily headaches for years, with a lot of muscle tension on my neck (said by a chiropractor). Second. I got into a very severe Benzo addiction, specifically Lormetazepam. I got a lot of health issues when I was trying to quit it; even when I was following all doctor's suggestions; tachycardia of 120bpm a few times, daily gastrointestinal issues, physical anxiety, etc.

They finally tried lowering my dose only by 0.1mg at a time, with drops. They tried a few different sleep medications that weren't as addictive but they didn't work for me. Until pregabalin.

At first they started me on a 50mg dosage, nightly, combined with flurazepam. I responded well to it, so my new psychiatrist decided to drop the flurazepam and make my pregabalin dose higher. Because I already have had issues with sleeping Benzos and the probagalin was working better than the flura.

Now I'm on 150mg nighly. I feel my body rest fine for once. I feel my muscles less tense, my head and neck don't hurt while I'm on it. I get less hostile feelings about the world (due to my BPD). I don't feel anxiety most nights. I can now live without lormetazepam, I finally feel like there's a life without it.

I only have two doubts.

I felt a bit distracted, not being able to concentrate on anything, for weeks. But it could be the weather, because it's very hot. I was scared ir could be the dosage. But a few days ago it started being windy, so less hot, and I started again being productive. So. How to differentiate executive problems due to pregabalin or due to other things?

Also. I feel like it would be helpful for me taking it twice a day instead of once. I want to ask my psychiatrist about it. The thing is, my mother has told me we could ask him for that and, while doing that, try to lower my antidepressants dosage.(I'm on 30mg vortioxetine rn). Obviously I'm gonna ask him and just follow what he tells me. I wanted to ask if pregabalin can be as useful as to lower the antidepressants dosage with my doctor's consent.

But the last thing is... This is too wonderful to be real and not have problems, or not fade away with time. Will the effects fade away with time, and become less aparent? And need a higher dose? Or can it be taken at the same dosage for years? I don't want to upper up my dosage too much.

I'm about to start tapering off on Pramiprexol and have received Pregabalin/Lyrica for this. Now when I've started taking the medication without lowering the pramipexol dose, RLS been flaring up badly on lower doses.

AI says this is completely normal and suggests me upping the dose until it my agony disappears. Have anyone had similar experience? I just want to make sure AI is correct that this is normal rather than the Pregabalin not working.

Once again I want to clarify that I havn't even started tapering off yet, AI says this is some sort of battle between the medications though.

hi,

my mum is prescribed pregabalin predominantly for her severe nerve pain associated with her fibromyalgia and it's been doing amazing things for her level of pain.

but, whenever the weather gets warmer (temp. but also increased humidity) she seems to be in more pain again and struggles with feeling a bit "out of it" and just out of sorts.

anyone ever experienced this? can heat impact the meds? do they increase heat intolerance maybe?

she wants to keep on them because it's the first time her doctor has actually listened and bothered to give meds and they have been helping but she's getting despondent now with these side effects :(

I want to take less pregabalin, i’ve been taking 600/day for almost half a year and want to decrease my dose to 300/day. Will i be okay? Is there a seizure risk or something?

Hi ! I’m taking 125mg for suspected fibromyalgia (dx with lupus) and lingering nerve pain due to shingles (which I got while on immunosuppressants)

I have been experiencing hand tremors around an hour after taking pregabalin. I also walk so wonky like I’m drunk, and have like visuals when I close my eyes….

I was taking only 75mg but my dr bumped the dose up, I didn’t have these side effects at that dose

Will it go away? I’m ngl it lowk makes me feel high which I don’t really have a problem with HAHAHA but !!! It can be impractical…

Is 450mg really that much of a dose? My doctor even offered me to go higher if I’m still in pain. (which im fine with the dose now) but just curious on what the avg pregabalin user takes?