Hi BillyBobzg, I'm pretty new here too. My pain mgt Dr put me on lyrica about a year ago now, before my tos diagnosis. I started out with 50 mg at night, and worked up to 150 at night. Other than the weight gain, I didn't have any noticeable side effects. She doesn't want me taking it during the day because I have 3 kids, ages 9, 7, & 2, and drugs and parenting aren't the best combination.
I got moderate relief at the 150 level, but I've heard lyrica is notorious for patients developing tolerance to it pretty quickly. It recently stopped helping me much at all. My pm doesn't want me going off of it though because I'm headed for surgery and she said studies have shown that if the patient continues to use lyrica bf surgery, they'll require less of the heavy pain meds in the post op period. I'm hoping she's right, cuz I do not do well with any kind of codeine. Hope you can find some relief from your pain soon!