I am on 50 mg twice a day. I still have the metallic taste too. Despite that it has reduced my shooting/electric jolt pain down by 80-85%. I usually only get it while taxing myself. So it a quid pro quo is disgusting ilk, really. When starting up I also could swear there were traces of its own light buzzing when my usually present symptom was low.

If I had something else to help with the pain or the shocks were not so random and awful I'd dump topamax, but I don't and they are and as such so it goes.

i don't think my buzzing has been low enough of late though or I've just gotten used to it. I found out how used to brain fog I became from Lyrica. I would go back if my symptoms grew much, much worse, but I'd wrestle with the decision and dosage would be as low as I could get with benefit.

I think mindfulness has been my best ally of late. I require everything else I have had at my disposal and used, but being mindful of these past 4 plus years, the journey, the changes and struggles and how to use that going forward.

I'd imagine everything would be cheaper here than NYC, yes. Lake Erie is unfrozen so we are expecting a week of lake effect. I stocked up today making sure my vehicle has a shovel and salt too.

Rambling off for a tad. Thankfully their snow estimate is off so far.

Jon