You should definitely come on over to some of our other forums, specifically the peripheral neuropathy and bipolar forums:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum38.html

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum20.html

Interesting claim about the meds; I can say that there are some doctors out there who are ascribing mood altering properties to Lyrica (PreGabalin), but generally, as a second-generation anti-convulsant, it is prescribed for nerve pain and seizure activites more often, and I think the jury is still out on mood-altering effects.