It helped me for awhile, but I kept having to increase my dosage. I did not want to increase it yet again (was up to 2700 mg), so i stopped taking it last summer.

Cyn -- make sure you slowly taper off of it. My doctor had me taper down too quickly, and I was miserable for about a month. I did lose about 10 pounds.

I tried lyrica for a few weeks this past fall and it did not help -- just made me more constipated.