"Hope I copied this right...anyway, I read this on a facebook page. Interesting. Glad my neuro took me off of it.[/QUOTE]

Hi Debbie and all.I am new here.I am a 54 yr old f with nueropathy in my feet.I have some choice words for Phizer.Ty for posting about gabapentin but the company is making a killing from their new drug lyrica so it wont hurt them at all.
my post is a warning to any considering lyrica or gabapentin for that matter.
aprox a yr and a half ago I began lyrica for the pain in my feet.
Now if you have severe debilitating pain that absolutley nothing will help.....I can see using this drug.
My experience.I have become an angry ,sad depressed fat person with a host of other side effects w lyrica.At 250 mgs hard to remember anything.Amnesia is a side effect.
oh at first I thought it was good pain gone but then began stumbling around my house at night(only can take it at night)as tho drunk and i dont drink.
ok so after 60 lbs weight gain and severe depression,I tried to drop a quarter of my dose last summer,,,well instantly suicidal.crying etc...next day bk to dose bk to normal.
It scared me.I am now on a doctors taper I am of the mind to do it in a weelk as phizer says or 5 weeks the week is appealing because then I would be done with this stuff.Just suck it up for a week.
anyway this drug is the worst i have ever encountered.It is actually gabapentin in a difforent form,,so the co just switched it up a bit.Lyrica binds more tightly to the molecules.
It will ruin your life for sure.It has mine so far.
I am trying other pain meds just to get rid of lyrica but getting rid of it is not easy.If anyone has tips they are welcome.
I would only take this drug if i was dying and nothing mattered.
Or the pain was so severe it didnt matter what my mood was.
Yes it has caused rotten teeth,,,,,yes mood so low its scary.Hair loss,swelling,,,,urinary problems,,,,and eyesight problems.
I am so done with lyrica and upset with phizer,,they just reinvented their drug to make more money.And take advantage of people in pain.
so there it is sorry for the long post but....please use at your own risk.
I pray I get my life back.
kayyla