I'm finally getting back to this site. I'm still toughing it out with the trilpetal. I am actually having long periods without pain, but I did ask to try to up my dosage again a bit. Maybe I'm hoping for too much, but the dosage I'm on does poop out some parts of the day. I did ask my neurologist about the Lyrica again and he agreed that it is sometimes used for nerve pain, but he still thinks trileptal is the better bet. My friend who was on Lyrica started getting a lot of fibro pain again, so she has elected to ask her doc about going off of it. Obviously, there is no perfect medication, alas. I am 55, by the way--wish I could have waited until later in life to have all the health problems.....I was diagnosed with fibro about maybe 10 years ago or so.