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Originally Posted by Silverlady
Yesterday was a really busy day. I had to run several errands and wasn't at home at my regular meals. So somehow, between exhaustion (crutches) and pain, I forgot my noontime pills including the Lyrica and when I filled my pill box a couple of days ago, I failed to put my noon and nightime dose of Lyrica in the pill box. I was in big pain last night and only slept from 10pm-1am. And this morning when I tried to eat breakfast I felt really nauseated. Stomach was upset too. I had the 75 mg. with breakfast and at noon when I went to take the noon pills, I realized I was behind by about 300 mg yesterday. Duh..I think this was all the beginning of withdrawal from the Lyrica. I took my regular dose at noon and so far I am better.
So you don't want to stop this stuff suddenly. It must be titrated downward slowly.
Billye
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Billye,
Don't know yet what course the Dr will follow re: Lyrica and Cymbalta. Her original thought was both but she'll defer to the neurologist @ UPenn who I see on the 8th of March. I know that you need to be slowly titrated off if there's a complete change of meds and I'm certainly sorry your experience confirms that big time. I'm hoping the neurologist will have some suggestions for further diagnostic testing since the PN seems to be progressing pretty quickly and not responding positively to anything I'm doing. I guage this by comparing Jan 06 to now, not just the time since I joined the forum last month.
The 2nd week of March will be another real test since the other half of the family will be away on business. Last year things took a decided turn downward, hopefully not a repeat this year. Nonetheless, it's good for her to be away even for a week - gives her some respite from dealing w/ the affects of my PN on our lives.
Glad to know that resuming your regular dose made for some real improvement for you.
Alkymst