I have been suffering from burning pain in my toes as a result of a nerve injury in my back - at least that is the diagnosis. The burning intensifies when my feet are elevated or I lie down. I have been taking neurontin 300mg 5 times a day and lately it has little effect.
Docter prescribed vicodin to help with pain so I could sleep but it takes a long while to have any effect. I take 10mg of vicodin at bedtime. My doctor now wants to switch to lyreca 100mg 3 times a day. I am supposed to take the neurontin 300mg 4 times aday along with it for a week, then 300 mg 1 time at bed time for a week with the lyrica, then stop the neuronton. Is this really safe and are there other options such as additional surgery that are better than either on. Can this burning be caused by the lowering of blood pressure when I lie down rather than the nerve?