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Old 06-25-2013, 02:06 PM #121
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After being on Lyrica for 6 months, I have been off for 3 weeks tapering down from 450mg per day. My withdrawal symptoms have been just awful with migraines, nausea, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and extreme fatigue, just to mention a few. I honestly feel as if my body has been poisoned and often wonder if there isn't anything else wrong with me. All of your posts have been so helpful to let me know that I'm not truly crazy about my symptoms but honestly, when I read how long so many people are suffering from the withdrawal it's down right depressing. Again thanks to all of you.
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After being on Lyrica for 6 months, I have been off for 3 weeks tapering down from 450mg per day. My withdrawal symptoms have been just awful with migraines, nausea, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and extreme fatigue, just to mention a few. I honestly feel as if my body has been poisoned and often wonder if there isn't anything else wrong with me. All of your posts have been so helpful to let me know that I'm not truly crazy about my symptoms but honestly, when I read how long so many people are suffering from the withdrawal it's down right depressing. Again thanks to all of you.
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I'm so glad I've read through this forum. While it's not the first Lyrica failure site I've been on, it has great insight and understanding of the withdrawal syndrome that we have all experienced. I have taken Lyrica for about two years, eventually up to 450 mg per day. The drug did nothing for my problem (RSD), and made me feel like an emotional zombie, not to mention the 30 pounds I gained. I ran out of Lyrica and didn't get to the pharmacy in time. By the next day, I was terrifically ill, virtually unable to get out of bed. Stupidly, I thought I had the flu! I missed all of my final exams (working on my MA), and will have to repeat 2 classes. Weeks went by, and I did not get better. Total exhaustion, nausea, stabbing stomach pain, diarrhea, aching, chills and crazy sweating. I went to the Doctor, and they thought it was the flu as well. Then one day, DUH! I realized I had not taken my lyrica since I had become ill. My husband picked up my prescription, I took my dose and...A MIRACLE! I was cured instantly!

Then and there I made the decision to get off Lyrica, and started doing the research I SHOULD HAVE to begin with. I have been on a loooooooooong slow taper since January, going from 450mg per day to my current dose, 50 per day. I'm going to drop to 25 next week. Anyone who wants to start a class action suit, count me in. While lyrica does warn of some withdrawal symptoms, there is nothing in the literature to warn potential users of the hell that they will go through to get off this drug!

I wish I could offer some good advise to my fellow sufferers, but I have found nothing that really helps, aside from just taking it very slowly. I'm glad to have found you guys, and its so comforting to know that you are not going crazy...lyrica does cause terrible health problems!
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I've been trying to get off this spawn of Satan for quite a while. I'd found that going from 25mg to zero was too big of a drop, so I'd cut one of the capsules in half using scissors, which leaves a little cup in your hand with some of the poison in it, then dump that into a measuring syringe filled with 10ml water *admin edit*
Shake it then squirt out some of the water going down 10,9,8... etc. As absurd as this sounds, I've found I can notice the steps. Day 5 after a drop I feel like hell, day 10 I feel better then drop it down again. That's just the pace I've found that works for me, when I went faster I built up a withdrawal "debt" and had to backtrack a bit. The negative side effects from being on it are virtually gone, now it's just the last little bit that's giving me problems. From my experience getting off this stuff "too slow" hurts less than "too fast".

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I've gone down to 50 mg a day. I've noticed a surge of energy (a change from my desire to lay on the couch for as long as I can possibly get away with it). I have been finding that the only withdrawal symptom that really bothers me now is breaking out in cold sweat...I just get soaked, then I find myself chilled to the bone. It happens all day long, and I just loathe it. I could just go cold turkey from here on out, but as the last poster said "it hurts less going slow than fast" (I love that). I really am worried about the final dose.

Just a thought...this is an anti-seizure medication. I know this may seem like I'm reaching, but when my dog had a stroke, he was put on anti-seizure medication. He started wolfing down his food (and he had always been a picky eater). Truly, it was crazy the way he turned ravenous, and when I mentioned it to the vet, he said "oh, that's the phenobarbitol, it makes them eat like that". I think I can speak for all of us who have gained significantly from lyrica, it's not all in our head, or all water as my Doctor told me. It's huge weight gain from taking this f!#;+!ng drug. We're just like my dog!

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about 14 months now. look back for my posts about withdrawing from lyrica in real time, there are several along the way. i still don't sleep as well as i use to thats for sure, in some ways i think lyrica changed me permanently, the first 7-8 months were really really hard. i can't process anxiety as well and get hung up on things that never bothered me before and are not major issues. I also have a strange awareness (that is uncomfortable and compulsive) of my joints, mainly my wrists and ankles, there is a feeling there i cant explain that is mental, it's really hard to explain, it use to be a bone in the top of my chest near my neck, and still is if i think about it.

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Quitlyricalive, your posts have been so helpful to me, thank-you for that. I also think that lyrica has changed me in some way. I've been fully off the drug for about 2 months now and still feel enormous anxiety. A condition that I never had before. I also feel hyper focused on legs - I can't stop thinking about how they feel and I'm sure they feel "tingly".

I really really wish I'd done more research before taking this drug!
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Hi everyone, ive just been reading through this thread and it has given me more hope than i have felt in the last 2 weeks since i gave away my 600mg per day dose. OMFG, this has been the longest and most horribly uncomfortable period of my entire life. I start crying at the drop of a hat, my level of self confidence has plummeted, i cant eat, i cant sleep, im constantly feeling cold and yet i'm sweating all the time. My hands are clammy and wet, my feet sweat, and i have no energy or motivation to move. Even staying in bed seems like a chore.

I am absolutely beside myself with grief over this whole ordeal, and if not for my loving and beautiful family, i think i'd have had myself committed to a hospital or clinic.

My sympathies are with ANYONE who is going through this. It helps SO MUCH now knowing that i am not alone and that it will eventually pass. My new Mantra is now -"It will pass, it will pass." And it seems to help me through the worst of the times.

Other things that have helped me are - sunshine, comfortable clothes, time off work, watching interesting videos to distract my mind, sleeping when i can, trying to remember to eat fruit and staying hydrated. The rest is just grit my teeth and have a cry when i need one.

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Thankyou to everyone who has posted in this thread.

My experience so far in coming off of lyrica has been somewhat traumatic also. These past two weeks have quite probably been the worst period of my life so far. And from what i'm reading here i could still be in for a couple more bad weeks yet. I've been through almost evry single one of the symptoms mentioned in this thread and a few more to boot. It doesn't seem to be getting any better for today, but every day i'm hopeful for feeling even just a tiny bit better than the day before. This is the most difficult thing i have ever had to do. I will never take addictive medicines again, i think i'd rather just give up then knowingly put myself through this again.

I spent 18 months on 600 mg daily of lyrica. I thouht it was great when i first started taking it. I thought my pain prayers had been answered. Boy, was i wrong.

The pain management i got from the drug started to come second after trying to avoid the onset of withdrawall only 24 hours after the last dose! That should have been my sign to stop taking it. But i didn't. And now i've just lived through the worst two week period of my life and it's looking like it could go on for weeks or even months more.

I've never been made to feel so worthless, so pathetic and so insignificant by anything in my life like i have felt these last two weeks. I feel like the world is going to end and it is all my fault. I understand that this is the withdrawall, and i have a. Very loving and supportive family who are taking fantastic care of me, but i still feel terrible almost every minute of the day. I am not in danger of suicide, i just wanted to convey the depth of depression and anxiety that i am dipping to daily at the moment. I truelly hope this does not become a permenant thing in my life, though i am prepared to stick it out a while longer if it means it will go away. For the last two weeks i have been unable to go to work, unable to function in any coherant or productive capacity and unable to eat or sleep. I am forcing fruit and water into my self as often as i can, but sometimes it's like my throat is shrunk and the food wont go down.

Some things that have helped me are - sunshine and vitamin D, staying hydrated; force a mouthfull of water as often as you think to. Carry a bottle with you. Stay away from alcohol and coffee. Chamomile tea is good, showering twice a day to help feel fresh. Change the bed sheets. Get someone to wash your hair for you. Buy yourself a new toy to play with to help distract. Youtube videos. my kids and our dogs. My beautiful wife. Crying helps too, dont fight the tears, let them come. Try to roll with the punches; if you need a day off, take it. If you can't then tell someone how you feel and lean on them when you need to.

Go to your doctor every week or two and keep them informed of how you're feeling. I'm even seeing a psychologist every week for the next few weeks. I feel it's important for my wife to not have to carry me all by herself and professional advice is very soothing.

Thats it from me for this afternoon. Thankyou all again for sharing your experiences with me to help make my experience a little easier.

Much love and respect.
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I have been on Lyrica since 2008 for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Due to financial situations, I have had to do without, for brief periods of time. The withdrawals I have are terrible. Profuse sweating, chills, nausea, joint swelling and tenderness, IBS, vomiting, crying, severe headaches, inability to eat, etc. Some of these are the effects of my Fibromyalgia. Lyrica has been a miracle drug and has kept me from becoming bedridden. However, the fact that it is highly addictive and expensive is a downside. Also, these withdrawals makes the thought of not having it put fear in me. I start experiencing withdrawals within 12 hrs of a missed dose and the withdrawals had never gone away, until I began taking Lyrica again.
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