If you take Lyrica, have you had side effects of heart racing and chest pain?

TIA.

None of those symptoms, but when they raised my dosages I did get a little stoned. How much are you taking?

I am taking 150 mg 3 times a day. I do not deal with any sluggishness from this amount. I am also on Neurontin, Darvocet, Amitriptyline, Cymbalta and Valium. (I use lidocaine patches as well).

I have been on all these medications without bad side effects. Last week is when I started the cymbalta and the week before I started the lyrica.

The last few days I started experiencing heart racing and my pulse is high- but my blood pressure isn't.

I thought that these things must've come from the lyrica or the cymbalta. More likely the lyrica because I have been increasing that, and my cymbalta doseage has stayed the same.

It is hard sometimes to know what is happening from these meds (esp. when you are on so many) and what is happening from your disorder... I have reflex sympathetic dystrophy. The ant-seizure meds are for nerve pain and the anti-depressants for sleep, pain and migraines. I also take pain meds because I am in chronic severe pain.

I know the lyrica has helped me with numbness, tingling and allodynia.

Thanks.

Hey there. I'm looking into using Lyrica for numbness. However I've been told that lyrica softens the strength of nerve signals in order to stop pain. But numbness is the lack of pain. So won't lyrica just make that worse? Or did you have no/little sensation in a body part and taking lyrica put the sensation back in?

Now I am really confused! All I know is that it stopped some of the nerve pain/ some of the time (the allodynia) and some of the numbness. I would have absolutely no feeling in certain parts of my lips/ face at times and after starting lyrica it has stopped. I didn't know anything about lyrica softening the strength of nerve signals- I will have to look into that more. Now I am wondering if the numbness stopped for some other strange reason and not because I started lyrica?!

Let me know if you have any further thoughts on it!

http://www.lyrica.com/content/main_h...rica_works.jsp

" LYRICA was designed to treat your specific kind of pain. LYRICA works by reducing the number of “extra” electrical signals that are sent out from damaged nerves in your body. By calming the extra electrical signals in your nerves, LYRICA can help you become more comfortable. That’s why LYRICA is able to give many people relief."

That's what I was refering to.

Thanks for the info, it's good to know at least in your case lyrica has managed to give you feeling back in parts of your body.

Please dont take it, numbness is not bad, pain is bad... stay numb you will be greatefull not to feel the withdrawals from lyrica down the road

Amytriptyline could be the culprit. Racing heart is a known side effect. Check with your doctor about this. Some people are sensitive to it.

I have suffered a heart attack and I am researching if it was the Lyrica I was taking.