I am currently in week one of lyrica withdrawal. I have been on lyrica since February and feel like I am in hell. The sweats are incredible and now my eyes are stinging and dry. I have insomnia but I will not give in to this. I am wondering what got other people through. I am taking up exercise again. I orginally stopped due to nerve damage in my shoulder ( reason for lyrica) and although it was successful with pain I had no clue this was the devastation I would have to pay for.

Sorry you are having such a tough time of it. Everytime I see the "L" ad on TV I could scream. All those drugs on TV for that matter. I deal with pain and and learn to live with my stuff. I have two longtime injured shoulders and take some ibuprofen, Pain RX herbal and DGL for stomach protection. I have other issues too which are pain related but for me the drugs just cause too much damage. I'm older so my life has changed to adjust to pain.

There are a number of threads referring to lyrica withdrawal, if no one on this thread can help, it may be worthwhile having a read of them. You will find the threads under medication and treatments.

Did you stop cold turkey or are you weaning off?

My advice, if weaning, wean off as slowly as you can. I have gotten off Lyrica twice now but have resumed because it is the only med that helps my neuropathy.
I was only on 100mg a day and I took months to wean off. My doc gave me 25,50 and 75 mg samples to wean off. You need to be careful of seizures while weaning off, a big reason to go slowly. I did have seizures before taking Lyrica and they resumed when I stopped. (small seizures, called partial complex, not the full blown gran mal type).

There were two prescription meds that helped, a tranquilizer called Lorazepam and once when I was getting off both hydrocodone(Vicodin) and Lyrica simultaneously, I was given Clonidine, which is actually a blood pressure med that is also scripted for opiate withdrawal but I think it helped with Lyrica as well.

As you mentioned, exercise is great, eating well and any form of distraction.

There are some natural things found in health food store like Valerian root or chamomile tea. Ask in the health food store. There is a product called "Calms" or "Calms Forte" by Hylands.


Hyland's Calms Nerve Tension and Sleeplessness Relief Tablets | Walgreens


Wish you well. Let us know how you are doing.
Private message if you need to ask anything personal.
My best,
D.