After being on Lyrica for SEVEN months, I had to have NINE root canals, one implant and all of my front teeth capped.

Before Lyrica, I wore orthodontia, for five years. I took very good care of my teeth. Immediately before starting Lyrica, I went to the dentist and my teeth were fine.

They ONLY change made, was my Doctor placed me on Lyrica. I weighed 165 pounds. After seven months, I weighed 260 pounds and lost most of my teeth. So far, I have paid 25K dollars in temporary, restorative dentistry. I am now moving on to my final steps, which will cost another 25K dollars!

Lyrica is a terrible, terrible medication. Beware of taking it and be sure you do the research on all of the other people having horrible side effects of Lyrica. Pfizer is going DOWN!

That is HORRIBLE!

I did a search and found some others reporting the same thing!
But this side effect is not commonly found on Patientsville.com
The ones I saw on Peoples' Pharmacy were ANGRY and severely affected though.

Nothing on PubMed either.

Not many people on askapatient.com either.

Perhaps there is some connection to only certain people?
Some other common factor that happens when Lyrica is present?

Perhaps we will see others from Google coming to this thread!
It is a horrible thing to deal with..loss of teeth like that!

Thank you so much for doing your research! After my bad experience, I have been all over the Internet and have found that Pfizer released this drug, using the general population as the test group.

There is so much information about Lyrica and defective teeth, but you really have to search. Many people never connect the dots and think that their teeth are bad for some other reason.

I have found that when you ask a few questions and find out when they started using Lyrica, a light bulb comes on in their head.

I read about this woman, who was on Lyrica for about nine months and said that there were no signs of damage, until her teeth just started to crack and fall out of her mouth.

That is what my Endodontist said. He called it "Disease X", because the teeth seemed normal, until he started drilling. Then he told me, it was like drilling into an empty eggshell.

It has truly ruined my life. I am in Public Relations and if I show up at a corporate meeting, looking like a Meth-addict, it's not a good thing. I have lost 55 pounds, so that is getting under control, but I still have to spend another 25K to finish the dental restoration.

Thanks again for your concern and your research. If you keep digging, you will see how people blame their dental problems on "other" things, rather than Lyrica.

Take care.

toniolarabi,
I'm sorry for all your problems. I have been taking Lyrica for 3 years (and neurontin for 7 yrs before that). This dental problem (actually periodontal) has only been within the last year, and I had previous perio problems in the past..If you could provide some links about the Lyrica/dental problem relationship, to spare us (me) the frustration of futile digging and wasted time, it would be truly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your help

Bob B: I found this on google.com:

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete...f43777e436a6c1

Not very informative but if you check all the "hits" there may be some useful info.

Thanks Dan, but there's not much there to bite into
(pun intended !)
Unless I can find something (many things) definitive, its just a case of happenstance and individual circumstantial occurrences.
A few on a soapbox does not clean the clothes
(Do I like trite sayings? I do, I do!).

I personally think it is a combination of things...

Low Vit D... dry mouth, poor calcium intake, low antioxidant values, low Vit C. etc.

Periodontal disease seems to strike certain people and spare others. Sometimes I think it is the simple fact of pH of the saliva.
My dentist told me once, there are people who make tons of tartar and others make little. It all has to do with the pH of the saliva. I am in the low tartar group, luckily.

I know you don't want to hear this but..... smoking is a huge factor. (sorry)

Mrs D.
Don't be sorry - I know I'll be stopping smoking vey soon.
I have an appt with my PCP about it on the 30th of this month.
I just think I'll need some form of help (chantrix?) and am in the process
of convincing my wife to stop smoking. don't think I can do it
with her smoking, too.
I always have been in the medium tartar producing level.
Not heavy, but enough to have to fight it.
Smoking doesn't help that area, either.
I'm just not so sure about the Lyrica or Neurontin relationship.
I can't find anything definitve, but will ask my periodontist about it.

I quit cold turkey after 50 years of Lucky Strikes & Pell Mells ... if I can do it so can you. Good luck.

Just got back from the perio exam. Took full mouth xrays (should get a 1/2 off discount as there are only 50% of my teeth left heh.. in my dreams ! )
Scheduled on 3/25 for laser surgery and graft on most problematic quadrant to try to save a few molars.
I'm not as sure about going farther than that with any add'l surgery.
He'll give me a better idea about what he can do after he's looked at the x-rays in detail .... by my next visit.
We'll see.
I'm not gonna go thru what I went thru last time,
but will take a gamble & see if this one quadrant can be helped.

BTW it'll be $1425 after a discount (20% on part of it ) savings of $325 by joining the Careington dental plan for $7 a month. Its not a dental insurance, but a discount plan.
The AARP dental ins. is $52 a month and would pay for 50%, butwith a $1500 cap- per year (then 100%) and a deductible, that's basically a trade-off cause my problems will be waaay over the $1500 per year
My Medicare Part D, Rx plan is only $40 a month and saves me over $250 a month ($3K/yr) in Rx's.