Seizure While On Lyrica
 

Hello Folks,

I have a form of TN that zaps me with electric-like rubber
band snaps inside my head when I try to sleep (where I had
CO2 laser burns in 2004) and on the night of March 25, 2008 at around
8:00 PM while lying down praying to God to calm my mind and body
down I had a terrible seizure, which I attribute to the side effect of
150 mg. of Lyrica the night before, but I fell asleep while praying the
next night without taking the Lyrica and had a terrible seizure.
(sudden withdrawl?) I've been tested for epilepsy 3 times; all negative.

I sustained a massive rotator cuff tear in my right (dominant)
shoulder and some other tears and I am now facing surgery.

I have no disability insurance and I am self-employed.
At age 50, I don't know what to do. I'm divorced, my family
is all dead, my son is dead and I'm completely isolated.
I've stopped taking all psychotropic drugs now and am going
to a Chinese acupuncture doc for nerve pain sleep-snaps in
my head. (so far, his special method works, Dr. Tong in Costa
Mesa, CA)

I've worked every day of my life for the past 32 years and I
don't know how to handle this. It's a bit devastating. My seizures
didn't start until my wacko neurologist prescribed me SEROQUEL
for sleep, over a year ago. That may have started it all. I checked
on the Inet and the side effects of SEROQUEL can be seizures.

Then, later I had seizures on Neurontin, now Lyrica.

My right arm was like a gorilla's ... now it's 80% down with
an unknown prognosis.

-Roy