Unfortunately, Lyrica can have many side effects. Weight gain and high blood pressure are the two most common. Your husband's doctor will need to titrate your husband off of Lyrica while simultaneously initiating a replacement medication.

There are many other medications available for the treatment of CRPS. Most CRPS patients do not take a single medication, but take a group of medications that work together. One of these, the "gold standard", which is the term that was used to describe it by a leading CRPS researcher and one of my physicians, is oral Ketamine. It is believed to be effective because it acts on the NMDA receptors in the spine that are thought crucial in CRPS.

Other medications frequently prescribed in the group include such medications as Neurontin, Cymbalta, Effexor, Topamax, Norco, Oxy, or others in the same classes as each of these.

We CRPS patients learn to continually need to adjust our medications. The important thing is to have a doctor who reacts quickly and creatively and has expertise in CRPS.

We hope your husband's vision is restored soon!