Have you contacted your PM and told him or her about this. If not, please do so. Every anti convulsant, to my knowledge, needs to be gradually stopped.

Thank you.

This post was made last year so thankfully, I am no longer suffering from the withdrawal symptoms. It was absolutely horrible coming off the Lyrica and I have heard that withdrawal symptoms are common on that drug unfortunately.

I think my doctor took me off the Lyrica way too soon but i'm not sure. It took ages for me to get it out of my system and for the withdrawal symptoms to stop!

Thank you for your post though - i'm sure it will help someone else in the future!

My neurologist did not warn me how truly addictive Lyrica is. He said 'tapir off of it slowly". I was on 300mg twice daily. Over 3 weeks I reduced to one 75mg a day. I stayed on that for three days, then nothing. Within 3 days I had (are you ready):

etremely hot in head/core while feet ice cold, migranous (photophobic) headache, yellow diarrhea, poor sleep, PERSISTANT ANXIETY, memory loss, inability to respond to questions, dizziness, vertigo, mood swings/crying, focus on death and loss, bruxism/jaw pain, low back and shoulder pain, and, of course, depression.

On the plus side, my foot burnig was not worse. It was about the same as before I started the med.

Neurologists should never start this med. without a very clear and exact path for getting off of it. Tight supervision must be a given. This med. as prescribed today is very dangerous.