Hi Everyone! I had this sweating problem but couldn't take Lyrica *because of* the Neurontin I was taking. The doc (a quad himself) prescribed Cymbalta instead. It worked great!
One problem I developed was that after a while I started getting extremely sleepy around 6-7:00pm everyday no matter when I took the Cymbalta. I mean like "scary sleepy!" asleep in my chair watching TV during dinner with my wife and mother-in-law (YES, I KNOW there's a joke in there... it's just too easy! Ha!). We had to stay an extra 2 hrs until we were sure I was awake enough to drive home (Another joke coming... I'm holding back). I decided to slowly get myself off it. Luckily, the sweating problem has continued to stay away ever since! That was a year ago! I still have to take 200mg ibuprofen each morning or it comes back after a couple days. If you're sweating ONLY when you sit, I might suggest 1) a bone density scan and 2) checking lower lumbar and sacral vertabrae for compression fractures and other tiny cracks/breaks. I don't know about the rest of you, but I DO know the reason I was sweating... I did have a compression fracture in one of my lower lumbar vertabrae and a sacral one. It was from thinning bones and repeated trauma from transfers to/from my chair. I had a procedure done called "sacroplasty" where they use a CT Scan to find the compression points and inject a fast-hardening cement into the bones to "spread them" a little (lack of a better term) and then stabilize them once they're apart. I was sweating before that and for a while after the procedure... perhaps it was because it took a while for all the nearby inflammation to settle down. Nobody ever was sure why it stopped. That was the best thing anyone could ever determine/guess. Having to continue with ibuprofen seems to back that idea up. Best wishes to All! Sincerely, --Tod ---- Daniel Espinoza <[email protected]> wrote: > That's the medication I'm using it now and it works great, before I was on > Neurontin and that would knock me out almost. Now that I'm on Lyrica I don't > have to deal with all of the side effects and it works great for me. I first > started taking it at Craig Hospital and haven't thought about switching it > since. I take it twice a day once at 9 AM and once at 8 PM. > > > > Daniel Espinoza 26/m/California > > > > Occupation before accident - Network engineer / SR. Network security > engineer What happened: > > I broke my c2,c6,c7 and had to get donor bone at c2, which left me as a > Quadriplegic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadriplegia> . > > I had a Traumatic_brain_injury > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_brain_injury> from blood going to > my brain from my spinal cord, but its getting better with time. > > I am off a ventilator <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator> "woohoo" > however only half of my diaphragm > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_diaphragm> works right now "due to > an asymmetric spinal cord injury > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord_injury> ....." > > > > http://www.thespinalcordinjured.net <http://spinalcordinjured.net/> > > http://www.myspace.com/dannylnx > > > > From: John S. [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Sweating in the chair > > > > I have heard several people including myself talk about profuse sweating and > shaking when getting in the chair. I have taken so many pain meds to control > it but never resulting in more than a few hours of relief. I just began > taking a strong dose of Lyrica and it seems to be the key for me. I'm > backing down the narcotics and it has only been a week but DAMN. I take 1 in > the morning and I don't sweat or feel the presure that starts AD. I have not > had a day without sweating and shaking for over nine years. I feel like I > might have a life again. (knock on wood) > We are all different and I know many of us have problems that it won't help. > I will let y'all know if it stops working. It has been so long since I have > felt this good. I want to goto the park and watch lovers and throw stale > bread at the birds again. (I feel like I could really nail one, maybe even a > lover.) > > I really wish you all the very best, > john
