do you remember your dosage? i got up to 150mg 3xa day. i was having too many side effects, one being i was awake all night. i just went down to 150mg twice a day but i'm considering lowering even more. maybe 100mg twice a day. it's really helped me. i'm also in remission for cancer so i'm really not thinking about going off it completely. at this point, i'm looking for quality of life. (started lyrica 3 mos ago0 dianna
I was on lyrica for nerve pain right after my injury occurred. It worked well for me, but I wanted to stop as many medications as possible. I remember lyrica being one of the hardest meds to stop. It took a couple of tries. I reduced the dose slowly. A few times I needed to increase the dose because the pain would return. So I stayed at the higher dose for about a month, then reduced the dose again. It took time, but eventually I stopped taking it and I haven't needed it since then. Michelle -----Original Message----- From: Michelle <[email protected]> To: John S. <[email protected]> Cc: Fragile <[email protected]>; diannal767 <[email protected]>; quad-list <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jun 15, 2015 2:51 pm Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] lyrica/scoilisos I was on lyrica for nerve pain right after my injury occurred. It worked well for me, but I wanted to stop as many medications as possible. I remember lyrica being one of the hardest meds to stop. It took a couple of tries. I reduced the dose slowly. A few times I needed to increase the dose because the pain would return. So I stayed at the higher dose for about a month, then reduced the dose again. It took time, but eventually I stopped taking it and I haven't needed it since then. Michelle > On Jun 15, 2015, at 2:32 PM, John S. <[email protected]> wrote: > > The doctor should tell you how to get off Lyrica. Cut your dosage every 21 days until your off. After another 21 days you're clean. Determination and self discipline are the keys. > Good Luck and Best wishes, > John s. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Fragile <[email protected]> > Date: 06/15/2015 8:34 AM (GMT-05:00) > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] lyrica/scoilisos > > I've been on Lyrica for several years. Started taking it to try and > relieve spinal cord injury related nerve pain. It didn't help. But, > it did help with nausea. It's caused weight gain, dry mouth and > lethargic. I've tried to stop taking it a few times, but the > withdrawal is pretty bad. > > On 6/14/15, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anyone tried Lyrica for SCI pain? It really helped my stiffness and > > tightness in my back/chest. Dealing with scoliosis now. It sure is getting > > hard to deal with. Constantly getting my position changed. Pain in my spine. > > Anyone else having this problem? (developed from 25 yrs in this chair) > > Dianna > > >
