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i take lyrica 300mg 2x a day am having same problem with weight. if you find answer please pass it on

49 year old Female

Posted: 2008-02-25 12:19:50

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I have been taking Lyrica for @ 3 years for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. I gained 30 lbs. while on this med.That is one of the side effects. I won't stop taking it because it has helped my pain a lot. Also, the inactivity due to my condition doesn't help. I did lose 10 lbs last summer because I was more active,
I hope this helps you. Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good. Good luck with your pain. I have lived with chronic pain for 10 years 4 of which I had RSD, a neurological chronic pain disease that rates a 42 on the McGill pain scale.
Pat-RSD survivor

49 year old Female

Posted: 2008-03-08 03:43:06

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I, too, have RSD and have been on 300 mg of Lyrica daily for the past 6 months. Within the past 2 months, I have had a 10-lb. weight gain. When I questioned my neurologist about it, he said he didn't think it could be the Lyrica, but I have read all I can find about Lyrica and I believe it is my medicine. I'm not taking anything else. I am frustrated as it has taken my pain to a manageable level and I've been living my life near normally for the first time these past 2 months (it took 5 months for me to be able to walk and get through the pain, with nerve blocks, therapy, etc.). These posts regarding weight gain have helped me know the source of my weight gain.
Brenda - RSD, age 47

Posted: 2008-07-30 09:43:17

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I too takes a lot of other medication, gained some belly fat, the weight gain bothers me. lyrica is helpimg with the burning feeling on my legs but i wish there some other medciene we can use without the weight gain.

Posted: 2008-09-10 11:00:18

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I too takes a lot of other medication, gained some belly fat, the weight gain bothers me. lyrica is helpimg with the burning feeling on my legs but I wish there some other medciene we can use without the weight gain. I am a 66 year old man who needs to loose weight.

Posted: 2008-09-10 11:11:29

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Reducing the dose of any medication from the level originally prescribed can reduce its effectiveness. That said, the use of medications always involves a balance of benefit versus risk... If you're experiencing side-effects from a product, and it is providing reasonable pain relief, it is quite common for doctors and patients to gradually reduce the dose in the hope that the benefit remains but that the side effects become reduced.

Posted: 2008-02-18 10:43:50

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The Lyrica is causing you the weight gain. I have been on it since July 07 and I have put on 20lbs. I find my appetite is greatly heightened on the Lyrica so I am having to just watch what I eat and exercise regularly to maintain. For me the weight gain is worth the reduction in pain and symptoms of fibromyalgia. Cymbalta does help take the edge off the pain, but I have not seen any weight increase since being on it. Effexor is a very similar drug to Cymbalta but has much more side effects listed than Cymbalta does so which ever one works for you the best, I'd stick with it.

Good luck!!!

34 year old Male

Posted: 2008-03-03 12:45:07

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I started taking Lyrica (100mgs at night and 50mgs in am) a couple of months ago and did not gain weight. I believe it is because I am also taking Provigil for fatigue and that medication caused me to lose 12 lbs. the first two months I took it. The weight loss stopped when I started the Lyrica. I did have a procedure last month which required bedrest so I did not take my Provigl for three or four days and I did gain about 5 lbs in that time and my legs and feet and toes were all puffy. I started back on the Provigil and the weight did come back off in about a week or two and I am back where I was before the Lyrica. If you are taking Lyrica for Fibromyalgia pain and also have extreme fatigue, talk to your DR about Provigil. It helps greatly with fatigue and mental fog. And I believe it has countered any weight gain that I would have experienced if I were to have taken Lyrica alone.

41 year old Female

Posted: 2008-03-07 17:16:31

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I have 2 Bulging Discs L4-L5 L5-S1. which a MRI showed the bulges on my nerve root and Thoracic. The Bulge on the nerve root has affected and caused The Piriformis Syndrome in my left Butt cheek, and then of course the pain travels down the leg to the bottom of my foot. I have alot of pain all the way down the side of my leg constantly, the rest of my leg hurts very bad as well but it seems the side hurts worse. Now the other bulge I assume is touching my thoracic which cause my pain to go up my back, and tends to cause lots of pain in or around my shoulder Blades, both, 1st it was the left blade that starting hurting 1st, A MRI reader said that I have a hemangioma around my left, but if any 1 has ever seen that on some1 before you would be like hmm they grow on the inside of your body too? it surely isnt visible. All of this started 6wks after birthing my son, which passed 2 hrs and 5 min after birth. I was misdiagnosed by a OBGYN when I was 5 wks pregnant, because a woman that calls herself a Dr. decided she didnt want to come visit me in the hospital, after her staff telling me to go there for risk of getting dehydrated because I had caught a very bad virus from my daughter, I had had an appt. at her office the very next day for my 1st initial OB visit for my vitamins. You see our Zachary was a Planned Pregnancy, right before he was conceived his daddy said lets have a boy :) so of course from that night I just knew I was pregnant. I even went and got my preg. tests so early that the 1st test was neg. about 4 days later I done another and it was positive, I knew that I was 5 wks because beside that time there was a period of abstinants. I went to my primary Dr. and they confirmed another test positive. So I got my insurance book looking for a Dr. to go to. I wanted to get in quickly because I wanted the prenatal prescription vitamins, and of course I dont really know anyone around here so I had no personal references for a OB. So as I was saying I went to the ER, I was so so sick, my daughter was still sick as well, I couldnt even take care of my sickness much less hers still too. I had Morris come home and take me to the ER, because thats what I was told when I called in to their office to ask if there was anything that could be done to help me w/h the virus, I hate to say this but it was coming out both ends. Now of course after almost 2 years later I shouldve told them to call me in some phenergen, u know since they have degrees and I dont, But I was afraid as well for the baby like I said he was only 5 wks, all that squeezing and pushing I was afraid. Finally after 6 hrs I got called back. I had told Morris to take our Daughter home after prolly an hr because, I was having to go back and forth with her to the bthrm and her little butt was so raw, so he had to go take care of her. A nurse in the ER put a cath. in and did it wrong because I was burning really bad, I mean BAD The Hospital I was at, PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THERE. what happened ultimately started w/h them. A tech came and got me and too me for vag. and abd. ultrasounds. Yes she did both, because after she done abd. 1 she handed me the tool to insert inside myself. Ultimately my records told that a vag. ultrasound was not done in the ER because of my pain. seems to me some 1 would do only a vag. that early in preg. I mean how small is the baby at 5 wks. The ER Dr comes and tells me Im not Preg. DO WHAT!!!! I was like yes I am. I told him how we came to the conclusion of the preg. and all the preg. test, plus while I waited in the ER they tested my HCG levels it was 5600. I mean come on. Of course at this time I knew nothing of any of it. I didnt even know about the HCG test. The Dr. says he would BRB, From my records I found out he went and called a ON DUTY OB from there ON CALL GRP, because the guy that gave the order to admit me is not in their OFFICE. By the way before I dont mention who these people are, so that any 1 in jacksonville florida doesnt go to these, really what can u say of these IDIOTS, MURDERERS. ST VINCENTS HOSPITAL was the HOSP. I was in, and DR. AVA PHOENIX & FELIX ACHOLONU, are the 2 that are partners in their office, .. address is St VINCENTS DIVISION 5 1801 BARRS ST. SUITE 920 JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA 32204-4754 If any 1 that reads this lives around here & knows ST. Vincents, its the DUPAUL BLDG CONNECTED TO THE HOSP. As I was saying I was admitted, and of course I thought it was because they wanted to keep running a IV to make sure I didnt get DEHYDRATED, I mean thats why her office told me to go there. I finally get up to the room around 7am. I was starving by then mind u I hadnt ate in forever before I even went to the hosp. which I signed in there at 3 pm. The nurse came in to check on me, and I asked 4 food, both preg. well w/h my daughter it was morning sickness, I never actually threw up w/h her but I felt like it, I would say Im so sick - Im starving :). The Nurse tells me Im nothing by mouth. DO WHAT!!!!! Y? he says that I was prolly going to be having surgury. WHAT!!! he said they didnt say anything or tell me in the ER that I was having an ectopic preg. OMGOSH. I couldt believe what I was hearing. I have never knew any1 that had 1 before, here I was all alone in the hosp. and Im being told my baby didnt make it to where he was suppose to be. The nurse tells me that DR PHOENIX had been notified, and would be over shortly. well I called over to her office after noon time. geez I thought she might walk over and atleast say hello during lunch. I spoke w/h the sec. Vicky, which was also the 1 that told me to go to ER. Vicky says oh so u went to the ER, um yeah yuns told me too. I asked when the Dr. might be coming over, she says after her patients in the office, she will let her know. It is getting later & later, I asked the nurse couldnt 1 of the Dr.s out there running the floors couldnt they come in and tell me anything. I was distraught. MY POOR BABY!!!!! Nurse comes in and says at around 7pm that he had paged her 3 times and no call back from her. 830pm only thing I can get to eat is candy from vending. The next morning here walks in a woman in a white coat. I said r u the DR. she said yes. and of course I had to say I was beginning to wonder if u even existed 30 + hours I had heard nothing of this woman. I was scared too because only thing I had ever heard of a ectopic preg is that the both mother and child could die. So she starts asking me about my past. then says something about a ultrasound. I said, do I have to have the cath in again, she said yes. I responded by like wineing oh no more pain, I never said no absolutely not, I was just wineing I have a very low tolerance to pain. If she knew what she was suppose to have done. She Couldve said im sry or not, but that I shouldve been takin for another ULTRASOUND, that that was the only way to be sure, I wouldve have went willing. Like I said earlier this was aplanned preg. and even if it werent. She says she will do another HCG test to see what my level was doing, she examined me inside of course, and asked me what did I want to have done the surgery/DNC or the shot. I told her I did not know, That I knew nothing of anything that was happening. she left it at that and did not explain anything to me. She left, Shortly she calls and says that I am having an nonviable ectopic preg, yeah LIKE I REALLY KNEW WHAT THAT WAS i HAD NO IDEA. The nurse come in and I told him about what she said and said she was going to order me the shot, now this is the same nurse from the day prior back again, he went and told the head nurse and that guy went and copied me a paper telling about the methotrexate. well it was almost time for this shot to be given to me, and I told them I wanted to call and talk to her before I took it. Of course Vicky answered, I asked to talk to the Dr I wanted to ask her if she was for sure that what she said was happening, Vicky said yea honey, the baby doesnt even have a heartbeat. ugh OMG. I let the nurse give me shot. I was supposed to have been released shortly after that, no news from across tha way. I called over and asked them to fax the release over so I could go home. I already had Morris & Trysten there to pick me up. Finally I got the Numder to the administrator and thats all it took. I was told to go over to her office & pick up my meds and make A APPOINTMENT to go keep having the hcg test done until it went down to 0..When I got there I took the prescrption, but I told them that I would never see her again, after how I was just left there in the hospital with no word for over 30 hrs. the ladies there said thay didnt blame me they wouldnt go see some 1 that did that to them either, then they asked me if I would consider seing her partner Felix Acholonu since they had all my records there, I agreed. I was set up with some appts. to go to have my hcg tested. later on that evening at home I started feel real sick again. next day I called in to their office and they told me to come in and see ACHOLONU, He does a vag US and guess what we see inside my uterus, y its my son measuring 5 wks & 6 days I started freaking out. He said my baby was not alive he had no heart beat he says he doesnt see y they did not see the baby when I was in the ER, when it was only 3 days after the US in the ER, can u imagine if she wouldve done a ultrasound she wouldve seen him, surely he wouldve been visible the day prior when she came and told me I was having an ectopic preg. after leaving Dr. Acholonu I went straight to records at the hospital and told them I wanted my discs from the 2 US and they only had 1, they said that the reader indicated in the report that the Vaginal, Vaginal US now was not done because of my discomfort. I assured them I knew it was done, and all they could say was that the tech prolly didnt take the pictures. Now doesnt that seem funny, now that I have learned about this stuff over reading it on the internet, I should have her job, her license should be mine hell I know more than she does. A vag. US shows better than a abd US, so y would one even do a abd. US. I went back to see Acholonu 1 day shy of a week where Zachary then measured 6wks & 5 days, and now u can see his little heart beating. I also read a Dr.s post on the internet where he said BY 7 WEEKS U SHOULD SEE OR HEAR A HEARTBEAT BY VAGINAL ULTRASOUND, 7 WKS HUH. Wonder y he said he wasnt alive earlier the prior week when there is that window. I also read that not all pregnancies go and be the same in each woman, sometimes the HCG, she only relied on,does not double in 48 hrs like it does in alot of women. She there is another place she messed up on she took my HCG 30 something hours apart not 48 like it should be done. I also read that generally a Dr. checks for ectopic PREG> between 6 to 8 weeks. why in the hell did she rush in, she was suppose to have waited a couple days and done more clinical and labratory on me, y that is what the guys said that wrote the report on my ultrasound. she didnt even do what was in front of her face. when I learned my baby was still alive I ean from those 2, and even went to a different hospital. once Zachary got a little bigger, the lady that was doing a US said it looked as if he were having some problems. I was sent to specialists, and they did an amnio and sure enough he was perfect, except for what she caused. 1st was scoliosis, clubfoot, slowly but surely my innocent son that she was so reckless with, kept having more & more problems caused to his body from her negligence. My water broke Christmas eve 2006 my son was pulled out of me and ran to the next room to see what they could do for him, his lung didnt fully develope, so he could not continue to breath on on his own ,

Posted: 2008-10-25 01:51:30

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Thanks for the info. I've Been on Lyrica for over a yr. for fibro.150mg x2/day
I've experienced the weight gain and still am very fatigued and the fog and memory loss
blurred vision times of an appitite that can not be pleased times of spurts fo energy then crash.
I may talk to my Dr. about the med you thought might help the Provigil, I'm going to look this one up and see if it might also be one for me.

Posted: 2008-11-02 10:36:57

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Thanks for the info. I've Been on Lyrica for over a yr. for fibro.150mg x2/day
I've experienced the weight gain and still am very fatigued and the fog and memory loss
blurred vision times of an appitite that can not be pleased times of spurts fo energy then crash.
I may talk to my Dr. about the med you thought might help the Provigil, I'm going to look this one up and see if it might also be one for me
Age 50
Gender F

Posted: 2008-11-02 10:37:57

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Although there are no interactions identified in the iGuard database between warfarin and pregabalin, warfarin is notoriously sensitive to changes in medication. As usual, ensure that you and your doctor monitor your PTT times regularly and adjust your warfarin dose accordingly.

Posted: 2008-02-13 16:12:25

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Although lyrica and valium have the potential to interact, it is rare for it to cause problems in patients that are not elderly or debilitated.

Posted: 2008-01-29 08:48:02

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I had an MRI which required me taking a valium 10mg. I just start taking 100mg of Lyrica a day and left off the lyrica that night and the next morning before I took the 10mg valium and did just fine.

Posted: 2008-09-30 11:15:36

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Topamax and lyrica have the potential to have additive side-effects... Its worth making sure that your doctor knows if you are planning to take both products.

Posted: 2008-01-29 09:06:34

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My Dr. recently added topamax (each week I add a pill up to 8 weeks 8 per day 25mg) along with my cymbalta 120 mg and lyrica 300mg other than the wt. gain, dry mouth what other side effects can I expect?

51 year old Female

Posted: 2009-01-08 20:08:45

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Carisoprodol (one of the components of SOMA) and diphenhydramine (one of the components of Tylenol PM) have the potential to increase the risk of developing respiratory and CNS related side-effects when used with pregabalin. That said, this interaction only affects this product's risk rating for elderly and/or debilitated patients.

Posted: 2008-01-18 14:23:00

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i was also wondering the same thing i drank some caffeene around 4:00 today and now its 2:00 in the morning and i cant sleep and i have to work tomorrow what can i do?

Posted: 2008-05-14 02:27:53

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Although our drug interaction database doesn't identify important interactions between these two products, both of them have quite a few important interactions with other medicines. If you're on pregabalin, make sure you iGuard profile contains all your current medications, then look-up pseudoephedrine under 'look-up drugs' to see if it has any drug-drug or drug-health interactions with your whole profile.

Posted: 2007-12-28 10:02:01

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is it ok to take elavil an effexor with lyrica

Posted: 2008-07-09 10:00:59