Pregabalin in cancer pain
Common Questions and Answers about Pregabalin in cancer pain
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My sister was told by a friend if she had chemo for her breast cancer she could not take ..... which she did take chemo ..... However i read that they were treating cancer patients with lyrica for their joint and bine pain ....Could you please let me know if it is safe for her to take lyrica for her fibromyalgia !!! Thank you so much for your time in this matter !!!
They are both used to treat nerve pain (neuropathic pain), but gabapentin can be useful in treating other pain syndromes, like the pain of peripheral neuropathy, or the pain of fibromyalgia.
The only way to know if this medication will help is to try it, but I repeat, it is not used to substitute for opiate treatment, so you will most likely continue your morphine and oxycodone while trying it.
Pain management, like football, is a game of inches.
I have been taking Pregabalin (Lyrica) and found that it helped decrease the extremity of the pain in my chest but the choking still remains.
Could this be cancer? If not, what should I do?
My mother is elderly 76 and holding -- she unable to use the internet - so I am serving this purpose. She had a mastectomy in 1998. Since her surgery for years she has experienced pain and recently of the last 3 years developed a seemingly fluid filled lump beneath the removed breast. She can palpate the lump with no pain or discomfort. However, when she attempts to wear a bra with a prosthetic within several hours she has to have the bra removed immediately.
Labor and Delivery
The effects of Lyrica on labor and delivery in pregnant women are unknown. In the prenatal-postnatal study in rats, pregabalin prolonged gestation and induced dystocia at exposures ≥50 times the mean human exposure (AUC (0–24) of 123 µg∙hr/mL) at the maximum recommended clinical dose of 600 mg/day.
Nursing Mothers
It is not known if pregabalin is excreted in human milk; it is, however, present in the milk of rats.
Through some experimenting with dose I have found that decreasing my dose to 300mg/day leads to a marked increase in pain, particularly in places that were free of pain *before* I had ever tried Lyrica. The pain is particularly brutal in the joints - knees, elbows, fingers - and it feels like a cross between bad arthritis and having needles stuck into the bone; most bizarre. Even after several days at the reduced dose I still copped these adverse pain effects.
she has had severe pain in her joints as well as a lot of pain in her hands and arms...no it is not arthritis.....my question is....what will happen if she combines the methadone and the pregabalin?...she takes methadone about every other day...a bottle of 130mg methadone will last her almost 5 to 6 days....any info would be helpful.
Pregabalin is known as Lyrica in the States and is prescribed primarily to relieve neuropathic pain if you have diabetes or in the area of your rash if you have had shingles. It is also used to treat fibromyalgia. Pregabalin is used with other medications to treat certain types of seizures in people with epilepsy. Pregabalin is in a class of medications called anticonvulsants. It works by decreasing the number of pain signals that are sent out by damaged nerves in the body.
hi canyou help me please. I have verve damage i my neck thotasic and extreme lower right back. causing severe pain and numbness in my hands legs feet and back. i can't sleep for pain im exhausted along with depression and fibromyalgia. what should i do ? neurologist given me pregabalin and tried lamotrigine bot they don't work.
Hair loss (known medically as alopecia) is a rare side effect of Lyrica® (pregabalin). In previous clinical studies, between 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 people taking Lyrica experienced hair loss. The exact percentage of people who developed hair loss while taking Lyrica was not reported. Because hair loss is so common in the general public, it is difficult to say whether hair loss is caused by Lyrica, genetics, other factors, or a combination of these things.
Consult an endocrinologist for prescription of drugs like pregabalin, thiamine for the neuropathic pain relief. Hope this helps. Take care.
but now for a month or more he has been going through severe pain. in his groin, lower back and pelvic. had a bone scan and cat scan and they were both clear of cancer. he has been using enema's t go to the bathroom which relieve the pressure, but only a little bit. never get's rid of the pain . the enema's hurt up inside him when he does it. and his penis has a burning in it. even know it's not connected to anything. he has a urostomy bag now.he has been on all kinds of drugs.
I'm 21 and male. I was having arm pains which was caused by neck pain for bad posture on computer desk. So I went to the GP (general medicine) and he said the pain is for the neck, and it will go away and asked me to do some static neck exercise and swimming and prescribed 'Pregabalin m-75' to take for 1 month and stop.
That was about 4 years ago, I have adjusted and learned to walk with the drop foot. However, in recent months, I have experienced a stronger feeling of electrical shocks in the area near the toes that will last only about 3-5 seconds, but occur every 1-2 minutes. These have gotten more painful and I can find no cure to resolve or calm them. Believe me, I continue to try everything from a soak in the tub to heating pads to ice to exercise to massage.
Medications for nerve pain can also help in dealing with the pain, with drugs such as Gabapentin or Pregabalin, as well as some form of anti-depressant therapy which can modulate one's perception of pain.
Make sure you discuss all of these options with your doctors before applying them. Regards and God bless.
my daughter has had 2 surgeries for pituiatry tumour, radiotherapy, she still has remnant tumour, (Acromegaly) but also has facial ear and neck pain, which prof says is because tumour is pressing on trigeminal nerve, tried amytrplin, never worked, 3 weeks ago prof put her on Pregabalin, small dose then up to 300 a day, within a few days of upping the dose, she has been in more pain than ever, crying, agitated, and said she thought she had pain before, but now this is unbearable, they have told
I'm 21 and male. I was having arm pain caused by neck pain due to bad and prolonged posture on computer desk. So my GP prescribed me static neck exercise, swimming and prescribed to take Pregabalin-M 75 (Pregabalin-Methylcobalamine tablets 75mg) For 1 month and then stop. I took 5 doses yet.
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