Pregabalin in pain management

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901222 tn?1399142874 I struggle with a severe form of spinal arthritis. My doctors encourage me to medicate. I don't like to. I tend to slip in and out of dependency according to pain levels and depression about it. I stay far away from oxy and morphine because they are very difficult for people to quit. Vicodin makes me sluggish and sad. I lose connections and sulk in my bed. I just stopped all about a week ago. Feeling a bit better. Still depressed with another RF medical procedure looming. I'm worried.
Avatar f tn Actually my lung specialist recommended I be referred to a pain management clinic. I have been dealing with sever chest pain for months now. At first I thought it was pleurisy due to several collapsed lungs and lung surgeries. The pulmonologist though so as well until he did a full panel of lung function tests and other tests. After all that he realized that my pain was coming from nerve damage to my intercostal nerves.
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar n tn 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.
Avatar f tn It does help some individuals but for others it is simply not effective. Lyrica (Pregabalin) is generally effective in treating nerve pain. I assume with the reduced blood supply to your wrist it is effecting all the tissues and bones including your nerves. I also suggest that you see another orthopedic surgeon or specialist. If treatments is not providing you good pain relief than at the very least you deserve to be comfortable. There are more potent medications that can bring that comfort.
Avatar f tn During concomitant use of these drugs, patients should be monitored for potentially excessive or prolonged CNS and respiratory depression. Ambulatory patients should be counseled to avoid hazardous activities requiring complete mental alertness and motor coordination until they know how these agents affect them, and to notify their physician if they experience excessive or prolonged CNS effects that interfere with their normal activities.
Avatar n tn I have constant lower back pain,when walking,standing or bending,hips burn & pain,hurt to touch,have numbness,tingling & electric shock sensations in arms,numbness in legs,immobility of neck,fatigue & tiredness,loose balance at times,headaches,depression,sensitive to heat,have had tunnel or foggy vision at times,stiffness & pain on bending in knees,& numbness & swelling sometimes in one or both feet.
Avatar n tn 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
Avatar f tn Welcome Mudgett to the Pain Management Forum of MedHelp. I am glad that you have found us but sorry you are having pain. I am sorry I do not know how effective the drugs will work in combination for controlling your pain. I do know that they are considered effective in their own right.
Avatar f tn My husband uses Torodol for kidney pain it seems to work pretty good.
Avatar n tn m a 42 year old paramedic living in England who is currently in chronic pain management (off work on sick leave at present). I have been in and out of pain management for many years now and unfortunately due to changes in the law in the UK, I can't resume my job until I'm able to stop all my meds. Drug driving laws have changed drastically over here recently involving driving Group 2 vehicles (i.e. ambulances) while on prescription medication.
Avatar m tn Benzodiazepines have robust efficacy in the short-term management of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), but were not shown to be effective in producing long-term improvement overall. Although benzodiazepines are much safer in overdose than their predecessors, the barbiturates, they can still cause problems in overdose.
Avatar f tn That was in July still nothing. There is nothing else to do but wait for the ok. I have pain and numbness in my fingers. Can you give me any ideas on what to do?
Avatar m tn Hi, I am waiting for an operation on my back, surgeon said some time before Christmas, I am in very bad pain I can not walk for the pain in my legs and back, my doctor put me on Pregabalina at 100 mg , that did not help so he put them up to 300 mg a day, no good, so could you recommend a pain killer that will work with L5/S1. the constant pain is really getting me down. Yours Keith Naylor.
Avatar f tn Your right about pain docs. Some of them don't believe in prescribing opioids, and then where would you be -- In withdrawal. That's no fun at all. So, stick with your PCP. He sounds very sympathetic and wants to help your pain. But if I were you, now that you have insurance, you might ask to move the bulk of that dose to long acting medication: OxyContin. If you''re taking 30mg x 4 per day, (QID) that's 120mg / day.
Avatar f tn My pain and that of my brother too can be quite unbearable at times but I will see how the medication goes, the neurologist started me on pregabalin instead of gabapentin two weeks ago. I see him in mid July so I can cope with it until then, hot water bottles are so good! Thank you again for taking the time to inform me about the condition, I guess I have been trying not to think about this one.
1686743 tn?1306005451 I feel that I almost had to take this drug in order to comply with pain management suggestions... It pizzes me off that we have to put up with such recklessness of our PMs who are nothing but Nurse Practitioners. in the VA system. Question.1 Has anyone tried this drug as a form of pain management? And has any one had any adverse reactions? Question 2 For a professional MD. was prescribing this drug, at the least out of touch and on a mission of her own.
Avatar m tn could this be a muscle spasm? i have had history of stiff neck and pain in sub-occipital and neck area in past 2 years. i have posture problems with working on my laptop lying on bed or couches. i work on laptop 10-12 hrs a day minimum and then a couple of hours on my blackberry. This pain is killing when it comes. would appreciate any words of advice from anyone who has gone through this or has been involved in it in some way or the other.
Avatar f tn I hope the pain management works for you and you get the help you need. I know it can make you miserable :/ Especially having to walk all day.Best of luck.
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar f tn 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.