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@kansasgal

Hello John, thank you for your reply. I received NO help from the pain clinic, they told me to ask my neurologist about Lyrica. I told them I had already done that, and Neurologist told me since I was already on 2 different nerve pain medications that we should not throw another one into the mix. It was a total waste of my time and money to go to a pain clinic. My latest symptom is heart palpitations, about 1 per minute. Anyone else experience this while on gabipenten or duloxetine or having to quit Norco 5 cold turkey? Also my BP is extremely high, even with BP meds 2x a day, Neurologist said it is due to the pain, but I was given no idea to ease the pain. I only get out of the house to grocery shop or go to doctor, since it hurts to walk.

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@kansasgal, are you able to ask your doctor why your blood pressure is so high even taking your current BP medications? I would think they would be able to come up with some kind of treatment plan to lower it.

Update: I am now on Lyrica (100 MG 3x/day), Nortriptyline (20 mg/night), gabapentin (600 mg 3/day). Is anyone else on this combination of drugs to help with PN? Has it helped? Cymbalta gave me PVC's, abnormal heart rhythm, so I had to quit that suddenly which was absolutely terrible because of the massive depression that ensued.