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Tapering off Lyrica gave me panic, nausea, extreme anxiety
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@cdcc - Welcome to Connect.
I only took Lyrica for a few weeks, and stopped it abruptly when I was in the hospital because of my severe reaction to it. I was incoherent, among other things. I hope you find a solution to the best treatment for without having to live with the symptoms you describe.
I wish I had been able to take it because it was the only med that relieved my peripheral neuropathy pain in my feet.
Jim
Replies to "@cdcc - Welcome to Connect. I only took Lyrica for a few weeks, and stopped it..."
I think your question might have been directed to me? I've tried every medication available for neuropathy pain, with no luck, and I had a spinal cord stimulator implant in June. I was taking Cymbalta, but I don't think it had any effect on either the neuropathy pain or depression. I tapered off Cymbalta a couple of months ago, and now am only taking Morphine sulfate contin for the pain. I recently started Azathioprine, which is supposed to slow the progress of neuropathy. I take a number of other meds for other conditions. The stimulator implant has given me a lot of relief, up to 80%, which is wonderful! Before the implant, pain had driven my depression way up, and was honestly at risk of suicide. Just before the implant, I had resumed therapy, after an 18 month stretch between therapists. The stopping of therapy wasn't my choice. The last therapist moved, and there was none available who accepted Medicare.
What has worked best for you?
Jim
@jimhd, please don't tell my wife that incoherency is a reason to be in the hospital; I would be forever confined! jk
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What else have U tried? At my senior rfesidence two people use Lyrica and two others Gabapentin.