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@bkruppa, I have been through now 20 plus years of this. I havent read all of the posts, but I dont see anyone suggesting what has worked best in my case; which is a combination of cymbalta and lyrica. I HATE to be on these drugs, especially cymbalta. But the synergy of these two drugs together has been the ONLY thing that calmed the nerve pain.
I would be very interested to see if anyone else has tried this. It has worked successfully for diabetic nerve pain as well -- both are peripheral nerves.
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She tried lyrica but had a bad reaction to it so she never really was on it for a long period of time. She takes gabapentin and tramadol.
After I was in a car accident I had a bad nerve pain in my arm/hand that was coming from the nerve going through the shoulder which had a partially torn ligament. I was on lyrics at a very high dose and it did not stop the pain They took me off of the Lyrica and put me on cymbals at a high dose and after two months the pain was gone. I still have to be careful with the shoulder not to throw things. Now I am having pudendal neuralgia and Pt, healing has helped and am now on cymbalta and my pain levels are the best they have been. My nerve is still active (hypersensitive) causing urinary frequency urge/reflex incontinence but the extreme pain and fecal incontinence is gone and I am able to sit with minimal pain. I had pelvic pain prior and some incontinence to my prosectomy and some of the pain was probably due to surgery but the nerve sensitivity was there previously giving me pain
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@dorcee I also have the lyrica and cymbalta combo and I also hate it. I used to weigh 90lbs. and I've gained 40lbs, not to mention the side affects.I have to agree though, that is does help. My nerve pain is still progressing. I still can't have anything touch my skin anywhere on my right hip, butt, leg, and foot. I do have pain as well but nothing like I was experiencing.