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@jim, Alumni Mentor. I hope you have not suffered any dangerous complications with Lyrica. You mentioned that you had to be hospitalized for several days. I went back to see what were some side effects and was reminded that there are some serious ones, indeed.
All medications have side effects. Even serious ones rarely happen. But when they do we must be strong and take whatever steps necessary to guard our health.
If I could have received pain relief from the supplements I was taking, I would gladly have continued taking them. Sometimes they just stop working for no particular reason.
Saying a prayer for you and all of us who work so hard to maintain our health.
Mamacita Jane
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The day that the Lyrica disaster hit, we were meeting with the financial advisor and I think I said some weird things. Then we had lunch at one of our favorite joints in Bend, Oregon, and I couldn't eat. I just put my head on the table. My wife decided that we needed to go straight home. Fortunately she was driving. I would start a sentence and couldn't complete it. I became increasingly incoherent, had a fever and had no memory. When we went to the ER, my wife expressed her concern that I might have had a stroke. That brought a quick end to the check in. They got me in an ER room and put monitors on me. Then alarms went off when I went tachycardic. Things happened fast, but by the time they got me on a defibrillator, my heart rate went back to normal. That night I thought I was having a cardiac event, but we figured out that I was having a panic attack - awful things - because of the endotracheal tube. I've had those tubes in several times but this was the first time I had a panic attack.
So no more Lyrica. Bummer.
But I started taking Imipramine and I'm up to 75 mg and the neuropathy pain has gone down from 4-8 to 2-3. I'm going to step up to 100 mg tomorrow. I can walk through the stores all day and my feet hardly hurt! Unfortunately my BP went up when I started taking it, so I think it might be a drug interaction with any one of several meds. I have to play around with meds to find the culprit. I just hope it's not a medication that I really need. I was going to stop taking the Benadryl at bedtime tonight, but I thought about it as I was swallowing my nightly pills. But I'm going to enjoy the pain relief while it lasts.
Jim