@mamacita
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

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