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Tapering off Lyrica gave me panic, nausea, extreme anxiety
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: May 4 4:06pm | Replies (233)Comment receiving replies
I was on Lyrica for at least 8 years...I started at 50 mg three times a day. I remember leaving the doctor's office and his nurse, Phyllis, walked out with me. She told me to not read the drug side effects because it might change how I reacted to the Lyrica. Little did I know how hard it would be to go off. Through the years I was able to eliminate the mid-day dose. I tried to taper myself in October2023 and wound up in the ER with hypertension, extreme shakiness and dehydrated. Now, I am working with my doctor to taper off. I started at 50 mg two times at day and on Dec 6 he reduced it to 50/25mg a day. On December 25 he reduced it to 25/25. He will see me in March of 2024. My life has not been the same since December 6th. I tremble inside, so much that it wakes me up at night, my head seems to be spinning and I feel nauseous at times. I'd afraid to go out anywhere, because I can't drive with these symptoms. I'm trying to do regulated breathing that I learned in Yoga and I take Busprione for the anxiety. I just stay home!
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Sorry you're going through this, but there is freedom on the other side of your suffering. 1. Keep up your progress in yoga, breathing, time for yourself in relaxation & with the support of others on this newsletter. 2. Work with a practitioner without expectation of being weaned off less than a snail's pace of 2.5 - 4 years. Hey, if I could be weaned off 30 years of venlafaxine & buspirine, 20 years of Depakote in the above amount of time, you can do it too. The key to it all: Faith in yourself, your purpose in life, & your service to others in the same boat. A worked for miracle of sorts: At age 76, I am healthier, happier, more in synch with life than at age 46, when I started all those prescriptions over prescribed by docs whose focus was their bottom line, not the health of their patients. Thanks to the changes I made in my life, I took back the God-given power to have a voice, fight for what is right in mental/physical/ spiritual health. Happen to be the adult child of an alcoholic, ex-wife of an alcoholic, current wife of an "untreated Al-Anon spouse of a first wife who died of alcoholism. So, I also have the support of 12-Step brothers & sisters all over the world. My current psychiatrist was the first MD. to admit the role of spirituality in mental health recovery & partnered with me during the weaning process, as did a retired psychopharmacology professor turned psychologist who stressed the importance of meditation to calm me down naturally. Go for broke in self-care. Leave the worry & outcome to your Creator, not a robotic, humanoid health practitioner. Congratulations on taking your first steps to freedom. If I can do it in my 70's, you can do it too!