256 patient evaluations for Pregabalin

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Oct 12, 2010 (Started Oct 12, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for pain)
  • Effectiveness
    Major (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
  • Effectiveness
    Major (for muscle pain)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (sleepiness, intoxicated feeling)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 100 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: I picked up the medicine from the pharmacy, went home and ate and then took it. I was hurting pretty bad because I had been up most of the night with my 4 year old daughter coughing. My pain is worse when I don't get enough rest. I could tell about two hours after I took it that my pain was significantly decreased. I felt really good for the first time in a very, very long time. I was sooooo happy!!
Cost: $50-99 monthly
Side effects: sleepiness, swelling in the abdominal region, intoxicated feeling, abdominal bloating

Aug 12, 2010 (Started Oct 12, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for pain)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for muscle pain)
  • Side effects
    Moderate (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Sometimes
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Advice & Tips: I was put on the titrate dose to end up taking 50mg twice a day, but it made me sick to my stomach, so the doctor changed it to 25mg twice a day and I don't feel sick anymore, but I still hurt.
Side effects: sleepiness, swelling in the abdominal region, intoxicated feeling, abdominal bloating
  • 1 helpful mark

Oct 6, 2010 (Started Sep 02, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    None (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 150 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: equalibrium was off, I found myself falling a lot and being off ballance, blurred vision was difficult to also deal with, my doctor is now tapering me off.
Cost: $50-99 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Sep 2, 2010 (Started Jul 19, 2006)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (weight gain)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 300 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: weight gain
  • 0 helpful marks

Sep 26, 2010 (Started Dec 25, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for seizures (grand mal or tonic-clonic))
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (drowsy in morning)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 450 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: drowsy in morning

Sep 4, 2010 (Started Dec 25, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for seizures (grand mal or tonic-clonic))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 150 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: less seizures
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: drowsy in morning
  • 0 helpful marks

Sep 24, 2010 (Started Jul 01, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for pain in leg(s))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 600 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Lyrica ALWAYS takes my pain away immediately! I honestly have severe pain so I like to make sure that I have 1 to take at night so when I wake up, I am not in pain. I just don't know what I would do without this medication. At first, when I took one, I felt kind of like I was "high" ; ) But after 1 or 2 days that feeling went away and now it's like popping an aspirin but much stronger.
Cost: $25-49 monthly

Aug 2, 2010 (Started Jul 01, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for pain in leg(s))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 600 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Lyrica is still the very best medication I've had for my pain. I've had a new medication added for the breakthrough pains I sometimes get during the day.
Cost: $25-49 monthly

Nov 5, 2009 (Started Jul 01, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for pain in leg(s))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 75 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: I actually like the higher doses of Lyrica for my pain but I asked my doctor if I could take 3 instead of 2 so I wouldn't have any pain in the mornings at all so he lowered my dose to take 3 times a day. He should have kept me on the highter dose but he acted like that was way too much. Apparently he still hasn't realized how bad the pain is!
Cost: $25-49 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Aug 10, 2010 (Started May 01, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall) (weight gain, stabbing pain)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 150 mg Daily
Cost: $200+ monthly
Side effects: weight gain, stabbing pain

Jun 8, 2010 (Started May 01, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall) (weight gain)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 100 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Lyrica was VERY effective for FMS pain initially. I took it for about 3 years and did have quite a bit of weight gain, but it was worth the decrease in pain. It seemed to lose its effectiveness a bit as time went on and for the last few monts I started to have severe stabbing pricking pains all over my body that went away after I quit taking it....as my doctor suspected it was a new side effect of the Lyrica that I developed. I was thankful for the effectiveness during the time that I took it, but it seems to have run its course for me.
Cost: $200+ monthly
Side effects: weight gain, stabbing pain
  • 0 helpful marks

Sep 22, 2010 (Started Jan 01, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (cognitive confusion, dizziness like jet lag, vagueness in head with increasing intensity.)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 300 mg Daily
Cost: $25-49 monthly
Side effects: cognitive confusion, dizziness like jet lag, vagueness in head with increasing intensity.
  • 0 helpful marks

Mar 31, 2008 (Started Feb 08, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for pain)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 75 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: The medication suppressed my ability to tell when I had eaten enough. I am already overweight and didn't need to eat until I was so stuffed I felt sick. However if I would experience that same kind of pain again, I would take it.
  • 0 helpful marks

Sep 22, 2010 (Started Jul 15, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 150 mg Daily
Cost: $25-49 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Sep 11, 2007 (Started Jul 11, 2007)

  • Effectiveness
    None (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 50 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks
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