feeling depressed or oppressed

[charlie2001]

has anyone felt depressed or oppressed inside after they quit taking the drug lyrica

[TheAuthor]

Hi charlie2001

I sincerely hope that you are feeling as well as you possibly can be today? Welcome to the forum and it is wonderful to make your acquaintance. I have pasted for you below a link to our mother site, FMA UK which hosts loads of useful Fibro information:

fmauk.org/

I am so truly sorry that you are enduring these issues after coming off Lyrica, and they are listed as both side effects and withdrawals of this medication. If this problem persists or gets any worse I would urge you to talk to your doctor about this my friend.

I want to sincerely wish you all the best of luck and please take care of yourself my friend.

All my hopes and dreams for you

Ken

[Fra22-57]

Am still on it after 6 years thou reduced it some last year.Yes have had bad thoughts on and off.At times can't explain why either.What I can say is I never was like it before. TheAuthor is correct that it is side effect but get help if you get worse

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Hi Charlie, I was on pregabalin 300mg a day for 3 years. The drug, and withdrawal from the drug- has near ruined my life. I struggle to type much, but please have a look on Facebook- there's a site called "Lyrica Survivors" (the name says it all) and loads of helpful and useful information on there.

Hope you're okay, and so glad you're off that horrible drug now!

[rosewine]

I only stopped it for a short time and had to restart as the pain came back with a vengence. It can be used as anti anxiety drug as sell as for the pain so it could mean it has been he;ping you in that way. I know I feel calmer about some situations in a way that is a bit weird I feel I should be reacting morte emotionally about certain things happening to me so I think there is certainly an element of that in the drug.

I am not sure how long you took to come off it as it is a drug you should be slowly weaned off so if you came off a bit too fast it could be withdrawal symptoms. I know when I came off a drug too fast I had all kind of strange feelings and felt very depressed, shakey and anxious. Hope this feeling goes soon and you start to feel better.x

[Sandra2401]

My doctor has reduced my pregabalin he wants me to come off it coz it's expensive I've started to feel depressed and keep crying for no reason my doc doesn't seem bothered when I told her I'm in a lot of pain but she won't put me on anything else just feel like I Carnt go on no more

[skit in reply to Sandra2401]

Sandra2401 Hi.

I do hope you can find some ways to deal with your situation. As GP for talking therapies?

Physio?

Accupuncture?

I obviously have no idea what is available where you are but something is for sure.

All meds have side effects even just those for headaches or a cold symptom! Good or bad these effects are why we have patient leaflets. With the web you can check if one of your meds is highly reactive with another. Lyrica is a one off as its licence holder has not allowed facsimiles to be marketed in UK. All meds increase in price with weak £.

Do get out of your home especially in good weather and if not talk to people just be out and about it can lighten mood considerably.

[avocadopeardrops in reply to Sandra2401]

Can you change your surgery? Drs are not supposed to discontinue a drug based on financial constraints. This is against Good medical Practice.

[chrissy30]

Sorry to hear you are low coming off Lyrica. I've been a fibro for donkey's years and tried everything under the sun including morphine and various drugs. All had horrible side effects and I decided to come off them altogether and just take a simpler painkiller (solpadiene max) from the chemist. My husband is a sufferer as well and he went on Oxycodone and became so addicted it nearly ruined our marriage as he use to take my drugs as well as his own. Now he is off that medication. but he still has withdrawal side effects and feels low due to the fibro. We both have other health issues, me, Coeliac and migraine and arthritis/osteoporosis and my hubby fibro, arthritis and bone pain due to deformed lower leg bones. For me it was the best day when I went to a pain management course along with my husband and they told us that opioid painkillers are not the answer for Fibromyalgia. I'd already worked that out and decided to stop all medication apart from a mild painkiller for my athritis. I have good days and bad days but feel more positive. Also we both took up a gentle form of Tai chi and that was helpful for relaxation and it was nice to chat to others too. Weather tends to effect our fibro. I've always been a positive person but did become very depressed at one stage but then decided that the 'poor me' was not the answer (I say this for myself not anyone else) and now at 69 I feel that I'm towards the evening of my life so I'm determined to do as much as I can and s!d the Fibro. I treat it now as an irritating person whom I don't get along with. In a sense I play mind games with it and tell it it is not going to beat me now as I have a life to lead. My husband is still learning how to deal with it in a new way (He's younger than me) but we both have 'relapses now and then but I have a wicked sense of humour so try to make my husband laugh and it works when he is feeling under the weather. I also boss him about too and I refuse to allow him to get back the stage he was. Ok, not for everyone but don't let the Fibro get you down treat it as an enemy and mentally shoot the bu!!er. I use to be a mental health counsellor so know a few tricks to help me get going. My doctors at one stage reckoned I'd never get off the painkillers and drugs and that made me mad and I thought 'I'll show them' and I did as I got mad with the Fibro and told it it was not going to ruin the rest of my life. I still have to pace myself and some days the 'ooh ahh bird' flies in or should I say a flock of them. Mornings are the worse for me and my husband. We do understand how others must feel and how depressing this condition is so our love and thoughts go out to you and to others that suffer with this horrible condition. I do feel better for taking the advice of the pain counselling course as I'd already knew that I was not getting any real relief whatever I took in the drug department. As I sit and write my legs are killing me (metaphorically speaking) but I made myself walk around the shops to get a new steam iron and it's quite warm today. I'm just going to have a nice mug of tea and a biscuit (several in fact!). My hubby is going to cook the dinner as he's good at that. Our prayers are with you and all that suffer health issues and that so and so Fibro.