Feeling out of on pregablin

[lightstar1]

Hi been given pregablin.felt like drunk at first.now I feel out of it.cant seem to move to do things.anyone else have this and will it go off .can't stay like this.x

[lightstar1]

I felt ok on 25 mg put me up 75mg .eyes selling up. Sore eye.started itching little rash.just rang 111 thankyoux. Not took my Fino pain offxx

[lightstar1]

Thankyou

[rosewine]

I felt like that for quite a few weeks but as it was starting to help the pain I stuck with it. Up until then I felt I was on another planet and all I wanted to do was sit around which was totally unlike me. I am still on a low dose 50mg in the morning and 75mg at night as anything higher than that makes me feel very slow again butmut isnthe only med that has helped with the burning shooting pains I get. I only went up in increments of 25mg.x

[Hidden in reply to rosewine]

Hi rw I was hallucinating when upped amitrypline from50-100g in a hospital head rest ward,so I goes &tells nurse giving out meds and she gives me this look..,.as if she's never heard of that on that type of ward!!!I went and don't look at me like that,I wasn't hallucinating before I came on this ward until those meds were upped&the patients told me they've experienced same thing when thier dose was upped with quite a jump,she tells the Dr I was aggressive! Lol,I mean I couldn't get over her reaction on mental head rest ward for staff!anyways I refused the 100&75 was fine,I still think that was what stunted my baby's growth as I was pregnant and they had been used in pregnancies for over thirty years at the time. There was Clot's in her cord when she was born.

[rosewine in reply to Hidden]

When you are given tablets by the gp and you read the patients information leaflet I am amazed any of us ever take the meds as the list of possible side effects are so long and mutually seems to make sense that if a dose is increased especially if there is a big jump in the dose the likelihood of having the side effects increases. Of course in hospital we don't get a chance to read these leaflets. Often the medics don't link the effects of drugs on developing babies and children until it is too late especially if people's fears are dismissed.x

[lightstar1]

Thanks I going hospital as I having other symptoms.

[Shenni]

I’ve an on pregablin, not had any side effects on it at all infact it doesn’t really take the pain away just dulls it I guess.Hope you feel better soon 🤗x

[lightstar1 in reply to Shenni]

Thankyoux

[Hidden]

Hope you feel better soon,please keep us updated?

[Jenonnet]

Hi lightstar1, like Shenni, I am on Pregabalin, but it only dulls the pain not take it away.

I'm on 100mg three times a day, so take 300mg a day altogether. I didn't get many side effects, I get the feeling of not being with it now and then, usually when I'm having a flare up and I'm feeling unwell.

I also get dizziness, which is one of the side effects, but also comes with fibro, so I don't really know which is the cause.

I am also on Tramadol for times a day, so I take 400mg a day, plus Paracetamol.

The doc said if these don't work she doesn't know what to do as I can't take amitriptyline or any of that family of drugs, so she said there isn't anything else she can do, there's nothing else she can give me.

I don't believe that so will go back to the pain clinic and see what they have to offer.

If you persevere I think you'll find that the side effects will go. It takes a full month for it to start working properly, so give it a chance, you'll get there.

Please let us know how you get on. Sending love and gentle hugs ((❤)), Jen. 😊

[lightstar1 in reply to Jenonnet]

Hi I had to come off it had allergic reaction. Thanks

[Jenonnet in reply to lightstar1]

That's a shame, hope you find something that helps you. 😊

[Darwin]

How long does pregablin start to work I have been on it for a week and no change in my back pain apart from it getting worse x

[lightstar1 in reply to Darwin]

More or less aright away but about 2 weeks before I felt calm on it

[Jenonnet]

Doc told me a month before it gets into your system properly.