Pregabalin

[graemeparsons]

Thank you for welcoming me as a new member.

I have recently started taking Pregabalin for cervical spondylosis, i started first week on 50mg twice a day now into second week on 75mg and eventually third week 100mg.The consultant said if necessary it could go up to 600mg. How long does it take before you start feeling relief if at all and do you stay on this medicine permanently. Thank you

[Vanwife]

Hi

New to this group too. Like you I started on pregablin at the same doses and it’s been upped to 150mg morn and night and 100mg in afternoon.

I don’t know if pregablin has actually made any difference to the pain as all I ever feel is woozy and lightheaded with brain fog, the pain still being there just as bad as it was without it.

I do hope it works for you !

[graemeparsons in reply to Vanwife]

Thank you for your reply, i too have the dreaded brain fog and woozy feeling. It is similar to when i was on a high dose of bisoprolol which was changed to nadolol and problem solved. I have also noticed i am getting shaking limbs and more headaches which i never had before this medicine. Just have to persevere and hope it improves.

[Gigi71 in reply to graemeparsons]

Hi Graeme. Were you on Gabapentin before this med, I am currently on Gabapentin, for severe canal stenosis, plus scoliosis, I was wondering if Pregabilin may be a better alternative for me. I started on 100mg before Christmas and now on 1200mg. I do get some relief from pain by the afternoon, evening, but the mornings are a nightmare. My RD meds keep my RD reasonabley under control including Naproxen. X

[graemeparsons in reply to Gigi71]

Hi

No i was taking co codamol 500/30 before but had to stop taking them due to bowel problems. I used to take gabapentin for gout many years ago. The only problems i am experiencing brain fog and woozy head, headaches and fatigue but hopefully they will reduce in time.

[Gigi71 in reply to graemeparsons]

Thank you for your reply. It seems Pain Management give Gabapentin first or as I was not sure if this med may have been the same as Amybtripyline, which I had taken a year earlier and couldn't get on with, that med made me like a zombie and did nothing for the pain, I was prescribed Duluxatine, my GP got the dose wrong and made me very ill for 3 days. I can't take any opiate medications, when I saw my rheumy he started me on the low dose Gabapentin and have been gradually increasing since. I seem to be getting some pain and stiffness in my shoulders and both legs. Before taking this I did have nerve pain in my right buttock and leg. I was hoping maybe Pregabilin may have been better for me. I have found when taking Gabapentin it takes a couple of days to get used to the increase, feeling woozy etc. Maybe if you give it time for your body to adjust on Pregabilin it will help you. All the very best X

[graemeparsons in reply to Gigi71]

Thanks and all the very best to you.

[Fra22-57]

I have been on Pregabalin 8 years.first low dose then eventually pain eased at 450mg a day.I have managed to reduce to 350mg a day but that was murder with awful side effects.I used to feel like zombie but guess body has got used to it now.

[graemeparsons in reply to Fra22-57]

Thank you Fra22-57 sounds very encouraging.

[Stephenlangtonriley]

I am on Pregabalin for FibroM which is a neuropathic problem, I am now on 250mg x 3 a day and it works wonders, it supresses my brain stimulating pain centres relating to my joints. I am also on all the other standard pain killers but also have a prolapsed disk which Richmond upon Thames, UK CCG has decided not to fund any longer, I am battling with their very stupid questions, all to just delay any approval and restart the 28 day clock, to get IFR through which has the full support of my consultant and GP practice. They increased my codeine to maximum and I was a zombie, slept 15 and then 16 hours followed by 2 hours each day to get out of bed, not much daytime left. This is the 3rd procedure of mine they will no longer fund, so much for looking after patients health, before I am bedbound I will get a friend to take me to their offices in his wheelchair and leave me outside until such time as they do finally get an ambulance and take me to have it done as an emergency now.

[graemeparsons]

Thank you i hope you get sorted out asap.