Lyrica for 7 years+

[dewy47]

Lyrica hasn’t been helping with my pain anymore and I do not want to dose up as I have tapered down from 8 pills to 1 since I started taking lyrica. My issue is that it’s been making me feel sleepy the second the effect start taking place..it numbs the pain just a bit, and after a little while I start to feel extremely drowsy. While when I used to take it in the beginning it used to give me a burst of energy. Why is that?

[Emma2017]

That seems odd. Usually your body gets used to it and the sleepiness goes. You say you were on 8 pills, what strength were they? I went over 600 a day but this is against recommendation top dosage and then tapered down. Am now on 450 a day which helps, take most before going to bed as night time is the worst. It has never given me a burst of energy but helps with the nerve pain.

[dewy47 in reply to Emma2017]

I’m guessing it might be because I take it in the morning? The funny thing is that when I used to take 8 pills (150 mg per pill) I used to feel the worst side effects, while as I was tapering down, I started feeling the numbing and even some euphoric effects which I might’ve translated as a boost of both mental and physical capacity?..this drug is a whole level of weird tbh..thank you for taking the time to read and reply to my post, beautiful.

[Emma2017 in reply to dewy47]

That’s like twice the recommended daily maximum. Good job you tapered down. Also I went a bit over the recommended daily amount but it did not help. It’s as if your body can only process so much of this drug and above that it becomes counter productive. If you feel it does some good on your much lower level than that’s great. It’s not for everyone but really helps me. You take care.