I have fibromyalgia . Recently my doctor put me on lyrica. Anyone else have awful side effects?

Banna2006 sounds like you are a hurting pup. I myself have ankspon, a almost debilitating disease at most times. All tests conclussive that I have it. I wonder though if I have fibro as well. My heavy metals are off the board along with other things. I think you should have a series of blood testing done to provide your health care pro some insight to this possibility and maybe look at cellation therapy, providing your status is not from a mechanical related injury or injuries. We can sometimes be toxic waste dumps in our lives from exposure to poison elements of basic living and working. Sugar as well can be a miserable catalyst for pain. It becomes a nasty chain of events starting from injury, lack of sleep, causing weight gain, depression, perscriptions, a poor clinical history, improper methods of treatment all of which continue the inevitable circle of pain .In Canada it can take up to as much as 3 years to even get into a proper pain management clinic.

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In the mean time you have to try and balance your everyday activities including work play and sleep. Not enough sleep is the real killer with chronic pain issues. This directly affects the lives of your loved ones around you. If your partner does not understand the crucial dynamics of pain and its treatment as well as overall outcomes and prognosis frustration sets in with both parties and ultimately both of you lose. My wife left me right after my retirement from the Navy 26 years. Had enough she said and the moods that goes directly with pain. Your children take the brunt of it as well. You are taking some pretty hard meds along with opioids. Have you thought of tramacet. Heard of it? Maybe that is an option as well. I think the worst thing is the narcotis. Weather its oxycontin, vicodin, morphine, and or dilaudid sr, comming off these pose potential risks if not done right. You won't die but it is the nightmare from hell. Its funny eh ..Drs put you on these meds and then they want you off of them because they are either scared and will not increase your dose or better yet give you a narcotic break by switching you to another type of opioid. This does work, I know I requested it for myself. I went from oxycontin 30mg bid with a 10 mg breakthrough to a different one I had been on the same dosage for just over 4 years. Eventually your body gets tollerant to it and it no longer works the same anymore. The narcotic pain med has saved my life. I tried everything in the book and have had many nerve blocks. This is when my specialist has shifted me to lyrica. It is decussion groups like this that one can appreciate the meaning of sharing pain stories, treatment modalities and just plain living with this tormenting life style. No one should live in hell at least not yet,lol. I can be sympathetic with what you are going through,at least understand. You were or are a pretty active person I bet and it sucks that this stuff can alter your life. I was an excellent hockey player a deepsea navy diver avid jogger,bodybuilder etc. I dont know you but you have my attention. I am terrified of this Rx lyrica. Before they wanted to put me on biologics yeh right on doc. The price of this stuff is 4000.00/month yes thats right crazy eh. Good thing for medicare yeh right again. If you don't have a good drug plan forget it. I would not be able to live, financially busted however DVA may kick in only if the disease is related to military service. TOO BAD it is a genetic predisposition, or maybe it is Gulf War 1 syndrome. Good luck trying to convince this gov't. The other thing is why would you want to destroy your immune system today especially when a certain few out there are creating new viruses to wipe us out ..H1N1 ring a bell. Anyway banan there are other ways of treating things. I myself will hold off on this Lyrica stuff for now, I find it creepy to treat someone with such a disasterous sounding med. Too much sequelae for this cat. I am very keen on knowing more about the outcomes of such a drug since they know little about it down the road lets say in hmmmmm 5-10 years ... oh wait there has been a new study... they say people who have been taking BLANK for an extended period of time are in the risk of getting BLANK get the picture. Pesimistic, not all the time just inquisitive.