Should I use Lyrica or Ultram?

I can not comment about ultram but be VERY careful with Lyrica. It seems to either be a miracle drug for you or one that can lead to a devestating experience, like it did for me. If you decide to try Lyrica, please have family members keep a close eye on you. If you start forgetting alot of things, getting depressed, sleeping alot, gaining weight,etc. you will need them to tell your doctor what is going on,(they must be persistent because they will have the KNOWLEDGE about these side effects) because you will not be aware of what is happening to you or will you care!! My doctor told my family(while I was taking this) that I must have some kind of brain damage that was making me forget everything etc. They took him for his word, he was the doctor!! They had no knowledge about this medication or its POSSIBLE side effects.

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They assumed it was safe, it was approved by the FDA!! My memory became so bad that I could not even be trusted to leave my small town(of 25 years) because no one knew if I could find my way back home. The edema was horrible also. Could not even get my shoes on, my feet were so swollen. Weight gain of about 50 pounds also. MOST IMPORTANT- I now have about 18 months of my life that I have almost NO MEMORY of! 18 months of my life GONE!!! This "nightmare" FINALLY stopped about 6-8 months after I quit taking this medication(without family or physicians knowledge.) Slowly I became myself again.The unexplained weight gain came off. I took back control of my life, even though I had to be a little deceitful to accomplish this. The doctor tried to "credit" this medication with my recovery until I confessed that I had quit taking it 6-8 months ago and had been hiding all those pills for all this time!! The reason I got better was pure determination to not live my life in the state of mind(or lack of it) that this medication had gotten me into. The reason I was better was due to the LACK of this medication!!! I am just thankful I still had enough of "my witts about me" to do what I did. I truly believe that the "REAL" me would not exsist anymore if I would have continued to take this drug. I truly have no idea what would have become of my husbands wife, my childrens mother, and my grandkids grandma had I not taken this matter into my own hands. I do know that I have been DEVESTATED (alot of important things happened.in my family in that 18 months, that I can not remember and NEVER will) because of this "lyrica induced" memory loss!!! My husband lost his wife and life partner he had known for more than 25 years. My teenage children had no mother(which ALL teenagers desperatly need) to help and guide them through this difficult time in their lives. I think you could compare it to a death, though physically I was there, in every other way I was gone. I can NEVER get that part of my life back and I can never give what was lost to my children back to them!! I now just hope, someday, they will realize it was not me they were living with, it was a Lyrica induced zombie!! ALL of this because of a PRESCRIPTION drug!!! As I said, PLEASE proceed with caution because nothing works the same for everyone. I truly believe that STOPPING this medication saved my life, but I also live everyday wondering how many unsuspecting others are still out there, taking this drug, thinking(or being told, like I was) they must have some kind of brain damage or are even led to believe they are suffering from a mental illness or maybe even in some circumstances being told it could be alzheimers!! .