LolaMerle
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- DX FIBRO
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- 12/2021
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I'm trying to get the hang of where to post and just found a few older posts about Lyrica, so I decided to start a new thread. If I didn't do it right, someone please let me know!
I'm wondering about others' experiences with Lyrica, and even Cymbalta. I was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy and my doctor put me on Cymbalta (60 mg/day). It helped with some of the tingling and numbness in my left hand and foot, but not a whole lot. In continuing "THE SEARCH"for years, as most of you have done, to find out why I experience the really crappy fatigue, and the pain in various parts of my body, my doctor diagnosed fibromyalgia, which makes so much sense. She prescribed first 75 mg/day of Lyrica, then up to 150 mg/day. I honestly don't know if it is helping. I continue to have nerve pain in my back and shoulders (caused by osteophytes pressing against the nerves in my spinal cord). I haven't had the costochondritis-like pain, mentioned by some here, across my breast bone that took me to the ER numerous times in the past, but that wasn't major anyway - just a source of wondering if I was having a heart attack (now I know it's fibromyalgia). I had read some horror stories about women who gained a lot of weight on Lyrica, and after starting to gain weight in just one month, I'm questioning whether or not it is even helping the pain, and I want to go off of it and maybe even the Cymbalta.
I don't know! I'm so conflicted! What I do know is that I absolutely don't want to be on a drug that will cause more weight gain, especially when I'm not sure it's helping anyway. I'm experimenting with CBD oil and CBD/THC at a 1:1 ratio. I've been exercising on on exercise bike and am up to 15 minutes a day now. I guess I was wondering who else has been on Lyrica and/or Cymbalta and what their experiences have been? I'm just so freaking tired of trying to figure it all out!
I'm wondering about others' experiences with Lyrica, and even Cymbalta. I was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy and my doctor put me on Cymbalta (60 mg/day). It helped with some of the tingling and numbness in my left hand and foot, but not a whole lot. In continuing "THE SEARCH"for years, as most of you have done, to find out why I experience the really crappy fatigue, and the pain in various parts of my body, my doctor diagnosed fibromyalgia, which makes so much sense. She prescribed first 75 mg/day of Lyrica, then up to 150 mg/day. I honestly don't know if it is helping. I continue to have nerve pain in my back and shoulders (caused by osteophytes pressing against the nerves in my spinal cord). I haven't had the costochondritis-like pain, mentioned by some here, across my breast bone that took me to the ER numerous times in the past, but that wasn't major anyway - just a source of wondering if I was having a heart attack (now I know it's fibromyalgia). I had read some horror stories about women who gained a lot of weight on Lyrica, and after starting to gain weight in just one month, I'm questioning whether or not it is even helping the pain, and I want to go off of it and maybe even the Cymbalta.
I don't know! I'm so conflicted! What I do know is that I absolutely don't want to be on a drug that will cause more weight gain, especially when I'm not sure it's helping anyway. I'm experimenting with CBD oil and CBD/THC at a 1:1 ratio. I've been exercising on on exercise bike and am up to 15 minutes a day now. I guess I was wondering who else has been on Lyrica and/or Cymbalta and what their experiences have been? I'm just so freaking tired of trying to figure it all out!