Fibromyalgia Support Group

Sure ~ it helps some people - not all. And there is a lot of online research that can help you with potential side effects.

For me, it was a start. It made life better. It still left me aching by afternoon and needing a nap.

It was Savella that really made the difference in my fibro pain for me. It is new enough that there aren't commercials ~ but it continues to give me more good days than bad...and for that I am thankful.

Best wishes to you in finding what works best for your body. Trust yourself to know and listen to what it is telling you.

Hi. I use Lyrica. I knew that there would be side effects, but I was determined to "push" my way through them. I did and glad of it because I do think that it helps with the overall pain and numbness that I had. I believe it also helps keep the flare ups in check. I also did the same thing when I started Plaquenil, just pushed by way through the side effects, although Lyrica side effects were harder to adjust to.

So for me, for the first 2-3 weeks (especially the first 4-5 days) was pretty difficult with nausea, dizzyness and a feeling "high" type feeling. But I got past all that, and at about 6-8 weeks, I noticed that I was feeling better.

I still get pains I have all the time in specific areas, like my hands and wrists and back. So to help with getting through each day, I usually have to take a Tramadol.

Hope this information was helpful to you.

I was on Lyrica for 6 months but all it did for me was make my fuzzy head worse and I stacked on the weight. Besides that Lyrica is really expensive in Australia. I would like to try Savella but it's not even available here!!!

Good luck on finding the right meds, it's a trial and error game unfortunately.

I took it for a little over a year. Initially, once I pushed through the unpleasant side effects, I had a reduction in pain and an increase in energy. At the end, I got blurred vision, a lung infection and became suicidal. Withdrawals were Hell. I also started getting headaches just before quitting and I'm still getting them. I can't prove that Lyrica did anything negative to me but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

i was on that stuff, and it just gave me more symptoms, plus i gained lots of weight (30 pnds)

I was on that for a while. It did help some but I had terrible loss of balance and trouble with finding words when talking. The side effects went away as soon as I stopped taking it.

I was on Lyrica for 3 weeks. I didn't sleep good. I felt very very wierd. I was tired a lot, then I had a couple of days when I was euphoric. I felt like my head was stuffed with papertowels. I felt drunk, nauseated, and had headaches and shooting pains in my head every day. The night I stopped taking it I slept 3 hours. After I stopped taking it I did see that it had helped a little with the pain and with my energy because I was worse on nothing. Now I'm on Cymbalta, and although it's not awesome, it seems to help with my energy levels.

When you go to the general discussion page on fibromyalgia on the side it shows the top 10 treatments an if you click on lyrica it will give you a bunch of different peoples opinions

From what I've read, in the trials, only about one third of the subject were helped by it. Pretty lousy test results IMHO.

It can have some pretty wicked side-effects as well. I have a friend who was on it and messaged me that the day before she had planned out how to commit suicide she was so depressed on it. A lot of meds have suicide as a side-effect!!

Oh yeah, how could I forget. I also gained 50 lbs while on Lyrica and then another 10 as I got off. The weight gain came on really fast, too.

This is the true, long term damage. Extra weight puts extra strain on our already weakened systems.