I was reading an old post that lots of people continued to post on about Pamerol and many people were making comments about Lyrica. My doctor refuses to let me try Lyrica because of the side effects. So I was wondering about personal opinions and how some of you have fared on it. I used to take Amitriptyline, but got off after the insurance companies screwed me around and I couldn't get a refill. Basically quit it and many other meds cold turkey, but it was for the best in the long run. I had developed a stutter from taking so many drugs. Not to mention chronic constipation. It was a rough three months, but I am so much better now that I only take CBD oil, gabapentin and muscle relaxers. Yes, I live in lots of pain, but the CBD oil keeps it down to a tolerable level to where I can function, and the muscle relaxers help me to sleep three or four hours at a time.

I've had Fibromyalgia since 1980s, and I actually think I hurt less now....although arthritis has taken its place. My biggest pain is actually chronic migraines, but similar to Fibromyalgia, I seem to have reached the non-headache phase of migraines having had them for over 55 years. Unfortunately, the auras have continued on and actually increased to syncope migraines. I just posted on the migraine discussion list that my faint on Sunday night had no warning signal and I dropped in a blink smashing the back of my head on a dresser. I was out for 15-20 minutes to awaken with a killer headache....but not nearly as bad as my migraines usually get!

Anyway, all this is to explain that I do know and understand true pain. But my fibromyalgia really is better than it was in the 1980s and 1990s, so hang in there y'all. Yours might improve to! Oh, I am trying to stay off wheat also as I have noticed it increases my pain.

So back to Lyrica...Does it help? Or not?