Any Experience With "Lyrica" for Pain Management?

[Vintersemestre]

For the first two months it worked really well and then it just stopped. I cut it out at 150mg twice a day, tried 300mg but I couldn't tolerate the psychological effects, it made me feel rather peculiar.

[silentlyseeking]

Just reading now...I am on lyrica now for about 8 months taking 300mg now, it has helped with my muscle pain but not my spinal or hip pain...on other meds for that and for constant debilitating migraines. I feel though that is has reached a plateau and has stopped working, kind of leary about taking a higher dosage since that is the highest recommended...I do get some blurry vision and did get some drowsiness at first but that has since ceased. Reaching it's plateau has since caused some pain to return.
Just an indicator...Lyrica is a controlled substance ( CV ), it's the lowest on the scale but it is a contorlled substance and is very prone to abuse...just check erowid on the net and view people's "experiences" with it...and it is quite addictive...just a little warning...

[funma]

I have trigeminal neuralgia and I took lyrica for about a month or a little more. I, by the way have taken every antiseziure med out there and they all have the same efffect on me; drowsyness, dizziness, sleep almost 24/7, cant function! And it did nothing for my chronic pain.

[mp91163]

I tried it post-opiates for severe joint arthoses due to rheumatoid arthritis, did not work at all for me...BUT, have heard of many success stories for folks with fibro and nerve pain.

Joint damage-fuhgeddaboutit!