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Medication advice please help me

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audrey96558
audrey96558

Is Pregabalin this awful for everyone?

I'm starting to think that anti depressants just don't work for me.

I don't understand how some people can take fluoxetine or citalopram and feel a lift...

I've been on those, plus about 10 others, and I just don't feel better.

If anything this recent Pregabalin has made me much much worse, I can't stop crying, I'm exhausted, I've broken out in spots. I feel like I have the flu (which evidently I don't).

Dr agrees I need to come off Pregabalin but so slowly it's making me despondent... I have to feel like this for longer?

Is there anyone out there who hasn't responded well to traditional drugs and is taking a good combo of some?

I have had CBT, counselling and psychology as well by the way...

I'm just desperate!

Please help xxx

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  • remember
    remember audrey96558

    Posted

    i have been on pregabalin for 8 years and it aint worth it, at first its amazing like proper good but like all other meds after a month or so it does nothing even when you go on the highest does the good feeling fades and its VERY hard to get of the come down is very bad deep depression and fits of anger. thats all i can say 
    • audrey96558
      audrey96558 remember

      Posted

      Thanks for your response.

      I'm coming off it now and it's absolutely brutal. Depression so much worse, so agitated, so exhausted...

      Wish I'd never gone near the drug in the first place.

      This is one of the worst comedowns from meds I've ever had.

      Nasty nasty drug!

      xxx

  • jayne10080
    jayne10080 audrey96558

    Posted

    I too was given pregabalin and it sent me into the biggest hole that I had been trying to avoid for a plong time....Other than my other pain meds..I take a drug called Sertraline have been on it for years, once or twice throughout this time I have taken a break from them....never again....Sertraline definately my antideppressant of choice and I take 5mg diazepam just before bed...

    Hope this helps jx

    • audrey96558
      audrey96558 jayne10080

      Posted

      Hi thanks for the reply.

      Yeah this is the worst I've felt in a long while, reducing dose very slowly as per dr instruction but just feel so terrible.

      I've had sertraline before but it didn't really help me unfortunately.

      I take diazepam though which seems to be the only thing that brings some relief.

      Thanks again for your response, can't wait to get this Pregabalin out if my system! xxx

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