alternative to lyrica please?

hello tina, I took pregabalin, which is lyrica.only took 28 x 25ng caps over 21 days, and was addicted to it, unlike you, I have lost my appetite I am skin and bone, muscle /flesh has just gone, now weigh abt 6 stone,  eat because I have to, not because I want to. nothing tastes the same. if you are stopping pregab. be very careful it is very addictive , to me anyway, some people have been able to stop without problems, not many, most seem to have had bad reactions. it has made me very ill,life has changed completely, am reducing slowly,but still painful,  can't see any further than one day at a time, I am dizzy like a drunk andy pandy, legs ache ,lose my balance, have you been changed to gabapentin ? my doc says this is same drug . take care hope you find what you are looking for. rosie xx

HI Rosie

Thanks for the reply so sorry to hear upu have been feling worse with this I have never really been a fooddy person I only eat becsuse I have to really always struggled a lot with food so for now to be piling the weight on and actually having hunger feelings is so strange to me, previously I never felt hungry how strange its so different for us both. I didfeel dizzy and tired but this helprd rith the pain and because I never sleep I welcomed this its just the bloating weight gain and my stomach always feels so sore and tender that has put me off my bust is large anyway but that too is growing its just not a comfortable feeling at all the extra weight or the extra pain because of the weight. Im not sure if I remember my pain clinic doc telling me that this had a better result than gabepentin but im also surd she said thete was a newer one I ciuld try if thisdidng help just cant remember the name hoping someone will know so I can see my GP about changing .I usually take 450mgs a day and stopped last friday so the pain is back a lot and backto no sleep again just waiying to get into my GP I wasnt sure if I could just stop and was prepared to have to restart but seems ok apartfrom the added pain again.have you spoken to your doc about your symptoms they dont sound good either i feel for you so muchhope you gey sorted let me know . Tina x

HI Rosie

Thanks for the reply so sorry to hear you have been feling worse with this I have never really been a foody person I only eat because I have to really always struggled a lot with food so for now to be piling the weight on and actually having hunger feelings is so strange to me, previously I never felt hungry how strange its so different for us both. I didfeel dizzy and tired but this helprd rith the pain and because I never sleep I welcomed this its just the bloating weight gain and my stomach always feels so sore and tender that has put me off my bust is large anyway but that too is growing its just not a comfortable feeling at all the extra weight or the extra pain because of the weight. Im not sure if I remember my pain clinic doc telling me that this had a better result than gabepentin but im also sure she said there was a newer one I could try if this didn't help just cant remember the name hoping someone will know so I can see my GP about changing .I usually take 450mgs a day and stopped last friday so the pain is back a lot and backto no sleep again just waiting to get into my GP I wasnt sure if I could just stop and was prepared to have to restart but seems ok apartfrom the added pain again.have you spoken to your doc about your symptoms they dont sound good either i feel for you so muchhope you gey sorted let me know . Tina x

Really sorry for all the typos it printed before I had chance to correct them all drives me mad this tablet sorry Tina x

I know you're post is over a year old, but I have been on Lyrica for 6 days now and my appetite has also diminished. Nothing sounds good except crackers. My stomach isn't upset, I'm just not hungry...which is odd because I LOVE food, cooking, baking...everything.

I keep reading how addictive Lyrica is and I'm beginning to think that I should stop taking it now. It's not helping me. I still have nerve pain from RRMS.

Thanks for sharing your story. I kept finding websites where folks were saying how much weight they were gaining and how hungry they were.