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Changing side effects

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anne2326
anne2326

Have been taking Lyrica for4 months...been feeling a LOT worse this past week...dizzy. disorientated..wozzy... Was put on this for anxiety and it seemed to work BUT now with these feeling anxiety is worse again

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  • grey0417
    grey0417

    Posted

    anne2326:

    I have said this again and again and again in these forums, "LYRICA" is not an anti-anxiety medication. Lyrica was designed originally as an anti-seizure medication, and useful for neuropathic pain. I don't understand what is happening with this off-label use for anxiety, there are many excellent drugs for anxiety,

    (i.e. zoloft,cymbalta,prozac,abilify) If you are over in europe, (which seems to the area where doc's are prescribing Lyrica for anxiety) get a new doc, as fast as you can, and get off the Lyrica for anxiety, it's useless.

    Nuff said, and this is all my opinion

    Grey0417....smile

    • zimmer123
      zimmer123 grey0417

      Posted

      Rubbish!

      i agree iwasnt made for this purpose but it works, atleast for me.

      I had to sign up just to say that so.

    • grey0417
      grey0417 zimmer123

      Posted

      zimmer123:

      I'am glad you feel better, may God bless your recovery to a very horrible condition as GAD and anxiety/panic attacks, (which I also suffer from.)  No one can understand the life crushing effects of GAD/panic attacks until personally experienced.  I try to offer advice from decades of experience, and use clinical knowledge to do so, I'am sorry if I offended you.

      Good Luck, and happier days to you...Grey...smile

    • LaszloLH
      LaszloLH grey0417

      Posted

      It's not that complicated. Companies who make a drug may try to make it for this or that, but at the end, they make something that will effect most people similar way. Then there are whole number of people it effects differently or not at all. That's why there are so many side effects and withdrawel effects. EVen they say that they don't know how the drug even works, but if it's effective for a bunch of people it's approved. Sad, but that's where we are.
  • grey0417
    grey0417 anne2326

    Posted

    Anne2326:

    Try the SSRI route, Zoloft, Cymbalta etc.  Lyrica was not designed for anxiety control although in europe and russia it has been approved for that purpose, (wrongfully I believe)  

    Grey...smile

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