pregabalin

Yes, if memory serves me Lyrica does put on weight, how long are you of it now? I see you say you have PMR also, so are you on prenidsolone? If so, that definitely puts on weight, what dosage are you on? Everything seems to put on weight, why can't some of these meds get us to lose weight🙄

Hi, I've been on pregabalin 75mg , 1morn and 1 at night for approx 4 months and I've gained about 12 lbs. I have a swollen tummy which may or may not be due to my IBS or the pregabalin. If there's a random side effect I know I will get it.

I'm also not sure if it's reduced my pain, I'm just out of a bad fibro flare which lasted 3 months and I'm still exhausted but had to return to work on reduced hours. I also use a micro current device which has definitely helped me, my local pharmacist loaned me a device for a 8 week trial.

I have a phased return to work for 6 weeks and my boss very kindly informed that at the end of that period I would be completely well, I work for the NHS and my boss is a senior nurse !!

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Good question Gone_Girl, I too have wondered this, tho so far on Pregabalin I have lost weight. I wasn't sure if Pregabalin makes you more hungry, or it manages to place something in the bloodstream IE more Glucose etc?

Also, how was your withdrawal after being on it that long?

Thank you all for answering.

PMR has not flared up for many months now and so am off prednisolone for about as

long because as soon as I "needed" the pred to combat pain, within no more than 3 days,

I began to reduce and so eventually stop. I hated taking pred and wanted to stop ASAP.

Pred does cause weight gain but I started to get fat about a year before my first PMR experience after taking pregabalin.

Whether I got generic pregabalin or Lyrica depended on the pharmacist I used. I never considered there was a possible distinction between the two.

When the menopause began I needed beta blockers and sleeping tablets.

Felt utterly dreadful and decided I needed to reduce the long list of meds I was

throwing down my neck on a daily basis so Lyrica had to go because I don't know why I was

still taking it as I still was in pain. I ndid reduce but was feeling so bad anyway I cannot say there were notable side effects.

Fibro and PMR are cruel ailments and the drugs taken to help are dreadful so to have drugs that make you FAT as a consequence is so awful and doubly cruel.

I take many Tramadol and dihydrocodeine for the pain.

Cannot believe this has happened to me - I am only 50

Thank you all for answering.

PMR has not flared up for many months now and so am off prednisolone for about as

long because as soon as I "needed" the pred to combat pain, within no more than 3 days,

I began to reduce and so eventually stop. I hated taking pred and wanted to stop ASAP.

Pred does cause weight gain but I started to get fat about a year before my first PMR experience after taking pregabalin.

Whether I got generic pregabalin or Lyrica depended on the pharmacist I used. I never considered there was a possible distinction between the two.

When the menopause began I needed beta blockers and sleeping tablets.

Felt utterly dreadful and decided I needed to reduce the long list of meds I was

throwing down my neck on a daily basis so Lyrica had to go because I don't know why I was

still taking it as I still was in pain. I ndid reduce but was feeling so bad anyway I cannot say there were notable side effects.

Fibro and PMR are cruel ailments and the drugs taken to help are dreadful so to have drugs that make you FAT as a consequence is so awful and doubly cruel.

I take many Tramadol and dihydrocodeine for the pain.

Cannot believe this has happened to me - I am only 50

I can sympathize with you im so shocked my body and mind is in poor condition due to fribomalgia and other conditions.

Im stuck for meds and there has been no proper research into this wasting desease i feel we are losing the battle to reach a comfortable place in our lives it's full of pain depression and despair.I also have gained weight with meds im distraught at the future all the pain all the symptoms and the affects of the meds.There should be a clinic at least we could attend for further information on new medication.

I believe there are no clinics or specialists or whatever because the medical profession have no idea what causes all these things (Fibro, PMR, call it what you will) and no idea about how to treat it.

They throw powerful drugs like pregabalin at it because, although they don't know HOW it works, it does seem to help with neuropathic pain etc. For most people, however, it's needed in ever increasing doses to keep up with the same effect and, also for most people, it's a nightmare to withdraw from. Also, a study showed that it works by blocking nerve synapases - which are eventually destroyed, which isn't particularly handy.

There are discussions on this Fibro forum where sufferers have decided to take control. There are many who believe this group of degenerative diseases, possibly along with others such as MS and Parkinsons, are caused by genetic deficiencies which are made worse by age, lifestyle, environmental and pharmaceutical toxins. The genes we are born with are all we have so the way we treat them is very important. Some deficiencies are made worse by certain foods (i.e. gluten, sugar) while others become apparent after years of exposure to, say, traffic fumes, drugs and cleaning products, or maybe something like repeated or continuous stress. No one actually knows - these are just some of the theories but, if you look at Fibro, it's often thought to be triggered by something like a car accident or a latent virus from an earlier illness. Or, then again, it may be caused by the types of medication used to treat that illness or the effects of the car crash.

In these discussions a clean diet is often mentioned as helping. We have all grown used to throwing whatever we fancy down our necks - drugs, booze, fast food - loads of 'flavourings' and emulsifiers, (you know what I'm saying - read the ingredients and weep!). Our genes and mitochondria (which turn food into energy) evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to work efficiently on mostly plants with maybe a little protein from meat, fish and eggs. In the last 60 years, and especially in the last 30, our diets have turned away from what our bodies want and we feed it what WE want instead - which is not necessarily a good thing.

I'm generalising here. I'm not, for one minute, saying anyone has Fibro because they eat badly. What I am saying is, that while we don't know what causes Fibro or how to cure it, some people have found cleaning up their diet works for them. It's limiting, sure, but then so is the constant agony. Also, it's not a quick fix but it might be worth a try rather than looking for yet more drugs. There's lots of information both on these forums and out there in general but the basics are to eat more naturally. If it starts to help you then you might be able to slowly reduce all meds - who knows?

Yes we have looked into this which I attended they are updated regularly and have different speakers in about all that fribomalgia ME,/CFS so that does benifit our knowledge and understanding of the hoe could i put it simply our nervous system is out of sync.I have been in a flare up for over a year so I thought maybe a change meds or meds.The depression is really bad and worrying about weight gain doesn't help the whole process of getting to a place that is livable.