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Anyone on Lyrica or gabapentin? (self.chronicpain)

submitted 1 year ago by SpezCanLigmaBalls to c/chronicpain

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I started on 100mg x3 gabapentin and then worked my way up to 300mg x3 daily. Once I got to 300mg I became so damn stupid. So then I told my pain mgt doc and she almost fell out of her seating laughing by the way I told her I’m dumb but then she wanted to see if Lyrica would be any better. Got on 75mg x3 and I’m still very stupid.

I never remember anything and forget words mid sentence or what I’m even talking about.

Anyone else have this struggle also?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi, I'm on gabapentin. I don't have that problem as bad as it seems to effect you. But I started getting it worse past 300mgx3 for me. Lyrica was worse in my case. I found backing down to 300mgx3 and eating high fat meals around the time I take them helped me.

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm now on 600x3 of gabapentin but I feel like it's made me dumb enough for long enough I forget what it was like before the gabapentin. So high fats meal with the gabapentin helped the brain fog for you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was on 600x3 for some months, I couldn't take it I felt drunk all the time and the increase past 300x3 didn't seem to help my symptoms. But yeah high fat meals seem to help like nuts or salmon. My guess is my body is better able to metabolize the gabapentin and make more lipid fat Raffs to transport it across the blood brain barrier. On top of that there has been some studies suggesting that a high fat diet is good for brain fog in general