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

I switched from 400mg 3x/day Gabapentin to Lyrica for exactly the same reason. I had taken it for about 5 years. I'm taking 100mg 3x/day. I find the pain relief similar but the side effects a little less. Gabapentin gave me not only the dumb feeeling but made me compulsively do things, like I know I should stop talking now but literally cannot do it, or I know I should stop cleaning because I'm hurting myself but I'll just do one more thing. I'd try to joke about it like "this clean kitchen/pot of chili was brought to you by.... Gabapentin" but it wasn't healthy for me.

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls 2 points 1 year ago

I can’t remember (lol) the exact situations I was in but I’ve basically said that exact same thing you would. I’m glad Lyrica is working better for you