I am interested in members experiences with pregabalin. I have been prescribed this drug for some months now twice daily in addition to oxycodone taken with the same regularity. The nature of the pain I am being treated for seems to be neuropathic - pain begins at my thoracic spine, wraps around my ribs and ends with a patch of pain where my ribs insert at the sternum.
I am said to be on the highest dose recommended by physicians, my father in law who is a paraplegic is on the same dose which maybe neither here or there. It is a strange drug for sure, it does help me sleep and that's the only reason I still take it. I prefer not to take a dose in the mornings due to the strange effect it has on me - wobbly vision, grogginess and mild to moderate anxiety and a generally dumbed down state in a peculiar way. It does not appear to have any positive effect on my pain levels unfortunately. When comes time to get off it I will certainly have to taper the dose...found out the hard way when I forgot to dose for 36 hours and started to fall apart at the seams, got the hot/cold sweats, nausea to actually vomiting...not too bad but certainly uncomfortable and inconvenient.
Oxycodone is effective but has it's draw backs as many of you know, I would much prefer to take something else,
So.....does anyone find this drug effective for their pain?
I am said to be on the highest dose recommended by physicians, my father in law who is a paraplegic is on the same dose which maybe neither here or there. It is a strange drug for sure, it does help me sleep and that's the only reason I still take it. I prefer not to take a dose in the mornings due to the strange effect it has on me - wobbly vision, grogginess and mild to moderate anxiety and a generally dumbed down state in a peculiar way. It does not appear to have any positive effect on my pain levels unfortunately. When comes time to get off it I will certainly have to taper the dose...found out the hard way when I forgot to dose for 36 hours and started to fall apart at the seams, got the hot/cold sweats, nausea to actually vomiting...not too bad but certainly uncomfortable and inconvenient.
Oxycodone is effective but has it's draw backs as many of you know, I would much prefer to take something else,
So.....does anyone find this drug effective for their pain?