No surprise when it comes to lyrica being mass marketed in OZ to anyone with pain.
Although efficacy is rated at less than 1:10 patients, Pfizer bought the govt, (& TGA), with the premise that use of Pregabalin will lower the use & therefore need for opioids.
It didn't, pain dos are aware of this, but also aware how addictive lyrica can be, & how it can be used as a crutch for opiate wd.
Such as, use is now limited or even withdrawn in Victoria.
What we thought was a little secret on BL has finally gone mainstream!!
That is certainly how my GP views it. He laughs at my old GP and all the others before him especially the one who put me on it promoting it's non-addictive nature, he laughed hard when I told him that when she told me about it's non-addictive Nature I immediately thought 'Well this will be ineffective expensive crap if that's the case'
And My GP came back with 'That's usually a good indicator especially when you showed great promise on certain semi synthetics like Oxycodone, dumb asses needed your money that's what they are - a company with shareholders expecting a good quarterly statement.' Aint that a NO Shit response from your GP who often frequents forums including this one just to see what the latest level of understanding or misunderstanding maybe by patients, how much crap is being parroted.
Of course it turns out to not help most of us with CP conditions and is physically addictive with a mild to moderate to nasty WD depending on how much you normally take, how consistently and for how long. If I'm dependant on Lyrica I find I make it to 36 hours before I start to fall apart like a wet cake ....was only at the local shops thinking 'Fuck what's happening here? My Temp was up and down (The Hot and Colds), raced home and took 150mgs of Lyrica and started to feel better after 30mins or so but still took the rest of the day to reach normality.
But RTP has clearly stated how this drug came onto our chemist shelves. LOL my first 2 boxes of the stuff was given to me by Dr's who still had some freebee sample packs from when the Pfizer Rep came around booking dinner dates, giving out tickets to football games and the Ballet backed by a Russian and hungarian symphony orchestras made up exclusively of Blonde Blue eyed, or lack and green eyed 16 year old girls who were all available to chat with privately at the after party for $300 hr. The whole thing is about money like everything else, so think about this while you are crying, yelling, screaming for help so that when no help comes that next time you get pissed off at the whole "Wicked Game" (Thanks C.I.).
Take a deep breath including any other non drug solution and here's me now I do a light to moderate free weight workout at home before or after an IM shot of Testosterone Undec (4000mgs - $6.50 each with 5 repeats) consisting of 2 x 2ml shots in outside quarters of my upper Quads (Or all 4ml of oil in my Butt cheek thanks to wifey) take my thyroxin for my dead thyroid then my morning sedative standard being 5-10mg Valium, 100 mg of sertraline to prevent homicide and half my daily methadone Dose 45mgs and if panic is on top of me then 2.5 - 5mgs of Ativan should put me and others in a safe space, Apart from the steroids all the other drugs are related to Chronic pain but some are mainly for conditions related to the poor treatment of young people with chronic pain like PTSD Manic/Depression, Anxiety , Mood and panic disorders all developed as a result of of no medicinal action taken by GP's.
Btw SKR, so sorry to hear you lost a valuable friend. Could it be bcos of your anxiety etc that you thought this friend was in any way competing with your love of twenty years?
I myself would doubt a friend online cmng between my marriage & the best version of me.
Perhaps u received mixed msgs, or the one with CP simply gelled with you as you had notes to compare.
It sounds as though you've moved past the territorial waters, stay cool.
Rip x
Not competing but coming way out of character from their usual laid back self and instead of levelling with me friend to friend or online friend to online friend they actually told me to tell my wife to "back off" as she (wife) was sending her messages (My wife apparently sending my online friend messages saying stay away from him or "my man" and saying things like "He doesn't need you!). I immediately called BS because my wife and I are very open people even physically back in our mid 20's and it wasn't the situation where the female in the relationship was forced to sleep with other men to 'keep her man' or to '"improve the relationship" .......everyone was having fun trust me on that lol cos pills used to be pills with the right precursors as with the speed and Meth with the right PH levels....... barely/partially clothed and naked people parties for days.I just thought either my online friend got it all mixed up with someone else (plausible considering my online friend was suffering from a condition of sorts which arose due to a head trauma).
This all came to light
after everything went down. I didn't see or expect anything like that to come my way especially from this online friend cos she is a cool relaxed and from what I could tell fairly open themselves .......Baah but it's ok I don't really consider it a "deal breaker" or a reason to not still chat online especially because we have so many similarities with respect to our health conditions and the way we deal with them mentally, in short, we supported one another and I missed that. HOWEVER, breaking News, I reached out to them and have received a positive response - SOOOOoooo the past is exactly that and we can move forward yay! At least I’m hoping.
Let's get it turned up again. I do empathize with your situation, as I can relate to the "done nothing and know nothing". 