Does Anyone Taking Lyrica Have Memory Loss? (Page 7)

I have been on Lyrica for about 8 months now and I am having fantastic results. My dr is trying to increase my dosage and I have been doing it in 50 mg increments. I am up 100 more now in a month, for a total dosage of 400mg. I find that I have very bad recall and loss of my vocabulary during conversation. It eventually goes away, but I was wondering if anyone else has this? If it keeps up, I just may have to drop back down 50mg until I get used to it? That seemed to work that last time I had to raise it.BTW, I have nerve pain in my ribcage. (not caused by shingles)

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i have only been on Lyrica for 8 days, been prescribed them for my nervous system. i am already having memory loss and loads of other side affects. i'm thinking of asking my doctor if they could change them to something else as its doing my head in even tho its funny for everyone else around me lol

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One of the brands for dry mouth is Biotene. In many cases it works quite well. I can't say how well it helps with dry mouth from Lyrica. My doctor wrote me a prescription for Lyrica 3 years ago. As I do with all new meds that I am prescribed, I got it filled and then before taking the first dose, I started researching the drug. After enough reading I put the bottle away and never touched it again. Most everything I read about it scared me.

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Hi Karen
i also have memory loss and also weight gain.
Iam now taking 50mg a day. This is reasonable although I still have memory loss. The pain however is manageable. I have tried many meds and this assists the pain the most.

I have diabetic neuropathy disc problems and reumatoid artheritis. Nothing else has helped as much.

Annie

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I use gabapentin with some relief but only of the T6/T7 area. It sometimes affected my ability to get a complete sentence out until after about 2-3 weeks on it. It is similar to Lyrica except it is not a scheduled drug.

It takes a few weeks on it before you may feel any relief. The doctor will titrate your dosage up. Do it slowly or you may get numbness and more side effects.

These classes of meds all affect memory until you get used to them.

You cannot stop these meds cold turkey either and will have to wean down under the supervision and direction of a doctor.

Best to take the lowest amount that works. I find 300mg every 3 hours works better for me than doubling it as directed which led to numbness.

Most get used to the memory and speech issues as the brain compensates and gets used to it.

If you cant handle the Lyrica after a month and are still having these problems, you may wish to talk to your doc about alternatives in the same class of drugs. Don't be afraid to start slowly and wait for the benefit to show in 2-4 weeks. I don't know the names of all the alternative, else I woud list them.

It does nothing for my herniated and degenerative S1/L5 but before Neurontin I was having a massive new pain in the T6/7 because that feels like its compressing. Although I show no fractures, I can tell it is compression because I can bend straight down and my back makes several pops as it realigns. The alignment last for 20 minutes and then I have to do it again.
I am in desperate need for some thoracic exercises I can actually do to strengthen this area. Until then the benefit outweighs the risks

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Stephany ,Sincerest advice , get of Lyrica fast and change to a safer product , this drug will damage you .

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What you are experiencing is more common than not and is caused by the Lyrica, if there is a dose that doesn't cause the side effect then go with that, because it takes quite a while for the memory and communication skills to come back in full. I got lost going home after work on Lyrica several years ago and I still cannot trust my memory. I have found some relief with topical gabapentin in a much lower dose in the areas of greatest pain without memory loss, it doesn't make it go away but does help on bad days.

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I have been put on 200mg of lyrica about 2 years ago for eppilepsy and I have since had major problems with remembering peoples names keeping concentration and in the middle of a sentence just putting in a word having noting to do with the conversation, I have had a head injury in 2004 and i have noticed my memmory getting worse in the last 18 months, I have always blamed my injury but now after seeing this that lyrica has had these effects on other people, it would be a dream come true if i could change medicine to regain my full memory, could this be possible ?????

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Hi. Did this ever get better for you? Did your thinking and memory ever go back to normal since you've been off of the Lyrica. I believe the same thing has happened to my mom and i'm so furious about it and saddened at the same time. I just want my mom to have her brain back, completely. She was on Lyrica for 4-5 days and i made them stop giving it to her because she completely changed mentally. Now, my concern is will this be permanent or not. I'm praying it's not.

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I took Lyrica for a couple of years. Started with 50 mg a day and gradually was worked up to 150 twice a day. I thought it was a great medicine because my Fibromyalgia pain got better. I did notice memory loss, but figured it would get better or go away, or that I was just getting older and the memory loss was part of that. Not true. I went off Lyrica because I started putting things together after a long talk with my sister. She was worried about the changes in me. I became anxious and started having panic attacks while taking Lyrica. I have become almost a hermit, avoiding social situations and have lost contact with lifelong friends. My legs and hips hurt all the time. I became irritable easily. My eyesight has deteriorated. The memory which used to remember almost everything is now horrible. Going off Lyrica was like removing yourself from a narcotic, except it took months for the effects to go away. Now 2 and a half years later my memory is still horrible and shows no signs of getting better. I wish you the best of luck taking this medicine. I seems to help some people, but it seems to destroy others.

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I have been on Lyrica for approx. 6 months for chronic migraines. I started out @ 50 mg twice a day. I then moved up to 100 mg twice a day. After a month at that dose, I started having severe memory loss. It has caused my husband & I to have some big fight over me forgetting conversations or events concerning our business. I run the accounting dept. and I am forgetting to record bank transactions!! Scary! Not to mention weight gain, and a case of the clumsies!! I really appreciate everyone's input on this blog. I will be discontinuing Lyrica after my Dr. appt tomorrow.

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Not only did I have memory loss while on Lyrica, it continues.
For a while I was very afraid I was going into alzheimers. It has not gotten much better with time. I have been off Lyrica 150 mg twice a day for 3 years. My family just smiles now when I can't remember something. Do Not
Stay on this medicine. It messes with your Brain.!

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I am in the same situation as you Vicky as i was Squashed and then run over by a 3 Ton Bobcat but i cant even move the slightest amount or get out of bed if i don't take all my meds i'm on 300 mg x 2 times a day Cymbalta 60mg a day panadol osteo 665 mg x2 tabs 3 times a day and Norspan 15 Microgram/hour patches Ranitidine 150 mg 2x a day i have been taking them all for 2 years now and have Memory loss Vocabulary loss memory blank in the middle of sentences blurred vision losing teeth and teeth getting holes in them everywhere. I am so grateful that it eases the pain enough to function on a sub standard level i will never get back to the way i was i'm just glad to be alive

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Joel , the panadol alone at that dose will eventually destroy your Liver ,the Lyrica your brain , have you ever been offered any thing like nerve blocks or surgery ?

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Hi Ive just recently been put on Lyrica by my doctor for severe nerve pain coming from a bulged disk pressing on my spinal cord.
I live in Australia and my doctor had to apply for permission from the government to put me on Lyrica but thats besides the point.
For the first couple of days i was on it, i was at home alone as my wife has to work and when ever I closed my eyes for a few seconds and opened them i had the strange feeling of someone walking past me or that there was someone sitting on the couch behind me. after a while this stopped occurring.
but ever since I have been on it i have struggled to hold conversations with people I know exactly what I want to say but there is just one or two words in the sentence I cant get out.
also one time I found myself sitting at the traffic light on my way to a place that i regularly travel to not knowing where I was or where I was going, after a miniute or two it came to me and I was on my way again
also on my way home tonight on the freeway at one stage i forgot what part of the freeway i was on and ended up taking the wrong exit.

Im glad to see Im not the only one having issues Im going back to talk to my doctor tomorrow but i will get my wife w write down everything I need to talk to him about
in case i jump into one of my little i dont know what i call them brain freezes maybe
and cant rememeber what i want to talk to him about

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Bunny66 , there is an old saying ," no pain no brain " and with lyrica that's exactly what you finish up with, NO BRAIN .

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I was on Neurontin 600mg daily along with soma & occasional loran for pain. Memory loss, inability to hold a conversation , spell, follow simple directions made it impossible for me to continue work. I was switched to Lyrica, 300mg, but now I'm finding I'm sleepwalking & memory loss is worse. I also noticed a few years back that even with regular dental checks I had receding gums, and bone loss. Now unemployed, no ins. & having exhausted my 401k I'm now facing having to have my teeth pulled, not to mention I'm having trouble getting a Dr to help me with disability. I worked 25 yrs in the medical & now I can't get help( thank goodness for spell check & so far it has taken me 30 min to compose this sofar)

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I am a physio and patients have been reporting memory problems to me from lyrica. A man today told me one tablet took away his leg pain but affected him mentally so much he would not take another one.

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mrbrainfreeze,if you have nerve pain because of pressure from a disc then get the pressure taken off the nerve by treating the disc by surgery or manipulation , Lyrica just destroys the brain that registers the pain in the first place , this is a bit like destroying the warning light on your dash board instead of finding the cause of the problem that is causing the light to come on in the first place , this is medical science gone stupid .Lyrica will cause permanent damage .

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I took Gabapentin for a few month, then switched to Lyrica because the former caused debilitating dizziness, sleepiness, dangerous driving, memory loss, and general large drop in intelligence in general.
After a few months on Lyrica, I discovered that despite my 'neurologists' assurances that I had nothing mechanical wrong with my feet - that both my crippling pain and numbness in different parts of both feet - I want to a podiatrist and he discovered severe plantar fasciatis. With 7 weeks of wearing foot implants in my shoes, 100% of the pain disappeared. I stopped Lyrica during that 7 weeks, as I don't care if my toes are numb.
It is not more thean 6 months later. The problems I had with recalling this or that word - I would say usually nouns, especially proper nouns (peoples names, song names, movie names, product or brand names) before taking these meds were typical for a 55 year old: minor nuisance. Now, these problems - measured by the number of times in a day I cannot remember a word that I have had in my vocabulary for decades - are 20 times worse. It happens sometimes that in a 3 or 4 sentence span, there are half a dozen words I cannot think of. I just give up.
It is like what I imagine approaching dimentia is like - except I've worsened to the degree that people worsen in 15 years, in a matter of a few months.
Sometimes I don't even try to engage in conversation on a subject, because the moment I think of a reply to some statement of someone else, I cannot think of the 3rd word in the sentence I'm about to say. So I keep my mouth shut.

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