Lyrica For S1 Chronic Nerve Pain
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For years now I have been taking 4 tramacet and 2 lyrica every day. The side effects are weight gain, a bit of finger and arm numbness and sleep disturbance. On the good side the tramacet is all that really works on nerve pain (S1 root damage chronic) and the lyrica takes the second edge off the pain. If you are careful it should be ok. Always best to eat something with these two medicines. You have to slowly taper off either of them. No sudden stops because a sudden stop can cause seizures.

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Actually, what you're referring to is dependence, not addiction.

Dependence occurs when your body gets used to something that you ingest on a regular basis and can occur with your morning coffee, as well as medications. If you abruptly stop taking it, then you'll experience some relatively mild withdrawal effects.

Addiction, however, occurs when someone abuses a medication, because they like the way it makes them feel, so they keep taking more and more of it, because that feeling eventually wears off, as all side effects do.

What type of doctor are you seeing to get help with your pain?

Have you tried pain management?

No one should have to suffer, I am very sorry that you're having such problems.

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I took Lyrica for 2 hrs for periphiel neuropathy pain and then it turned on me making me unable to see, bad uneasy feeling and kidney cancer and failure. I am scared to death to take even 1 -50 mg! And the withdrawal! Felt like I was burning alive! Ought to be against the law! the only drug that Ever helped was Oxycodone 15 mg, but he'll no! You can't have something that works ! Everything is addictive! Blood pressure meds, so on I just don't know why authorities want people to live in pain!

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