Lyrica & Incontinence
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I took Lyrica for about 6 weeks & noticed it caused incontinence or urine leakage. I stopped it & the sx subsided. I now restarted it as the pain was unbearable. It works wonders for the pain if you can endure the side effects. I am going to see if I can somehow control the urine leakage if it starts again.

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Re: Crazy Mary (# 56)

Yeah I can’t tolerate gabapentin or Lyrica it did terrible things to me, there are people who claim it dissolved their teeth and I believe them.

Plus getting off gabapentin was harder and it took longer than any time I’ve ever quit taking opioids long-term. Those withdrawals are over in a week, it took like a month to get through the gabapentin with drawls. These medication’s are really dangerous and doctors treat them like they’re nothing.

It could be the vicodin into though, dopamine stimulates peoples kidneys, and I think that opioids increase dopamine, though I am not medically trained so I could be wrong. I just know that I have a problem with urinary urgency when I’m taking my ADHD medication and my pain medication in the same day, one or the other doesn’t do it to me but both of them make it really hard to make it to the bathroom on time if they’re in my body together.

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Re: Karebear84 (# 57)

did your doctor explain when he/she put you on Lyrica? just my personal experience but Lyrica is a wildly unpredictable drug and can throw off lots of ancillary side-effects. I hope your situation improves!

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Re: Nurse83 (# 8)

I'm only 38. I have been having to wear diapers for the last 8 years due to incomplete paraplegic.
In saying that, my bladder incontinence had been stopped, because I've been getting botox in my bladder, but upon starting Lyrica, I have started having incontinence again ??

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Re: Kitty (# 18)

They started me on lyrica 11/2 weeks ago. I was also given the lowest dose possible of hydrocodone. I thought I was just having to pee a lot from all the extra water I was drinking to avoid taking a stool softener everyday for the hydrocodone effects. But then the leg cramping, headaches, and super fast spread and intensity of the sciatica symptoms made me think my back took a huge fast turn for the worst. After I almost passed out from the intense pain getting out of bed one morning and the weird headaches, my friend thought I may be stroking and talked me into going to the emergency room. After a 3 hour wait I left. My pain level was through the roof and I had to lay down. I didn’t quite make it to their rest room either. So the next day I’m a dribbling fool and sporting the pee pads. So I did some googling and found your link tonight and as I’m still only taking a 75mg once at night (I couldn’t walk safely when they had me test a daytime dose too) I am quitting it tonight! Way too many side effects that I never saw listed on the pharmacy paperwork that came with pills. I have also scheduled a meet & greet with a spine surgeon as I don’t want to be a pill popper if I can help it after this experience. But wow I’m so happy to have all the combined experience knowledge about lyrica from everyone on this website. Thanks again everyone!

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Re: Nurse83 (# 8)

Same here. I am 38.

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Re: Alison (# 37)

Same here. I am now slowly going off Lyrica. Not quite making it to the bathroom. Just had lyrica leading up to spine surgery.

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Re: janet (# 1)

I am also on 300 mg Lyrica and reading these chat messages because I have severe incontinence. I WILL stop taking it! Everything I do and everywhere I go, has to revolve around a bathroom.

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I've had pretty good luck tamping down any usage of meds that help me sleep or cause drowsiness. been off Lyrica for a while now and SO glad I made that decision. I'm using a CDB gel tab to help me sleep at night and that usually does the trick without incontinence.

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I’ve been off Lyrica for a number of years (thank goodness) but I’m still experiencing nighttime incontinence. just curious if anyone else is in the same boat and how you dealt with it. no matter what I do it’s still very unpredictable and frustrating.

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Re: Me (# 20)

I have have incontinence since having prostate cancer surgery but I was using only one pad daily until I started Lyrica I now have no signal that I need to urinate and am using about 4 pads per day. It has worsened 100% since lyrica

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Re: Dulcinea (# 48)

so very sorry you're experiencing that... did you have any experience with incontinence before? either way, Lyrica is a super powerful drug even at low doses and can mess with people's normal functioning. keep in mind that it could be interacting with other drugs, too, exacerbating the problem. please keep us posted.

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I have been taking 50 mg of Lyrica 2 times a day for about 6 years. I am 79 yrs. old, female and have been having urinary incontinence for about 4 years. Could Lyrica be the cause? My dosage is very low compared to most.

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I hope it subsides for you! I'm fully off it now and feel like I lost 10 years of my life as a result. good luck and thanks for sharing...

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Definitely causes incontinence. The took the brand name and 2 different generics. Happened frequently by the 3rd day after taking the medication. Typically occurred within 1.5 hours after falling asleep with a rently empty bladder. Never happened off the drug.

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Re: Kj (# 44)

I had been on Lyrica 100mg for nearly 10 years, and I thought that I was stuck with chronic prostatitis and nighttime bedwetting (despite never having that problem before). turns out Lyrica was the culprit. when I dialed it down to 25mg 2x a day the problem disappeared. By January I expect to be off this drug for good. Not enough research has been done on this drug when used in combination with others and how it affects urination, brain function and urinary/prostate issues in men. Looking forward to getting off.

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I started lyrics for nerve pain. Only day two. I took it at 6pm after 3 hours of sleep, I awake every 2 hrs, headache, legs cramp and more lower back pain. Its only 75mg. Im very sensitive to medication even over-the-counter causes me to be very drowsy I am at least 230 lb so I should be able to handle the medications he took me off everything else. My RA, fibromyalgie and nerve damage pain is so unbearable but I have to work whenever I take medications I'm drowsy up to 24 hours is very hard for me to get up and stay awake I do a lot of driving as well.

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I've definitely noticed the incontinence but I find when I take melatonin before bed,
I can often wait until morning before I have to go to the bathroom. Mind you I must
say that it takes me awhile to wake up! No bed wetting at this point anyway!

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Doctors say a lot of stuff, when they have no idea! I hate asking my doctor questions I feel he should know he knows he answer to that he's not familiar with. I do the research myself now because some are so busy they aren't focused on the patient they are more focused on grants, assisting professors, published articles, etc. Somedays I feel like a mouse in his lab. I'm currently searching for a new one but U should show him this thread maybe he'll belive it when he sees it. I too take lyrica and this has happened.

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I recently started t asking lyrica too. I have had nothing but urinary problems which I have never had in my whole life. My urine is darker and cloudy and has an odor. So I stopped it and within 24 hrs all is perfect again. So I started it again and within 12 hrs same thing again. No one can tell me it's not the lyrics. I have now stopped and started it 4 times with same results. It's almost like I have a urinary infection each time. I know it's not suppose to do this according to most but yes it does.

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lyrica definitely causes urine incontinence as I have been on it for years and tried to find out what was wrong with me and my leaking bladder day and night.homopath just told me it is lyrica side affects. wish I knew this year's ago thinking it was a serious bladder problem. I have given up on Dr they know nothing about medication they r prescribing.

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