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Is Lyrica a narcotic?
My doc just prescribed Lyrica to me b/c he thinks it's possible I have Fibro....I have all the symptoms....I'm also on Vicodin from another doc for severe headaches.....in order for me to function and get up and go to work, I must take a Vicodin in the AM right away, one in the afternoon and sometimes one at night.....should I look into any other meds or narcotics? Just wondering what everyone else is taking to fight their pain. Thanks in advance!
I agree with you. It is hard to function in the morning because of the PAIN until the hydrocodone mutes it a bit. I have a spinal injury with regular arthritis, auto immune arthritis, bulging and herniated discs that are degenerating. I have been under the care of a pain management specialist for 13 yrs.
Suboxone are not bilingual, people who speak two languages are bilingual. Suboxone is to be taken sublingually, which means under the tongue. Also, to the person who says fibromyalgia doesn't exist, I highly doubt you know that since you can't even spell it.
Hmmm.. I suppose you believe that those crazy people walking down the sidewalk talking to themselves are just filled with 'the spirits' and them deepressdeded soldjers comin' back from the Irack just need to buck up and pull themseves up by they own bootstraps, eh?
The astute diagnoses delivered by your cracker jack box medical degree probably would have been cutting-edge science in, say, 1698, but here in 2013, we rely on science and the scientific method and they inform us that, indeed, chronic pain conditions do exist and many of them must be only treated by opioid medications.
I pray for your relatives and for the impact that the horrible, back-woods attitudes you've expressed herein have had upon them. Please, do yourself and your relatives a big favor...every time you feel that you need to bash us all over our collective heads with your corn-pone medical wisdom, just go watch an episode of Jeopardy. If you get more than three correct, (and I mean without the benefit of DVR and a 45 minute excursion into Wikipedia on that infernal intronets made up by that pinko Al Gore), then feel free to make the entire world dumber by opening your dentally-challenged mouth to expound upon how "them drugs is just fer makin them big compnies rich... damn fat-cats!!!" IF, however, you score your usual 0 correct (yes, I'm including all of the questions they may have included that week on NASCAR or Bama Football -Roll TIDE), perhaps you could do us all a favor and listen to that nagging thought that pops into your sweet lil' noggin' from time-to-time which tells you that "them smart people might be smart after all, and not just fancy dressers in them suits and ties (don't nobody preciate the practicality of a good set o overalls these days do they?)." Just a thought, Erinbrooke..., I understand that there has been a real dearth of devotees to the National Socialist German Worker's Party these days, and, alternatively to the followings of another brilliant "Scientist" L. Ron Hubbard... perhaps your boorish skillset could find a home amongst the warm embrace of either of those two groups? Good luck, anyhoo, on that budding philosophic and sterling medical ethos!!
The astute diagnoses delivered by your cracker jack box medical degree probably would have been cutting-edge science in, say, 1698, but here in 2013, we rely on science and the scientific method and they inform us that, indeed, chronic pain conditions do exist and many of them must be only treated by opioid medications.
I pray for your relatives and for the impact that the horrible, back-woods attitudes you've expressed herein have had upon them. Please, do yourself and your relatives a big favor...every time you feel that you need to bash us all over our collective heads with your corn-pone medical wisdom, just go watch an episode of Jeopardy. If you get more than three correct, (and I mean without the benefit of DVR and a 45 minute excursion into Wikipedia on that infernal intronets made up by that pinko Al Gore), then feel free to make the entire world dumber by opening your dentally-challenged mouth to expound upon how "them drugs is just fer makin them big compnies rich... damn fat-cats!!!" IF, however, you score your usual 0 correct (yes, I'm including all of the questions they may have included that week on NASCAR or Bama Football -Roll TIDE), perhaps you could do us all a favor and listen to that nagging thought that pops into your sweet lil' noggin' from time-to-time which tells you that "them smart people might be smart after all, and not just fancy dressers in them suits and ties (don't nobody preciate the practicality of a good set o overalls these days do they?)." Just a thought, Erinbrooke..., I understand that there has been a real dearth of devotees to the National Socialist German Worker's Party these days, and, alternatively to the followings of another brilliant "Scientist" L. Ron Hubbard... perhaps your boorish skillset could find a home amongst the warm embrace of either of those two groups? Good luck, anyhoo, on that budding philosophic and sterling medical ethos!!
You are stupid, as a person who can not even spell fibromyalgia it is very real and the doctors came up with that name to discribe overactive nerves because that is what it is called and it is proved with pressure points and several other physical tests and lyrica does help. I dont feel sorry for you at all you have not learned to deal with pain management you are simply healing from broken bones! That is not the same as the many truly hurting people who are trying to deal with the very real fibromyalgia!
tramodol can very addictive, read up about it. it is an opioid not an opiate. that's because its a synthetic narcotic made by chemicals not natural poppy seeds.
tramodol can very addictive, read up about it. it is an opioid not an opiate. that's because its a synthetic narcotic made by chemicals not natural poppy seeds.
tramodol can very addictive, read up about it. it is an opioid not an opiate. that's because its a synthetic narcotic made by chemicals not natural poppy seeds.
I have fribromyalgia and I take vicodin and lyrica.I can't say enough about lyrica it is a wonder drug for me I have fibromyalgia and It is very severe and she was.nt saying she cant live with out it because she is addicted to it she is in pain from morning to night it never goes away.You fell like a prisoner in your our body.
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No lyrica ain't a narcotic
Tramadol is highly addictive and about to become a classified narcotic, as it is more dangerous to suddenly withdraw from than heroin, like many of the sedatives out there, even tho it is technically a synthetic narcotic - be careful because that addiction can just sneak up on you! and Steve, I hear you. I was taking 40 of them a day and the only thing that got me off them was suboxone, which unfortunately I am still taking 3 years later. I am weaning myself off the suboxone, which is hard given they come in these bi-lingual strips you put under your tongue, decreasing those little strips in a PAIN, but suboxone saved my life and I only take one 2.5mg strip a day down from two 8mg. strips. Tramadol was my reason for living, and it nearly killed me several times. So many doctors told me it was all in my head, can you imagine? Thanks for telling it like it is.
Tramadol is highly addictive and about to become a classified narcotic, as it is more dangerous to suddenly withdraw from than heroin, like many of the sedatives out there, even tho it is technically a synthetic narcotic - be careful because that addiction can just sneak up on you! and Steve, I hear you. I was taking 40 of them a day and the only thing that got me off them was suboxone, which unfortunately I am still taking 3 years later. I am weaning myself off the suboxone, which is hard given they come in these bi-lingual strips you put under your tongue, decreasing those little strips in a PAIN, but suboxone saved my life and I only take one 2.5mg strip a day down from two 8mg. strips. Tramadol was my reason for living, and it nearly killed me several times. So many doctors told me it was all in my head, can you imagine? Thanks for telling it like it is.
I respect that you are in immense, chronic pain from breaking bones in your back and neck, and I'm sorry that you have that pain, it sounds horrible. However, your condescending comments about headache pain are rude and in my humble opinion, bullsh*t.
Perhaps you've never had severe, chronic headaches, or perhaps you have, but didn't personally find the pain from it to be unbearable. Either way, for you to judge another's pain is wrong.
Have a little compassion for other people instead of playing the "my pain is worse than yours" game and accusing someone of being an addict simply because they need pain medication to treat something that causes them physical pain.
You say you've learned to cope with your pain. But maybe you don't know that your coping mechanisms make you miserable to live with, or work with, etc. I'm not saying that IS the case, I'm simply providing another viewpoint of which perhaps you have not thought, and I'll close by saying that I hope your back and neck pain improves.
Perhaps you've never had severe, chronic headaches, or perhaps you have, but didn't personally find the pain from it to be unbearable. Either way, for you to judge another's pain is wrong.
Have a little compassion for other people instead of playing the "my pain is worse than yours" game and accusing someone of being an addict simply because they need pain medication to treat something that causes them physical pain.
You say you've learned to cope with your pain. But maybe you don't know that your coping mechanisms make you miserable to live with, or work with, etc. I'm not saying that IS the case, I'm simply providing another viewpoint of which perhaps you have not thought, and I'll close by saying that I hope your back and neck pain improves.
No, you think you " need " Vicodin to function bc you ARE addicted to it. I should know.. I broke 14 bones in my back and neck .... I had every reason to take Vicodin and even stronger narcotics. I live in chronic pain but I have learned to cope with it... Without any drugs! Real pain. Not just headaches.. You sound ridiculous ! And FYI, fibro mialjia isn't real. It's just something docs have come up with as a last resort to explain over active nerves. And its something that can't be proven or disproven so people like you can claim to have and the docs have no choice to believe you.. And this is why you asked it this med gets you high bc that's exactly what your looking for. Why don't you change your diet and stretch and exercise everyday and see how you feel....
Vicodin for your f*cking headaches... Give me a break!
Vicodin for your f*cking headaches... Give me a break!
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Dependant on a drug to go to work.. Etc and Addicted are two different things...do you research chronic pain is real!
I have FBS and Fibromyalgia and I'm on Methadone, Oxycodone, Nurontin, Elavil, and Naproxen for sever chronic pain relief. You take what you have to take to get through the day. Don't let anyone tell you that you are an addict or that you are crazy. They have never felt your pain, and if they did they probably wouldn't say anything about you taking Vicodin. If Vicodin is what you have to take to function without pain then that is the treatment plan set out by you and your doctor. Like one of my friends told me, "Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one."
I know how everyone feels ive been in a few serious car accidents and it messed up my knee I have to take vicodin for it I just wanted to say to everyone stay strong and don't let the pain control of you because it will eat you alive believe me I know I've been there....
I have a busted knee and a schist on my spine I know pain and I really understand how you all feel I hope everyone finds relief from your pain...
ur an idiot. the withdrawls are WAAAY worse from trammys than even oxy conton or opanas. it IS a NON-NACOTIC, but... let me know how you do when u gotta wein yourself off of HAVING to take 12 trammys a day, just to survive.
Enjoyed your comments. Took my first dose last night (50 mg.) for teeth pain (teeth feel too tight), the source for which seven doctors can't seem to figure out. For the past two years, I have taken 25 mg. of Amitriptyline for the pain maybe once a week, felt like the walking dead the next day, but the pain dissipated. Now the Amitriptyline is useless, and I've gone to Lyrica. I hope it will kill the nerve pain in my teeth (not a dental or dental root problem) without also putting me in a dysfunctional alternate reality (I wouldn't mind an alternate reality, but not a stoned one).
Chances are, as your body gets used to the Lyrica that the "zoned out" feeling will lessen or disappear. I was on Lyrica several years back and did find that at first it did make me also feel a bit "loopy" and drowsy, but my body quickly adjusted. Be aware, however, that everyone is different and we all can react different to the same med - also be aware that whenever there is an increase to the med that you may again go through this "adjustment" period until your body gets used to the increase.
Lyrica is not a narcotic, however, as I'm sure you already know, even non-narcotic meds can sometimes cause drowsiness and/or a "loopy" feeling.
Just out of curiosity - what strength Lyrica did your doc give you? I'm wondering if maybe you've been started at too high of a dose. Also, how many times per day are you to take it? When I was on it, it was twice per day (I think, but can't remember for sure if it was 2 or 3 times per day) - but was just thinking, if you are to only take it once a day, perhaps you could try taking it at night instead of in the morning since it's making you feel zoned out - that way you'd be sleeping through that feeling anyway.
I hope you find that the Lyrica helps your pain.
Lyrica is not a narcotic, however, as I'm sure you already know, even non-narcotic meds can sometimes cause drowsiness and/or a "loopy" feeling.
Just out of curiosity - what strength Lyrica did your doc give you? I'm wondering if maybe you've been started at too high of a dose. Also, how many times per day are you to take it? When I was on it, it was twice per day (I think, but can't remember for sure if it was 2 or 3 times per day) - but was just thinking, if you are to only take it once a day, perhaps you could try taking it at night instead of in the morning since it's making you feel zoned out - that way you'd be sleeping through that feeling anyway.
I hope you find that the Lyrica helps your pain.
Question... I have several bulging disk in my lower back, sciatica affecting my left side, arthritis affecting my back, previously broken foot, and sometimes hip n hands, also fibromyalgia , occasional numbness in different areas.. Been on hydrocodone, zanaflex , and it definitely helps, however; I've been still having lota pain n numbness, dr. Just gave me lyrica , took my first dose this morning and I'm am seriously zoned out... Feel like I've taken a Xanax or something... Was unaware it would do this, I understood it to b non narcotic .. I feel better physically but wow, I'm really really loopy, don't like this feeling ... I would appreciate some thoughts, feedback, ur experiences, is this normal?
I was looking for info on Lyrica. Got my script filled at Wally World and the lady told me if was a narcotic. That sort of "threw me off-'cause my Dr did not mention that. So that is how I ended up here. I am starting at 25mg dosage. Since I have several meds (including Warfarin), I wanted to take it slow. I read all the previous posts. Not sure whether to be happy (because others can relate) or sad (because others are in pain). I have been diagnosed with JRA & Fibromyalgia. Took numerous years to diagnose. I also have some other conditions that go along with autoimmune diseases. I deal with asthma and allergies, and recently had my aortic valve replaced > apparently, I had rheumatic fever as a child. So, when people write about the pain they experience on a daily basis, I can relate. I found it interesting how pmuesula and igarfly were so angry with CDCWA. I believe what she stated is on target. I am not sure how you two think she is "judging" . She is only speaking the truth. Addiction comes in many forms and there are certain classifications / criteria before one is labeled as an addict. (addiction can be sweets, chocolate, relationships, shopping). She has seen what Vicodin can do to a person. She is merely stating that tinyjennyl2002 should get off of vicodin now, before the long term effects damage your body beyond repair. Personally, I had Vicodin when my tooth cracked. The med didn't help with the pain (any more than a tylenol); it mostly just made me not care that I had the pain. Igarfly > how did you miss when the lady states that she has to take a painkiller every day to function and she is getting used to vicodin? There is a reason that certain meds are labeled narcotics and such.Unfortunately, we need these labels in society to have some structure and be able to help people. If someone comes and tells you that they cannot function without a narcotic, or is getting used to them, then red flags should be going up. You can help without being judgmental. To guitarandgamergirl -you write >" However, we as a society still firmly insist on treating it as a moral issue, and that addicted folks are "bad" people and that they "did this to themselves." Whatever. " I believe society (as a whole) treats it as a moral issue when it negatively affects others who are innocent bystanders. MADD, etc... I would work on having "the powers that be" treat addiction as a medical issue > there lies a challenge. However, those in the addiction field, do not view it only as a moral issue.. I would like to say that I enjoyed reading your entry. You made a some valid points. I think it is a safe bet to say that everyone knows an addict / alcoholic. If anyone thinks someone gets into a career that involves helping addicts because it is glamorous job and lots of $$ is made > wrong. Chances are, addiction has personally touched them in some way and that is why they are in that line of work. I look forward to more entries on what people think Lyrica is doing for them. I start my first dose tonight... Take Care..
I started on Lyrica a couple of months ago. My doctor believes in starting at a very low dose and having me add another pill once I feel it is no longer working. I started with 75 mg and my pharmacist recommended I take it at night and a bit before bed so I wouldn't have the hangover effect. The sedated feeling lasted about a week and then I handled it well. After 2 weeks I added another but took both at night. Two weeks ago I moved up to a 3rd and started taking it in the morning. I am having fantastic results. I have so much more energy and my pain is staying low.
I would recommend that you try starting with the low dose and work up. If you aren't finding it helps after a month or so it may just not be the drug for you and perhaps you need to try another. Keep pushing until you find what works for you.
I would recommend that you try starting with the low dose and work up. If you aren't finding it helps after a month or so it may just not be the drug for you and perhaps you need to try another. Keep pushing until you find what works for you.
I was started on a small dose of gabepentin by my neurologist several months ago, which was helping my nerve pain. My primary physician thought perhaps Lyrica might work even better, and be more effective quicker, without having to increase dosage like gabepentin. I took the first dose last night, and the second dose this morning ----- and feel like I am on a very powerful medication that is rushing through my body! So, I'm not at all sure this stuff is good for me. I really appreciate the posts here, although I see that some of them are pretty old. I'm trying to evaluate if a dose of 75mg twice a day is too strong for me. I'm not a large person and I am really sensitive to most medications. I really feel like I am "on drugs" and am trying to find out why that is and if I should continue this two week trial of Lyrica.
I cannot stand Lyrica! It makes me WAY spacey!! I have fibro and have had symptoms for 2 yrs now. It ***** BIG TIME!! I still take Lyrica because it's all I have. I still have pain, but now I'm spacey. I don't know how to ask my neurologist or any Dr. for vicodin. My old Dr. in another state used to prescribe vicodin for my pain and it worked well. I would take 1-4 a day. Sometimes none at all. It would all depend on my pain. We are military and we moved and now the new Dr is trying me out on Lryica. It just doesn't work and I can't function well on it like I could when i was taking vicodin. How do I just ask for the vicodin without being judged by my Dr.? Do i just say that's what works? I need relief and I have 3 kids and can barely keep up with them and my house plus my husband is deployed. HELP!! I need answers!
I agree, who made you God? You have no idea of what it is like to have severe pain 24/7, it take all my energy just to deal with it. I take vicodin and must take one before I can even get up to function. The other choice is stay in bad all day. You really should think long and hard before you judge someone you don't even know. You do not even know their med history. I have been a nurse and EMT for 25 years and I would never do that to another poor human just looking for help. Glad you are not my friend.
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