methadone withdrawel and lyrica?

[2010dlk]

Thank you for reading my post, I will try to make this post brief, try :). I have been coming off methadone for about a year now from 120mg.  I was doing pretty good until August.  I was down to 35 mg. and started to have a lot of back/buttocks pain.  I had surgery in Dec. for ovarian cyst removal and adhesion removal. Was down for about 3 weeks.  But made it up to the clininc every wed. to get my take homes. Things have taken a terrible turn for the worse.  The pain has become extreme with leg weakness, weight loss, and for the past 4 weeks haven't been able to have a bm. without taking something. Some people including myself think it might be some kind of intenstinal blockage, but why i am having that and this pain, also makes me think i have a trapped nerve in my pelvis as i had the not so good idea to buy a dirtbike this year and I thought the problems began after that.  the pain is so extreme like a weird tingling but not a good tingling it really hurts and makes it hard to walk.  my question is the dr. prescribed lyrica for me and yesterday when i took it, i was feeling pretty weird and didn't really have the feeling of needing to take my methadone (35mg.), but i took it.  Today i thought i might try not to take it. has anyone ever heard of lyrica for methadone withdrawel.  it is very expensive at 300.00 a month, but i pay 420.00 month for the clininc. if anyone has heard is lyrica addciting? if i come off lyrica after my problems are solved, will i go into methadone withdrawels?

[2010dlk]

thank you for your post, i will go google it right now.

[Pat1956100]

I don't know about methadone but I do know about Lyrica. It is addicting and the withdrawals from it are pretty bad.  You need to do a very slow taper.  It does help with opiate withdrawals and it can be abused by people with addictive behaviour.  
I have gone through several opiate withdrawals but when I went off Lyrica it was much worse.
Google Lyrica withdrawals and research it. It's pretty surprising how many people have gone through hell trying to get off this med.