my next dr visit i was up to 300mgs the last time i used it

Bernadette

I can't imagine taking that much.

Like I posted before, it makes me light-headed when I take the 300 mg with any pain meds. Too, it helps to make me sleepy. So...I take my pain meds when I wake up and then a couple of hours later, I take only 150 mg of the Lyrica.

Post edited by: janetlynn64, at: 12/08/2007 09:26

Don't we have to take enough pills for the inflammation, nerve pain, general, widespread pain, and all of the other problems body-wise that Fibromyalgia cause.

I gain weight because I am not able to be as active as I had been before the inflammation. I can barely wash dishes and clean my house when that happens. My pain medicine and Mobic for "normal" inflammation don't work as well when this happens.

But, there is a solution for it. I have a Pain Management Doctor that gives me cortisone epidurals in my lumbar spine and that relieves the inflammation. Then my pain is about a 5 AND I have to remember to not overdo it, though it is hard because of the after the epidural, I can wash the stack of dishes and the floors have to be swept and mopped better than what I had been able to do before the epidural.

The doctor can do the epidural either as an office procedure or in the hospital. I choose the hospital because I hate needles and in the office, I am fully awake and feel the needles going in, so I cannot relax enough for the epidural to last until the next one.

I know that cortisone is not good for the degeneration going on in my spine, but before I started seeing a Pain Management doctor and getting the right pain medicine and epidurals, I could only sit in my chair and do nothing because the pain was so awful.

Hope this helps!!!!

My nerves just get really confused.

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