I felt like hell waking up, but I’m feeling better pretty quickly as the morning goes on. I thought it was still a flare up when I woke up. I was gritting my teeth. I think it was just Lyrica side effects and some morning grogginess. I think the fibro flare ups are finally gone, and now I’m just left with Lyrica side effects. I was going to stop it today, and actually skipped the morning dose, but then I noticed I haven’t needed an ice pack. I hit the shower fairly early and when I got out I noticed my spine pain wasn’t as bad as it always is. Showering and dressing was pretty easy. This never happens, so that has to be the Lyrica. It’s supposed to help pain as well as fibromyalgia. Helping pain for me IS helping fibromyalgia. I feel pain is the biggest driver of the fibro. Even with the guaifenesin, when I was having some of those good days, I still desperately needed ice packs to control the spine pain.
I don’t feel high in any way. I feel a tiny bit spacey, but there isn’t any “I love you man. Everything is going to be all right.” sort of feeling whatsoever. If I find myself saying, “I can still feel the pain, I just don’t fucking care about it”, then I’m certainly high. This is what opioids do. If I find myself saying that about a medication, I quit immediately. This is subtle, but it has taken the edge off the spine pain just enough to make me feel a bit better. In the past, this has never lasted more than a week. That would be the time to titrate up on the dose. I’m nowhere near the normal therapeutic dose, so there is a lot of headroom.
Everything has gotten better today. Very low side effects from the Lyrica now. Spine pain is maybe a 7. I haven’t had a 7 in seemingly 2 years. Fibro is not noticeable. For the moment, I’m glad I stuck with the Lyrica. I was ready to quit it like 4 times. I feel clear. I don’t feel remotely high in any way. My head is clear, the noise has dropped. My vision is even clearer. I had an MRI today and that went fine. I bought some new shoes because my old ones were killing my feet. Finally spent some of my birthday money. The downside here, unfortunately, is that the Lyrica will stop working in a few days. I think I had a week of good days in the past. No drug that helps pain and fibromyalgia continues to work at the starting doses. It always starts to drop off pretty quickly. I’ve never had the chance to titrate up to the proper dose before. Hopefully I’ll have that chance this time around. The fibromyalgia dose is around 300mg/day. I’m on 50mg/day. I have a long way to go. Unfortunately, doctors are reluctant to prescribe this drug, and they’re reluctant to get patients up to these higher doses. I have no idea why. I haven’t seen any evidence of abuse or anything. It’s absolutely nothing like opioids. More like an anti-depressant. If it helps, prescribe it! I don’t understand how doctors work, of course. They rarely actually help patients. I don’t think they want to manage prescriptions for people long term. Who knows.