I started taking Lyrica again last night. I got a new prescription from my primary doctor. I explained that I wasn’t taking it because I didn’t feel confident that I had a consistent prescription for it, and that I’ve never been able to titrate up to the proper therapeutic dose. She understood that and promised to help me get there and supply the refills. That was 2 weeks ago, and I’ve still been uneasy about it. It’s not a medication you can just quit. It’s a difficult taper process. Anyway, I am in the middle of a bad fibro flare, and now I have Lyrica building up. It’s a terrible combination. I started getting a headache yesterday and that is still with me. Pretty nasty day. I feel heavily drugged. Groggy, drowsy, spaced out. Plus I have the nasty fibro flare up symptoms. Pain is off the charts and I have not mental ability to deal with it because of the new medication. It should sort itself out in a day or two. The last time I tried Lyrica, I was super spaced out, but I had lower pain and I remember playing video games all day for like 4 days straight. Then it stopped working, but that’s where I need to titrate up to the proper dose, which I’ve never been able to do. For now, I can’t move. I’m paralyzed from pain and it all feels very horrifying. My brain is fried from handling so many of these kinds of days without a good break in between to recover.
This flare up has been completely unmanageable today. I don’t even feel any Lyrica side effects anymore for all the fibro flare. My god this is terrible. I skipped 2 doses already of the guaifenesin, so whatever that caused should be gone by now. This is still ramping up though. I would feel comatosed if it wasn’t for the intense pain I’m constantly feeling and allowing me to at least make horrified faces.