Does Lyrica Mess Up Your Liver? (Page 5)
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I started taking Lyrica for 3 weeks now for my Chronic Facial Pain. I had taken all the chronic pain meds and nothing work. I was diagnos with this illness since I had a root canal done, I even got 2 teeth extracted though the pain would go away. Anyway, I am now having some reaction, my feet and legs feels fat. However, my pain is about 4 in a scale of 10 being very painful. I take Lyrica 3x a day with 50 mg each along with oxycodon (if pain does not go away) and motrin 800 mg for head aches. I been on norcotic medicines for 2 years and now with Lyrica and etc. I am just wondering if the chronic pain actually go away? I am tired of taking all these medicine and scared that I will not have a liver left..............

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NO! Lyrica is NOT a Naroctic!

Lyrica is Pregabalin, it is a substance that was originally used to treat and help prevent Epileptic seizures, however, with further study it was found to help with certain types of nerve pain.

A controlled substance is something that can be obtained by doctor's prescription only and must be closely monitored by a doctor during its use. Most controlled substances end up in that class because they have to potential to be abused and to be addictive.

So it is in the controlled substance class like Narcotics, but it is not one and is not related to opiates, it works in the body in entirely different ways.

The difference between it and a narcotic is that a narcotic is an opiate substance that works on the receptors in the body that cause pain, Lyrica does not do that, as I said, it works differently, which is why it will only help with certain types of nerve pain.

The reason you were able to drop down so easily on your narcotic pain meds when you started taking this is because you were not addicted to them. Addiction only occurs when someone abuses the meds because they enjoy the effect it has on them, the high or euphoria that they experience.

That is the way the doctors were looking at it. However, your situation was entirely different, since you were using them to help relieve a chronic pain condition, you were dependent on them, but not addicted.

Dependence is an entirely different phenomenon, it occurs when someone suffers from a medical condition requiring them to take meds in order to get up and function each day. The dependent person though, does not develop the severe problems that an addict does, because they take their meds as prescribed and do not abuse them.

So for you, you were not completely hooked on them, you were hooked on getting relief for your pain, so leaving something behind in favor of something that worked better, was not a problem for you, because you were not abusing them and taking them for enjoyment purposes to begin with.

Here's the monograph listing for Lyrica, so you can read some more information for yourself:

Lyrica Info Click Here

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Is Lyrica a narcotic? I think i saw that it is a controlled substance. What does that mean and what is the difference between that and a narcotic? One of the reasons i ask is I had been on high doses of narcotics for severe leg pain from my waist all the way down to the tips of my toes caused by my 3 failed back surgeries. The Morphine helped, but didn't take the pain away completely. My new doctor put me on Lyrica, 100mg. 3 times a day and i cannot believe the difference. He also diminished my narcotics way down so that i am still taking Morphine, but so much much less. I had no withdrawal, nothing. Just almost complete pain relief. I cannot believe this. I had been on these high doses for 10 years. I was taking 1000mg. of slow release morphine per day. I also took Morphine sulfate IR 60 mg. every 4 hrs. totaling most days 240mg. or more. I also took 4 Soma every 4 hrs. total 12/day. I am now down to 300mg. of Morphine Sulfate SR, and 120mg. of Morphine Sulfate IR per day and 3 or 4 Soma per day. That adds up to only 3 (100mg. tabs) of Morphine SR; 8 (15mg. tabs) Morphine Sulf. IR; and 3-4 Soma per day. I also take 3 (100mg.) Lyrica per day now. I accomplished this in less than a month's time. I had some doctors who knew nothing about chronic pain tell me it would take me years to get off of all that medicine. I never knew they had anything on the market that was not a narcotic that could help me feel this much better. I am so grateful i can hardly believe it and wouldn't had it not happened to me.

Please let me know the answers to my questions. Thank you.

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