This is how I feel right now:
I decided, at my doctor’s urging, to try cutting back on Lyrica, which is the pain med I’m taking for fibromyalgia. She thinks it might be contributing to my wicked headaches. I cut back by 50mg, which is 1/3 my evening dose, and 1/5 my total dose. That was 6 days ago, and I’m still feeling increasingly like shit. Today I’m in “a lot” of pain– I feel bare, like I need to keep moving just so I can distract my body from the sensation.
I was reading up on Lyrica and I found “joint and muscle pain” listed as a side effect. Uh huh.
One frustrating aspect is that I have been losing sleep at night, and I don’t know if my sleep loss is contributing to the increase in pain, like some sort of oscillating amplified corporal circuit of… poo poo.
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