Will prgabalin make me eat my head off?

[Orangeanddemons]

It's for pain. Amitriptyline and Gabapentin both turned me onto eating machines. Will this do the same?

[Bubblesinthesummer]

It hasn't with me

[PotOfYoghurt]

I didn't notice an increase, but my body didn't like it at all. Oxcarbazepine and topiramate worked much better for me, and the latter has a very handy effect of never being hungry! (And all carbonated drinks taste flat, which was good for my diet coke habit)

[Orangeanddemons]

Can they be used for pain?

[OddBoots]

It did for me, and made me slow and foggy too, I decided I would rather deal with the pain. My GP says most people are fine on it though.

[MyVisionsComeFromSoup]

I've been fine (50mg per day) - took about a week to get over the mind fog, but no crazed eating thankfully

[TheFairyCaravan]

It didn't make me eat anymore but I still swelled up like a balloon. My hands swelled, my face swelled and I put on weight despite eating tiny, tiny portions. Once I came off the weight fell off.

I take Amitriptyline and Gabapentin. I've not put on an ounce. Different drugs suit different people.

[CharleyDavidson]

Gabapentin hasn't turned me into an eating machine I've always been a pig BUT it has made it very much harder to lose weight when dieting.

My sis is on pregablin and is much slimmer than me and maintaining her weight.

[MatildaTheCat]

I've recently switched from gabapentin to pregablin in the hope of being less forgetful and stupid. It has improved my cognition,I'm think but more importantly it has improved my pain control by some distance.

With regard to weight,I'm am incredibly weight conscious and have this year gained about 5-6 pounds which are hard to shift but I am also peri menopausal and started HRT so lots of factors. Pregablin seems to make people crave carbs so I think forward planning is important and eating the right carbs and having suitable snacks handy to avoid unfortunate purchases at the supermarket till.

I suggest you try it but keep a close eye on weight and diet.

[CharleyDavidson]

Oh, I hate the forgetfulness I have with Gapapentin. And the twitch it gives me. And the problems with my writing - I know how to spell really well, but my brain needs to tell my hand that when I'm writing. And I'm fed up of forgetting words or, more often, saying a completely different word.

But I'm too scared of the pain to stop the Gaba and swap to Lyrica, even if my neurologist were to recommend it.

Mind you, carbamazepine made me fall asleep even when driving or in a public place. And I couldn't walk a straight line. And my twitch was so bad with that that I would let go of things completely and drop them. So it is better for me on the gaba. I take it for trigeminal neuralgia and it's the worst pain I've ever felt. My GP made me go cold-turkey from the carbamazepine for 2 days before starting the gaba and as soon as the first drug wore off I was in constant agony (can't sleep/can't eat/can't even sit still and could barely breathe) for 16 hours until I could start the gaba and it kicked in.

So I'm not messing with my medication until I need to. Too chicken!

[Orangeanddemons]

We'll I'm on day two, and no carb eating frenzy yet. But not much of anything else either. It hit the pain yesterday, but not so much today. Does it take time to build up?

[Bubblesinthesummer]

Was on the highest amount of pregablin that you are allowed to take, for 18 months.

I've recently had my doctor change it a bit as the side effects were really getting to me.

The Dr actually he said he was suprised I'd lasted as long as I had

[MountainDweller]

Yes it does take a few days to build up. Give it a week and if it's not helping with pain by then, ask for an increase in dose. It works for me, hope it works for you too.

[TheFuzz]

Lost me apetite on pregablin. Felt awful. Brain fog, bad twitches especially at night so ended on sofa so as not to disturb wife. I also became very clumsy and was dropping stuff. I was 150mg on top of duloxetine which made the side effects worse. Duloxetine is bad for excessive sweating and sexual issues.