New medication side effects help!

You could ring 111 for advice, perhaps?
Side effects can be very odd - years back I was given drops to dilate my eyes for an examination - for 48 hours, on and off, I had nightmarish hallucinations, it was horrible.

@maliafawn I bet you're looking at that capsule in the pill packet like an unexploded nuclear bomb.

All's well that ends well!

Are you going to risk taking your night time dose again? Or just leave it?

@maliafawn I see that you've asked for the picture of your daughter's dress to be removed. Now that's a sad thing to have to happen but I have learned from experience that to give too much away on here is a mistake.

I shouldn't have asked. I'm sorry. It was a genuine interest on my part but looking at the "Style and Beauty" section of this website has taught me that some people on here can be vicious.

You should have got her a second hand sack from Vinted that smelled of somebody's else's sweaty armpits by (some of their) thinking. Thus making your daughter cry, you cry and me cry.

On to the prom!

Mumsnet can be a bit snobby at times.

What I mean is, you might get a few unfortunate souls with no self esteem, castigatiging you for buying a dress from Shein. I'm here to pre-empt this.

@maliafawn Look at my user name. Guess what colouring I have? I think her dress is beautiful and don't let anybody tell you any different!

And on to Round Two: The make up. We're all behind you here OP.

Best person to talk to about medication and side effects is a pharmacist. Preferably your nominated pharmacy so they can look at your records but any will do. They’re absolutely brilliant when it comes to how to handle side effects and whether it would be worth lowering your dose. Give them a call.

Hope your daughter has a wonderful time at prom.

Try a much smaller dose at night from now on. Glad you survived!

@maliafawn I really want to see the dress now but it might be outing and it's none of my business really. So feel free to ignore me...

@maliafawn What a relief! In the words of Dora The Explorer, "We did it!"

Still got the make up and the dress to sort out though, eh?

Have you eaten? Got to push a bit of the old nutriments down the gullet to keep you funtioning as well.

People just react differently to different medications. Hopefully you’ll feel better soon.

Bit late now but I’m on loads of medication and never start a new one on the day of/day before an important event as there’s always the risk of severe side effects. Obviously not all medication can be delayed like this in which case it’s tough luck but maybe something to have in mind for the future. Hope your daughter’s prom goes well 🤞

@maliafawn Let us know how you get on, eh? Don't do anything daft, mind you x

@maliafawn Oh, half life of a drug generally means the time it has a clinical effect. But things vary from person to person, of course but you should be, 'Sobering up' as it were, at the eight hour mark? Hopefully?

Again: Disclaimer: My only qualification here is having taken it myself.

@maliafawn I took pregalbin for about a month for nerve pain as well. In my case related to late stage Lyme Disease. It didn't really work out very well for my symptoms for a number of reasons that maybe we can talk about later but as I see it, the thing that you're most worried about in the short term is getting your daughter ready for her prom?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregabalin

Wikipedia suggests that the half life of Pregalbin is between 4.5 to 7 hours.

So: Let's say you took your last dose at 9am. (It was probably earlier but I'm being a bit worst case scenario.) You'd only had one other dose the night before, so it hasn't really had time to have a cumulative effect.

You posted at 11.22am and your daughter's hair appointment must be at around 2.30pm?

It's bang on 1pm now, so how are you feeling? A bit more with it?

The main elimination route is via the kidneys so all you can do is drink plenty of water.

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor. Hope things work out for you. Has anybody phoned back yet?

A lot of people suffer the same with pregabalin. I don't - I'd love to feel a bit off my face for a while but it doesn't have that effect on me!

There are other options such as gabapentin or amitryptiline, but quite often if you react that way to pregabalin you will to the others too. It's worth speaking to your doctor though because you can't go on like this.

I take pregabalin at that dose, but I started with a tiny dose at night and worked up really gradually before adding a morning dose. I felt a bit drunk and giggly for a few days when I started it, but nothing like you're experiencing. I think I started with 25mg at night for two weeks in liquid form and took about six weeks to get to 75mg, and then did the same with the morning dose. My brain is a canary though, so my neurologist knows it has to be treated with kid gloves. That's probably not much help, but I hope you feel better in time for your daughter's appointment.