fatigue from lyrica?

[sunburnt22]

i don't take lyrica, but i am curious about it. i know lyrica can have a strong anti-anxiety component to it, so i assume it can easily cause sleepiness and drowsiness. is this true?

[brooke]

I started it about 6 weeks ago and I do believe it's making me tired. I'm on 75 mg 3x a day, but you can go as high as 600. It hasn't really helped with my anxiety yet.

brooke

[zsandoz]

i don't take lyrica, but i am curious about it. i know lyrica can have a strong anti-anxiety component to it, so i assume it can easily cause sleepiness and drowsiness. is this true?

this is true, but some of the anticonvulsants (neurontin, lyrica, topamax in my experience) can cause a kinda "bouncy" feeling that relieves my anxiety quite well... so you never know what you get. they tend to all be slightly sedating, meaning you are more likely to feel tired or no more or less tired than you usually are, than to feel more alert like a weirdo like myself!

[Penny Century]

sunburnt,

the common side effects of lyrica are:

[Breeze]

Someone mentioned "Neurontin" and "Topamax" in the same sentence as making one drowsy. Well. I couldn't function on Nuerontin, and was fine on Topamax. That's not exactly true, but for this subject it is.

Everyone is different. Give it a try. There's nothing like finding that "just right" med. And I believe it doesn't take long to feel whether or not it's going work for you.

Good luck.

Breeze