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Originally Posted by dshobbies
Katherine,
Just had a surgery myself and promised myself I would stay off the forum for awhile but I too had legs on fire. This is nerve pain. I was taking 2700 mg of Neurontin daily, (switched to Lyrica, supposedly less side effects) for two years. My ankle and foot still bother me. The big difference is my pain began right after surgery and yours began after four months. My nerve damage was caused during surgery thus the immediate pain. Why yours started after four months IMHO, I think needs investigation. If you don't already have a pain management doctor, find one and like all doctors, some are better than others. Perhaps this is some kind of delayed reaction??? but you should find out for sure. I doubt you caused it. FYI, I should probably still be on either N or L but choose to live with the now very controllable pain. This is a personal choice.
Good luck, Dale
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Dale,
I've been wondering about Lyrica. My psychiatrist prefers neurontin, I haven't asked my PM specialist about it (I do like my PM and to date think he's pretty good). I work with doctors (rheumatologists) for my job and one of them suggested Lyrica and said he himself was on it and thought it was better than neurontin. What was your experience? If I would feel less sedated/have better memory and motivation, or better pain control etc. it could be worth it to switch. Did you taper down your N before switching to L? For me I go into withdrawal pretty quick with N and will have to taper off it slowly if things ever settle down.
Mark has also suggested looking into other causes - I have so little energy and I wonder/hope it's just taking a long time for my nerves to heal.
What's IMHO? Did you have surgery for the leg nerve pain? If yes, what did you have done? Thanks for your support.
Katherine