has anyone found lyrica to help with type 2 tn
Hi Ayre,
I take lyrica, due to not tolerating other drugs for TN. It does help my Tn pain, but does not fully take the pain away for me. keep in mind everyone has different reactions to medications and everyones Tn is different. Some may get relief with this drug and others may not, but you’ll never know unless you’ve tired the medication your self. Are your current medications not working, intolerable, or your doctors switching your medications, sorry I’m just curious. Hope this helps answer your question. Do you have any other questions on Lyrica?
Hi,
I take Lyrica and I find it helpful although I don't get a full relief from pain. Along the Lyrica I take antidepressants and I go to acupuncturist and masseur/chiropractic every week. I think it's the combination of all of these which helps - I find the physical treatments as important as the pills because they make me relax also mentally.
Good luck,
Oldriska
Lyrica helped the lightning strike pain for me, but not the type 2 pain. I took celexia (antidepressant) and a narcotic for pain and that helped me a lot.
Wendy
i am on trileptal it does help with type 1 but dr wnats to take me off and try the lyrica to see if it works better and he did put me on a antidepressant for the type 2 which i experience more of i just want to find relief from the pain
Kari said:
Hi Ayre,
I take lyrica, due to not tolerating other drugs for TN. It does help my Tn pain, but does not fully take the pain away for me. keep in mind everyone has different reactions to medications and everyones Tn is different. Some may get relief with this drug and others may not, but you'll never know unless you've tired the medication your self. Are your current medications not working, intolerable, or your doctors switching your medications, sorry I'm just curious. Hope this helps answer your question. Do you have any other questions on Lyrica?
what narcotic helped i have tried Vicodin did not help and norco(spelling??)
crashgirl said:
Lyrica helped the lightning strike pain for me, but not the type 2 pain. I took celexia (antidepressant) and a narcotic for pain and that helped me a lot.
Wendy
I took fiorinal with codeine for my migraines and that actually helped, dilaudid did too but made me too loopy. I still take the fiorinal occasionally, i had an Mvd 3 weeks ago and still have the tooth pain, so i take the fiorinal as needed, but mostly motrin now. I just happened on my migraine pills when I had a headache and realized it helped with the type 2 pain. I am allergic to almost every medication out there so the regular narcotics arent for me,
Wendy
ayre said:
what narcotic helped i have tried Vicodin did not help and norco(spelling??)
crashgirl said:Lyrica helped the lightning strike pain for me, but not the type 2 pain. I took celexia (antidepressant) and a narcotic for pain and that helped me a lot.
Wendy
when u had an mri did they see a compress on your nerve or what did they say when you had the mvd? my mri came back showing nothing but i am in the processes of getting a second opinion
crashgirl said:
I took fiorinal with codeine for my migraines and that actually helped, dilaudid did too but made me too loopy. I still take the fiorinal occasionally, i had an Mvd 3 weeks ago and still have the tooth pain, so i take the fiorinal as needed, but mostly motrin now. I just happened on my migraine pills when I had a headache and realized it helped with the type 2 pain. I am allergic to almost every medication out there so the regular narcotics arent for me,
Wendy
ayre said:what narcotic helped i have tried Vicodin did not help and norco(spelling??)
crashgirl said:Lyrica helped the lightning strike pain for me, but not the type 2 pain. I took celexia (antidepressant) and a narcotic for pain and that helped me a lot.
Wendy
i actually had two compressions on the MRI and that is exactly what my neurosurgeon repaired during the mvd, he said there were no other surprises. I still have some tooth pain off and on now, and my face has these weird episodes as I call them, it just feels strange or like I was punched in the jaw, but I am much better than I was on the meds and dont regret the mvd one bit
Wendy
ayre said:
when u had an mri did they see a compress on your nerve or what did they say when you had the mvd? my mri came back showing nothing but i am in the processes of getting a second opinion
crashgirl said:I took fiorinal with codeine for my migraines and that actually helped, dilaudid did too but made me too loopy. I still take the fiorinal occasionally, i had an Mvd 3 weeks ago and still have the tooth pain, so i take the fiorinal as needed, but mostly motrin now. I just happened on my migraine pills when I had a headache and realized it helped with the type 2 pain. I am allergic to almost every medication out there so the regular narcotics arent for me,
Wendy
ayre said:what narcotic helped i have tried Vicodin did not help and norco(spelling??)
crashgirl said:Lyrica helped the lightning strike pain for me, but not the type 2 pain. I took celexia (antidepressant) and a narcotic for pain and that helped me a lot.
Wendy