Lyrica- depression

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Stoll, MD, recommends at least 9 grams of fish oil a day for mood

disorders. The Omega COnnection is his book.

Also see Mood Cures by Ross

mjh

" The Basil Book "

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6) I used to love meat. Now I must force myself to eat it. In addition,

while I can tolerate beef liver well, other forms of beef, especially hamburger

meat, upset my stomach terribly (other varieties of meat don't upset my

stomach).

7) I've developed frequent " gassy " stomach aches, somewhat relieved by

antacid, but this may be due the stress I'm under.

So what to do while waiting for the Yasko results? Any suggestions about

supplements you give will be most appreciated. Thanks.

Naomi Weisstein

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Talked to Dr. Cheney the other day, he wants me to shift over from

Neurontin to Lyrica. Said it had better pharmakinetics, whatever that

means. Thinks 75 mg of Lyrica equals 100 mgs of Neurontin, but I am

questioning that, since he said the top dose for Lyrica is 600 mgs

and I went back up to 1200 mgs of Neurontin, which would be 900 mgs

of Lyrica. This is the first time he's mentioned Lyrica so his use of

it must be pretty new.

From what I've read, Neurontin loses power at high doses, and so

maybe at a very low dose, the 75 to 100 holds up, but the power of

Lyrica might cover the higher doses of Neurontin.

Along those lines, some people take 3600 mgs of Neurontin, so how

could 600 mgs of Lyrica cover them unless it is a lot more powerful

than 75% of Neurontin?

So I looked around on the web as best I could and saw one site saying

Lyrica is 1/4 to 1/5 the dose of Neurontin.

Called a pharmacist and he said no real equivalency but he thought

100 to 150 Lyrica would cover my 1200 Neurontin.

Not sure how to do the switchover, am taking my Neurontin down now a

bit while I ponder it and see my local doc soon to run it by her.

Anybody knows anything about Lyrica, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Cynically, I note that Neurontin now has a generic version, so then

Pfizer came out with Lyrica, which is very expensive. Although the

pharmacist told me that Gabapentin, the generic of Neurontin, is

still pretty expensive.

Cheney finds these drugs valuable because they change the firing

threshold of neurons and allow them to rest, and are calming.

Neurontin helped me three years ago with a bad depression and it has

helped my mother who has bad depression.

Lyrica is supposed to be very similar.

Cheney told me my best shot at the depression was to take 5 grams of

fish oil, so doing that now. That's doubling what I've been taking

for the last month.

thanks,

Helen

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Helen,

I take Lyrica and it is in my humble opinion, it is a very superior drug! I

take 50 mg twice a day with food. I tried Neurontin and even at lose doses it

did not stop my nerve pain and just made me dizzy. The Lyrica has stopped the

nerve pain, burning in my feet. It was a god-send for me.

Janet

helen9jora <helenjora@...> wrote:

Talked to Dr. Cheney the other day, he wants me to shift over from

Neurontin to Lyrica. Said it had better pharmakinetics, whatever that

means. Thinks 75 mg of Lyrica equals 100 mgs of Neurontin, but I am

questioning that, since he said the top dose for Lyrica is 600 mgs

and I went back up to 1200 mgs of Neurontin, which would be 900 mgs

of Lyrica. This is the first time he's mentioned Lyrica so his use of

it must be pretty new.

From what I've read, Neurontin loses power at high doses, and so

maybe at a very low dose, the 75 to 100 holds up, but the power of

Lyrica might cover the higher doses of Neurontin.

Along those lines, some people take 3600 mgs of Neurontin, so how

could 600 mgs of Lyrica cover them unless it is a lot more powerful

than 75% of Neurontin?

So I looked around on the web as best I could and saw one site saying

Lyrica is 1/4 to 1/5 the dose of Neurontin.

Called a pharmacist and he said no real equivalency but he thought

100 to 150 Lyrica would cover my 1200 Neurontin.

Not sure how to do the switchover, am taking my Neurontin down now a

bit while I ponder it and see my local doc soon to run it by her.

Anybody knows anything about Lyrica, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Cynically, I note that Neurontin now has a generic version, so then

Pfizer came out with Lyrica, which is very expensive. Although the

pharmacist told me that Gabapentin, the generic of Neurontin, is

still pretty expensive.

Cheney finds these drugs valuable because they change the firing

threshold of neurons and allow them to rest, and are calming.

Neurontin helped me three years ago with a bad depression and it has

helped my mother who has bad depression.

Lyrica is supposed to be very similar.

Cheney told me my best shot at the depression was to take 5 grams of

fish oil, so doing that now. That's doubling what I've been taking

for the last month.

thanks,

Helen