Posted by yxibow on January 20, 2007, at 3:12:39
In reply to Re: I Don't Get Lyrica » yxibow, posted by Phillipa on January 19, 2007, at 21:51:16
> Lyrica gives you blurry vision? Love Phillipa
Sure does -- not several days after I started taking a single 50mg (barely registerable) dose, I was in the gym and the usual crawlers at the bottom of the screen on CNN-H and the Closed Captioned were strangely blurry from where I usually ran on the treadmill. I did a Snellen Chart (the usual jumble of letters) at home and I was at 20/40. I am basically 20/20 to 20/30, depending on measurement error. As soon as we dropped the Lyrica, the blurriness went away.
Now I am on polypharmacy so the other medications could have magnified this, but indeed about 10% of patients in the prescribing information do develop some form of blurred vision. Whether this lasts, I don't know, but I didn't need Lyrica blurred vision, and then you add an anticholinergic and you get even blurrier.
It was disappointing because I waited for it to come out, the DEA was just boxing with the manufacturer to determine scheduling status, as far as I know for the delay, that was my theory anyhow.At C-V, it is a pretty innocuous medication as far as habituation but sensitive individuals could theoretically become habituated. In fact I've never seen a C-V medication come out today. They do exist on the shelves if you see large bottles in pharmacies with a {V on them, they're low dose codeine formulations with other substances added.
-- Jay
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