Pregabalin Treatment Report
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What is Pregabalin?
Pregabalin is an analgesic and anti-convulsant drug that is used to manage pain associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy, postherpetic (shingles) neuralgia, as an adjunctive treatment for partial-onset seizure disorder in adults and for the management of fibromyalgia.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Fibromyalgia | 472 |
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150 |
| Pain | 330 |
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74 |
| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 160 |
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45 |
| Other | 100 |
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18 |
| Numbness, tingling, pins & needles (paresthesia) | 52 |
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15 | |
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 28 |
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6 |
See all 1140 patients currently taking Pregabalin
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Pregabalin. See all 46 dosages ►
| 100 mg all the time (24/7) | 100 mg as needed | 100mg as needed | 150 mg all the time (24/7) | 150 mg as needed | 150mg as needed | 1mg as needed | 200mg as needed | 225 mg all the time (24/7) | 25mg as needed | 3 50mg as needed | 50 mg all the time (24/7) | 50mg as needed | 600 mg all the time (24/7) | 75 mg all the time (24/7) | 75mg as needed | as needed | daily | 1 mg daily | 75 mg weekly | 20 mg daily | 25 mg daily | 1000 mg monthly | 40 mg daily | 50 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 100 mg one time | 125 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 180 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 225 mg daily | 250 mg daily | 275 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 350 mg daily | 375 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 450 mg daily | 500 mg daily | 525 mg daily | 550 mg daily | 600 mg daily | 800 mg daily | 900 mg daily | ||
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5
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17
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31
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80
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91
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106
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3
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228
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73
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68
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251
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5
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33
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Side effects too severe
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150 | 47% |
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Did not seem to work
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104 | 33% |
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Doctor's advice
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43 | 14% |
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Expense
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42 | 13% |
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Other
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35 | 11% |
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Personal research
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12 | 4% |
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Course of treatment ended
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10 | 3% |
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Not indicated
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3 | 1% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 293 patient evaluations
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- gailHD
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: moderate
- Arms: severe
- Chest: none
- Legs: severe
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- gailHD
- 100 mg daily
- since Nov 19, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- toledogranny3
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 0
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 0
- Mania: 1
- Physical: 0
- External Stress: Moderate
- 54 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
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- toledogranny3
- 300 mg daily
- since Dec 19, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Fibromyalgia
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips take your dose at the same time each day See full evaluation
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- lilybet
- Sex: F
- Depression: 3
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 1
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Severe
- 50 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Low
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- lilybet
- 300 mg daily
- since Sep 09, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips Overall, a very good medication, with multiple uses. See full evaluation
See all 293 patient evaluations
Report created on November 20, 2009.