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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| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 4 | 0 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Pain | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Peripheral neuritis (neuropathy) | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Numbness, tingling, pins & needles (paresthesia) | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 33% |
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Side effects too severe
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1 | 33% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 33% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- jillwagner
- Sex: F
- Left Eye: mild
- Right Eye: none
- Sensation: mild
- Overall: none
- Swallowing: mild
- Arms: none
- Legs: mild
- Bladder/Bowel: none
- Spinal Cord: mild
- NMO-igG positive
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- jillwagner
- 225 mg daily
- since Sep 29, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Peripheral neuritis (neuropathy)
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips I have had swelling when increased during daytime. Now I am experiencing extreme day time sleepiness. See full evaluation
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Report created on November 22, 2009.