• Effectiveness

  Can't tell (for fibromyalgia)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (drowsiness)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 100 mg Daily

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  None (for fibromyalgia)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (blurry vision)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 600 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: I think my initial positive reaction coincided with a natural ebb of my symptoms. My pain and fatigue kicked up again even through I never missed a dose of the meds. Eventually I discussed dropping it from my regimen because I just didn't feel it was doing anything for me. I stopped about a year ago and the pain and fatigue did not spike. They tend to ebb and flow the same as before.

Cost: $25-49 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (blurry vision)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 600 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: this medication seems to have been even more effective at treating my fatigue than my FM nerve pain though it seems to have done a fairly good job with that too.

Cost: $25-49 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for pain)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Advice & Tips: Worked really well until it didn't.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 1800 mg Daily

Cost: $25-49 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 900 mg Daily

• Effectiveness

  Major (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 300 mg Three times daily

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for pain caused by non-painful stimuli (allodynia))
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for complex regional pain syndrome type II)
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for fibromyalgia)
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for nerve pain in left leg)
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for pain)
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall) (memory and cognition problems, dizziness, balance problems, brain fog, decreased sex drive (libido), speech ataxia-problems coordinating speech, nausea)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 1800 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: I've been on this for a few yrs now. It has helped a bit more than previous meds, but without the combo of pain meds, natural supplements and going gluten-free, it is only a mild improvement.  I can definitely tell when I'm an hour or 2 late for taking it because the pain creeps in significantly. This makes me worry that it's more of a drug-dependence (withdrawl) for my body, than my typical pain, but bc I get all over nerve pain, it's hard to differentiate. I don't have this problem with my pain meds and have also been on them for years. Also, my memory and cognitive functioning has been decreasing and it's very difficult to tell if that's med related or something else is going on. As far as, energy, it continues to deplete, but that could be Thyroid related or something else. I still prefer these over the other meds I've tried for allodynia, nerve pain and Fibromyalgia. 

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for complex regional pain syndrome type II)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for pain caused by non-painful stimuli (allodynia))
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for pain)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
• Effectiveness

  None (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Effectiveness

  None (for nerve pain in left leg)
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall) (memory and cognition problems, dizziness, balance problems, brain fog, decreased sex drive (libido), speech ataxia-problems coordinating speech, nausea)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 1800 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Make sure that you eat a solid meal before taking and don't plan time drive. The nausea and dizziness is enough to make you uncoordinated. For me luckily, the side effects, other than the nausea, have decreased a little.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Side effects

  Severe (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 900 mg Daily

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 900 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: If you want a happy sex life, replace it, or get off it as soon as possible!

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for itching)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 600 mg Three times daily

Advice & Tips: This really helps itching. Missed a dose before bedtime and woke up at 2:00 AM itching like crazy. The beneficial effects wear off over time with the need to increase dosage. Went from 100mg 3X to 300 3X, to 400mg 3X. Now taking 600mg before bedtime but 400 mg seem to work OK during the day. Wish it was easier to make updates here...

• Effectiveness

  Can't tell (for pain)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Never taken as prescribed
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 400 mg Daily