pregabalin chemist names

Brain and nerves
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hi im on pregabalin 75mg x4 tablets x2 a day.

when i first got pregabalin from my chemist was lyrica and just noticed last 2 months says alzain pregabalin are they the same.

just read the patient leaflets you get with the medications (kept the lyrica one for some reason) and the lyrica says about nueropathic pain (why im percribed it) whilst the alzain mention nothing hope some one can help thank you x

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It's a legal thing that I think the moderator will let through.

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical/prescribing/gps-told-to-carry-out-review-of-patients-taking-pregabalin-as-soon-as-possible/20009393.fullarticle

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Think the make up of the tablets are the same - originally the tablets were for people with nerve ending problems, if you look at the links you will see what the nerve ending problems were - 

https://patient.info/medicine/pregabalin-lyrica

https://patient.info/medicine/gabapentin-neurontin

couldn't find anything for alzain so maybe that was the name before it was pregabalin.  But I was told they are much of a muchness but I don't know which I couldn't cope with but it was one of them.

How long have you been on Lyrica please.  I hate to think i will be on it for the rest of my life

Emis Moderator comment: I have replaced the given links with links to the equivalent articles on our site.

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Moderator thanks for the links. All I can say is that i hold many Glaxo shares and I would be annoyed if a patient was given a generic prescription -  I was given Lyrica on prescription by the pain clinic in Gandia here in Valencia and have always been given it. Lyrica costs  something like 50€ but pensioners here pay a percentage of their prescription costs - Haven't a clue what anyone else pays for a prescription.  We don't get prescriptions free here  - its only a tiny percentage to pay but couldn't afford to buy it myself over the counter  

Pazital is difficult to get sometimes in Spain. my doctor would only give me a prescription to take so much a day and so we have to go to the chemist  every so often to top up. I presume that is to prevent me from taking too many.  But then we buy it over the counter costing something like 3€   I think Pazital has a different name too depending on the country where you live,