Anxious.Individual
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I rapidly tapered down from 200mg a day prescribed Phenobarbital (I'm from Russia) from Feb to March, because it was causing liver-related issues and generally made me feel like a zombie. I don't have epilepsy, I was prescribed it for insomnia and anxiety. As I expected, after horrific withdrawals and intense DTs, I felt far less depressed, and for once felt energy and was no longer clumsy. I started having insomnia issues and abused RC opis (butyr/furanylfentanyl), and had a few more horrific WDs. I also started experiencing brain zaps and twitching, as well as tinnitus and minor auditory and closed eye hallucinations, probably as a result of some nasty excitotoxicity. My neurologist suggested for me to try Phenibut (here in Russia it is sold as a prescription drug in 250mg tabs). Today I've taken 500mg as prescribed and I can say without exaggeration, that it is doing wonders so far, all of the symptoms I described earlier are gone. and my body and mind feels at peace and I don't feel impaired, in fact I feel cognitive and general performance enhancements. I can imagine for all of those suffering from barb/benzo WD or other GABAergic WD, phenibut is great option to help with recovery.
My question is: I Know that phenibut is a weak gaba-b agonist, which doesn't actually produce too many effects, however is there anything else to its pharmacology that might contribute to it helping with GABAergic WD?
My question is: I Know that phenibut is a weak gaba-b agonist, which doesn't actually produce too many effects, however is there anything else to its pharmacology that might contribute to it helping with GABAergic WD?
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