Gabapentinoids The Lyrica (Pregabalin) Mega Thread v 2.0

[Squeaky]

I have tapered many times with no side effects. Also done cold turkey from as little as 150mg/day for only a week and had insomnia and nausea.
Things like alcohol hit everyone about the same, but Lyrica seems to be all over the map.

 

[Ne0]

Who have driven with this stuff? Even with therapeutic doses 300mg it will get you're moving like booze drunk, will this go away in a time when Im using it longer? Many times ive walked to my car and people might look that I'm fucking wasted, I mean I ate vclonazepam 2 days ago maybe it will so in piss test if polic will stop me.

I've driven on next substances without any problems:
Cannnabis (drive very carefully), amphetamines (drive very good, I see every people and sign, it makes me more focused on driving, not making any mistakes), lyrica on high doses (needs to be careful), GBL (well need to be careful), high doses of benzos (like lyricas), opioids (totally normal if good dose, if stupid useless nodding dose than I had very hard time to keep my eyes open, never been so scared while driving). But I've never driven drunk on alcohol, that crosses my line.

 

[Squeaky]

Ne0- driving impaired is always a bad plan. I used to be the best drunk driver on the planet, but if I had ever been in a crash they would have blamed it on the booze and sent me straight to jail. If it makes you feel different and you think other people can tell you're high, then definitely don't drive.
I don't mean to sound preachy( I drive every day now on oxy),but it's all really a bad idea.

 

[Ne0]

Ne0- driving impaired is always a bad plan. I used to be the best drunk driver on the planet, but if I had ever been in a crash they would have blamed it on the booze and sent me straight to jail. If it makes you feel different and you think other people can tell you're high, then definitely don't drive.
I don't mean to sound preachy( I drive every day now on oxy),but it's all really a bad idea.

I mean my doctor prescripted to take 300mg once a day and it makes me walk like drunk person little bit but i can still drive normally, is it ok? what would police say ? Everything is legal.I hope my clonazepam dposent show there I have prescripted other benzor befor but not clonazepam.

btw. I drove car every day on opium for 3 years, no problems at all I drove very good, even if polise make piss test I can say I took codeine based cough syrup which is OTC here, that gives positive for codeine and morphine just like opium heh.

While I'm sober I drive like crazy person, at least my wife said so.

 

[HezzaD]

been on pregab since 2012 eas on 3o0mg twice a day now 200 3 times a day usually dose 400 in morn 200 at night. . there's Deffo a withdrawal you can go a day with say half ya dose but if you go another day ito feels like mild opiate and mild bensos withdrwwwl but I had a flare up from fibromyalgia whilst nly having 6o0 over 2 days instead of 1200 I felt like I was dieing walking to grab my script. I even feel strange if I jus take 400 as sometimes take 600 in one go and then one in evenimg. I do get a mild buzz off it since taking opiates it doesn't affect Me in a high way. all my friends love pregabs tho slays asking me for em and very popular in prisons

there very strong I never get restless legs if Going through mild withdrawal when I only had 2oo Sunday instead of 600 Monday morning I was dry heaving felt weird until I took 400 with 40mg morpgine orally and got a slight nod and fell asleep mainly pregab effects though. . your tolerance drops quick to this drug bt soon goes back up imo

 

[Ne0]

been on pregab since 2012 eas on 3o0mg twice a day now 200 3 times a day usually dose 400 in morn 200 at night. . there's Deffo a withdrawal you can go a day with say half ya dose but if you go another day ito feels like mild opiate and mild bensos withdrwwwl but I had a flare up from fibromyalgia whilst nly having 6o0 over 2 days instead of 1200 I felt like I was dieing walking to grab my script. I even feel strange if I jus take 400 as sometimes take 600 in one go and then one in evenimg. I do get a mild buzz off it since taking opiates it doesn't affect Me in a high way. all my friends love pregabs tho slays asking me for em and very popular in prisons

there very strong I never get restless legs if Going through mild withdrawal when I only had 2oo Sunday instead of 600 Monday morning I was dry heaving felt weird until I took 400 with 40mg morpgine orally and got a slight nod and fell asleep mainly pregab effects though. . your tolerance drops quick to this drug bt soon goes back up imo

How long it takes to get the tolerance down a lot or to zero?

 

[Squeaky]

Neo- Driving under the influence is just that- you can go to jail if you're high on chocolate. The police can't arrest you for using drugs at home if they're otc, but they will take you to jail for driving impaired regardless of what you ingested. It doesn't matter if it's alcohol, prescribed, cough syrup, or diet coke.

 

[HezzaD]

don't know went 2 and half days in hospital without diazepam 12mg a day seroquel oxycodone 6omg a day and pregabalin 600mg a day o my god the vomiting was horrendous I felt so weak nause as wanted to die was homeless so took overdose of 40 tramadol 50ml methadome and 50mg diazepam and 300ml vodka 40 percent and to get tolerance down to zero a few weeks as it builds up but soon as I took.my pregabs i felt instantly great but when I first took.them yeats back the high was intensely and I was sedated like a motphine high

 

[L6aif]

Hello
I tried lyrica first when my doctor gave it to me for social anxiety. At first i took 150 mg twice a day. It was incredible i felt so good and didnt have any problem socializing. But later i used them recreationally at weekends. I took about 300-450 mg. Then i decided to use them only on weekends so i stopped my reguler doses and took 300-450 only on weekends. It was great but then i began to take it on week days too. A year later abusing the drug. now i take more than 1 gm daily for about a month and I Dont get the euphoric effect from it. So I decided to taper down the drug after my finals because i can't concentrate without it. So i want to taper down for two weeks by using 600 mg daily for 4 days. Then 450 for 4 days also.then 300 for 2 days. Then 150 for 5 days. so what do u think guys? Did anyone tried to quit it after a year of abuse? And will i get my tolerance back after quitting the drug and how long will it take to go to zero tolerance? Btw i don't take anything else and im afraid of the withdrawal symptoms. Need opinions on how to taper down without getting withdrawal symptoms?!

 

[Ne0]

Does nicotine work very strong on you when you are on prgabalin? Its like very strong effect that I get from smoking cigarettes. They say that pregabalin lessens the craving of smoking, but it feels really great when I smoke.

 

[Squeaky]

L6- your taper plan seems solid. Spread your doses across the day evenly. Maybe every 8 hours1/3 daily dose. If you have any headaches or nausea, you may need a higher dose/longer taper. Make sure your life can handle 2 or 3 days to adjust to the first tapered dosage in case you feel crappy.
Also be ready to continue tapering beyond 150mg/day. That was my max dose and I had to go to 100, 75, 50 and then 25 for 4 days each or I got BAD insomnia.

 

[The Hypnotist]

Ya, I got bad insomnia and some kind of depression after taking recreational doses of lyrica most days for just over a month. From 150mg to 900mg dosages, around 15g in total. Not really a withdrawal but not normal either. It took 5 days to feel as usual. A single dose of opium was quite useful during that time.
For what I read it can change a lot from person to person. Some people don't get withdrawal at all, even on high dosages. I had enough product to taper down but to be honest trying to control dosage was looking more difficult that just go cold turkey. Especially as I was not getting much euphoria anymore.

 

[Ne0]

Neo- Driving under the influence is just that- you can go to jail if you're high on chocolate. The police can't arrest you for using drugs at home if they're otc, but they will take you to jail for driving impaired regardless of what you ingested. It doesn't matter if it's alcohol, prescribed, cough syrup, or diet coke.

Well I have script for many benzos and lyrica, so I have premission to ingest hem and then drive, dosent matter what doses, tho mixing lyrica with benzos gives you really bad drunk walk. I wouldn't drive then, even that I have permission to do it.

Ya, I got bad insomnia and some kind of depression after taking recreational doses of lyrica most days for just over a month. From 150mg to 900mg dosages, around 15g in total. Not really a withdrawal but not normal either. It took 5 days to feel as usual. A single dose of opium was quite useful during that time.
For what I read it can change a lot from person to person. Some people don't get withdrawal at all, even on high dosages. I had enough product to taper down but to be honest trying to control dosage was looking more difficult that just go cold turkey. Especially as I was not getting much euphoria anymore.

Ah I see, I use it usually only one week doses 600-1600mg (because of tolerance building up very quick) and I feel normal mostly. Its interesting that pregabalin have so rapid tolerance build up, when other gaba drugs like GBL has very slow tolerance build up, it didnt rise even when using 2 weeks 24/7, or when used every weekend 1-3 days in 6 month period. I like GBL most of the the gaba drugs, then pregabalin for sure, it has some kind of same feeling as do GHB/GBL have.

Another interesting thing is that both gbl and pregabalin takes opioid WD's compltely away, after quitting 3 years of daily opium shot of gbl or pregablin took everything away, no WD's at all. If I'm using opioids now time to time I must have pregabalin for later use because it gives hungover for 4 days that reminds WDs little bit, mostly sweeting hot/cold and insomnia.

And I really like nicotine and caffeine while on pregabalin, it feels very strong, I mostly use snuss. But on othjerhand on GBL I dont like nicotine at all.

 

[mspainfighter]

I had a horrendous experience w/ lyrica. I got hyper-sexual, but not w/ my husband. I ended up having an online graphic video sharing affair! Then, after missing 2 doses, I realized how f'd up I had been. I stopped taking it the next day. (I also had horrible pitting edema, and overall edema, and was on 750/mg a day)

This was 12 years ago, and my marriage is still on a rocky road because of it.

Then when we moved to where we are now, at the pain clinic, I was talking to some of the other patients who had been on lyrica, and they had the same hyper-sexuality! I spoke to a few pharmacy friends, & they had heard the same thing from other patients.

So, anyone else here have a similar reaction?

 

[Ne0]

I had a horrendous experience w/ lyrica. I got hyper-sexual, but not w/ my husband. I ended up having an online graphic video sharing affair! Then, after missing 2 doses, I realized how f'd up I had been. I stopped taking it the next day. (I also had horrible pitting edema, and overall edema, and was on 750/mg a day)

This was 12 years ago, and my marriage is still on a rocky road because of it.

Then when we moved to where we are now, at the pain clinic, I was talking to some of the other patients who had been on lyrica, and they had the same hyper-sexuality! I spoke to a few pharmacy friends, & they had heard the same thing from other patients.

So, anyone else here have a similar reaction?

Yes i get very hyper-sexual with this. But I enjoy a alot. But I end up watching porn 5 hours or having very hardcore sex with my girlfriend for 2 hours and still not enough.

 

[Addz64]

OMG... You IV'd Lyrica? So, how did that work out? Just wondering as I'm on this med also!

 

[Ne0]

This drug gives pretty strong cravings it seems. feeling shit today took only 150mg but I get 2100mg in one hour, so I might take 1500mg on more time then there is so little left that I take only 300 mg for two days and then Im off lets hope it helps. But not sure because I took poppytea 4day binges two times in two weeks, and I got WDs from it so maybe its only opioid WD that pregabalin takes away totally, really hard to tell. It surely feels like mild opioid WD. But I don't think one week of pregabalin using doses 800-1500 mg should give anything like that, I need to start work next week if I'm still not ok and as there is no any pregabalin left on my prescript, so I hope I don't have to go back to poppy tea as there isn't anything else to help feeling better (I can get different benzos but they are useless), I can't think quitting poppy second time.

 

[The Hypnotist]

Yep, cravings are definitely an issue with this one. Really moreish. Psychologically it is quite addictive. Physically seems to be alright especially for those of us who are used to opiates or benzos. The effect is quite weird, sometimes close to drunk sometimes close to a stimulant minus anxiety. The effects on my concentration are really good, at the stimulant level plus a dose of space out. I keep improving my rating in chess whenever I am under the influence, but fast games are a no go, as I get quite stuck now and then. For me there is not question, it is doping.
I can keep at an intellectual activity for really long lengths of time without feeling mentally tired.

I as well noticed very dry skin mainly in face and scalp during my binges. Urine comes really dark so I think you should drink a lot with this one.

Yesterday I had a 300mg+150mg dose and after 9 days without using tolerance is almost completely reset. I quite like the high tolerance as I find it self-regulating, poor as I am. It is annoying when you are trying to get there and you can´t manage, but it is for the best really. Prefer to pay that little price earlier than a bigger bill later.

By the way, I don't feel much hypersexuality at all. Opposite to GHB which is the horniest thing I have ever tried. Alcohol doesn't seem to make me horny either. A bit less selective maybe but not hornier.

I lost all interest in alcohol since I tried pregabalin. I haven't drunk alone since then.

 

[Ne0]

Yep, cravings are definitely an issue with this one. Really moreish. Psychologically it is quite addictive. Physically seems to be alright especially for those of us who are used to opiates or benzos. The effect is quite weird, sometimes close to drunk sometimes close to a stimulant minus anxiety. The effects on my concentration are really good, at the stimulant level plus a dose of space out. I keep improving my rating in chess whenever I am under the influence, but fast games are a no go, as I get quite stuck now and then. For me there is not question, it is doping.
I can keep at an intellectual activity for really long lengths of time without feeling mentally tired.

I as well noticed very dry skin mainly in face and scalp during my binges. Urine comes really dark so I think you should drink a lot with this one.

Yesterday I had a 300mg+150mg dose and after 9 days without using tolerance is almost completely reset. I quite like the high tolerance as I find it self-regulating, poor as I am. It is annoying when you are trying to get there and you can´t manage, but it is for the best really. Prefer to pay that little price earlier than a bigger bill later.

By the way, I don't feel much hypersexuality at all. Opposite to GHB which is the horniest thing I have ever tried. Alcohol doesn't seem to make me horny either. A bit less selective maybe but not hornier.

I lost all interest in alcohol since I tried pregabalin. I haven't drunk alone since then.

I never liked alcohol or benzos that much, but GBL is really my favorite evene more than opium, also pregabalin is great when you have rested the tolerance and take 300-600mg at once, really great feeling.


Also don't take any benzos with pregablin, in my experience it ruins the effect, it makes you really fucked up in not nice way. I took 5mg clonazepam with 1500mg prebalin, I cant feel any pregablin effects (tho' I have high tolerance) I feel like drunk without good feelings, damn just wasted 1500mg pregabalin.

 

[The Hypnotist]

I never liked alcohol or benzos that much, but GBL is really my favorite evene more than opium

We have the same brain chemistry. Never understood people taking benzos recreative. I just take them as a sleeping aid very occasionaly. And alcohol, well sometimes it does the job, but most times it is just a numbness without much interesting anything going on. As a way to change conciousness it is clearly overated IMO. But I kind of love single malts and some expensive beers.

I used to love GHB, took a lot of it and never gave me any adiction or inconveniences..., well I passed out a couple of times because of redosing. Then it started giving me worrying stomach pains. Had to end up throwing it away, nobody wanted it. I know it is a very difficult to dose drug and you cannot mix with alcohol, but I never understood it was not more popular. It is DESHINIBITION with capital letters. Never ordered again. That was 10 years ago. So ya, sometimes I miss it. Problem is the minimum purchase it is far too much. And if I get the pain again it would be worthless. One day we will cross paths, I'll wait patiently.

And opium, well he is second to nothing. He is the king wiping out suffering and producing PLEASURE. He doesn't threat me as he used to as I knocked to much in his door. But he didn't spank me really bad for that to be honest, I am one of the lucky ones who got away quite easily. But still he is for me like a good old lover.

Also don't take any benzos with pregablin

Pregabalin makes me sleep like a baby...so not crossing my mind such thing.