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Gibberings CLXIX: Theresa May's Amazing Legs

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Eveleivibe said:
To be honest no I have not, though I've read up enough on neurotransmitters n the brain. If I had have been "me" n not the addict I had become, I never would have touched SSRIs -but I will look tomorrow for some stuff on Google scholar.

There are a few things that interest me about the whole thing.
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I concur 100%. There's a most interesting few things in the thing.
 
lurching said:
Even 300mg! I get a nice moodlift from just 50mg!

Anything over 100mg and I get a tingling relaxed feel in muscles, calm confidence like low dose GHB, and if I go over 150-200mg I'll start stumbling but feel warm and at ease. More than 200mg and it gets strange for me with a slightly trippy headspace, more cognitive blur, and a type of rebound that I don't like. I'm 70kg with currently no tolerance to alcohol or benzos or other GABAstuff.

That's after two years of near-daily use, with half of that period on 600mg per day and with only a handful of short tolerance breaks/tapers. I feel better at 200mg per day than at 600mg, and I suffer much less rebound anxiety that consecutive days of high dose can give, plus I could go a few days without my dose and not suffer withdrawal.

I've found it golden for any type of GABA withdrawal and cravings. I'd be in a bad place now if I hadn't discovered pregabalin as type of maintainance drug to get out of and stay out of recurrent self-destructive drinking/GHB phases.
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Yeah I'm on 600mg a day in divided doses of 150mg and 75mg capsules, I tend to take a few extra from time to time, the tolerance is a bitch, but I was on it for 6 months at 300mg a day and no problems atall...I resisted upping the dose as long as I could but then I went through a difficult phase and asked for more.

The withdrawal really is something awful, and benzos don't really help with it. I'm lucky I have the 75mg caps in my script because I can plan a week long taper as they run out, if I've eaten a few extra during the month.

I have zero tolerance to alcohol and GBL but have a lingering benzo taper I'm dealing with at the moment - the pregabalin does get me feeling a bit drunk and speeded up if I eat 900 - 1200mg over an evening, but I tend to avoid that these days.

I think it would be prescribed more often if it was off patent and didn't cost the NHS something like 90 quid a month for a script like mine, which is a shame because I'm sure a lot of people would find it more useful than stuff like betablockers or other 'firstline' anti anxiety drugs the GP's dole out.

My only problem with it is the duration of action, I found 150mg twice a day wasn't quite enough, took the second cap more like 5 hours after the first, so three times a day instead of twice a day suits me better. Maybe just my metabolism being generally fast though.....

All in all, it is one of the best medicines I've been prescribed for my mood problems over the years and I'm lucky to be on it really. The fact it boosts my appetite a little is no bad thing either, and I'm sure it does work for neuropathic pain along with paracetamol....

Great, I survived a fairly mellow bk-2cb evening, skipped mirtazapine last night and I'm alive. It's sunday, and I'm going out to make the most of it instead of looking at the internet all morning.
 
Ceres said:
the pregabalin does get me feeling a bit drunk and speeded up if I eat 900 - 1200mg over an evening, but I tend to avoid that these days.
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There's a reason for that 600mg maximum dosage. Renal issues mostly, IIRC. Definitely try not to go too high too often.
 
Ceres said:
My only problem with it is the duration of action, I found 150mg twice a day wasn't quite enough, took the second cap more like 5 hours after the first, so three times a day instead of twice a day suits me better. Maybe just my metabolism being generally fast though.....

All in all, it is one of the best medicines I've been prescribed for my mood problems over the years and I'm lucky to be on it really. The fact it boosts my appetite a little is no bad thing either, and I'm sure it does work for neuropathic pain along with paracetamol....
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I usually put 4 hours between doses (4x50mg) but when I was on 150mg a dose would last longer (about 6 hours).
 
Knew i should of placed a bet on the footy last night... fooooook. ahh well. woke up a bit rough, feeling fine now. food and watching documentarys today i reckon. gonna eat loads of chicken. chicken is the tits
 
^Yeah, was a pretty predictable result. France is playing its first match tonight, come oon

Currently spending my last sunday night in Australia in bed with vodka, crisps and Top Chef. Living the life.
 
lurching said:
There's a reason for that 600mg maximum dosage. Renal issues mostly, IIRC. Definitely try not to go too high too often.
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Yeah if I'm in the mood to eat a handful it's usually the day I get the script after being tapered down to nothing for a week, and eat 1200mg max usually, since i Know I have to make it last a month. And since I pretty much don't take any other drugs including booze or smoking fags I sometimes just want to feel a bit 'high' if you know what I mean. Sobriety is nice but sometimes I just need a little chemical alteration of my psychological inner landscape...

. I find it amusing that it isn't considered an abusable drug by GP's, although if you look through the psychiatry jjournals you do find the odd case of hardcore pregabalin abusers cropping up. Interestingly the one I read said the guy was eating 1800mg or something a day and when they tried to take him offf it in a hospital settting over a week, even heavy benzos didn't deal with the withdrawal symptoms....
 
ColtDan said:
Knew i should of placed a bet on the footy last night... fooooook. ahh well. woke up a bit rough, feeling fine now. food and watching documentarys today i reckon. gonna eat loads of chicken. chicken is the tits
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i tried to watch it, but dont even like football, i was starting to fall asleep during the second half, and dont even know why i was watching as it doesnt interest me in the slightest. The most interesting thing that happened was that the physiotherapist got injured and had to be carried off in a strecher. :p

Will probably go playing pool today, even at pool my 'form' is annoyingly a bit inconsistent, ive played several times over the last month, 3 or 4 times ive been amazed and overjoyed at how well i played, (even if i say so myself) a few times were just kind of mediocre-ish, and a couple of times pretty bad, but once was absolutely fucking awful. I dont understand what causes this atall, apparently it can happen in all sports, but as cue sports are the only ones i really understand, i can only speak for those, and its no comfort knowing that even the professionals have days when they are playing like shit. Its still as frustrating and annoying as fuck.
 
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Go for it

I probably should wish my dad a happy fathers day tbh. texting him is about all i can be assed with, and hes lucky if hes gonna get that, hes been a shite dad all my life. step dad is pretty much my dad. anyways guitar sesh time
 
So it just gets better and better, I'm homeless...! Of sorts..

Wana know why, because I didn't have a shower...! :\ Obviously the row evolved a little from me not having a shower but that's the general gist of it..!

My friend has just bought a house which has been gutted, the hot water is on and a bathroom fitted, apart from that. Fuck all...! Gotta go buy me a mattress to throw on the floor and I'm good to go...!

My life really does suck...! Don't do smack kids, it'll fuck you in the end (probably)

Have a nice day y'al. .. :)
 
@ Dan - I've been playing for about 15 years, been in bands for ~11ish years.
I play all sorts of stuff - usually what I would refer to as "weird rock'n'roll" - i have a really eclectic taste, and my playing sort of reflects that. Am in a sort of punk rock band at the moment, but with piano and really diverse sorts of songs.
I play a lot with feedback, resonance and discord, but shape it into some kind of pop sensibility at times.
Love Hendrix and lots of 60s music (from Motown to the kinks, velvet underground, stooges - that kind of thing - as well as certain kinds of folk, proto-punk...experimental stuff, all kinds of things really).

In recent times I've been playing with analogue synths and drum machines. I play lots of instruments and am working on ways to be "self-accompanied" and play "solo" without just being a voice and a guitar.
Lots of fun :)
Music keeps me sane, happy and focused. It's such a wonderful way of communicating, expressing abstract thoughts/feelings and bringing people together (in any form). It's my life, I love it.
 
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analogue synths and drum machines are solid gold, along with some decent reverbs and delays hours of fun.
 
Shit yeah!
Led me into a whole new world of music, being a rock'n'roll kid primarily.
Neu! and Faust and all that great 'krautrock' stuff blows my mind :)
I love analogue technologies, valve amps, spring reverb. Digital doesn't come close IMO.
 
Ceres said:
analogue synths and drum machines are solid gold, along with some decent reverbs and delays hours of fun.
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The power to annoy everyone else in the room and make some dirty noises!
 
HouseFever said:
Haha you want to see the state of our Wes. Fucking classic. Sick shizzle on your channel there dan.
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Cheers =D

spacejunk said:
@ Dan - I've been playing for about 15 years, been in bands for ~11ish years.
I play all sorts of stuff - usually what I would refer to as "weird rock'n'roll" - i have a really eclectic taste, and my playing sort of reflects that. Am in a sort of punk rock band at the moment, but with piano and really diverse sorts of songs.
I play a lot with feedback, resonance and discord, but shape it into some kind of pop sensibility at times.
Love Hendrix and lots of 60s music (from Motown to the kinks, velvet underground, stooges - that kind of thing - as well as certain kinds of folk, proto-punk...experimental stuff, all kinds of things really).

In recent times I've been playing with analogue synths and drum machines. I play lots of instruments and am working on ways to be "self-accompanied" and play "solo" without just being a voice and a guitar.
Lots of fun :)
Music keeps me sane, happy and focused. It's such a wonderful way of communicating, expressing abstract thoughts/feelings and bringing people together (in any form). It's my life, I love it.
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Wicked!! You got any recordings etc stuff on youtube? "Music keeps me sane, happy and focused. It's such a wonderful way of communicating, expressing abstract thoughts/feelings and bringing people together (in any form). It's my life, I love it."

Spot on, same here... ive been playing a lil while, self taught, i dont play too much these days... on and off, find it quite therapeutic
 
ColtDan said:
Go for it

I probably should wish my dad a happy fathers day tbh. texting him is about all i can be assed with, and hes lucky if hes gonna get that, hes been a shite dad all my life. step dad is pretty much my dad. anyways guitar sesh time
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I opted out of that shit very early on, had a conversation with my Dad about over commercialised empty ritualised b/s about sending easter cards and fathers day cards and stuff like that, he seemed to agree, and has never complained that ive never sent him a fathers day card for the last 25 years or something. :sus:
 
@Owen- I have a monotron! Cheap nasty analogue goodness - love it!
I have monotribe also; love running it through the monotron filters for some beautifully distorted beats.
Wish I had the monies for one of the reissued korg ms-20s. When I gets me a new job...
Though, I do love my early 80s korg poly 61.
I try to limit my instrument collection as these things can get way out of hand!
 
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