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Misc GBL - Baclofen & Lyrica make my WD's Worse

juninho999

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Firstly here is an outline of my useage
I have been using GBL 24/7 for 1.5 years, I am currently using on average 12ml per day, I know this as I have started to write down every dose I take, my doses are also measured out with a 1ml pipette marked in 0.1ml increments. At night I take 1.8ml for sleep and almost always get 4 hours good sleep before waking, however on several occasions I have managed 5 sometimes 6 hours and on a few rare occasions even 7 hours.

Most times it is 4 hours though. I then re-dose 1.5ml and usually get a further 3 to 4 hours good sleep, which gives me at least 7 or 8 hours which I can function on fine.
I then get up and have 1ml to wake me up, I then dose around 0.7ml say every 1.5 hrs sometimes 2 hours or so, always limiting my overall dose for the day to 12ml as I am conscious of not increasing my intake above this level.

With this amount I can still function during the day, I work from home so dosing and close monitoring of dose is easy.

Of course in the past I have binged and dosed higher than this. but I noticed this started to induce a manic euphoria and I couldn’t get more than a couple of hours of poor quality sleep, for a long time now I really want to quit this evil addiction so basically the 12ml is an amount that enables me to function without getting high all day long.

However reading the internet and the many horror stories regarding withdrawal has scared the shit out of me, to be honest I’m not sure whether reading this info has been beneficial as it’s basically made me scared to try and quit, my wife doesn’t even know about my addiction and I certainly wouldn’t want her to see me suffering some of the horror withdrawals I’ve read about online.

The weird thing is I have quit once before for 24 hours and the last time in July for 72 hours with the aid of benzos and booze and I literally had NONE of the withdrawal symptoms I have read about on here, both times when my stash arrived late, but stupidly I just resumed my habit once my stash arrived, This was a combination of not wanting to quit enough and thinking ‘hey it’s easy to quit whenever I want’. I therefore have no experience of secondary phase WD’s that I have read about.

However I am absolutely now committed to getting this stuff out of my life, I can maintain a 12ml habit, eat, work sleep and no-one is the wiser, but FFS what if I want to go on holiday abroad or if I need to go to hospital, I am literally a slave to this shit, also I rarely get any pleasure from it anymore, the only time I do is when I go out and have a drink with it.

Therefore I ordered some Lyrica and Baclofen online with the view of switching addictions then tapering these meds.
I have tried various combinations of both together and on their own at various doses and they seem to make it worse, like they trigger a worse WD from the g, bearing in mind I have had several times where I have slept 7 hours without a dose and not felt too bad on waking, admittedly the first dose of g after these abstinences has made me feel much better.

The worst is Lyrica, it absolutely knocks me out and even at low doses of 75mg at about an hour after ingestion I feel so out of it I can’t function, it makes me sweat like hell, feel dizzy and disorientated and the only way I can stop it is to take a hit of g where I feel instantly back to normal.

Similarly baclofen seems to heighten g withdrawal however not as bad as Lyrica, the only time I had any success with Baclofen was when I took a very small dose of 10mg which actually just felt like I’d had a hit of g back in the days when I enjoyed it, however after an hour or so I thought hell this seems to be working so I took another 10mg, about half an hour after I felt like my heart was racing and thumping out of my chest and again the only thing that stopped it was a 1ml hit of g which brought me back to normal almost instantly.

The thing I can’t understand is I’ve NEVER had such severe classic g WD’s when simply abstaining for longer periods (see my 7 hour sleep reference above).

What keeps me dosing during a normal day is a nagging anxiety which gets worse until I give in, usually after a couple of hours. I never feel any of the physical symptoms I get when I switch to baclofen and especially lyrica, I also can’t understand why I don’t get the anxiety after/during my sleep doses , maybe it’s more of a conscious thing.

Curiously the baclofen definitely helped with this anxiety feeling, but the racing and pounding heart understandably brought an anxiety all of its own. It’s such a bummer because before I got addicted to this shit I never had any anxiety problems in my whole life.

Maybe I’ve been dosing the baclofem/lyrica to soon after my last g hit.

Is there a set length of time I should be leaving since my last g hit before switching to these meds ?

I suppose there is the chance that these meds aren’t genuine as I bought them over the internet without prescription, but there is definitely some chemical in them, certainly not just chalk or something equally benign.

I’m at my wits end now because after reading such glowing reports about these meds this seemed like my way out, and now I feel like I’m right back to square one.

At the moment my next plan is to convert my gbl to ghb, then taper then make the jump with benzos and booze like I did the last time, however after reading the stories online I’m terrified to make the jump.

Sorry if this message is too long I tried to keep it as short as I could, I hope someone can help me get this evil shit out of my life once and for all.
 
Well I can't help you with the pregabalin and baclofen question other than to say that maybe some GABA effect is interfering with that of the G? If it doesn't work for you, it doesn't. It would likely not do much in any case, as fairly severe G addiction is just that... fairly severe. I suppose it's possible that waiting until you were in full w/d to take it might change something, but I don't find that likely in this case.

The reason benzos and drink helped you is because they function very similarly in the brain. You could transfer from one thing to another and back again without too much trouble, without getting rid of the overall addiction. If you're stuck on quitting alone and in secrecy, and have very good self control, order/find yourself some diazepam, chlordiazepoxide (librium), or even lorazepam or clonazepam. Switch to them, taper and kick, preferably kicking while at least taking an anti seizure med for safety and other things for comfort.

NOTICE: You should really do this under medical supervision. It can be very dangerous and even deadly. That's the worst thing about addiction to these substances. Even were you to use benzos to taper off, the w/d from benzos could still be dangerous, but in a hospital setting that's one of the things they're likely to use anyway - it's just that you're supervised or being prescribed other meds with it.
 
The baclofen should work, I think you are simply not taking enough. Taking too small a dose would just aggravate withdrawal as with everything else. You need a dose that's equeal to your dose of GHB, however I have absolutely no clue what that would be.

You should toss the lyrica, it has no GABAergic effects and carries the worst withdrawal in the world with it (yes it's fucking worse than GHB believe me). It might help, but during benzo withdrawal I personally only found it made things worse. I see no reason for you to use this med if you use baclofen at the same time. You will just be adding another miserable withdrawal you have to deal with later. And you don't want to deal with lyrica withdrawals.

Lyrica or Baclofen. Pick one and stick to it. Personally I would pick baclofen.
 
Something amazing has happened, I had my last 0.7ml of gbl at 7:30pm last night then I decided to give Baclofen another try, this time I took 20mg and after an hour had a few unpleasant effects, tight chest a bit of dizziness but rather than reaching for the g I decided to ride them out, after a further half an hour I started to feel ok and astonishingly had no cravings for g, this lasted all night, I drank a bottle of wine at 11pm and took 6mg diazepam and another 10mg Baclofen, at 1:00am I took a further 20mg Baclofen and 20mg Diazepam in order to attempt sleep.

I slept instantly and woke up at 9:30am, therefore a full 8.5 hours sleep, the longest un-interupted sleep I have had in 1.5 years.

Upon waking I'd be lying if I said I felt great so I took 20mg more of Baclofen and 6mg of Diazepam, I then slept till 12:30 which is where I am now.

I am ecstatic that it is now 17 hours since my last hit of g, but I feel kind of hollow with odd body aches and headache, like I'm here but there's something missing, I need to work but would be a fool if I reached for the g now, think I'll go for another 10mg of Baclofen, going to keep the few Diazepam I have left only 18mg for tonight, I just hope that its all over by tomorrow as it's difficult for me to get hold of diazepam these days.
 
Once you stop the gbl completely and find out at which baclofen dose you can function, taper very slowly. 10mg per month. And for sleep, try melatonin. Good luck quitting that addiction bro.
 
Once you stop the gbl completely and find out at which baclofen dose you can function, taper very slowly. 10mg per month. And for sleep, try melatonin. Good luck quitting that addiction bro.

I havent had a hit of g for over 60 hours now, Ive been on 60mg baclofen per day for 3 days only, I'm going to start reducing that NOW, Iintend to be clear of that by the end of this week at the latest never mind months.

What's going on this is too easy, I have no cravings and no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever, last night I had a full 8 hours uninterrupted sleep with only 12mg of diazepam.

If I'd known it was going to be this easy I would have done this months ago :)
 
Thanks Fly

I suppose the big test is when I stop the baclofen, but I feel confident

Today is the best I've felt in so so long, none of that constant anxiety and cravings for a hit every 2 hours, more energy, enthusiasm for life again, I only wish I could take back those years when I was a slave to this nasty drug. And to think when I first started using I thought of it as my miracle drug.

To anyone who is thinking of quitting, life is so much better without it.

I don't know whether it's against forum rules but I have a box of lyrica which cost me a small fortune, I have no intention of ever touching the stuff, it just doesn't agree with me at all, but i've read its a help to others, if anyone in the UK wants it, I'm willing to post it to you for free if you pm me your address.

To all those who are caught in the gbl trap I wish you all the luck in the world to get free of this slavery, your lives will be infinitely better without it
 
GBL is a nasty fucking drug to withdraw from. makes even the worst alcohol WD i had seem fucking benign in comparison. 60mgs baclofen really isn't a high dose. be careful with it, the withdrawals from it are pretty fucking severe in their own right. the last time i went on a month-long GBL bender i had a full-on psychotic break and about two dozen seizures. eventually i landed in the hospital where they put me on oxazepam. which helped.
also pregabalin not having GABAergic effects? utter fucking bullshit. taking a sufficiently high dose of it should stop withdrawals too. say, something like 600mgs 2-3 times a day.
 
^It's just a calcium channel blocker that helps with withdrawals, it still has no GABAergic effect, and he should still toss them because using both lyrica and baclofen will leave him with 2 addictions instead of 1.
 
okay it's been 7 days now, but stupidly i did some gbl when I went out on Sat night, but returned to Baclofen the next day and had no cravings for g, I realise now that when I'm through this I will have to ditch my stash.

My only worry is that Ive been taking Baclofen all week and today I will run out, I intended to taper but because of my stupid decision to do g on sat night, I needed to keep my daily intake to 60mg to stave withdrawals.

Obviously I'm hoping all will be fine tomorrow, but I'm a little worried that the Baclofen has been masking withdrawals and whether I will get withdrawal from the Baclofen, I've ordered more Baclofen but it will take up to a week to arrive.

My question is 'if I go into withdrawal, will taking g which I will convert to GHB stop withdrawals ? obviously this is a last resort, but I'd like the peace of mind of knowing that if I start to go into bad withdrawal at least I can stop it, and try again when my Baclofen arrives, I've ordered a much bigger supply this time, I'm just a bit worried about going into nasty withdrawal and trying to explain it to my wife.
 
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