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pregabalin seems to make me crave carbohydrates, i will just constantly eat all day on it given the chance. no bad thing for me as I'm really thin and can never put on weight. definately very strong urge to eat though.
when I started on it a couple of years ago I compared it at the time to being a bit like having a glass of wine or something, in terms of how it made me feel. not huge recreational value but taking a bit more than prescribed makes me feel pretty good, no clouded judgement or otherwise impaired, and the best nights sleep ever, the kind where you can oversleep in the morning and feel totally rested.
quite often makes me feel slightly hyper, in a good productive kind of way.
It's nice stuff on the whole but tolerance does develop quite quickly and the max dose they will prescribe is 300mg twice a day, but they usually start people off on 75mg twice a day. I was on 150mg twice a day for a year though before I felt like I had to up the dosage atall, and that was only because I was taking more like a gram a day once or twice a week.
I never had a problem with suddenly stopping it either. TBH sometimes I just get my prescription and binge on it for a week then have small doses for the following week then nothing for another two weeks.
people used to using benzos regularly probably wouldn't get much out of it though.