OpiateKiller
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Damn bro this shit is no joke the pins and needles feeling my skin is on fire .
How long does this shit last?
How long does this shit last?
how long did you take it for ? Iv done it everyday for about 10 days straight at pretty large doses twice a day and had no withdrawal at all, but Iv never been addicted to gabas or benzos before either
Around a month straight with lyrica and gabapentin abuse too.. I mean I feel fine aside from my skin being on fire and incredibly uncomfortable..
I was injecting 5 grams a night though not good
Injecting 5 grams of phenibut. How much do you inject at a time? If you really have to inject phenibut you might as well get some f-phenibut to spare your veins a bit.
Yeah the physical anxiety from gabapentinoid withdrawal is rough, in some ways worse than the physical aspects of benzo withdrawal (though not nearly as bad as benzo withdrawal in respect to mental aspects). And phenibut seems to cause way more physical anxiety than gabapentin or pregabalin in my experience.
The duration of the withdrawal is in proportion to the length of its usage.
Like 2-3 weeks, in my experience, if you do cold turkey. But I have a method that works for me. You should do the following, below. First though, are you taking it every day? Regardless, phenibut is pretty easy to get off as far as addictive drugs go, since the half life is so long. I've gotten off it like 4 or 5 times using this method:
Just cut out a day. You won't get into full withdrawal for 2 or 3 days, so just don't take it one day you normally would have. You can use comfort meds like clonidine, and I find that diphenhydramine (bendryl) helps too, at like 50mg. Sleeping will be hard but I have the most insane lucid dreams during phenibut withdrawal. You might even take a benzo to help sleep or bad anxiety for the first couple of off days but obviously, be very careful with that, and if you've been addicted to benzos before, maybe don't use any. The goal is to cut out a day from your cycle. So if you're doing it every day, switch to every other day. The off days will be shitty at first, but not horrible like opiate or benzo withdrawal.
Get comfortable with that cycle, then drop another day. So every third day. Same deal, do that, get comfortable, then drop another day. It will take a while but it's not horrible, it's doable. Once you get to every 5 or 6 days, you can just stop and should only have some residual insomnia and transient anxiety. By the time I get to every 4 days, it's not bad, and I start to enjoy the absolutely insane dream recall and lucidity. Some of the most wild and interesting dream experiences of my life have been during phenibut taper/withdrawal.
You need to be very disciplined with your dosing time. I find reducing dosage difficult with phenibut, but the skipping a day pattern works for me every time. You can take the same dose you normally would each time.
Also, don't inject it!! it's so fucking acidic, it's got to be absolute hell for your veins. I would imagine it would hurt like fuck. Seriously...
Gabapentin will totally substitute, which is kind of weird since it lacks GABA-B agonism. But it shares the ion channel action, which is the main aspect of phenibut, I feel.
Probably, yes. Though if it was only a month, I have heard of people doing that and not having much withdrawal to deal with. The first time I withdrew from it, I was using 3-5 grams daily for about a year. Took me totally off guard and was pretty awful. Every other time since then it's been an every other day habit, but for long periods of time.