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I can't live like this

sonicwhite

sonicwhite

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Ok, I take my lyrica at first like I'm supposed to. Than I remember how wonderful and glowing everything looks when I take i higher dose. That comes the part where I have to go without because I took too much. I can't live like this. I really don't even know why I'm taking it other than not to go thru withdrawals. It does make me happier when taken right but those idea's of memories of what everything looked like while I was high and how colors are sharper and everything is glowing......I just feel trapped in this addiction.
 
That happened to me with hydrocodone. It was prescribed to me for 4 years. I would go through mini withdrawals a day or two before I could pick up my new prescription. I ended up taking WAY more than prescribed for several months. My doctor tried working with me (I couldn't hide my lack of pills in a pill count), but in the end we decided just to have me stop taking them.

If you want to stop the addiction, talk to the prescribing doctor and tell him/her what has been happening. If you continue to get a prescription, you'll probably continue this cycle. It's hard to break that because it's the difference between feeling blah and feeling amazing. Amazing always wins. At least it did for me. Perhaps it's time to look for an alternative medication? There must be a reason why it was prescribed to you. If it's not a compelling reason, then you can get rid of your medication.

It's possible for your doctor to write you prescriptions for just a week at a time, or a day at a time, and taper you down to a dose that won't give such bad withdrawals. My doctor mentioned that AFTER I went through a month of horrible w/d.

Either way, good luck on this journey. It's up to you to decide if you want to stop giving in to the pull of the pills. You can do it if you really want it!
 
I have been taking Lyrica for almost a year. It is prescribed for GAD but I have klonopin for that.......It does make me feel amazing I'm surprised this stuff ain't a CII but anyways.....It just breaks my heart that me and my doc find something that works but eventually it all goes down hill.
 
the honest truth is you have to get to a point to where you don't want to take the medicine anymore. Your life is going down the hill for some reason you're missing time with your family whatever the reason maybe you have to get there first before you're able to stop your addiction. Once you get to that point you'll be ready to move forward in your life will improve by leaps and bounds.

It will take time. I was on oxycodone morphine gabapentin soma and xanax and it's taking quite a while for me to detox from all this. The longer you're on the medication the harder it's going to be.

I was on all these medications for 7 years and I finally decided to go to a detox clinic for 7 days to help me get off. This is the easiest way to do it do not try to do it on your own it is so much harder.

it's probably going to take me 2 to 4 weeks to get all over all the remaining withdrawal symptoms. Such as goosebumps chills cold sweats feeling like I constantly have to stretch and anxiety. I do take klonopin for the anxiety and the stretching feeling it does help but it can be addictive so make sure you taper for that as well over 5 day period. clonidine can help if you're going through the sweat and the goosebumps it's a great medicine and non addictive.

Good luck and I hope this helps and I hope you get to that point to where you don't want to take it anymore and improve your life
 
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I took it for a week off Heroin and had some withdrawals I think from the Lyrica in addition… I'm having some rebound anxiety today… Up til now been feeling really numb without any drugs. I thought I was out of the woods but, yeah … will take time.. Good luck!

Anyone have itching from Lyrica? I have been ...
 
Never ending cycle......guys I have no clue how to beat this......When I take more I feel normal and when I take less I'm severely depressed.
 
I took a graham of that stuff and thought WHAT AM I DOING ? This drug costs so much and I just wasted it. I didnt feel any better. I was fighting, as usual, opiate w/d and benzo w/d at the same time. I feel so trapped too. I'm sorry you're struggling . Try not to look back. It won't help. I spend so much time in the past I may as well be 15 again and I was using back then too.
 
You are just going to have to feel depressed for a while in order to get your lyrica use back on track. At least this way you will have some left until your next refill. I have had this happen a few times and I learned that I could could use a portion of my pills recreationally but still leave myself with enough to last the entire 30 days. Anyway, the high goes away quickly with repeated use and you end up using your script up in a hurry trying to chase that high.

I get 90 of the 150mg pills a month. I can take 30 out for recreational purposes and still have 60 for 2 a day, of course I take the 2 that I would be taking and add them to the 30 for as long as I have them for that month. Works out great for me now, and even if i use more and end up with only 1 a day for a few days, at least it brings my tolerance down. I'm also on baclofen, tramadol, percocet 10's, and er morphine, so I probably get a little more out of my lyrica than someone on the lyrica only. BUT you can still do what I am talking about. Good luck with it and just ready yourself physically and mentally and you can do it. ......but you have to believe and want it!
 
Acute pregabaline withdrawl is the absolute worst withdrawl ive ever been through, it beats the shit out of ssri's alcohol and amphetamines.
COuldnt walk, couldnt talk, couldnt eat, constant hot/cold flashes, extreme derealisation, almost psychotic state, huge anxiety and depression, muscle spasms, sweating, every sound was too much, couldnt stand daylight...man that was traumatic...

I also abused my lyrica, taking up to a gram a day and ran out early several times so i had too withdrawl. My doc didnt say it was addicting neither and that withdrawl could be hellish, so the first time i didnt know what was happening so i ended up calling 911 because i thought is was the end for me, i was so sick you cant believe it.
Got a description oxazepam but it didnt help a single bit. The only relief was alcohol and weed combined in large ammount.
As soon as i got my lyrica again and popped 1 or 2 150mg;s all the withdrawl symptoms vanished in an hour.
So that made me ring a bell (the fact i did not get an ambulance but only oxazepam said nothing, i was in another place,real dark heavy place) so i tried to use as little as i could to avoid withdrawl,because i knew it wasnt for me, i needed a non addicting med)

I tapered on my own (2 x 150, 1 x 75 & 150, 75 & 75, 37.5 & 75, 37.5 & 37.5, 37.5 and then nothing) in a week and had almost no withdrawl effects. At day 10 i was 100%.

There are other people i read about who still go through withdrawl wich can last for months although i suspect them of abusing other drugs too like alcohol wich is a big no combined with lyrica).

I would certainly not stop cold turkey, but contact a docter and taper it, of you get withdrawl symptoms anyway, ask for a benzo or taper slower.

Good luck you can do it :)
 
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