Large doses of lyrica doing pretty much nothing

[Bag84]

So I just picked up my prescription for lyrica ( pregabalin 150mgx120) supposed to take 4 a day. Well me being me I abuse it. I went without it for a while cause I take way more than prescribed. Last months prescription I took 4 pills once a day and felt pretty good. Then I started taking more and more and ran out. So I went a couple weeks without. I’ve been taking it since April but took gabapentin occasionally and got a huge tolerance. But I don’t take it for longer than a few days then take a break for a few days but I went a but I am taking 6-9 pills at a time 2 times a day and this is only my second day in my script. I take so many other things that it’s hard to tell what is giving me withdrawl or not giving me withdrawl. I have a huge tolerance to everything (oxycodone daily, clonazepam for about 15 days out of the month) I don’t know what to do. I want to stop everything but it’s so hard. I don’t remember the last time I went a day without taking a pill.

So my question is, why did my tolerance to this go so high so fast. I don’t want to take it daily cause I don’t want to NEED it. But I don’t know if I do cause I have suck a high tolerance and mix it with so many other things. I have no idea why I’m not dead really 45 mg of oxy daily, 2 grams of lyrica, 1 mg of Xanax and that’s just in the last 12 hours. Am I fucked?

 

[Rainman1964]

How old are you honey?

Some people, depending on sex, height, weight, genetics and believe or not, I learned in genetics class in college, where your ancestors came from. I've known 4 foot 10 girls who could put away hand fulls of valium, smoke week and drink 10 cocktails and still be able to drive. You could not tell they had ingested any substances. Then I've seen 6 foot guys, big guys, who smoke a couple puffs off of a joint, drank 2 beers, and would pass out cold where they were standing.

Age has alot to do with it also. Believe it or not, if you are younger than 21, you are one of the lucky ones who just has that type of system, I would assume; over 50, your body is used to the abuse and chemicals and it has built up a tolerance of sorts, and/or, you just know what you are doing.

I'm just throwing things out -- I'm not an expert, nor is most of this referenced properly. However, all of it is personal life experience. It is pretty tame compared to the kids today, but I had the great privilege of graduating and spending the decade in my 20s from 1979 through 1991, and if anyone didn't get the chance to be in their 20s in the 80s got totally screwed over because it was the last great decade of this country before everything started to go downhill. It was so decadent. Everyone wanted and had expensive taste, drove Mercedes, BMWs, you name it, Ferraris were numerous in my area in the 80s. And everyone was doing drugs, drinking 24/7, and having sex with everyone, but we all went to work anyway. We could smoke in the business office, just like in the TV show Madmen, the women all wore pure silk dresses with matching pumps. I had every color pump, leather glove, clutch purse and sunglasses to match. Colors were everywhere. The $20 lunch -- which was alot then -- was the thing, and you always got tossed at lunch. Sexual harrassment did not exist and everyone was flirting and screwing everyone and having fun. The office actually had less tension and so called "inappropriate behavior" then. I won't talk about my adventures -- that is for another thread, and another day.

I'm studying for the LSAT and I can't stand how boring it is most of the time and I am stonewalling by going down memory lane. Some attorney I'm going to be.