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Misc Lyrica question, want opinions

wow this surprises me, all this stuff about lyrica...

im currently on lyrica for severe nerve pain, along with fentanyl and dilaudid. i take 300mg 3 times a day. i had no idea pregabalin had any other effects other than relieving nerve pain... ive never noticed any "effects" of it even at the doses im taking. in fact it doesnt even help my pain much at all... im kind of curious about it now that i see it relieves anxiety... i have always had horrible anxiety and just got off of a bad benzo addiction. strangely, in the last month or so ive noticed that my anxiety is VERY under control... i guess its the lyrica, huh. so if i took 600 - 900mg what kind of effects would i expect? i just never saw this med as something id take a larger dose than prescribed or experiment with. i guess ill try taking 600mg tonight before i sleep.

and i saw another thread about recreational use of lyrica?? you can get high on it??
 
if it is helping you i wouldnt abuse it man. It will just make your tolerance go up and then your perscribed dose will be ineffective.
 
Etard7007, lyrica has a very odd dose-response relationship where studies demonstrate little-to-no analgesic benefit over 300mg/day (usually 150mg BID). I've heard of people using 450mg or 600mg/day but 900mg just seems needlessly excessive.

Also, you already have a significant tolerance so if you want recreational effects you'd probably need considerably more than 600mg in one dose. I personally took 300mg/day for about 2 years and 450 for another 1-2 years and I tried to use it recreationally a handful of times but got little effects taking much more than my dose.

I would recommend not wasting your medicine on trying to get high... And this goes for *any* necessary medication.
 
I took it for a long time getting off GHB once with baclofen, at high doses, and there was minimum withdrawal when I stopped (i.e. run out). Mostly nausea, feeling sick, that kind of thing for a few days.

Went on it again later, much lower dosages, and no withdrawals when stopped.

Now back on it again, only 4 x 75mg a day this time, so I won't expect withdrawals. There's definitely still an effect tho, and I love it's anxiolytic action. Really destresses me and opens me up to others, makes me more friendly, helps me talk.

So even though I've read the Lyrica withdrawal horror stories on the net too I haven't really experienced any. But I will say one thing, the weight-gain thing is true. Prob water retention, but I definitely gain weight on it.
 
hmm well if it helps with withdrawals anon i will gain the weight. I need to excersize anyway, this will just give me an excuse to :p
 
You can't compare Lyrica withdrawal to benzodiazepine withdrawals, not at all. I was on Lyrica for about a year and when going off it all I experienced was mild insomnia, some anxiety & depression. I was taken off 450mg cold turkey from my doctor. The withdrawals lasted for 1-2 weeks. I went back on it though 6 months ago @ 600mg (300mgx2) currently for anxiety.

Benzodiazepine withdrawals last like a year or more and you still experience mild lingering symptoms for longer than that. The longest I could go off Clonazepam was 1.5 years. The first time I couldn't go longer than 6 months. The withdrawals never lasted. I've been on them for 10 years, with exception for the two times I tried to quit. I only take them to prevent withdrawals. I've been currently tapering down for a year from 8mg to 1mg Clonazepam. I still have like 4 months left because I'm doing 0.25mg each month. I still experience withdrawals each time decreasing the dose.

For Christ sake, you could never compare the withdrawals from the two!
 
yeah man i feel you. benzos are ridiculous, what a terrible drug. I feel bad for people who dont even know they are addictive and have never done a drug before and suddenly find themselves in the worst withdrawal of their life when they are in the middle of working a stressful job. Had I not known about the addictiveness of benzos i would be in a much worse place right now. my doctor told me to take ativan 3 times a day and did not even mention that they were addictive (my GP not my psych)
 
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