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Misc Lyrica question, want opinions

duneplanet

duneplanet

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Im tapering of librium, Im at 15 mg now and just started taking 75 mg a day of lyrica yesterday. I am worried about long term lyrica use. I would not plan on ever abusing it and wouldn't want to exceed 150 mg a day, but I still worry about side effects, especially impotence and extreme weight gain. It is seeming to help my anxiety (not sure about sleep yet, passed out last night but woke up and couldnt fall back asleep until 6 am, and only fell asleep til 6:03.. then fell asleep again and woke up at 6:15.. then fell asleep again and woke up at 6:21... gave up after that. Hopefully it will start to get better. IS it possible to get long term (like a year maybe) benefit from this medicine? cause i feel like it could help but i dont wanna get myself into a mess again like i did with the benzos. Im having toruble withdrawing from the benzos on my own, too many things are going on right now.
and i hear lyrica withdrawal is like benzo withdrawal, but does it last as long? Or is it more of an opiate withdrawal duration? I wanna know what I should do about this lyrica. I feel like it is helping but I need people's opinions. Thank you so much.
 
Lyrica withdrawl was basically non-existent for me and I was on it for 6+ months, just felt a little off for a few days. Keep in mind I'm on a daily regime of prescribed opiates/benzos which would definitely soften the withdrawl symptoms if there were any...
 
I do not know of any Lyrica withdrawals altho I have only taken like 500 or 600 mg at a time to help me sleep if I did not have anything else ,which i have a script of klonopin 2mg 12mg per day so that rarely happens,Lyrica did not do anything to me ever but make me a drowsy feeling plus I was taking 500 or 600mg when i did take it...so I dunno,but benzo withdrawal can cause seizures which can and do lead to death often so I would be more concerned with benzo withdrawals than lyrica,,,seixures are not to be played with,,i have seen friends die from seizures after quitting bezos suddenly (not there choice) so for god sake be cafeful with those damn bezos
 
drugs can really just fuck everything up man. id be fine right now if I hadn't started taking benzos again. I was doin so much better. Did anyone notice a lot of weight gain on lyrica, and if so were you able to lose it with excersize etc? cause id do anything to feel normal right about now. it isn't about getting high, just feeling like a human.
 
Lyrica and benzo withdrawals are incomparable in severity. I have come off 4mg ativan a day cold turkey as well as 450mg lyrica a day and although I wasn't comfortable coming off lyrica, I was basically just kind of anxious and restless for a few days and had a headache... And that's without tapering. When I tapered off 450mg in 10 days or 2 weeks, I had no withdrawals.

Of course this is only *my* experience and everyone's varies but my point is that lyrica w/d can not compare in severity to benzos and from my experience and what I've read here, lyrica withdrawals are not as drawn out as some benzos can be... But that will largely depend on the duration/halflife of the benzo... Big difference between alprazolam and diazepam for example.
 
yeah I get the munchies on pregabalin. I get prescribed it just to feel normal too.
 
kk all im worried about is duration. Last benzo withdrawal took me 2 years to regain semi-sanity. ever seen the movie Jacob's Ladder? I was Jacob. No joke. Reality turned into a quite literal hell. Im considering sticking with lyrica if i can actually sleep with it tonight. It makes me feel semi-ok. happier. even though i cant sleep and my body is just sdcreaming at me.
 
Have you got any yet? I wander what sort of dosage you'd get. Mine started on 150 but now at 450. Due to go up to 600mg a day from Tuesday.
 
IM on 50 at the moment and upping to 75 monday assuming it i can sleep tonight cause last night i slept funny. my doc is starting up slow cause I gotta super sensitive system, which years of psychedelics didn't help. makes benzo withdrawal a hell of a lot more fun :P

Im hopinh to not exceed 150. What side effects have you noticed? All I noticed was yesterday when it ook my first dose I felt alive for the first time in years. I could feel pleasure and love, i was connected.
 
150 is quite a small dose and I doub't you'd have any problems coming off that.
I didn't have any w/d symptoms the last time I was on it and that was 300mg a day.
Not sure how it will work out this time doing 600mg a day.

I don't follow the docs instructions and I always take the whole lot in the morning rather than split the dose. Works better for me that way.

No side effects except feeling human for me.
 
No I didn't have any benzos so things may be very different for you.
 
Its helps with daytime anxiety for sure. I have quetiapine for sleeping though.
 
am I gonna have to keep upping my dose to avoid withdrawal, or could I be stabalized on a dose of say 150 mg?
 
75mg is considered to be a very small dose. taper would be advised, you should be able to jump off of it fairly easily IMHO
 
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