Pregabalin withdrawal hell

[nuclear89]

Has anyone had experience here? My GP is useless and is blaming everything wrong with my on pregabalin withdrawal.

ive been taking 300mg x 2 a day for 17 years, I recently made a decision I wanted off it, I’ve tried and failed 3 times before because of how hard it was. So we are reducing 50mg per dose chopping down every 2 weeks.

here is what im experiencing

- vomiting every single morning for weeks
- headache
- anxiety
- sweating

the list is huge but it’s the vomiting for 3 ish hours a morning and it’s horrid I’ve took cyclizine and prochloperazine no success I still vomit.

 

[tubgirl.jpg]

17 years? I think you're cutting off too much, too fast. That would be my guess at least. I experienced all the symptoms you list plus shakes and violent shits after just weeks of daily use.

Can't you get, say, gabapentin to help you taper?

 

[Nurse Ratched]

Yeah, like tubgirl said. Maybe dropped too quick too fast. Seventeen years is a long time and 600 mg a day was max dose.

Lyrica is stronger than most people give it credit for.

You can't go on with all that vomiting and sweating and anxiety. Grab some Neurontin ( gabapentin ) like tubgirl said and start dosing that. Neurontin has to be titrated up at 2 hour intervals so your body can absorb it. So lets say you get the 300 mg capsules. Take one.....wait 2 hours. See how you feel. If you aren't getting relief take another 300 mg and have a fatty snack ( like peanut butter ). Neurontin is a waste if you dose it all at once so just stagger your doses out every 2 hours until you start to feel better.

I only did Lyrica for about 6 months at 900 mgs per day. I had the same WD's that tubgirl did. I got some gabapentin and dosed like I just said and bingo. Felt better, got off the Lyrica for good and no discomfort.

Good Luck !

 

[Just a little pinprick]

Has anyone had experience here? My GP is useless and is blaming everything wrong with my on pregabalin withdrawal.

ive been taking 300mg x 2 a day for 17 years, I recently made a decision I wanted off it, I’ve tried and failed 3 times before because of how hard it was. So we are reducing 50mg per dose chopping down every 2 weeks.

here is what im experiencing

- vomiting every single morning for weeks
- headache
- anxiety
- sweating

the list is huge but it’s the vomiting for 3 ish hours a morning and it’s horrid I’ve took cyclizine and prochloperazine no success I still vomit.

I bought OTC Nauzene , instantly stops nausea as soon as you chew a tablet, It was helping me in the morning ,

If your going to decrease your dose that fast I’d just go cold turkey just to get it over with, I have that opinion about a lot of substances.

 

[supersonic89]

Yeah apparently Gabapentin is good to make a taper (I don't know the reason, maybe it has a better half life).