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Gabapentinoids The Gaba Shuffle

Ive been taking zopiclone for over 20 years now (not everyday) and now i actually dont mind the taste. It shows that the zopiclone is working lol

Fair enough! I am fine with the worst tasting substances but the taste has to end after ingestion -- not be produced by some reaction that lasts way too long.

I am thinking I prolly got a worse than you -- it is a "Side effect" technically.. I -- don't know I took ambien and that left a metal taste (and I think it is less known for that?) and I just needed something with a longer halflife. Dude offered ambien CR or w/e and I was just forthrite and suggested restoril/temazepam (as there were commercials for it at the time - easy reason to ask)

I teased a few doctors "The commercials say to ask you for oxycontin by name!" When I am no pain at all or w/e
 
Ahh that is possible I was not on it for long and honestly had a habit of spilling and losing my ambien (Like legit falling down floorvents and shit) only med I have ever had that problem with. I think I only got 3 bottles and complained every time until he offered CR and I was just like nah we both know the traditional answer here -- but i didnt put it that way, here in america big pharma gives you foot in the door with advertising on TV
 
Just wanted to mention how good Keif Richard's reply in this thread is. It's like the gold standard of Bluelight posts: informative, non-judgmental, encouraging.

Nice one, Keif.
 
Hello, I just found this site. Looks like some good information and level heads for the most part. Background: I've been prescribed benzodiazepines since the 1980's. For the last 10 years my drug and dose has been Diazepam 10mg qid. Along with Gabapentin 600mg tid. I recently crossed over to Clonazepam 1mg qid and Gabapentin 800mg tid. I have been getting as many Gabapentin as I need so my unofficial dose is 2500mg to 5000mg qd. I saw an advertisement for a bottle of Phenibut 250mg and I received the bottle in post today. My question, I also take Escitalopram 20mg, Buproprion 300 xl, Dextroamphetamine 15mg bid, Clonazepam 1mg qid, Hydrocodone 7.5/325 and the Gabapentin. It has been suggested to me that taking as much Gabapentin for so long that Phenibut 250mg won't give a desired effect if any at all. What would be a safe good dosage of Phenibut to start? Will it interact with any of the meds that I have listed? If I could get some input it would be greatly appreciated. I forgot to mention I take Phenobarbital anywhere from 30mg/day to 120mg/day. My physician prescribes me Donnatal and it has 16.2mg Phenobarbital along with Hyoscyamine Sulfate 0.1037mg, Atropine Sulfate 0.0194mg and Scopolamine Hydrobromide 0.0065mg for IBS. Thank you and regards
 
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Hello, I just found this site. Looks like some good information and level heads for the most part. Background: I've been prescribed benzodiazepines since the 1980's. For the last 10 years my drug and dose has been Diazepam 10mg qid. Along with Gabapentin 600mg tid. I recently crossed over to Clonazepam 1mg qid and Gabapentin 800mg tid. I have been getting as many Gabapentin as I need so my unofficial dose is 2500mg to 5000mg qd. I saw an advertisement for a bottle of Phenibut 250mg and I received the bottle in post today. My question, I also take Escitalopram 20mg, Buproprion 300 xl, Dextroamphetamine 15mg bid, Clonazepam 1mg qid, Hydrocodone 7.5/325 and the Gabapentin. It has been suggested to me that taking as much Gabapentin for so long that Phenibut 250mg won't give a desired effect if any at all. What would be a safe good dosage of Phenibut to start? Will it interact with any of the meds that I have listed? If I could get some input it would be greatly appreciated. I forgot to mention I take Phenobarbital anywhere from 30mg/day to 120mg/day. My physician prescribes me Donnatal and it has 16.2mg Phenobarbital along with Hyoscyamine Sulfate 0.1037mg, Atropine Sulfate 0.0194mg and Scopolamine Hydrobromide 0.0065mg for IBS. Thank you and regards
No way you live in America with all that prescribed. It’s a joke here now.
 
It seems this thread got a little bit derailed going into discussions on z drugs.

So, I have now been off Phenibut hcl for a week. I had 16 days and then relapsed on my birthday and once that weekend (4 days apart - the 2nd time was really underwhelming). So essentially 2 uses at 4g, 4 days apart in 21 days (down from daily use of 3-4g for months).

It didn't completely screw me over in terms of getting off the stuff and my tolerance was close to baseline when I took it for my bday (btw, cocaine hcl + phenibut hcl is amazing as a combo). I also drank a fair amount of alcohol after not drinking at all for a month or so and I guess I hammered my brain with 2 gaba drugs along with a CNS stimulant.

With that said, even though I had an amazing time and I don't regret it, my relapse set me back for sure. On that 16th day without, I was down to just 6mg diazepam a day... that shot back up to 10mg after my relapses and then I did a pretty brutal taper on the diazepam.

I am now at my prescribed 4mg a day of diazepam and haven't touched the phenibut hcl for a week.

I think this is a drug I'm going to start treating sort of like MDMA and only allow myself to use once or twice a month max (with MDMA I actually like a 2 month gap).

Anyhow, I'm going to hold at 4mg Diazepam a day for a bit and then drop it to 2mg, then 0mg hopefully (while stashing as many pills as I can - I'm actually going to ask for an increase because 4mg is a joke when they used to have me on 50mg a day!). I want my 10mg pills backkkk. Anyhow, I don't want to get heavily addicted again, so maybe I'm playing with fire.
 
sure you aren't confusing phenibut + coke for alcohol + coke = cocoaethylene?

You being hard on yourself its hardly a relapse if you planned it and it was your bday!!

4 mg of diazepam is a pretty low habit though -- I think you got it. --- 4mgs a day kind of is a joke. I got cut to 2 kpins a day and I want my third one back fuckin bad but pretty clear it aint gunna happen as he suggested some antipyschotic when I asked for it back.

You know damn well you playing with fire if you been addicted in the past and still are haha -- just keep the flame low enough you wont freeze up and seize if someone blows it out?
 
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