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Gabapentinoids The Lyrica (Pregabalin) Mega Thread v 2.0

my lymph nodes swelled up horribly (although i have a chronic condition where they are always a little swollen), had a massive headache, confusion, and it felt like my head was in a vicelock or something. I just couldn't think for the life of me.

for me, thats a typical allergic reaction as I am allergic to LOTS of stuff.
 
hmm this is odd, decided to do a recreational dose (which i can handle with benzos on hand plus im telling my doc they're just not working for my anxiety), took 900mg, spread out over 20 minutes, i had a pizza just before, its been 3 hours now and i feel it quite alot, but normally this dose would fuck me up hard, maybe the huge pizza i ate is delaying the onset, getting more wobbly, but its more gradual, alot more pleasent than usual as i get jittery/shakey, no doubt i will start to get a bit shakey but i have some benzos to help when that happens.
 
Fellows, do u really get lyrica effects by plugging it ? i've tried it few times (150, 300 mg), and felt really nothing, or may be like 75mg orally. I had successfully used amphetamines by plugging, but lyrica... weird.

Has anyone noticed that taking food while on lyrica high, supresses some positive effects? i also can attribute this to some of GABA drugs (ghb, benzo).

The downside for me is decreased physical libido, hard to get erection on doses above 300mg, not talking about ejaculation. But girls looks very attractive, so "mental" libido is fine.

Anyway it's great for work (motivation, pro-social) and recreation (walk, talk, riding bike). Almost OTC in Russia - it's the best thing in drugstores :) and phenibut of course (only for work, not recreational). Benzos, tramadol is very controllable substances here, getting a prescription is a very hard work and luck here.

currently i'm on 300mg comedown, also like to write posts on this stuff.
 
lyrica is best taken orally and on an empty stomach. i have tried all ROAs and oral is simply the only way it works. food effects it the effects so so much.

maybe ill take some right now. it is so strange how it used to calm me and give me energy at the same time. now it just makes me really fucking spastic and i can get shit done but im all over the place. it used to be amazing, not its just like crappy adderall....or i can take a huge dose and get fucked up.....and i do find taking it before i go to bed gives nice effects the next day almost like when i was first taking it. i have to make sure i do it right before im about to fall asleep though otherwise i will be up all night.
 
homeydontplaythat said:
lyrica is best taken orally and on an empty stomach. i have tried all ROAs and oral is simply the only way it works.

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I agree. I've never tried plugging it but oral works so well and the BA is so high that I doubt I will ever try it with Lyrica.

Jager336 said:
Haha, if I'm posting in an <insert drug here> MEGA thread, you can bet I'm on it.
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Guess I'm an unknown hypocrite. On dilliedoos right now but out of Lyrica (God I go through that so quick it's insane, hungover as fuck today, thank God for the pain killers. Not as bad as getting drunk the night before, but definitely a headache I could do without.
 
ive tried plugging it and i can say that theres no benefit to plugging over oral. theres no point especially because almost all of the drug is used by your body when you eat it.
 
It is THE most euphoric drug I have ever done (except crack but I am a 'crackhead,' one of the reasons I'm glad I left Cleveland) but it is certainly not harmless, nor is any drug (sorry to some of you but pot isn't harmless, smoke is bad people).

I used to think the same way but I am glad I was able to learn otherwise before terrible things began happening to my body.
 
My opinion is that while physicians are still pretty openly prescribing it, I think they are not too far out from realizing just how abusable (and euphoric, as one being said, "Til your cup runneth over") that some of the more careless people who are on it will start to come to their appointments like that and give themselves away. I think physicians will start prescribing it more as a 'last resort' drug, not to mention in the U.S. FDA reclassification, before it becomes a wide-spread recreational drug. It will become like crack in the way that the people who have it, want it because in that case it would not be easy to get, and will not put it 'on the streets', thus decreasing wide-spread use in effect before it begins.

I'm not aware of anybody who's been on it that doesn't know it's the best 'happy pill' around, much better than the antidepressants the physicians call 'happy pills.' So whatever happens, I don't think unawareness is an option. :)
 
I got prescribed Lyrica today [my psych wanted gabapentin, but I kept talking about how much I read about Lyrica, of course not mentioned it was here on BL, lol, so he was like "okay! Fine. Lyrica." hehehe] for anxiety. Apparently in Canada gabapentin and pregabalin are very commonly prescribed for anxiety. In the Canadian shrink manual it is listed as a 3rd resort for GAD my shrink told me [then again, aren't doctors usually full of shit? Except surgeons - they're ALWAYS on the ball].

I took the recommended 75 mg. fell kind of edgy actually. then i started to feel pretty good: relaxed, no depression, lots of motivation. so I took another 50 mg. After that I genuinely felt that MDMA-like high that people talk about - like SSRI's without the weird-ass side effects. I feel a definite, very tangible - can't remember the term I'm trying to - "touchy feely-emotional" effect, like E but not as forceful. Music sounds much clearer, I feel more enveloped by reality. I took 6 T3s too -- the last of the pain pills I managed to squeeze out of my surgeon 2 weeks after the surgery [I'm finally starting to forget the godly days right after the operation when he scripted me 40 dilaudid 2's and I had a box of brand new rigs :( :) happy, tragic opiate addiction, has near ruined my life].

and that's why I wanted the Lyrica. I really think it will help me get over opiate addiction. Weed doesn't work because a) it has insanely huge list of psychological effects, including apathy and paranoia, and b) makes you hyper, thus leading to cravings and relapse. Alcohol and benzos are even worse, lowering your inhibitions and making you tired and depressed: the exact state of mind you were in when you decided to lay in the bear-trap of opioid habituation. Fuck that shit!
 
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pregabawhaaaat?

Jager336 said:
Lyrica isn't 'FDA-approved' for anxiety, so I'm surprised s/he gave it to you.

Am I the only one that doesn't get tachycardia and shakes and withdrawals on this? I will never say any drug is harmless but so far I haven't experienced any adverse reactions to Lyrica, speaking in present-tense. I realize there will probably be long-term effects, but I haven't seen any negative effects in the immediate sense.
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As mentioned above, the European Union has approved pregabalin for the treatment of GAD; possibly GAD comorbid with panic disorder, I'm not sure of the latter. But American pharmacists took this as a "Let's go!" attitude to prescribing Lyrica. I have been on this stuff for a WHILE, before they even began marketing it. This was mid-2004, early 2005. Was on it for about 18 months and then discontinued it. Back then, I was at a 50mg dose BID and did not know that it was abusable. This time around I'm older; wiser; more pregabalin'd than ever ;)

It does lose its magic.

You are not the only one who doesn't get all the withdrawal symptoms mentioned in countless posts on topics like Lyrica. I just don't get it - in fact, I understand it about as much as I understand how an AED can reduce anxiety, stimulate motivation, optically saturate the colors of the world, and place one in a headspace similar to that of a light dose of MDMA (60-80mg, depending on who you are, would be my guess). So, yeah. No withdrawal symptoms, ever, and I'm on 450-700mg of the stuff a day. Oh, well; you won't find me complainin' =D

I agree with other posters who have tried rectal administration of this drug. I used to do it habitually, every day for two months, and felt (as I was laying on my back or left side, waiting) the "rush" of that which is the headspace in a "Lyrica high." It's completely impossible to explain to someone who's never tried plugging pregabalin. After a bit, though, it affected me - but not so rapidly. Ever so slowly I become more and more cumbersome and loopy and less and less aware of time. Color is *so* brightly it's saturated. And I float! :D

The absolute best way is to take it orally, as mentioned, WITH OUT FOOD!!! I can't stress this enough; food will not only prolong the onset and delay/lower the Cmax, so you don't get as much out of the experience as you would otherwise.

In the past couple months, I've stopped abusing Lyrica. I take it exactly as prescribed and I'm absolutely fine with that.

~ vaya
 
I took an extra 50 mg my first day, but I don't think Ill even try reaching a high. since im on 75 mg a day for first week, then up to 100 mg a day for the next 2 months until i see my shrink again probably, if I eat like 10 of them to get high I will deprive myself ultimately of like 2 weeks or a month. that deosnt seem worth it for a mild high. ive gotten high off gabapentin before, and actually started taking smaller doses back when my friend gave me a bag of it, because its really better in small doses that act as a mild painkiller and anti-anxiety/depressant. however most likely curiosity will get the best of me soon and ill eat like 4 days worth in one go. but then what will i do for the days I have to do without? doesnt seem worth abusing something that works, but doesnt give the intense high of a hard drug like dilaudid or oxy or adderall or whatever.

im broke though, so it is mildly tempting. but if i wanna get high, ill eat the rest of my klonos [shrink dicontinued them. which is good for my soul, i know, LOL; benzos are pretty evil] or i dunno, steal a box of DXM from the fucking pharmacy, LOL. or go on methadone or something. [i heard lyrica enhances opiates, so it might make being on methadone or suboxone fun, if i can find a clinic that isnt full, or a doctor willing to prescribe opiates off-label for maintenance]
 
Whats the deal with mixing low dose of benzos in with pregabalin? When i take a recreational dose (600mg+), i start to get the shakes and feel a bit anxious, its still pleasent but i feel strungout, im thinking of popping a few 10mg vals to smoothen it out, anyone have any expereience?

thanks
 
the highest dose ive done is 200 mg eaten, but 125 mg snorted was stronger. snorting lyrica i find makes it much more potent since it hits you faster. when i snorted 125 it was almost too strong for me. i had that "what do i do NOW??" feeling of MDMA and suchlike. so i did take 1 mg of klono and felt alright.

i could see 600 mg definitely being sketchy. i wouldnt bother doing that much ever i dont think. what's it feel like??? sure, pop a couple valiums, why the fuck not?

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I have a question about lyrica dependence. on doses of 50-100 mg a day, after several months, would you get dependent enough to get WDs if you stopped? Or even if you weaned off? My guess is no -- seems to only happen to people who get used to daily doses well above 300mg...but still. reading all these lyrica horror stories on the fuck internet is getting me antsy. So far its working great for my anxiety though - longer lasting than any benzo and without the depressing "down"... but I did have a couple irritable-mood-swings on it. Well it's only week two. so we'll see.
 
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I've never really experienced withdrawal...then again I've never NOT taken it more than two or three days apart...
 
well you should feel withdrawal by day 3 i think.

i guess on my dose, 50 -100 mg a day, it really shouldnt be a concern. i dont usually get much withdrawal from benzo or opiate abuse so im good that way. feel bad for people who suffer through withdrawals really bad.
 
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