Hi All, i keep trying to reply, but everytime i failed so i gave up yesterday and i hope that these words can be seen when i hit 'post quick reply'.
I see that a crash is mentioned after you would dose first with 1,000 mg's, but lyrica acts quite long in spite of it's only six hour halflifetime so when you know that the 900 mg i always take at 9.30 in the morning still leave me feeling good until way into the evening basically i would sleep trough my evenings would i not use alarms to wake me up else if i slept too much then my sleep at night gets compromised.
By the morning i sweat quite a bit, but it cant be lyrica withdrawal as this stuff reaches a maximum bloodlevel in about an hour so when an hour later i still sweat and when only taking my methadone with some benzo makes it stop its opiate/benzo WD still its a bit strange that after almost a year using lyrica on a daily basis that without it i dont get hit by a bad withdrawal whereas i read about people who use it say 3 months then stop for whatever reason and often heavy anxiety is reported.
Lyrica certainly has recreational potential, but if you like the feeling what lyrica can give you, i love it and then especially at first when this typical lyrica euphoria hit me it took 3 hours to feel good after taking 900 mg, then do not use it daily, but preferably no more then twice a week. When its a necessity that lyrica has to be taken for fybromylagia, GAD or some form of neuropathic pain OR as a sleeping aid to cry outloud, but anyway if lyrica needs to be taken then its best to dose twice daily and if your doctor told you to then take three times a day a dose then on the last way you create an as steady as possible bloodlevel for pregabalin without strong fluctuations in bloodlevel for pregabalin like if you dose just once daily.
Its said that lyrica needs some time before it acts, but when you start using it and in say 2 days you are already at the max recommended dose of 600 mg a day if you can tolerate this then already by then the complaint you use lyrica for will lower or vanish so when you know that lyrica in 50% of cases can result in 50% or more getting better and in case of being in the other 50% relief is less optimal and for some people lyrica does not act at all in not any way.
Now in case withdrawal symptoms for pregabalin can be expected and felt already then never stop lyrica from your used to daily dose to zero right away if lyrica is your main medication type so always taper guided by how you feel and not guided by what Pfizer says stating a week taper is enough, but certainly not always. Sedating low potency neuroleptics like thorazine or nozinan help sleep and anxiety, taking a benzo while on lyrica can be done just dont take much benzo as lyrica potentiates benzo´s strongly so whenever you might need a benzo it wont work if before you always used it combined with lyrica, except if you increase the benzo dose quite a bit.
I believe lyrica is available in the UK since 2004 about at the same time when it came available in my country the NL, but for one condition lyrica can be had in Europe and not in the US so that would be Generalized anxiety Disorder and for that reason it can work very well. In the US lyrica is schedule 5 so it has a low abuse potential, but i expect the substance to become schedule 4 in time, because i think people can become addicted to lyrica chasing that initial buzz who wont happen anymore so somewhere you find yourself with 3 gram lyrica needed a day just to feel normal like myself.
Side effects were largely absent in both the 900 and 3,000 mg doses, because i slowly upped the dose so slowly i got used to it´s side effects like blurry vision, dizzyness, sleepiness and so on, but at the moment the same 900 mg´s still act as anti depressant and better then SSRI, SNRI, NassA´s, tri cyclics and MAO inhibitors ever did for me.
For me to feel real good again with pregabalin i only have to skip it for about three days, but this is not so easy even when i dont have severe WD symptoms i definately miss the medication when i dont take it for a day here or a day there. Well i better end here before i write half a novel.
Regards, Freek.
I see that a crash is mentioned after you would dose first with 1,000 mg's, but lyrica acts quite long in spite of it's only six hour halflifetime so when you know that the 900 mg i always take at 9.30 in the morning still leave me feeling good until way into the evening basically i would sleep trough my evenings would i not use alarms to wake me up else if i slept too much then my sleep at night gets compromised.
By the morning i sweat quite a bit, but it cant be lyrica withdrawal as this stuff reaches a maximum bloodlevel in about an hour so when an hour later i still sweat and when only taking my methadone with some benzo makes it stop its opiate/benzo WD still its a bit strange that after almost a year using lyrica on a daily basis that without it i dont get hit by a bad withdrawal whereas i read about people who use it say 3 months then stop for whatever reason and often heavy anxiety is reported.
Lyrica certainly has recreational potential, but if you like the feeling what lyrica can give you, i love it and then especially at first when this typical lyrica euphoria hit me it took 3 hours to feel good after taking 900 mg, then do not use it daily, but preferably no more then twice a week. When its a necessity that lyrica has to be taken for fybromylagia, GAD or some form of neuropathic pain OR as a sleeping aid to cry outloud, but anyway if lyrica needs to be taken then its best to dose twice daily and if your doctor told you to then take three times a day a dose then on the last way you create an as steady as possible bloodlevel for pregabalin without strong fluctuations in bloodlevel for pregabalin like if you dose just once daily.
Its said that lyrica needs some time before it acts, but when you start using it and in say 2 days you are already at the max recommended dose of 600 mg a day if you can tolerate this then already by then the complaint you use lyrica for will lower or vanish so when you know that lyrica in 50% of cases can result in 50% or more getting better and in case of being in the other 50% relief is less optimal and for some people lyrica does not act at all in not any way.
Now in case withdrawal symptoms for pregabalin can be expected and felt already then never stop lyrica from your used to daily dose to zero right away if lyrica is your main medication type so always taper guided by how you feel and not guided by what Pfizer says stating a week taper is enough, but certainly not always. Sedating low potency neuroleptics like thorazine or nozinan help sleep and anxiety, taking a benzo while on lyrica can be done just dont take much benzo as lyrica potentiates benzo´s strongly so whenever you might need a benzo it wont work if before you always used it combined with lyrica, except if you increase the benzo dose quite a bit.
I believe lyrica is available in the UK since 2004 about at the same time when it came available in my country the NL, but for one condition lyrica can be had in Europe and not in the US so that would be Generalized anxiety Disorder and for that reason it can work very well. In the US lyrica is schedule 5 so it has a low abuse potential, but i expect the substance to become schedule 4 in time, because i think people can become addicted to lyrica chasing that initial buzz who wont happen anymore so somewhere you find yourself with 3 gram lyrica needed a day just to feel normal like myself.
Side effects were largely absent in both the 900 and 3,000 mg doses, because i slowly upped the dose so slowly i got used to it´s side effects like blurry vision, dizzyness, sleepiness and so on, but at the moment the same 900 mg´s still act as anti depressant and better then SSRI, SNRI, NassA´s, tri cyclics and MAO inhibitors ever did for me.
For me to feel real good again with pregabalin i only have to skip it for about three days, but this is not so easy even when i dont have severe WD symptoms i definately miss the medication when i dont take it for a day here or a day there. Well i better end here before i write half a novel.
Regards, Freek.
