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Gabapentinoids The Lyrica (Pregabalin) Mega Thread v 2.0

I cycle lyrica or use it when I need it. I have had closed eye visuals more than lsd. It can be trippy. I have gone to 1500 mg which is dangerous and my body had tremors.

It is a great drug when used a few times a week max. It can help you be more creative and think outside the box. I love that about it. It is far more effective than its gabapentin.
 
So so so!

This morning on day 7 of full lyrica withdrawal and things are getting worse (in total). Life stuff as well as other medication withdrawals culminate and I feel like I need to go into a coma just to get over this. It’s a living nightmare. Anywho… ! Earlier today I found some old 50mg ones. I took one and everything feels infinitely better! Just 50mg! About 10 days ago my dose was 1200mg/day!

I think to preserve my sanity I’m just going to have to take up these low dosages and begin tapering.
 
Weird stuff this. Yesterday morning I was looking up how to section myself under the mental health act until I managed to get an emergency appointment with my GP, where I cried like a baby and he told me if it gets worse I can just go to the ER room. I found some 50mg lyrica and took one. Hours later I feel absolutely normal. Maybe high at parts but that could be a reaction to how low I’ve been feeling the past week. I’m a passenger in a car and I’m nodding off... an old effect from lyrica that I used to like in the evenings. It feels very good.

i wake up after 9 hours sleep. I’ve been fighting for just 1-4 hours sleep recently so wow. Didn’t even wake up for a piss.

but in the morning I feel bad again. I took a 250mg codeine cold water. No effect. My skin starts to burn. My mood plummets. I take another 250 CW. Nothing again. I take another 50mg lyrica.

hours later I feel my mood shoot right back up to normal. This stuff is so powerful that even 50mg brought relief and negated 500mg codeine (the most I’ve ever had in a morning). And to think I cold turkey-ed from 500mg lyrica months ago. My plan is to get 25mg lyrica and taper very very delicately with that after coming off opiates first.
 
I'm prescribed 3x 150mg day. I have taken 1050mg at once and felt a little high. For me to get really fucked up should I take days off to lower tolerance ? If yes, how long ? Thanks guys
 
dopamine seeker said:
I'm prescribed 3x 150mg day. I have taken 1050mg at once and felt a little high. For me to get really fucked up should I take days off to lower tolerance ? If yes, how long ? Thanks guys
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How long have u been taking the Lyrica? If over a gram of it at once only got u a little high then I'd say u have a huge tolerance. I'd tecommend taking at least a week off but if you've been taking high doses of it daily for awhile u WILL go into wd's from it. So be aware of that. Tolerance to Lyrica builds insanely fast. If u don't need it for a real medical condition & just want to enjoy it recreationally at high doses then only do it a couple times a week. If u need it for a medical issue too then I don't know what to tell u. You could do what I did. My daily Lyrica intake was getting insane so I asked my doc for some high dose Gabapentin too n he RX'd me 600mg 3× day. So I'm taking a week off Lyrica by using Gabapentin instead. From then on i will only use Lyrica every other week n Gaba every other week. Seems to me to make sense but I could be wrong. So far so good though. Good luck.
 
Oxy_Manic78 said:
How long have u been taking the Lyrica? If over a gram of it at once only got u a little high then I'd say u have a huge tolerance. I'd tecommend taking at least a week off but if you've been taking high doses of it daily for awhile u WILL go into wd's from it. So be aware of that. Tolerance to Lyrica builds insanely fast. If u don't need it for a real medical condition & just want to enjoy it recreationally at high doses then only do it a couple times a week. If u need it for a medical issue too then I don't know what to tell u. You could do what I did. My daily Lyrica intake was getting insane so I asked my doc for some high dose Gabapentin too n he RX'd me 600mg 3× day. So I'm taking a week off Lyrica by using Gabapentin instead. From then on i will only use Lyrica every other week n Gaba every other week. Seems to me to make sense but I could be wrong. So far so good though. Good luck.
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I've taken lyrica before years ago but stopped. Now I'm taking for like 7 months or so. I should have a tolerance aswell as I am not sensitive to benzos and other sedatives. So it might not be only tolerance. But I get a nice high from lyrica still, so I will try taking some days off and maybe upping the dose to see how it feels. Thanks
 
Maybe I'm the only person in the world with this problem. I was prescribed lyrica 75mg last week and had never heard of it until reading about it on here. I took 150mg about 3 in the afternoon and literally became a zombie for 48 hours. Not a good zombie either. A couple of days later, New Year's Eve/day about 3am I tried it again, just to make sure. It's now 8.30 am 28 and a half hours later and I am only just awake enough to write this. Dreadful stuff IME. For all those withdrawing, I couldn't imagine what that must be like and I've had some brutal withdraws.

For anyone taking it for the first time, please follow the advice of other posts and start low. I hate to think what would have happened if I'd started with even 300mg, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been good.

It's a beautiful day Down Under, the beach is calling my name and, while it's only a 5 minute walk down a really beautiful bush trail - no roads to cross, no cars needed to get there- I'm still to zoned to do anything but go back to bed and sleep!
 
dopamine seeker said:
I've taken lyrica before years ago but stopped. Now I'm taking for like 7 months or so. I should have a tolerance aswell as I am not sensitive to benzos and other sedatives. So it might not be only tolerance. But I get a nice high from lyrica still, so I will try taking some days off and maybe upping the dose to see how it feels. Thanks
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Definitely your tolerance, seems like past a certain point the true recreational effects simply become far too fleeting to count on unless you take heroic doses.

I had been taking lyrica 75mgs like you, around 5-6 of them in the morning, to combat long-term opiate withdrawal. Works good, but the subjective effects can be pretty subtle. One thing I noticed with gabapentin/lyrica is that I can always tell it has started to kick in when I keep getting the urge to stretch my back and it feels REALLY good to do it. Sadly, it tends to hit me with some major fatigue around mid-day and I take a nap, which always "resets" the buzz and I wake up feeling jonesy again.
 
I found that tollerance to Lyrica builds insanely fast...like after 1-2 days I stop getting that slightly drunk uncoordinated feeling that some people seem to like (I didn't)...after that it seemed to stop doing anything really...maybe a slight anti-anxiolitic effect but that's it...

I didn't have any real withdrawal when stopping like some have described but I definitely felt something...like my appetite was much higher on pregabalin and I struggled to eat for a little while after stopping..and caffeine seems to make me much more agitated..

Interesting they are now going to make pregabalin a class C drug in the UK in a few months (same class as most benzos) due to the amount of people abusing it.. like many things, abuse by a few makes it harder to obtain for those who actually rely on it to function....
 
Nether Animal said:
Yes - sorry; figured the nomenclature made it obvious.
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Yeah, I figured probably the US but most countries use either a letter of number (or in the UKs case both :)) for drug scheduling.

Its ironic that when it first came out and I was given it, they claimed it had no addiction potential and no overdose risk....

Not like big pharma to be wrong about these things is it? ;)
 
I got pregabaline when it came out as Lyrica all those years ago and was on it for some years. I never got any high from it though, I even tried a gram and a half and only felt dizzy. Had no issues quitting it either, sorry to hear many are having such horrible withdrawals from it.
 
Big Pharma said the same for opiates. About 30 years ago they said in the US that there us ‘simply no risk of addiction or withdrawal as previously thought’.
I hope the guy who said that now has children hooked in fentanyl.
That youtube video by “BBC Three” on Pregablin is pretty eye opening.
 
I was put on gabapentin to sort out some nasty lyrica withdrawals. Life’s okay now. But fuck me that was a bad ride. I have never been so close to ending my life before. The last time I came off this I had no real problem barring occasional nightmares and mild anxiety so I don’t think I can ever go back now. It’s spooky weird shit.

I might get some mild withdrawals coming off this gabapentin but I’m only on 100mg twice a day. Shouldn’t be too hard.

It’s gonna be an interesting decade or two when the truth about this med comes out. My doc (socialised doc so no payments from drug companies) didn’t know about the withdrawals from this and has began investigations at his university. I want to know the mechanism behind it and how it’s so varied between people.
 
Truly understanding may never be possible. My personal feeling is that the biggest problem within the pharmaceutical industry (including the doctors who prescribe) is this ‘one size fits all’ attitude where the patient us left to deal with the consequences.
Lyrica was designed as an anti-neuropathy med, but it was discovered by accident that it helps some folks with stress. What scared me is the ‘accident’ part. It worries me that they did years of testing on this drug for neuropathy, then magically we’re buying it for anxiety. My guess is the people who had anxiety- related symptoms were excluded from the original clinical trials.
Next they’ll prescribe it for sleep. It will be marketed as ‘non-addictive’ and ‘gentle’. The people who take it will start to have strange side effects like feelings of dread and pain in their fingers and toes.
 
Squeaky said:
Big Pharma said the same for opiates. About 30 years ago they said in the US that there us ?€˜simply no risk of addiction or withdrawal as previously thought?€™.
I hope the guy who said that now has children hooked in fentanyl.
That youtube video by ?€œBBC Three?€ on Pregablin is pretty eye opening.
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I saw that documentary about pregabalin addiction in Northern Ireland

Its free to watch on BBC iPlayer if anyone is interested in it.
 
I get prescribed four 300mg gabapentin three times a day for nerve pain but I only take it twice a week and use my other prescription painkiller to manage the pain and I find that those two days are when I accomplish more than the rest of the week I do it to try and not get addicted to them and it seems to work
 
Ran out of lyrica/neurontin the other day and had some nasty WDs, even though I sort of tapered the last few days due to my dwindling supply. Felt like tianeptine withdrawal, weird head fuck and strange physical symptoms: sweaty, clammy hands and feet, chills, insomnia and a crazy amount of nervous energy.

Shitty, but better than being dopesick. Gotta conserve what I have right now and try and make this more manageable because I'm broke for a long while.
 
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