Hi everybody, after 15 years of lurking I have decided to make an account & share a story.
I’ve been reading this thread a lot as I recently got prescribed a bunch of 150mg Lyrica. The first time I took it, I took 300mg in the evening and ended up feeling groggy and falling asleep. Woke up a little loopy but after about 15 mins I was ok and felt a nice anxiolytic effect throughout the day.
The following day, I wanted to see how this feels during the daytime while being out & about. At 3pm, I took 3 capsules totaling 450mg. This was after a rather large meal. I hopped in the shower & felt it creeping up as I was finishing up. When I got out the shower, I felt what I would describe as a light MDMA type afterglow. I noticed that what I was seeing was a little more saturated too. As I was leaving I decided to take one more capsule which brought the total to 600mg.
As I was walking to the train, it felt like I was just flowing with the breeze. When I got to my spot downtown where I like to sit around, I noticed that the effects seemed to be fading. Despite reading about mixing alcohol & pregabalin being risky as alcohol is strongly potentiated, I wanted to give it a go. I bought a 24oz twisted tea which is 5% alcohol. I downed the can in 3 mins and after about 10min started to feel a slight loss of coordination & a light drunk feeling. I spent about 20 mins walking around and I decided to get another drink since I wasn’t feeling much.
This was a mistake.
I got a a can of 24oz can of 8% abv Mikes Harder Lemonade. As soon as I left Duane Reade, I cracked it open and started downing in within a few mins. I started to walk uptown and it felt like as soon as I drank that can, the first one started to really hit me. I was walking & feeling really talkative so I joined a group voice chat.
15 mins after drinking the Mikes, my balance became fucked as well as my vision. Every 20 steps or so, my feet would just twist & have me stumbling from one side of the sidewalk to the other. I was really into my walk & the conversation over the phone but I couldn’t really form coherent sentences & as many people note, my memory was bad. Time seemed to fly by but I attribute that to the drunkness.
I ended up walking about 36 NYC blocks stumbling around the entire way. Eventually I sat down in Washington Sq. I was sitting on a bench looking through my phone & after a little while I got a strong urge to take a nap & I did exactly that. I just leaned back, closed my eyes and almost instantly fell asleep.
I woke up to 2 girls talking to me which seemed very concerned about my well being LOL. One was asking me if I’m alright and shoving my phone into my pants pocket & telling me not to lose it. I assume I had dropped it when sleeping or it was just on my lap. Both the girls were asking me if I’m gonna be ight & if I live far.
Just wanna make it clear that they seemed genuinely concerned & I doubt this was a flirty move.
I laughed everything off & thanked them. One of them dapped me up & they left. After the nap I started to feel like I was sobering up a bit so I started heading for the train. I ended up falling asleep on the train, missing my stop & having to wait on a train back. By now, I started to go back to that “afterglow” type feeling. I took the train to my stop & had to wait on a bus for about an hour. The entire time I felt calm as a Hindu cow, up until I got home. I went to sleep with no problem and slept for about 10 hours.
It was hard to open my eyes when I woke up, but other than that everything was normal.
Sorry for such a long post, just wanted to share my experience as I find it interesting how everybody’s account of using this seems to vary in various ways. I was also wondering if anybody has noticed that using Pregabalin causes bloating? Anyway, cheers.
