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The LYRICA (pregabalin) Mega Thread

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I started getting a script for Lyrica a while back, and developed a taste for the recreational effect. I started taking it every other day or so, then bumped down to a weekly endeavour, but it's at the stage where I'm eating 12 300mg caps to get the desired effect, so I'm now on a hiatus. The script just got cancelled, so I have a small store that I'm keeping for a later date to hopefully be able to get the same effect I used to get from taking one or two caps.

As it stands, I'm planning to take a break until after summer, probably into winter. It makes me feel warm inside, and sure saved on some heating bills lately.
 
Shouldn't this be in the mega thread?

But while we are on the topic of Lyrica and tolerance, is it true that it also takes forever for tolerance to go back down?
 
^sounds good. I hope all of you are as excited for my first merge as I am.



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Oh lord, I need a cigarette after that.
 
^I think he was commenting because you said 300 GRAM and not 300mg... big difference.

...although if you did mean #10 300mg pills, 3 grams is still a large dose.
 
I hadn't taken any lyrica for over a week. Took some saturday.. .only 600mg... felt nice. good mood. I was surprised I felt so good offa just 600mg. Ruined it by drinking.

my question is.... if I abstain for a week and then take like 1200 mg or 1350, can I re-experience that awesome high I first felt when I took that dosage? I was having the time of my life eating pizza and lasagna in a restaurant with my buddy, laughing my ass off and every single bite of food was like perfection.

another weird thing I noticed is that if I have 1 cigarette (more don't do anything) but 1 when I'm on some "stuff" then it feels really good. I'm not a smoker (btw. if I smoke 1 cigarette friday and saturday nights, that's not enough to get me addicted is it ?)

The stuff I was on when I noticed this "smoke effect" (maybe that's how cigarettes are supposed to work? who knows, I never tried it before this except spliced with marijuana long ago)... anyhow stuff I was on these 2 times I noticed it was lyrica, probably 1 tianeptine, deprenyl and cognac. I'm guessing maybe it's the deprenyl that makes the first cigarette feel so good?
 
Nice Merge Cane! lol
YComp, there are many things that cause me to want to smoke, and I'm pretty sure I will get some agreement on this from others.
Drinking, amphetamine or stimulant use, and my fave that I no longer get to enjoy.. pain pills.
I'm a smoker, but it still is nice to smoke when you are doing something that enhances it. A lot of people only smoke when they drink. All drugs aside, nothing taste better to me than a strong cup of coffee and a cig.
 
ive been taking a lot of lyrica lately and now am am cutting down. it feels shit and i definitely get horrible withdrawal symptoms. i feel tired, depressed and i have a headache.
 
When taken at the RIGHT dose, Lyrica makes me feel very empathetic, social and even euphoric. I have a much more brighter and positive outlook on life. It doesn't produce as much sedation as alcohol or benzodiazepines so its easier to function without stumbling around and slurring. However, if the dose is too high it does produce a feeling similar to being drunk. It can produce double vision and staggering.

Finding the right dose is upon the individual. Some may find that 300-450mg can produce the effects I first mentioned, some may find it at 600-1200mg. Somewhere around 600-900mg is what does it for me but tolerance rises fast and you have to give it a break for awhile if you want to find those effects you love so much. Although there are those out there who don't experience the mentioned effects and just get the drunk-like effects.
 
when i buy it i tell myself 'ok just once per week', but pretty quickly im like 'ok twice pewr week', then soon it every day until i turn into a complete moron and i get into the position im in now where i have to suffer the withdrawals. i think im done with this shit but i have told myself that several times before.
 
Cane2theLeft said:
^I think he was commenting because you said 300 GRAM and not 300mg... big difference.

...although if you did mean #10 300mg pills, 3 grams is still a large dose.
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Yep, it was still a lot, so I didn't take any notice. But yes, that should have been 300mg, 3 kilo grams of Lyrica is too much even for me LOL.
 
What about combinations? What do you guys/gals feel it mixes well with? Personally, I find it mixes well with opiates and/or benzos.

While alcohol is a no-no, I do find that a shot or two of rum can put me out like a light. Enjoy your nap!

As usual all standard disclaimers apply: Start low. Take it slow. etc, etc.
 
^Especially with this drug combined with other GABAnergic drugs (alcohol, benzos), the potentiation is very strong and extreme care should be used when dosing.
 
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What about combinations? What do you guys/gals feel it mixes well with?
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Certainly opiates for both analgesia and recreation. Especially analgesia, nothing managed my chronic nerve pain like lyrica + an opioid or opiate.

I also like lyrica with cannabis because in my area sometimes the strains get a little too heady and they can be very paranoia-inducing/anxiogenic and so lyrica helps balance that out quite nicely.
 
pixplzthx said:
What about combinations? What do you guys/gals feel it mixes well with? Personally, I find it mixes well with opiates and/or benzos.

While alcohol is a no-no, I do find that a shot or two of rum can put me out like a light. Enjoy your nap!

As usual all standard disclaimers apply: Start low. Take it slow. etc, etc.
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According to wikipedia - Pregabalin increases neuronal GABA levels by producing a dose-dependent increase in glutamic acid decarboxylase activity. Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) is the enzyme that converts the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate into the inhibitory GABA in a single step. For this reason, pregabalin greatly potentiates benzodiazepines, barbiturates & other depressants.

I took a lyrica pill about 24 hours after taking phenazepam one time. It seemed to completely bring back the effects of the phenazepam, I mean it felt exactly like I had taken phenazepam again. Of course, phen has a long half life so it was still in my system, I just wasn't feeling it much anymore but the lyrica completely brought back the effects. I believe the dose was only 150mg.

Obviously there wll be a very direct potentiation of GABAergic drugs by lyrica. I intend to use the 3 150mg pills I have left to help with opiate withdrawal. I'll be using phenazepam, I was thinking I could probably take smaller dose of phenazepam (so small that I don't feel anything) and then take as little as 75mg of lyrica to increase the effects and hopefully ease my suffering more than the benzo might alone. Got to be real careful with a combo like this though, I would assume that lyrica could make a deadly overdose more likely combined with benzos.
 
pixplzthx said:
What about combinations? What do you guys/gals feel it mixes well with? Personally, I find it mixes well with opiates and/or benzos.

While alcohol is a no-no, I do find that a shot or two of rum can put me out like a light. Enjoy your nap!

As usual all standard disclaimers apply: Start low. Take it slow. etc, etc.
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alcohol is fun with it of course. although last time I took some alcohol with it it erased this great mood I was experiencing from the lyrica and became just like a huge potentiator of the alcohol.

I like to mix it with tianeptine and melitor (agomelatine) sometimes. I've tried mixing it with a certain benzo (gidazepam). Really I don't have much experience with benzos. But at 1 tablet even with a lot of lyrica I didn;t notice the same potentiation as I did with alcohol.

does anyone know if Piracetam would have any effect combined with Lyrica? and what kind of effect that would be?
 
also, last night I took 5x150... which for me is a medium dose I guess... unfortunately last night I had no energy, I wanted to go out and party but I knew I would be like a zombie so it wasn't worth it. But I had taken some lyrica anyhow, first time since monday (when I took 600mg)...

so I took it at 10 PM last night, went to sleep at 12... slept for 12 hours! normally lyrica doesn't affect my sleep so I don't know what's going on... normally I don't sleep 12 hours! 10 would be abnormally excessive even.

Now that I've woken up, I'm buzzed.. really buzzed... but in a good way. Now I have the energy I wish I had last night.

update: wow, I still feel pretty damn good... it is about 19 hrs since I took that lyrica... wonder how long it will last?
 
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i just stumbled upon some lyrica and i need some advice from my fellow bluelighters :)

I've never taken lyrica, and haven't done much research up until last night, so my question is...

what would be a good dose for myself to start with? I'm 5'11 about 190lbs. I've read people dose between 250mg's all the way up to a gram, which leaves me confused.

thanks
 
cr250owner said:
i just stumbled upon some lyrica and i need some advice from my fellow bluelighters :)

I've never taken lyrica, and haven't done much research up until last night, so my question is...

what would be a good dose for myself to start with? I'm 5'11 about 190lbs. I've read people dose between 250mg's all the way up to a gram, which leaves me confused.

thanks
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I'd say 150mg and a beer :D (actually for me it was just a couple sips of beer after I'd taken 150mg, but I can;t remember how many hours I took the lyrica prior to the beer) but get some input from other people

The higher dosages are for people who have taken it a few times already... I can't go back to the 150mg and a beer thing, well who knows if I took a few weeks off maybe? but a lot of drugs the first time you take them you get this awesome experience you will never have again....

A LOT of prescription drugs I've taken are like that...
 
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