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The LYRICA (pregabalin) Mega Thread

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homeydontplaythat said:
i have no idea what anyone is talking about as far as withdrawals from this stuff. ive been taking it everyday for over 2 months and just feel grouchy when i dont have it.

i take this shit because it helps my anxiety and mood, even motivation. i would rather have a few beers if i want to get fucked up.
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its an anticonvulsant so if you take them daily for a long period of time you do run the risk of siezures, same as benzos, alcohol, and everything else that works via GABA recepters
 
INCREDIBLE.

I think this stuff might have serious value as a sleep aid.

I took a gram of lyrica and 60mg adderall at 6pm. I had absolutely no intention of sleeping that night; I am a hardcore insomniac (at my worst, I was taking 1-2mg alprazolam, 15-30mg zopiclone, 200mg Seroquel and 1500mg gabapentin just to fall alseep... and often I'd throw some shots of Nyquil into the mix, or a shot of liquor or two... and that's without any stimulants). I'm not proud of this, and I never even heard of anyone who took more than me for non-drug related insomnia.

Anyway, Any adderall means no sleep. Gabapentin after Adderall takes care of the mental/physical comedown, but sleep is out of the question. It took 22mg clonazepam to put me to sleep after 45mg of Adderall, and that was wit waiting 2 hours to fall asleep, and then I only slept for about 2 hours.

But I fell asleep within a few hours without even intending to on Lyrica, and it was for 8 hours and it was quality sleep. It would have been more had the phone not woken me.
 
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jamesBrown said:
well....isnt a gram of lyrica quite a bit?
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Yeah, but you have to understand I have serious tolerance to gabaergics. Again, I'm not proud of this but I can take 16g gabapentin and function if I need to, and I can barely feel 22mg of clonazepam when coming down from Adderall. It barely touches me. Usually I don't even bother with my clonazepam when coming down from Adderall; it's a waste of money and sleep aids.

I've never experienced a gabaergic anywhere near as powerful as Lyrica.
 
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l!ghtning said:
Yeah, but you have to understand I have serious tolerance to gabaergics. Again, I'm not proud of this but I can take 16g gabapentin and function if I need to, and I can barely feel 22mg of clonazepam when coming down from Adderall and barely feel a thing.

I've never experienced a gabaergic anywhere near as powerful as Lyrica.
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WOW!...22mg's of clonazepam is like 3 weeks worth of my prescription of klonopin. I can take like up to 6-7mg's of clonazepam before I am pretty much just in that "passing out or might as well be passed out" stage.
 
tolerance is a fucking bitch. i cant seem to regain the glow that i had with it initially. i feel really irritable and almost more anxious now. this sucks.
 
jamesBrown said:
WOW!...22mg's of clonazepam is like 3 weeks worth of my prescription of klonopin. I can take like up to 6-7mg's of clonazepam before I am pretty much just in that "passing out or might as well be passed out" stage.
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Oh same here, I get 30mg a month, I have medical need for them and I am dependent. It's just that a number of sessions of massive binging (with benzos not prescribed to me) have changed my 'recreational' tolerance (I hate to even call it that, as I don't really think benzos are recreational). And while benzos will take care of an MDMA or cocaine comedown, they can barely put a dent in any sort of (meth)amphetamine comedown. Gabapentin works better for this, and Lyrica amazingly enough actually put me to sleep. I just hope it continues to work this well, it's not as recreational as I'd hoped but it's an amazingly potent gaabergic.

Gabapentin is what I wished benzos would be. And Lyrica is probably the best sleep aid I've ever come across.
 
homeydontplaythat said:
yeah 1000mg of pregabalin is a lot. ive noticed i have a lot of energy i cant control on it. sometimes i just feel weird.
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fuck yes, shitload of energy, like i'm on amphetamines, but it feels much better and cleaner, i feel like i could do anything on it but i also get really hyperactive and start doing one thing and then i think of something else and have to switch to doing that. It's crazy and i also feel great euphoria on it.

I just discovered the wonders of lyrica last week and have ingested shitload of it nearly everyday. It's funny because I tried it on dosages of 300 mg's or so at summer combined with oxy and codeine + tramadol but didn't really find it adding anything really worthwhile to the high. It made it somewhat different and wierd but i didn't think much of it then. I stashed all the lyrica for a bad day and now i was having withdrawls so i decided to use it mainly in hopes of curing the restless legs which i hate most in withdrawls. I took something like 400 mg's and holy fuck! i was in love<3 It removed the withdrawls completely and gave an awesome high!

Taking it on an empty stomach is a must for me, more so than with other drugs, otherwise the high is really weakened, just like everyone is saying. I Just took about 900 mg's an hour or so ago and am waiting it to kick in. %) I wish i would have more of it in my stash but on the other hand i'm glad i don't because i would abuse it like motherfucker. Hope i don't come across more of it anytime soon. But it would be nice if i could get it prescripted and be able to use it on low dosages, cuz it helps my anxiety and basicly everything unlike anyting else. On the negative side, on high dosages it usually produdes horrible urinary retention for me, like pod tea. I haven't had time to read all
the thread yet so i was wondering that those of you who have it prescripted, is it for depression etc? Or only for neuropathic pain?

I'm also glad i don't have much of it left because the withdrawls sound nasty. Do you think i'll be having rough time if i 've been taking it for week and half with dosages of ~900mg daily? I'm also withdrawing from opiates at the same time. Although i've been trying to taper with tramadol so that i need only 100-200mg daily to survive. Lyrica is also weird in that way it gives me headache and overall hungover feeling on the next morning like i had been drinking.
 
What some people new to this substanse should know is that the withdrawal (which varies alot from different persons) is exponentially getting worser every day without it after an abrupt "cold turkey".
So.
Day 1 without - not so much WD for some.
Day 2 without - WD really setting in.
Day 3 without - defineately much more worse than day 2.
Day 4 without - welcome to what could be some sort of hell. Nothing I have ever experienced feels so bad as this. Nothing at all. Wow I don't know but I believe some people would easily kill for a dose of Lyrica at this point. If You make it to day five possibly it could be better. For me, quitting job or relapse was my choice.

If You eat 600mgs per day and has been doing it since 2006, almost 5 years - then taper SLOWLY with contact and supervision under Your doctor. Remove 25mgs every two to three weeks - it takes time to get rid of a Gorilla this size of Your back. when your down to 50 mgs, taper like 10 mgs every third week at most. When your down to twenty five - either use this remaining dose just before bed as it is a great sleep aid at this level. Or, taper like 2.5mgs evey two to three weeks until Your down in at least half the smallest dosage of 12.5 mg from the 25mg pills.

It is a fact that not everyone responds the same to the withdrawal of this drug. An experienced war veteran who have been going through really bad years may have easy with most kinds of withdrawals. Know that the withdrawal of Lyrica is in many sense a neurological, all kinds of weird withdrawal-symptoms linked to the neuro-pathways can become prevalent - which may due to our different neurological set-ups become less or more difficult to handle.

As some one said - You don't know if it will be hard to quit that drug until You test it. I am not sure I wish some of my worst enemies a full-blown cold-turkey high dosage long time addiction Lyrica withdrawal. Some psychiatric clinics have sections for Lyrica rehabilitation and from what I've heard it is very difficult for the staff as the recovery is VERY slow. So easy to get on, but could prove for very many people a real hard time to quit.

Use this responsible is all I could wish people should do. Also, recreational dosages makes the person probably less chemically addicted compared to someone who have been using it three times daily for over four years. However some people have been diagnosed epileptics after using recreationally huge dosages. Look this up with Your medical community if You don't believe me. It's a hard, effective and nasty drug.
 
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Have anyone tried generic Indian Pregabalin (or Gabapentin)? Got some from some internet pharmacies and seems like crap to me. Pzifer all the way.
 
Tom Mercury said:
What some people new to this substanse should know is that the withdrawal (which varies alot from different persons) is exponentially getting worser every day without it after an abrupt "cold turkey".
So.
Day 1 without - not so much WD for some.
Day 2 without - WD really setting in.
Day 3 without - defineately much more worse than day 2.
Day 4 without - welcome to what could be some sort of hell. Nothing I have ever experienced feels so bad as this. Nothing at all. Wow I don't know but I believe some people would easily kill for a dose of Lyrica at this point. If You make it to day five possibly it could be better. For me, quitting job or relapse was my choice.
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Totally agree, going through Lyrica withdrawal has been the worst time of my life so far. It is difficult to find the words to decribe the horror of it. Significantly worse than opiate withdrawals. Have seen it compared to combined benzo/opiate withdrawals and I guess they are right. Am convinced this is highly dangerous to stop cold turkey, I thought I was going to die. Be careful everyone. If you get yourself addicted, always keep an emergency stash around so you can maintain or taper safely if you unexpectedly run out.
 
^ Going through Lyrica withdrawals is not worse than going through Benzo withdrawals. But I was on a dose of 600mg of Lyrica for a good 2-3 years, and when I was in rehab I decided to come off it. They did a super fast taper and it was pretty bad, but I wouldn't say it was any worse than opioid withdrawal. I am back on Lyrica now at a smaller dose.
 
Supeudol said:
^ Going through Lyrica withdrawals is not worse than going through Benzo withdrawals. But I was on a dose of 600mg of Lyrica for a good 2-3 years, and when I was in rehab I decided to come off it. They did a super fast taper and it was pretty bad, but I wouldn't say it was any worse than opioid withdrawal. I am back on Lyrica now at a smaller dose.
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Yea, my doses were a bit larger than that, more like 1500-3000 mg a day, and I quit cold turkey. Never gone through benzo withdrawals, but it was worse than opiate withdrawal for me for many reasons.

If you google "Lyrica withdrawal" you will find enough horror stories, some even from relatively low doses like 300 mg/day.
 
oh, my fellow dudes, i need to run something past you:

do you think naproxyen synergizes with pregabalin like gabapentin? i tried it twice and i swear it fucking worked markedly well. im re experimenting right now, ill give the verdict in 2 hrs.
 
I know one thing that syngergises GREAT with Gabapentin, and that is opiates. Any kind, even Kratom, and you only need a little for a great effect. Lovely synergy and very unique high, but seems a bit different with Pregabalin for some reason.
 
i used to have awesome synergy with suboxone and lyrica. i would take like 450mg of lyrica and a 1mg shot of subs, maybe like 2 glasses of wine and i would be nodding like i did a shot of heroin. being a recovering heroin addict, i enjoyed it. i dont find myself desperately trying to recreate it though like with H, so that should tell you how much less euphoric it was. still, considering i dont get high anymore it was kinda nice.
 
Yes, Lyrica doubles any opiate high for me. And some opiates that don't give me a high anymore will work if I take them with Lyrica. It also works stronger than most opaites now for me.
 
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Ninae said:
I know one thing that syngergises GREAT with Gabapentin, and that is opiates. Any kind, even Kratom, and you only need a little for a great effect. Lovely synergy and very unique high, but seems a bit different with Pregabalin for some reason.
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I understand what your saying but technically Kratom isn't an opiate, just for the record.
 
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