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The LYRICA (pregabalin) Mega Thread

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I remember taking lyrica for the first time about 3 years ago when my doctor was giving it to me to help with back pain when I was kicking a methadone habit. She gave me tons of samples, like 50 bottles with 30 pills each in them. Most the 50 and 75 mg one's. I knew nothing about it and back then I could barely find anything on this site to tell me if it was recreational or what dose to take. I did some research and ended up taking 1500mg my first time and went to a party. I honestly didn't enjoy it the first time because I kept feeling like I was going to fall over, and overall I felt sort of ominous. I still was curious about it and ther next day took 1800 to see if I had the same effect... this may sound stupid but certain drugs effect me wierdly the first time I take them, but I end up liking them later on (hello opiates). Anyway, something seriously clicked the second time I took it, I didn't feel any opiate withdrawal (from my previous methadone addiciton) and even felt like wandering the 'burbs late night going on an "adventure". I was thoroughy fucked up. Wobbly feeling but extremely euphoric, and energetic. Very rare for 2 weeks into kicking a year and a half long methadone addiction. I remember thinking this drug was going to EXPLODE amongst users, and I'm suprised at how long it's taken (3 years later) and a classification of schedule 4 to finally see people posting regularly about it on here. I don't think my doctor would have prescribed it to me if it was scheduled at the time, but it wasn't, thank god it wasn't. Although the drug loses it's magic for me by the 5th or 6th dose (then I have to wait a month or so to be able to feel it properly) but those 5 or 6 doses are always amazing. I can honestly say when kicking an opiate habit, I prefer this drug to suboxone or benzos anyday. Don't get me wrong, suboxone is great, but it has no bonus effects for me. It just makes me stone sober, at least lyrica makes me happy.
 
well well well....i cant believe its taken me this long to stumble upon the LYRICA-MEGA THREAD ( i always like to pretend im speaking into a mega-phone when i talk about MEGA-THREADS ...echo echo echo). i was on lyrica for 3 years on and off (mostly on) at a prescribed dose of 300mg a day. However, seeing how i never take ANYTHING "as prescribed" i was probably actually downing 900mg of that shizz a day. i have to agree with everyone else who says this seems to be a miracle drug! i suffer from fibromyalgia as well as straight up arthritis and chronic back pain. so this stuff really does take care of the aches and pains...not to mention it produces a good nod and a nice tipsy feeling. ive been accused of being on opiates MANY times when i was actually on lyrica. now just to clarify... nothing gets me off like a big bottle of opiates....but when youre in rehab and trying to kick the habit, Lyrica really is the next best thing. And then when you kick rehab and decide to crawl back into the oxy bottle, add a little lyrica to the mix and youve got a nice combo.

my ONLY problem with sustained lyrica use is the weight gain. i put on 30 lbs while i was on that shizz. 30 lbs! And being the weight conscious FREAK that i am, i dropped the lyrica as fast as i could when my doc told me it was most likely the reason i had gained so much weight. Give me skinny or give me death. the ONLY thing worth gaining 30lbs is a lifetime supply of fent...

and for all of you curious souls who are just dyyying to know....YES, i lost the 30 lbs...and then some =)
 
By "that feeling" do you mean the feeling of hydrocodone? If so, you will never get "that feeling" from lyrica, because its a totally different drug with a totally different mechanism of action.
Hydrocodone is an opioid. (Opioids feel good.) Lyrica (pregabalin) is not an opioid. It will feel totally different. I highly doubt you will like it nearly as much. Its just not the same.

Any information will help, you say?

Did you search?

Definitely very different drugs in terms of effects, but I for one like pregabalin leugues more than hydrocodone. Different strokes for different folks. Then again, I have fibromyalgia, so the the painkilling effect of Lyrica is much better than hydro.
 
^fent- you can keep the weight off, you just have to work at it. ive been on lyrica for 3-4 years and i probably havnt gained more than 5. and thats just cuz im 23 and still growing.

so has anyone else heard about this pregabalin transdermal patch someone mentioned? i find 1 or 2 obscure referances on google, and they are in euro language i dont speak, lol. but that makes sense as it is reported to be made by the swedes.
 
Considering doses of pregabalin are generally in the hundreds of milligrams per day, I don't think you'll find it in a transdermal patch. Sorry. :\
 
there was mention of it on google from foreign sites. i dunno, some member named valium mentioned it and i just went googling and found a couple referances to it.
 
I'm not doubting that anyone mentioned or, nor that you found foreign references to it, I'm just saying it sounds odd. Maybe its new technology they're playing with, because the mechanics of a pregabalin patch would be far different from fentanyl and bupe (the dose would be hundreds of times larger).
 
^I am sure a pregabalin patch would be far different but I just wanted to add that the lidoderm patches I have contain 700mg of lidocaine per patch or 50mg per gram in an aqueous base. They are 3"x5''.

I am not sure what you were referring to bringing up the size compared to bupe and fentanyl and I could be misunderstanding you. I just wanted to demonstrate that my lidocaine patches contain 700mg and most lyrica patients use from 75mg-300mg a day, some going up to 450mg.

Am I not considering some factor relevant to what you were saying?
 
^fent- you can keep the weight off, you just have to work at it. ive been on lyrica for 3-4 years and i probably havnt gained more than 5. and thats just cuz im 23 and still growing.

so has anyone else heard about this pregabalin transdermal patch someone mentioned? i find 1 or 2 obscure referances on google, and they are in euro language i dont speak, lol. but that makes sense as it is reported to be made by the swedes.


youre right.... if you work at it you can def keep the weight off on lyrica. if i were on it now im sure id have no problem bc i would be conscious of the possible weight gain. last time i had no idea...plus i was comatose from all the other stuff i was on...so i didnt really notice anything at that time.
 
I have 200mg capsules of this and I have mixed feelings about it after 3 weeks. The first week, when going through opiate withdrawal it was very soothing. Great mood, and a smiling face (even though inside I was a wreck from stopping 60mg oxy's and 8mg dillies) Sometimes, Id be wired at night after work, and not much sleep to be had, then sometimes, in the morning it was opposite and Id be out like a light, hard to wake back up. Also there was a very conscious euphoria (felt like I was drunk and having an acid afterglow), and that has since subsided, although I hadnt changed the dose from 300mg a day. I still get wobbly legs on it from time to time, and it can be annoying especially if you walk around at work all day. Usually that lasts only a couple hours.

There is certainly a recreational value here, and the xanax just seemed to make me tired and not worth it compared to these. There is a lot of different feelings associated with this medicine that I get. Here are the main ones, not always together, and sometimes different each day:
1.) wobbly legs, drunk feeling so to speak
2.) extreme happiness, really enjoy music, movies etc etc
3.) get very talkative
4.) sedating
5.) cloudy head after consuming and then subsequently sleeping for a couple hours
6.) random double or even triple sneezes (sometimes off and on for a couple hours)
7.) all out peripheral vision hallucination combines with blurry vision ( I had this when taking 400mg total after 2 hours or so) this is like a mild trip or an afterglow of a hard one.
8.) blurry vision

There seems no consistency on side effects, and is usually day to day different. It does however rely heavily on what you are going through naturally.
For instance in the day to evening, If I had enough sleep the night before Im wide awake and feeling more pleasant effects. If I am tired without more then 6 hours of sleep I feel all of the effects then get really tired after 2 hours and want to crash to bed.

Its a bizarre pharma. but overall pleasant.
 
YES I've been waiting for a thread like this. No one knows how recreational lyrica can be, if i dont have opiates, id prefer lyrica over anything including pot or booze. but i find it builds a tolerance extremely quickly, as soon as 2 days and your dose does nothing. but if you wait 2 days it goes back down to zero it seems.

I'm currently on 150 3x a day to help with nerve pain in my left elbow, and to stop the hyper sensitivity to opiates i have from being on them so long, since this medication works so well with fybromyalga(sp?) patients and since there both practicly the same thing.

For me, i take about 1050mg of lyrica and i get nice. not enough to knock me out but enough to make me feel like im on a light opiate, benzo, some pot and a little xtc.

But for people just starting and wanting to try it out, the starting recreational dose i've read from a few studies is exactly 450mg in a non tolerant patient. And also lyrica is different, just because it doesnt kick in within 20 minutes doesnt mean it won't. Lyrica takes as long as 2 hours to kick in for me, but when it does it lasts for hours.

Also be careful, some stumbling might accur, and double vision. Also you know its kicked in when your tounge feels swollen when you swish it around your mouth.
 
I read this entire thread, and I didn't find to many specifics on Lyrica + other substances, so I decided to do a report for you guys. I also need to mention 1mg Clonazapam 3 times a day (so i get 90 1mg kpins a month, 90!)... but I when I'm doing drugs I make sure I have them on me just in case I freak out or my friends freak out...

Setting: I was coming down from some very "dirty" rolls (Everyone who tried them had tiny pupils, instead of the usual "dished" eyes, and everyone one felt like shit! I also tried to smoke a cigarette, which I always do when rolling, but this time I almost vomited after the first drag... tell tail sign that something is wrong) I took 2 of of the rolls before I went to the concert at my University (purple with dog outpress, STAY AWAY!), No one enjoyed the rolls, and at the concert I crowd surfed and was dropped very hard several times, so I am really sore. I also drank approximately 7 beers, trying to feel better. I was still not feeling well, even 7 hours after taking the rolls, then I found this thread and I remembered I was once prescribed Lyrica, 300mg tabs over a year ago. They were simpley sitting in my bedroom for over a year, so I took 2 of them once I got home to try to make me feel better, for the pain of falling and being miserable 'cause of these long lasting, uncomfortable rolls: At the concert, things were okay at first. I was talkative and empathetic, but much more aggressive then I usually am, which was a very odd thing for a "roll". Once the rolls really kicked in, I started to feel very confused and could not see straight, I also became very "stupid", angry, and was bother by sound, even the music from the headliners. I also became very unfriendly... At the after party I sat in a chair and said nothing, I simply stared people down. I definitely had an opiate buzz which was very uncomfortable because I do not like opiates. I also couldn't really think, at all, which really bothered me. Also I'm very familiar with MDMA, and I KNOW this was not the real thing, my hypothesis is that it was tmfpp, bzp, fentanyl, and some ketamine). At the after party I started eating kpins, somewhere around 5 hours after the I took the rolls (which were still going STRONG) I popped the kpins every once in awhile at the after party (probably 5mg total), while simply sitting in a chair feeling terrible and nodding out. I decided I needed to go home because the kpins weren't doing anything, and over the course of the party I also injested Alcohol, MJ, and one tiny bump of amphetamine, desperately trying to feel better

Then I read this thread, and I decided to try and use Lyrica to help me come down... (this is the most combo of substances I ever took... I can't stress enough how bad I was feeling.)

Experience
Time: midnight, Currently i was on 7 or 8 beers, MJ, 5mgs of Kpins, and rolls that still were going after taking them 8 hours earlier. I decided to watch a movie on TV. I felt cold, nauseas, and the sounds from the TV were very annoying, but I left it on while i stared at the screen but did not pay attention to the movie... I WAS MISERABLE

Time: 1:00 am, I read this thread and read the posts that call this drug the wonder drug. I realized I had a bunch of 300mg capsules and ate 2.

Time: 1:15 am, I felt bad still, and also read on this thread that snorting is dumb, buta nother post said that snorting lyrica hits you with 5 min. So I insufflated 300mg more, 'cause I kinda enjoy snorting. Total I was on 900mg

Time: 1:30 am. I started to feel a littler better, but not great. I was watching the original star wars on TV, and despite seeing them a million times, I was really enjoying the flick and the sound no longer bothered me.

Time: 2:30. I passed out, hard, and unknowingly. I was incredibly sedated, most likely due to the Kpins and the dirty rolls + Lyrica + Alcohol, which are all increase GABA in your brain. I continued to watch star wars, this time I was barely moving and could not take my eyes off the TV.

Time: 3:30. I accidentally passed out again, hard and at an unknown time. I woke up and felt weird and very confused about my surroundings. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth (for no reason, i had already brushed my teeth several times since I was home). I brushed my teeth slowly and sloppily for at least 5 minutes, because I truly did not know what was going on.

Time: 4:00 am. I passed out again, but this time only for a few minutes. I woke up with the most uncomfortable dry mouth (probably the lyrica) but I was aware of my surrounding finally, and I decided to smoke a cigarette.

Time: 4:10am. I went outside to smoke a cigarette. I had the most difficult time putting on my slippers, took me at least a minute to get them on and they are goddamn slipper! I didn't really care though. I went outside to smoke and could barely walk, at all. After getting on slippers, I "walked" outside... Which means I was stumbling, I fell down a couple times, I could barely open the door, and could barely light my cigarette. Even while standing I was still falling and stumbling. I barely noticed the cigarette I smoked, I couldn't taste it, and I felt no buzz what so ever.

Time: 4:30am. I was trying to go to sleep but I dropped a glass and had to clean it up. It was one of the most difficult things ever, even though I was sitting down, I was swaying back and forth and the glass kept falling out of the dust pan. I still wanted to sleep after breaking the glass, but all of a sudden I had a sudden desire to do chores, despite my state of mind, and the time. I also no longer felt tired, but I did feel sedated. At this point I also noticed that I had the worst dry mouth ever, like another post said my tongue felt like "sand paper".

Time: 4:45am. Again I tried to set up my bed so I could sleep and finally not feel shitty, but then I realized I started to feel good, really good. I was having slight hallucinations in my peripheral vision (not like acid visuals, but like clouds, every where. I also noticed that things were moving in and out). This is when I started writing this long ass report.

Time: 5:28am. This is the current time right now. The visuals are stronger but still not intense, mostly they are things in my peripheral vision, and things moving in and out. My CEV's were pretty weak, i saw some blocks, and I saw a tunnel off in the distance, but I'm pretty sure it was all placebo . Also my body is incredibly relaxed: my jaw is just hanging down, I'm completely reclined in my chair my hands are barely working (I misspelled almost every other word). I barely want to move at all... but for some reason typing this report is very enjoyable right now. Besides writing I cant pay attention to anything, I'm almost completely sedated (what kinda drug does that!) The sun is coming up, and I'm hearing birds... which I absolutely can't stand cause it makes feel like a pathetic druggie just staying up all night and doing a plethora of substances. However, right now I don't really care, at all.

Time: 5:38am. I just got up to throw something away (why am I cleaning up at random moments!) I stood up and my knees almost gave out and I could barely make it to the trash can, I was moving in all sorts of direction and very little control of my legs. Besides that, the mental effects have seemed to wear off, I cant think straight, but I can accomplish any task... my brain is totally on auto pilot.

Time: 5:43am. So now I realized this is ridiculous that I am still writing despite being on another planet mentally. I want to stop, but on I'm auto pilot... a very weird feeling. No CEVs. slight OEVs, and I'm moving around like I drank a fifth of whiskey to myself. But I feel really good overall in an unexplainable way.

Conclusion
First off, this is a very underground drug, and the effects are very unique but pleasant. The Lyrica has pretty much canceled out all the other effects i was feeling from the rolls. By the way this is not my first time taking Lyrica recreationally, and the effects this time are the same as the other times, so I'm not really sure how the other substances effected this trip. It made me feel so much better so quickly, even more then 5mg of kpins, which should have completely sedated me, or knocked me the fuck out. I would say the Lyrica trip is definitely worth trying. It is so unique, and it pleasant. It is superb landing gear because it seems to cancel out any other substances, it also takes away any bad thoughts, and it kills pain, which I was in alot of. However, the most interesting part is that it has an amphetamine like effect that makes you want to do chores. Which also makes you focus with a perfect example being this "thesis" which took me over an hour to write (because my muscles are very hard to control right now) even though I really want to sleep. One thing I don't agree with is that it lasts to long: At this point it is obviously wearing off and it has only been about 4 hours, which is kinda disappointing because I still haven't listened to music which is one of the greatest tests to see if a substance is really enjoyable. Also, it is worth mentioning that at this point I'm not really tired, even though I feel really sedated. I'm considering either plugging another 300mg, or insufflating another amount, even though I'm not sure if it will kick in quickly.

Summary
I'm incredibly messed up, but it feels like just the Lyrica and not the other substances. It is enjoyably but VERY different from any other substance. It is powerful and intense. It is not something you take and go out in public (in my opinion) because you have almost no control of you body, you kinda just stumble around and you look like your absolutely shitfaced. It is very relaxing hence why you have very little control off your movement. It sedates your entire body, and makes you kinda tired. Also, there are slight visuals open eyed, but I'm not getting the CEVs. But, all these effects are small compared to it's most unique feature: it is obviously a downer, but it makes you want to do specific tasks, like chores; or... spending 2 hours writing a report while I'm on the substance and very inebriated! Which, by the way I think is more genuine because I'm doing a play by play on the effects, not an after action report.

PS: I'm not sober - at all - so this ridiculous "thesis" may not make sense to some people. I really just wanted to do a report while on the substance. But now I'm going to smoke a cig...
 
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^ Very detailed, but it doesn't help that the combo is mainly 'lyrica + mystery substance'.

You could also try posting a trip report in that section of this site if you like, I haven't checked but there might be some lyrica combo reports there as well.
 
Very true.

Just want to say though, that that was my first post on bluelight, so I wasn't really sure were I should have posted it

Also I want to mention that my main thesis was combining Lyrica + a ton of substances the Lyrica seems to cancel out all the others. However I will take your advice and post it in a different thread.
 
^ Well it very well can go in this thread here since it relates to Lyrica, but if you want to make more posts like that there is a whole section of this site dedicated to them and they would probably like reports as detailed as yours.
 
I've tried lyrica a few times, i had a sheet of it at one point, a friend of mine had a major bike accident a while ago, so he has lyrica and oxy - the lyrica scripts are extremely expensive here in australia... i know in the us you dont have a pharmaceutical scheme like we do to subsidize most medications (PBS).. With the concession cost for most medicines for me being only $5.30 it's pretty good...

From reading i did at the time i was taking this stuff to help with withdrawal from tricyclic antideps. It worked well, as well as opioid withdrawal. Didn't think it had any recreational value though
 
I took 900mgs first time in successive doses.... was very fucked up for hours then when I came down (about 8 hours after last dose) i took several bong rips and drank half a 40 of steel reserve, and proceeded to pass the fuck out. any explanation?
 
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