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The LYRICA (pregabalin) Mega Thread

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^the reason I asked was because I've never heard of lyrica causing stimulant effects and I used it daily (orally and tried insufflating numerous times) for about 4 years.

If you have a lot of experience insufflating stims you might have had a stimulant-type response due to classical conditioning.
 
so this drug doesnt cause seizures on its own if your not prown to them? Just worried me as it does give me the shakes and occasional muscle spasm, eyes are a bit all over the place is this normal?

thanks.
 
^Diplopia (double vision) is very common.

Can you define what you mean by muscle spasm? The term is frequently misused so I just want to understand what you mean exactly.
 
im not sure how to describe it, you know like when u tense a muscle, i very rarely get one of them like it just contracts very slightly and quickly, but thats not really happening its more shakes/tremors but i think there common, what about weird visuals,

If these are side effects that are fairly common ill be able to enjoy it :D because it is quite fun.
 
^It sounds like you're talking about fasciculations, does that sound right?

And yes, mild visuals are somewhat common on higher doses of both pregabalin and gabapentin.
 
Yeah, that happens with opiates, benzos, lyrica and other drugs. Its not a big deal at all. They can be rather strange though.
 
I get little muslce spasms on both pregabalin and gabapentin, seems like a feature of these drugs.

And pregabalin has always had a stimulant effect on me. I see it as a part sedative and part stimulant. Gabapentin not as much.
 
anyone here take lyrica with a benzo?

next day I feel something strong I think it might be the benzo potentiation. Does anyone else get a strong feeling the next day in their head? I can't really describe it but it definitely obliterates anxiety.

This is from taking 5x150mg lyrica with 1 benzo pill night before. Also I take other cool antidepressants and stuff and some alcohol but I'm guessing it is the benzo+lyrica I'm feeling next day.
 
does lyrica + codeine do anything?

or + Hydrocodone
or + Oxycodone

I'm not familiar with these medicines
 
sligthly off-topic for phenibut, but i also mention lyrica

I noticed quite a few drugs have a great feeling the next day, some eclipse the feeling you get the night before. e.g. tianeptine (usually I was combining that with alcohol though at night but just 1 pill)... next day would laugh my ass off... if anything was remotely funny... I don;t usually watch craig ferguson interviews on youtube, but shit that was fun on next-day tianeptine...

also phenibut... which I have stopped taking... the next day is better than the first... it is a different effect, I read somewhere because PEA is built up and then released the many many hours later... like 10 or more ... anyhow, what a lovely great feeling the next day on phenibut. I have little experience with benzos but have tried them a bit. Although I have never taken massive dose benzos... but anyhow I know lyrica is supposed to potentiate them but I never noticed the same potentiation effects for them as with alcohol. But never in my life have a tried anything that is as remotely powerful as phenibut for anxiety... what I mean is that many things, lyrica included can eliminate anxiety... but phenibut blows it away and increases your confidence by leaps and bounds*.... if taken in sufficient quantity... too bad it cannot really be taken frequently (due to tolerance issues and bad withdrawals from it) but wow, when I would walk into clubs on that stuff girls would notice (more than usual, girls usually notice me - I am big and distinctive looking)... but with phenibut I swear to God, I had this ultimate stare I could do. And if I stared at a girl like that, she would be instantly hooked... I'm not joking. It is the most powerful thing ever (disclaimer: usually if I stare at a girl response is quite good anyhow, but I'm just saying with phenibut.. it was insane, I felt like a puppet master or something.. often if I looked at girls on phenibut too - they would burst into ear to ear grins, without me smiling.... i.e. if you smile, a girl may smile back... but it is rare - at least for me - for a girl to smile at me when I simply look at them - if they do not know me at all.. they may look back with interest, but burst into big grins.... very rare, but on phenibut it was happening often)

* I guess alcohol also increases confidence if you drink enough, but it doesn't compare to the phenibut increase of confidence... not by a long shot... I guess it is hard to understand unless you've tried it (and in sufficient quantities... and gone out clubbing or something to test the confidence)

You told that u attract more woman than usual while on phenibut? What do u think it is? A stare ? A confidence ? An inner psychic-energy ?

Mostly i noticed such things while on amphetamines, it's seems that i'am in total or my look attract girls... My psychiatrist told me that it's because of eye, dilated pupils (but they seems to be normal in the day-light), and shine or glitter (don't know the right word) in the eyes. i am good looking guy in a whole, but i definetly can see the difference while sober and on amph at girls....

And to your topic - phenibut. Sometimes does exactly the same, it often happens on the next day, of quita large dose for me ( about 1.5 gr for previous day/evening), i woke up positivly, still feel somekind of buzz, and then i can be even not very good looking, but i still attract girls eye on eye....
<3

So we have similar reactions , consequences ? )))
How much phenibut you take for such kind of effect ?


And few cents about lyrica. I think i was first who discovered Lyrica in my town (4th town by population in Russia - Ekaterinburg) , with the help of bluelight, i found some posts positive and sometimes weird drug pregabaline. And of course i thought that russia isn't licensed it yet, so i will have to wait maybe years it would be on the pharmacy market... All of sudden i looked into local pharmacy guide site, and found it in retail.... So go and bought it, of course they asked about prescription, of course i told it's for my mother, father, granny for neurophatic pains.... bla bla... i got it, test about 450mg for first time. It's seemed it has recreative/thereaputic potential.

2-3 years passed, now it's mentiond on all russian drug related forums )))

i like to take 600 mg to go into crazy trip, with blurred visions, slight hallucinations, euphoria, mix it with weed , benzos.... nice stuff...

and 150mg goes good for stressful day, it makes my happy, prosocial, motivated...i love it ))

never took it more than 3 day in a row, so didn't feel any withdrawal symptoms.

and ONE BIG MINUS - innability to achieve good erection, and almost impossible to finish while on 600 mg... so girls and lyrica for me - is for talking, and kissing, feeling of love... but no sex )))

sorry for mistakes, i am still russian )))
 
does lyrica + codeine do anything?

or + Hydrocodone
or + Oxycodone

I'm not familiar with these medicines

lyrica 300mg + low codeine dosage - gives me tremor, shivers, not pleasent, for an first hour, than it goes ok.... i can't say it potentiates codeine in the right way, likely in the weird way....
imho ;)
 
Jasoncrest, what dosage are you IVing? I'm prescribed 600mg/day also. What would be a good starter shot?
 
Yesterday I did 1375 mg of Lyrica (with 100mg Tramadol, 2mg Clonazepam and 225mg Naproxen); the "powerful" effects took a lot to to come (like 4-5 hours) and between that period I got incredible hungry - I have experience with Lyrica, I take it everyday, but I never had so much desire to eat ever. I ate some hamburguers, some chips, chocolate, and was fine.
So I played videogames one hour because it was raining outside, everything was SO bright in my LCD TV, it was really amazing, it was like I was enjoying one of those new 3D TVs (or whatever). After that hour of gaming, I bagan to nod BADLY to the point I had to turn off everything in slow motion.
I can't remember falling sleep. I woke up in the night with a sore throat, drank a glass of water, had some chat with a friend over gtalk (I remember being very open about myself and typing extremely fast), and then went to sleep again. I slept like 15 hours overall. I woke up the next morning very happy with no problem whatsoever.

I have never did some much Lyrica before, but this trip was nothing special, very likely if I could have stayed awake when the huge nod began at first, instead of going to sleep, I could be able to see very cool CEVs and feel very MDMA-like.
Lyrica is a drug-god-like for me, it helps me with my mood, with my benzo addiction, with my opioid addiction, it NEUTRALIZES my phisical pain, and it makes me typing at the keyboard in my work stupidly fast, which is good.
It does mess with your short temp memory, but if you take the stuff every day for weeks, while the problem does not go away, it becomes a lot better.
 
If you took a break the same applies, and Lyrica doesn't really kick in until 4 hours, like Neurontin it has a delayed onset.

1000mg is more of a mood-lifting dose though, so if you were looking to get fucked you might be disappointed, and doubt it would be that noticable through the wine/weed. To get really high you need like 2000-3000mg.

I took 1200mg yesterday morning, and went out for a walk in a big local park, and wandered around for hours listening to my ipod. I had incredible energy after a couple of hours, and about 4-5 hrs in, I got lost, and couldnt recognise anything, and walked in circles for fecking ages! The trees, ponds, deer, rabbits and foxes were absolutely amazing! I ended in a stare off competition with a fox, and I lost, as he blended in with the grass ! I went under the trees and was leaning against a tree, looked over my shoulder and saw the same fox. Looked again, and he was gone. It took me ten minutes to realise I had started to hallucinate:D

Later that evening, the munchies were terrible. I didnt do too bad. Watched Avatar on dvd for the first time and was totally blown away. Family were amused that I wanted all the lights out and asked for popcorn and coke (I'm 42 by the way).

Started to pop a 200mg cap every two hours, so by 0300 I realised I was fucked, and staggering about when I tried to walk.

I had an amazing sleep, and woke up at 0600 feeling refreshed. Went back to bed for a couple of hours and had a couple of amazing pleasant dreams. Got up feeling on top of the world. Mood was/is the best I've felt in years.

I just popped another 1200mg and am about to go for another hike in the park. I'll bring some sausages for the fox =D
 
Work and Lyrica

MDMA-like.
Lyrica is a drug-god-like for me, it helps me with my mood, with my benzo addiction, with my opioid addiction, it NEUTRALIZES my phisical pain, and it makes me typing at the keyboard in my work stupidly fast, which is good.
It does mess with your short temp memory, but if you take the stuff every day for weeks, while the problem does not go away, it becomes a lot better.[/QUOTE]

How much do you take when you are working? I'm going on Lyrica now for anxiety, and also pain (discs out at L4/5 and work in thoracic area). I start back at work tomorrow doing a fairly new job, so would be grateful to know how much your work dose is, and when you take it.

cheers :)
 
I was prescribed Lyrica yesterday by my new Dr. who also happens to be managing my Suboxone regiment. He prescribed the Lyrica for anxitey and sleep problems. Before prescribing the Lyrica we discussed my previous treatments for these problems (which included a long list of benzos & an equally long list of SSRIs). Due to the fact that there is no generic I doubt I can afford to pay for this shit every month - but I am going to give it a try.

Previously I have been prescribed Neurontin for pain and anxitey/mood management. When The Neurontin was prescribed for anxitey/mood regulation it was coupled with hydroxyzine. Over the two year period I was taking Neurontin I became somewhat spaced out.

I have taken Neurontin recreationally when I was extremely desperate to catch a buzz. I had to take roughly 2.5 grams of the stuff to get any sort of enjoyable effect. Every time I took that much I got really bad gas.

I took about 300 mg of Lyrica last night and followed it up 2-3 hours later with another 200mg of the stuff. The effects were subtle, but definitely present. I was relaxed and had a sort of head change that was not quite pleasant.

Overall I think the stuff is next to worthless. Hopefully on my next visit my Dr. and I can decide on something cheaper that has a generic available.
 
I just got put on Lyrica today. Finally got a diagnosis for my pain. Fibromyalgia. Which I suspected that's what it was all along. I've taken 75mg already today and I'll take another tonight. I'm worried about the weight gain with this shit. I heard it makes you retain water like a mother fucker and gain 20lbs. Anyone know anything about that?

Also, I should notice pain killing effects right away, correct?


Also: Funny story, so I'm driving from the pharmacy, I ripped open the bag and grab the bottle of pills. I took one out and put it in my mouth, then suddenly a the car ahead of me slams on the breaks and I have to turn with an open bottle of pills. These expensive little capsules go flying all over my fucking car. Had to pull over and try to recover as many as possible. Sonofabitch.
 
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