What sort of dose would you say was responsible for seizures?
The first time I took pregabalin I took 1200mg on top of a loaf of tramadol and was totally out of it. Itm clearly overdosed myself. It was kinda fun but overwhelming. A little more and I thought maybe seizure territory.
I can't remember if I got seizures from the pregabalin or the gabapentin. I preferred the gabapentin and I think each capsule was 150mg or 300mg.
I would take a capsule about every hour or so with a fatty snack and soda. If you take it all at once you end up pissing out most of it but if you wait and stack them over the course of several hours you'll get more of the drug in your system. Typically, I wouldn't bother taking gabapentin unless I had at least 10 capsules. Usually I'd take more than that. Probably about 15. My doses were somewhere in the 2,000mg - 4,000mg range. Most of the time if I started with 15 capsules I'd have 2-4 left over the next morning. What would happen is eventually I'd get hit with a wave of pure sedation where I could barely walk. It would become impossible to sit up in my chair and use the computer or watch TV. At that point I'd stumble to bed and lay there enjoying the CVEs while listening to music. I'd be out of it until the next morning.
The few times I
suspect I had a seizure I think it happened after I passed out and was sleeping. I woke up a few times where every muscle in my body felt like I'd been beaten with a blunt object. My pillow would be covered in drool. I'd feel awful for a few days afterwards. I can't be sure because I lived alone at the time but I'm 99% sure I induced a seizure.
These drugs are pretty safe if you take them like most people do. If you ate say 10 capsules of gabapentin at one time most of it would be wasted. Your body can't absorb it all in one go so most of it ends up in your urine. But if you stack them like I did you can get most of it to cross the BBB. That's how you end up getting in trouble.
I more than likely was mixing it with other things like benzos and opioids when I did take too much. But with gabapentin other drugs are a waste once you hit the level where it has you zonked up like I used to get. It's a unique experience and gabapentin became one of my favorites because it could get me smashed like that. You stumble around more than a drunk and you get a ton of euphoria. Phenibut can do something similar if you intentionally take too much. I did that once with phenibut and got to a similar state of mind with the lack of coordination. Your legs become spaghetti and you start shaking like people on TV do when they portray a seizure. It isn't something to go messing around with.
I would say for most people they'll never get to that point unless they intentionally overdose themselves over the course of many hours like I did. These GABA drugs seem pretty safe where the average user is concerned. It's only people like me that figured out they could stack them that get into that position.
I really love gabapentin. I like it better than pregabalin. People say they're the same but I feel like gabapentin has its own unique profile and is more fun.
1200mg of pregabalin is certainly in the same territory. It's hard to describe just how out of it you can get on the stuff. I've never seen anyone describing the type of CEVs I could get from it. It enhances music almost as well as MXE once you're up to that level. It kills all anxiety and pain. But it's dangerous when you go out that far and I'm worried about what it might have done to my brain. Having a seizure is something no one should fool around with.
