TDS Would love to hear from people with experience of pregabalin or gabapentin withdrawal

[3dmusic]

I'm tapering pregabalin really slow and have come down from 600 to 35
0 and I am pleased, but I am ill every day.
My anxiety which is just a normal problem one day, turns into a hysterical catastrophe the next.
Although I use immodium and buscopan for IBS, i'm needing more and more pills, and I have still got 350mg pregab to taper from.
I've never been tempted to go back up to 600, because I want off this stuff.
I'm not prescribed it, but the sweats and IBS are becoming unmanageable.
I;ve lost interest in everything and am hardly sleeping, so I am up a lot.
I am sweating loads, and even in a UK feb winter, I need the fan on in bed.
I feel really weak, I don't want to not be able to function as I live alone.
I have had to reduce my cut to 1mg a day, but I don't want to be on pregabalin next year, I can't afford that.
I worry about things I dont normally think about and i am a hysterical nervous wreck. i ovbiously dont want to get any worse the lower I go.
I don't want to cold turkey, I will learn from others mistakes, this is not the way.
Any suggestions, experiences, tips, things you have found helpful, I would like to hear from all people who have tapered off pregab, and experienced withdrawals - thankyou

 

[3dmusic]

I have got down from 600 to 330mg of pregabalin so far with no pain.
I did this by splitting my 600mg dose in 4, and taking it every 6 hours, 150mg.
When I got stable, I started to take off a daily micro cut from each of my four doses, which I had liquified with water, as pregab is freely soluble in water.
I would advise anyone addicted to pregabalin to taper this way, because pregab only has a 6hr half life, so its best to keep feeding the brain pregab every 6hrs as it goes into withdrawal if you wait longer.
If you have been taking a big dose a day, it might be a little rough, when you first start splitting the dose, but that should settle down, especially when you start taking little cuts off each day, provided the cuts are small enough.
I have halted my pregab taper, because I had another addiction brewing in the background for the last year also, apart from booze, and that was zopiclone or zolpidem.
I started getting IBS and bad sweats a few weeks ago, and blamed the pregab, but, I found out it was the zop because the horrible sx went away when I took the zop, and gabaA drugs like zop or benzos do nothing much to ease pregab withdrawals.
I am stabilising by gradually crossing from zop to the slower acting diaz, so I can do a taper off diaz.
I am holding my pregab dose until I am fully crossed over to diaz. I will get myself on a diaz micro taper with milk, cutting daily, like I did before, becaiusee it took away my benzo wd sx and got me off feeling no paws.
I just take other pillss though, once I detox, because I have a problem with sobriety. I need to have some kind of rehab to keep me of drugs, because I can detox till the cows comeo home, but if I don't find out why I keep taking pills, I will be detoxign on and off for the rest of my life.