Drug info - Pregabalin (Lyrica): Information and (hopefully) Experiences

[Constantlyintrouble]

SWIM just popped 150mg on his way home from work. He will be having me edit this post with more info of the experience.

[Man5onite]

SWIM loves pregabalin!
He gets chatty, relaxed and stimulated at the same time, gets great euphoria and it makes everything funny for him.
SWIM takes 1200mg of it, and it gets his rocks off
Would not recommend more than 150-300mg the first time one tries it, as not everybody like the effects, and the effects can get really intense and uncomfortable if one takes to much.
SWIM is RX'ed with 600 mg daily in divided doses, but does not take it daily, just for fun. It is prescribed for anxiety for SWIM, but he does not have that anymore, but it did help SWIM with anxiety big time.

SWIM recommends to NOT mix with other drugs, especially if one has little/no experience with either pregabalin or the drug you want to mix it with.
SWIM belives pregabalin has som CNS-depression, so mixing with other depressants like benzodiazepines, barbiturates, alcohol, narcotic painrelievers, GHB..etc, may not be the best idea.Allthough SWIM has mixed with diazepam, alcohol and zopiclone(not at the same time) with great results, potentiates any euphoria.

Love to all, and stay safe

Man5onite added 5 Minutes and 41 Seconds later...

SWIM forgot; he thinks mixing pregabalin with cannabis is very pleasant.
Swim does NOT know of any potential dangers with this mix, but little is known of pregabalin, so be careful!

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good post, thanks..

[Fantasian]

SWIF when he has used this recently has some strange visuals, similar to looking at things as though underwater. Like a kind of hazy blur, it's worth noting that SWIF was also smoking weed at the time, but just wondered if others had gained visuals from this substance.

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Important information :)

[Jatelka]

Pregabalin is recognised to cause visual hallucinations, and, more commonly, double and blurred vision

[0utrider]

yea thats what SWIM experienced (the double /blurred vision, although not real hallucinations) with 600mg

600mg: too much dissociative like, still not nearly comparable to DXM, but has this slight feature in it, also slight (but really not worth mentioning) stomach "feeling" (upset would be way too strong of a word for that), a little more would be a "trip", but a strange one since it doesnt give any "insights", more just a way of killingt time

[Man5onite]

SWIM hasn't had any visual distortion or hallucinations with pregabalin.
But some negative effect he has had, like a need to move his body when sitting still, and some shaking, sometimes pretty bad actually.
And sometimes gets headaches, more like a pressure feeling in his head.
Yet he feels that the positive effects outweighs the negative ones.

Love to all, and stay safe

[phishHead92]

SWIM tried lyrica, he took 300mg of it. SWIM found it pretty nice, he had also smoke a couple bowls and it was a nice combo. he did think he saw some stuff but isnt too sure. He felt very warm and fuzzy much like alcohol.

One weird thing that he found though, he was watching a movie and he had seen in many times so he knew the lines of the movie. but swim could not understand the diolouge in any way. It sounded like gibberish and very muffled. like someone was talking through a pillow then distorted after that. but he could understand people in real life. the others involved had the same effects with the hearing.

SWIM would like to know why this happened. could it have to do with the weed that SWIM smoked? also has this happened to any other swimmers? more answers on this occourence would be good

[Man5onite]

Swim has never experienced that, no.
Did you smoke alot, or alot more than you usually do?

EDIT: I am a guy...

[phishHead92]

first off SWIY should watch her self incrimination. use SWIY instead of you.

and secondly. nope SWIM smoked about a 1.5g's with 2 others. so .5g's per head. SWIM has a feeling he took something else but it was over 3 months ago so he cannot remember for sure. but at the same time he did not have access to much else at the time so he doubts it too

[honourableone]

Originally Posted by phishHead92

first off SWIY should watch her self incrimination. use SWIY instead of you.

That is not self incrimination, but incrimination of others which isn't prohibited by the rules. "You" is used as a general term, and could mean anybody. If you are unsure on this, there are threads covering it.

The fact that you could have have had something else brings a lot of uncertainty into it. If you did have something else, what could it possibly have been? It may be possible that the cannabis could have contributed to it, as it often makes things more trippy. The effects you describe sound like combining certain drugs with being very tired, could that have been the case? In such situations you/your mind would consider real people worth paying more attention to than television. When in certain states, SWIM finds that people are much easier to understand than TV, he presumes this is because human evolution has meant that human to human communication is very good, whereas the television is a recent invention.

[phishHead92]

ahh thank SWIY. he thinks thats what happened. it was like 3am when he started noticing that he could not understand the TV.

and thanks for the pointer on the incrimination deal.

[ElectroStep]

SWIM is a big fan of 750mg, lower amounts were lacking something. He has yet to try a higher dose.

Little parts of the high hint at other drugs. The loss of balance & blurred vision from a alcohol. A warmth & euphoria from opiates (if a weak one) & colourful, wave like CEVs of a psychedelic (not the sharp geometric shapes & patterns though.)

Not the greatest report, ha, but just thought I'd throw it out there. It's a fun drug, the tolerance it a complete nuisance though.

ElectroStep added 1 Minutes and 15 Seconds later...

SWIM does find the high a bit too long lasting (still wobbly far into the next morning.)

He might try snorting it next time to bring down the length of the trip.

[p4oloz]

Anyone knows the cause of XTC like feelings?

Lyrica can't touch serotinine or noradranaline re-uptake or production. Why so stimulant in the first part ?

[tyranny4u]

the tyrant has a question about the substance: he is tapering off benzos,
following his own schedule of reducing when and how much. but he aims
to be taking the last clonazepam in end of may, maybe middle of june.

what he would like to know, could pregabalin help with BD withdrawals?
i mean, especially when taking the hardest to go steps, you know, when
it comes to going down from 1.5 - 2 mg down to zero.
the tyrant is a bit afraid of these weeks coming near.

in tt's methadone clinic it won't make any problems for tt to get pregabalin.
but would it make any sense taking it in this situation? tt was consuming
BD excessive for the last half year, starting to take them after being 4
months benzo-free. but of course the tolerance wasn't really at "zero" when
tt began abusing BDs again.

and one more fact is, that tt has a daily dosage of venlafaxine, 150 mg
time released. he somehow feels that after trying several ADs he found
an antidepressant that helps more than it sucks by showing bad side
effects. what do you mean, can pregabalin and venlafaxine be combined?
or would it be better to try switching?

thanks for reading,

greetz from a very tired tyrant typing typical tyrant text.
would be glad for any useful information!

[psychedelaholic]

SWIM has done pregabalin a few times. First time he did it he took seven 75mg capsules the effects were apparently quite similar to GBL. He also snorted a couple of grams of K. The next day however he couldn't walk. His legs were extremely wobbley, couldn't put any weight on them. It meant he couldn't go to uni that day. It wasn't until around 5pm that the use of his legs came back.

[honourableone]

SWIM is a 75kg male. Here are his experiences with pregabalin:


T + 0: 150mg of pregabalin was taken after food.

T + 10min: SWIM feels slightly “off” and uncomfortable.

T + 20min: The preliminary discomfort fades and SWIM feels mild euphoria, a sense of relaxation and a fuzzy numb feeling in his head. There is an ever so slight loss of coordination that is easily kept under control with a little concentration.

T + 30min: Effects reach a peak, lying down and listening to music is very pleasurable, although there was no actual enhancement of the music.

T + 1hr 30min: The peak lasts until this time, then fades and becomes more of a vague background high. Some stomach discomfort is noted, but SWIM has reason to believe that some food he ate earlier was the cause of that. Relaxation is still present, but from this point onwards it is easy for SWIM to forget that he has taken anything. The stronger effects occasionally return in waves for five minutes at a time.

T + 5hr: SWIM walks to the shops. The walk is very enjoyable and the scenery has an interesting look about it. SWIM feels very self confident, and conversed freely with some drunken revellers (this is at 8pm). SWIM feels that this dose would be very useful to treat anxiety.

T + 8hr: SWIM went to bed and struggled to get to sleep; he must have lay in bed awake for several hours.

T + 15hr 30min: SWIM wakes up and has slightly numbed thought processes, though this could be caused by the lack of sleep.

This dose gave very mild effects, with no noticeable loss of brain function or serious effects on coordination. A dose this low is not worth repeating in SWIM’s opinion, though obviously starting low was the responsible thing to do. The effects became too mild to assess the complete duration of the drug, but it must have lasted for quite a few hours (more than five). No other side effects were felt at this dose.

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T + 0: 450mg of pregabalin taken orally with an almost empty stomach.

T + 20min: SWIM feels a nice sense of contentment,

T + 45min: The sense of well being gets much stronger, and is very reminiscent of opiates. SWIM feels very confident, and there is a more prominent loss of coordination. It is very similar to the loss of coordination given by alcohol, but it feels cleaner. SWIM struggles to walk in a straight line and often veers to one side. When SWIM has to avoid walking into obstacles or people he makes odd exaggerated movements. When SWIM looks at a gravel road and lets his eyes relax a little, the road seems to shift and move in interesting ways.

T + 2hr 25min: Effects return to a milder baseline, although again waves of stronger effects are sometimes felt.

T + 3hr 25min: Effects are minimal but still present. Everything is seen in an odd distanced perspective.

T + 3hr 45min: SWIM is on a bus and he feels tired. He repeatedly drifts off to sleep for short periods of time and experiences very pleasant lucid dreams.

Like with the previous dose, very mild effects continue for a long time. SWIM found this dose to be much more enjoyable, and more of a real recreational experience. As for side effects, SWIM often had very watery, bleary eyes, and there were brief periods of very slight nausea and abdominal cramps.

Based on his experiences so far, SWIM thinks that higher doses will be immensely pleasurable, so more experience reports will be made in the future.

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good report

[thegooddr]

swim is 70kg, male

drurg: pregabglin

0m: 200mg taken

30m: felt pressure round his head (like the kind of feeling off opiates), a little off ballance, feeling relaxed.

1h 0m: 200mg taken. 20 mins after a bowl of pasta was eating.

1h 30m: getting more unbalanced, feeling drunk, kind of edgy feeling not two extream.

2h 0m: 200mg taken, walked to the head for spice when swim leaves the house he tends two keep his head down and get from a to b as quick as he can. pregabalin made swim relaxed and confadint. it was a nice day swim took his time and enjoyed the scenery.

3h 0m: realy starting to kick in now, theres a shifting pattern in front of swims eyes, like the ones you get after taking mdma.

4h 0m: swim smoked two bongs of s***e99, its funny stuff this pregabalin feels like opiates, benzos, mdma all mixed in one. eyes feel very dry, voice is a bit off and swim cant walk Straight. its kind of a tease, like kratom your waiting for some thing more. the edgy feeling has pased (my hang over may have played a part in the edgy feeling) its a very relaxing and clam drug when you get into it. every now and then you get like a rush its fairly intense but its ok you are calm about it, dont last long a min or two then its gone.

6h 0m: swim drank 2 x 568ml 4.5%vol, smoked two more bongs, a few drinks + smokes complement the pregabalin well, a little euphoria, pregabalin still running strong.

6h 23m: had a shit!

7h 0m: starting to wind down now, legs still feel drunk, nice and calm, monged feeling.

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Thankyou for sharing this experience report, and including details such as weight and time.

[LostAllFeeling]

it was quite a while ago, but SWIM recalls taking a whole bunch of Lyrica capsules, half for the recreational value, half because of a headachhe. SWIM had the oddest the oddest time ever. SWIMs headache was still there, but it was on a whole different plane than conciousness. Almost as if the headache pain was still there, but as if it were floating around the room. Has anyone ever had any sort of similar experiences?

[honourableone]

If you want good answers, it is best if you use the scientific name of the drug (which is more helpful because this is an international forum where brand names can differ) - the scientific name of "lyrica" is pregabalin. It is also important that you use a descriptive thread title so that people know what you are really asking and that the thread comes up in searches, as well as going into as much detail as possible in the thread itself - how much pregabalin (in miligrams) is in "a whole bunch of capsules"? Without knowing that noone knows what kind of dose you took.

If it helps, here is the pregabalin experiences thread. It contains a few references to unusual experiences, though you should know that when people mention "gabapentin" they are talking about a different drug that is said to have similar effects to pregabalin but in a different dosage range.

[LostAllFeeling]

SWIM believes this to be a rather odd drug to take recreactionally. on average one does not feel any effects untill several hours or so after taking it. SWIMs personal experience is that it does not act at relieving pain in the way opiates do, but rather that the pain is still there, but it seems like its fleeting and dissapears and reappears suddenly. SWIM took 900 mg once and found his headache to be floating about the room. Worth experimenting with, but not sure about any negative effects or long term damages.

LostAllFeeling added 3 Minutes and 29 Seconds later...

Originally Posted by runfrom MURDER

SWIM swallowed 200mg earlier, and waited about an hour or so for any effect. Nothing really ever came, so SWIM smoked a bowl and went to sleep (SWIM's been up for a couple days on Meth).

SWIM woke up about 5 hours later and noticed his eye coordination and such was off a little bit, like the drug was ending / wearing off. SWIM's head is feeling heavy, like a headache but with 'heavier' throbbing pains. The pains not that bad though.

So... What the fuck happened? Did SWIM's nap cause him to miss the high? Would there even be a high when 200mg is swallowed on an empty stomach? Previous posts say there should be.

In SWIMs experience, one feels nothing untill a little over an hour, then the onset is very rapid and has a nice long duration. sleeping definately helps kill the duration though. SWIY just had bad timing and missed it entirely. that sucks

LostAllFeeling added 4 Minutes and 42 Seconds later...

Originally Posted by honourableone

It is very similar to the loss of coordination given by alcohol, but it feels cleaner.

very accurate statement

[RX420]

this stuff had my friends feeling very nice for 8+ hours..////Its PREGABALIN! title is wrong..sorry?!!!

they dont really want to discuss amounts but over 800 mgs and its a great med for headaches, anxiety...and feeling floaty. ( its like a mixture of Valium and a barbs and dxm to my friends)

just careful driving! goes well with some caffeine..( adderal maybe next time)

its better than gabapentin in my friends opinion,,


( as for the neutral rep///no disrespect to ya but swim injured swims hand, its hard to type right now.) but swims gets what youre laying down...just a small mistake.

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[runitsthepolice]

It also has nasty withdrawals that are almost as bad as GHB. If it feels too good to be true it probably is....

Be careful and don't stop using it abruptly. It will at best feel shitty and at worst give you a seizure if you abuse it then stop suddenly.

[RX420]

Originally Posted by runitsthepolice

It also has nasty withdrawals that are almost as bad as GHB. If it feels too good to be true it probably is....

Be careful and don't stop using it abruptly. It will at best feel shitty and at worst give you a seizure if you abuse it then stop suddenly.

at 800 mgs. my friends felt great for over 8 hours. it is somewhat comparable to a dxm/Valium mix. but swiy is right...wds do suck!

[honourableone]

It seems that the pregabalin wiki I wrote is now complete.

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Fabulous work: And a fabulous wiki! Much appreciated

[Dreznik]

Thank you.