I recently increased my pregabalin which was 200mg at night and added an additional 50mg (taking 25mg twice during the day). I am experiencing all of the above in my title. It's been about a week. Have I increased it too much? Or do I just need to adjust to the new dose?
Does anyone suffer from constipation on pregabalin? Does it affect motility? I go every day, a few times a day, but am still bloated and gastroenterologist says I'm constipated. I don't know what else it could be but the pregablin. I did just increase my dose.
A bit of background information here: I am physical therapist, and enjoyer of weight lifting. I’m April, I was training regularly and tried a new lift, which caused me to have lower back pain and nerve pain down my left leg. I tried resolving this on my own, and with the help of colleagues.
I’m always overdoing it with my activity levels, and I will be the first to admit, I’m a terrible patient. By trying to overcorrect the issue, I caused myself to have symptoms down both legs. Fast forward a bit, and I got an MRI which showed tiny paracentral protrusions at L5-S1. I met with a pain management specialist who is associated with a great spine surgeon in the area. The good news and bad news is that because my protrusions are so tiny, they are not big enough to do injections or surgery. I was offered lyrica to trial.
I have been back and forth my doctor about this. She wanted to start me at 75mg twice a day. She was even ok with me using it for “spot dosing” it on nights when the symptoms are really bad. I was considering taking nightly, as it seems to have positive effects through out my work day, but I’m also nervous taking it daily. I am on an antidepressant and anxiety medication, and I saw that a side effect is suicidal ideation, which I have had on other medications in the past.
Honestly, my mental health has taken a major hit, as simple daily activities can cause me to flare. I’m not as active as I used to be. I know my injury is the best case scenario for a highly active lifter, but it’s so frustrating and isolating because the only real solution is time. If I do any sort of activity, like standing and walking too long, it can make things flare up.
I was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience? And if so, were you able to work out and get back into lifting? How long did it take for you to wean off? I appreciate any and all insights.
If I take Pregabalin only on days that I really need it for my anxiety, will my WDs when coming off be less bad. And will it also make my doses more effective due to less use therefore ever so slightly less tolerance? Or am I completely wrong?
I have been taking 200 mg at night (I sleep well on it) for six months for nerve pain and anxiety but I'm finding everything is heightened (pain and anxiety) during the day after the night dose wears off, and 200 isn't really working, so I am trying to increase it. I've been taking 50 mg additional during the day for three days, and still the 200 at night. Feeling pretty terrible during the day with nausea - and bad dreams at night - but I assume I need to adjust to it. (My psychiatrist pretty much lets me decide whether to trial increase or decrease to see if I feel better.) Could the additional 50 be too high? I tried 25 during the day, but felt bad also, so I figured I might as well try 50. Do I just need to adjust to it?
I often thought of taking clonazepam for GAD but always worry about if I want to get off it one day the withdrawals would be so bad. I also hate the fact that benzos make me forget a lot of things when I’m on them. Does Pregabalin cause the same memory issues in the long run too? Is it also possible to just take one Pregabalin dose and coast of that for the day? That seems to work for me.
I am curious of these as supplements as they are not talked about as much and some supplements may include these but not in there pure forms
22/M , I got prescribed pregabalin for my GAD. My dose is 2x75 mg a day, morning and night, but it didnt do anything for me. Yesterday I tried 150 mg in one go, and it was a bit better for anxiolytic effects. What would I feel with 225 mg or 300 mg in a single dose? Honestly I heard a lot of horror stories here, where someone ended up having a full on seizure with doses like that, even tho it is not a big amount. This is my only concern, and my psychiatrist didnt even mentioned that this is a possibility. Whats your experience, which dose was the best for your GAD symptoms?
ive been on 100mg for 4 years now. recently, in the span of 2 weeks, i lowered it to 75-50 a day. i realise now this was too sudden, but ive ended up with agonising, severe akathisia.
wondering if anyone has had the same experience or has any advice, im just desperate for any support at all. thankyou
Hi!
So I’m taking pregabalin 25mg 3 times a day. I’m having really bad panic attacks because of agoraphobia and bachelor thesis defense. I’m also on Zoloft 50mg.
How to take Xanax? My doc didn’t told me lmao and I know it’s better to ask someone with “experience”.
I have Xanax 0,25 mg and I can take 2 doses.
I have bachelor thesis defense at 2pm but I need to be there at 11am.
Please help me, my doc doesn’t answer my calls and idk what to do :(((((
I'm taking pregablin 50mg at night for anxiety and ptsd. The first 4 days felt good actually reduced anxiety, then like a light switch on day 5 it suddenly stopped working and I actually felt higher than baseline anxiety, had a mini panic attack yesterday and also can't sleep after taking it after day 4. So after 8 days idk if it's the right medication for me, it's definitely increasing my anxiety and it's strange how like a light switch one day it was working good then it completely changed. Have you experienced anything like this? Idk if I should tuff it out for 3 weeks to get the full effect or if it's just not going to work for me.
Anyone previously prescribed Topamax for nerve pain, specifically spinal cord compression ( due to tumor) and switched to Lyrica?
Have you had better results?
Any nasty side effects?
Currently weaning off Topamax due to ineffectiveness and causing horrible neurological symptoms like word salad and brain-speech disconnect (that’s how I would describe it).
BLUF: Currently taking Pregabalin 200mg 3x daily for the last 3 years for serious nerve pain in my feet. Neuropathy was caused by chemotherapy (Oxaliplatin) in 2021. Interested in changing to 330mg Extended Release.
History: Began with Gabapentin in 2021 until I was on the maximum dose and it was not enough. Changed to Pregabalin in 2023ish. Began on a lower dose (don't remember the steps). Been on the maximum 200mg 3x daily for years now.
Impacts: The current maximum 200mg 3x daily dose is frankly barely enough. I'm still in pain most of the time every day. Towards the end of the 8 hour period, pain increases. Of course without it, the pain would be excruciating. I don't even know what the side-effects of it are since I've been on it so long. I am always tired and I'm fat, so there's that. But I've been on it so long, IDK what is a side effect of the Pregabalin vs some other crap in my life.
Change: In the interest of taking less drugs and maybe less side effects, I'm wondering what I may expect by changing to 330mg extended release once daily.
Popped 5 150 pregabs hopefully i feel it
I'm on 200mg at night (six months) but suffer from it wearing off by daytime. And my anxiety and nerve pain are extreme during the day. Can I just divide it up, like 100 twice a day, immediately. Or do I have to do it slowly?
I was prescribed Pregabalin at 150mg daily for anxiety roughly four years ago, due to having prior issues with benzos, and about a year ago I asked for my dosage to be lowered to 75 daily, just to ease my worries about lack of motivation and memory loss, as I'm a student and they were getting in the way of that, but I've been recently considering getting off it altogether, as I still find I have some (though lesser) issues with the same problems, and am generally concerned about potential permanent damages that long term gabapentinoid use might carry, though I am largely ignorant about those.
From what I understand, 75 daily is a low dose, but the amount of time I've been on it does make me worry that I'll have horrendous rebound anxiety or some kind of episode, and that would definitely be worse for my studies than Pregabalin ever could.
Does anybody have any experience with getting off a low dose after years of use, or have any experience with lasting issues after quitting? I would generally appreciate some insight.
- EDIT: Please do not DM me to ask me to sell you meds. I will absolutely block you. -
i’ve been dealing with trigeminal neuralgia for over a year and a half now. it’s type 2, so constant during flares, going up to an 11/10 pain wise.
i’ve got a fentanyl nose spray for at home emergency situations, but last week my dosage stopped working and i had to go to the ER to get IV morphine.
i saw my GP a couple of days later and he finally prescribed something that neither my neurologist nor my psychiatrist thought of prescribing.
pregabalin.
i think it’s saving my life.
i had two days of annoying side effects (drowsiness then feeling like im on speed or coke) before being back to normal. or at least the normal i was always supposed to experience.
but almost immediately my nerve pain stopped.
then it helped other things.
here’s the kicker. i’ve got ehlers danlos syndrome. and generalised anxiety disorder (although it’s barely noticeable these days thanks to a decade of therapy), panic disorder, some OCD and chronic depression.
so i’ve got a lot of issues. loads. and they’re all linked to my brain being hyper (i’m over simplifying here). sleep? waking up 46 times per hour (according to a sleep test) and 30 minutes of deep sleep a night. chronic pain? at a 6/10 on the daily with several codeine/paracetamol tablets a day to manage it. POTS. dysautonomia. fatigue.
and my mind being constantly weighed down by all of this.
my friends keep telling me i look different. more at peace. i’ve been hugging them, which i’ve never done before. i can go out without fearing a flare. i have stopped taking so many opioids. i’m getting the nice side effect of not being hungry in the slightest and forgetting to eat (im overweight and already don’t eat much, but that might actually help me).
and my sleep? i’ve doubled my deep sleep amount up to an hour. i didn’t wake up a single time last night.
i feel like my thinking process (or brain activity) is smoother, like i can hyperfocus on work or housework and speedrun tasks efficiently.
i’ve been scrolling through this sub for a week and the only real downsides i get from it are some side effects (which i don’t have apparently), and getting used to the dosage/addiction. which honestly, i don’t care about. because i’ve already been taking opioids for a decade to control my pain. i’ve had to take fentanyl since january (i’ve had to take 68 doses to be exact, im counting them because fent addiction looks like a bitch and i don’t want to go through it, although this is medical grade and not street drugs). i will ALWAYS be on addictive meds because of my disability. correct me if i’m wrong, but it sounds like the downsides seem small compared to the upsides.
it’s like i’m rediscovering what living is like. i almost want to cry sometimes because i feel so normal. this is incredible.
thanks for reading.
Hi, im going to Rhodos for a week, and im currently hooked on pregabalin. Ive read on multiple forums that its OTC in pharmacies pretty much? Is it still like this? If not how can i find? Thanks 🙏
Can i use pregab 300mg with baclofen 20mg?