Lyrica for opiate withdrawal
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Without sounding like a broken record here's another thread on the topic.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Addiction-Substance-Abuse/Concerned-for-my-health-need-advice-/show/2075101#post_9829663
lyrica or or gabapentin is a strange drug and is becoming more and more common as well as more and more people are starting to go through the hell of withdrawals unknowingly.
I've been taking 50 to 150mg of lyrica a day for the past week I know it's only been a week not much but I was going to do lyrica for one more week for a total of 2 weeks of 150mg a day. It's not prescribed my mother gave it to me because I have RLS and it helps I just want to take 150mg a day for 14 day and 14 days only!!! It's been 7 days I've been taking it so 7 more days. I'm wondering will I have withdrawals from this if I take 150mg a day for 2 weeks?
t want to be taken lyrica and then when the opiate withdrawals are better/gone and I decide to quit taking the lyrica the opiate withdrawals come back and it's like opiate withdrawals all over again (like day 1). I know lyrica isn't a narcotic and isn't a big habit former unless it's really abused, but I just want to know that lyrica and hydrocodien have none of the same ingredients or substances and it won't be like me still taking the hydrocodien??
ve stopped using doloxene with no problems, and similarly for panadeine forte. My most recent foray into stopping is lyrica - a range of symptoms including the night sweats and great difficulty getting comfortable when lying on my side, and several days of a really creepy feeling under the skin, probably just nerves rebounding from the inhibition effect of lyrica.
Got some neurotin quit everything cold turkey amd been perfectly fine for the past month. So yes it works for withdrawal symptoms!
I am not a Dr or anything and I have never taken my medication other then how prescribed but when I first started taking the Lyrica it made me very VERY tired and sluggish. I didnt take any of my other pain pills that day so maybe it is good for withdrawal it makes you not need anything else? I dunno.. only Drs know what is going on with meds, sometimes not even them lol But I think you will do fine if you just take small amounts.
I hope these things are prescribed to only you...
I was prescribed Requip for RLS, which I had so bad with my Tramadol withdrawal, I would rock and bounce for hours during both the day and night. I had RLS for at least 6 hours or more a day for almost a month.
I took the Requip for the first 40 days, now I take it 2x a week. My doc said after I hit 2 months or more off the opiates, we can talk about me jumping off the Requip all together.
Due to my health insurance being canceled I can't afford to purchase multiple medications I've been on for several years. Gabapentin , fentanyl 75 mcg patch and ocyocodone 15 mg 4 a day. I have been decreasing my amount of each medication as slowly as possible but don't have much left. The side effects of decreasing these medications over a week has had some really bad effects.
As some of you know I'm withdrawaling from opiates (hydrocodien/Vicodin) and I'm diagnosed with something that causes restless legs syndrome (RLS) which is why I'm prescribed lyrica.. I've been going through all the opiate withdrawals and insomnia was a big factor,so my mom gave me something called triazolam also known as (halcium) it's for insomnia.
When switching to the new med, does the body experience w/d from the other opiate, even though a new opiate is replacing the old opiate.
In other words, let's say you "rotate" your meds once every 6 months. At those 6 month intervals, when your physician places you on a different medication, do you experience withdrawals for a few days?
I have a theory that different opiates attach to diff opiate receptors.
My dr just gave me Lyrica. I have been taking 4 hydros 10/500 a day for several years. I very seldom use more, I took the first Lyrica last night and feel pretty sluggish today. Has anyone on here taken this and had any luck with it? I have read some bad things about it which I guess all of these pain killers have bad side effects. I just want to know has it helped anyone cut back on the other pain killers.
Lyrica and LDN are fine to take together. It worked
It's amazing how the Lyrica stops the opiate withdrawal sweats. I had no idea how much it helped with opiate withdrawal. It's not the answer though because the withdrawal from Lyrica is worse lol.
Well it was for me and still is.
I wish I could have done a much slower taper. It's been too hard on me but I am a wimp.
please help me. withdrawls from morphine. feeling terrible. i have a script for Lyrica i never tried. Can it help me now???/ i read it takes 3 days to work??? i've been taking my valium script but it's not enough help. in pain.
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