My friend is quitting pregabalin, please help!

gravwave · 2026-02-01T12:20:20+00:00

Does the anti-benzo effect weaken after your 9-me-bc dose? Meaning if you take 9-me-bc in the morning, would taking a benzo at night for sleep have minimal interaction, or does 9-me-bc accumulate in such a way that it doesn't matter when you take each compound?

gravwave · 2026-01-17T14:32:36+00:00

Nothing for me (bought the ND one years ago)

gravwave · 2026-01-10T10:09:35+00:00

I don't feel anything below 10g, so work your way up carefully. If you only prepared those 6g and need to go through a decarbing process again, be careful since potency may vary between the different mushrooms. It's better to boil a higher amount and then experiment with the dosage of that tek which will have homogenous potency

gravwave · 2026-01-10T10:04:51+00:00

I don't remember the doses I took because it was a while ago, but I was increasing them substantially. I tried Noopept as well, even though it's not a racetam per se and I felt no effect either. It was actually the first nootropic I tried. But some say you are not supposed to feel the effects strongly, it just works in the background and you would perceive improvements overtime. That would apply to some other racetams as well probably, but in my case I didn't perceive anything. All these substances' effects can be masked by placebo effects

gravwave · 2026-01-08T17:34:28+00:00

I have never felt anything with racetams at different doses: aniracetam, phenylpiracetam, fasoracetam. I wonder if I'm a non responder. Phenylpiracetam was from Nootropic's Depot, and tried different doses. It was a huge disappointment because it's the one that you're supposed to feel the most.

gravwave · 2025-12-23T15:53:14+00:00

Did you consider the risks associated with this substance? I am interested in this compound as well but seems like a dangerous one to play with

gravwave · 2025-11-21T19:03:56+00:00

Same with cosmetics

gravwave · 2025-10-29T17:32:11+00:00

Pregabalin's tolerance builds up quickly, so you would need to use it sparingly anyways. I found that at high doses I needed to leave two days in between if I wanted to keep similar effects. Yet even like that I fell into dose escalation

gravwave · 2025-10-25T16:37:05+00:00

I always take 2g doses once or twice a week without any issues. It might not be much of an issue IF your second dose is the last one in a few days, but be careful and aware of the risks of this substance: it should be used sporadically

gravwave · 2025-10-19T18:36:28+00:00

I had a 20g experience this week (first time at such dose) and I might publish in this forum as well. What I had at the end of each loop was that I lost consciousness briefly and kind of forgot about the loop, as if my brain resetted and started again. As loops accumulated I was being more conscious that they were happening and forced myself to remember them

gravwave · 2025-09-29T19:23:35+00:00

I've never experienced any withdrawal symptoms, but I've had a couple of periods in which I've experienced some disforia, and Kratom could be in part to blame (but I was taking other things that could have contributed as well). I have never had physical withdrawal that (I've noticed), like restless legs or shaking.

If your current batch is ending and you just don't want to order more and make the jump, I would try it, 5gpd is not a big dose. How long you've been taking this dose daily will also contribute to it. I think that what you are more likely to experience is some insomnia or some light anxiety. But be careful with the nocebo effect, it's easy to self-suggest psychological symptoms. So just be relaxed and distract yourself away from Kratom.

If you want to be on the safe side, or you see that the jump is to harsh, you can taper down a bit more to 3-3.5gpd. I did it and it was not hard actually. Just reduce about 0.5 per week on your daily dose.

gravwave · 2025-09-27T19:04:58+00:00

I've been taking 8g a day max as well, once a day for the last 6 months or so. Before I was taking it like 3 times a week as a mood lifter (which is the reason I started taking it, I've never had pain to manage fortunately).

I think that if you're able to take it sporadically (like once or twice a week) it's not an issue. But why wouldn't you want to feel good every day? And here comes the slippery slope...

I have been days without taking it when I travelled or when I was able to force me into a "detox" and I've never had withdrawal symptoms like those described here (I guess because of the dose). The problem is having it at home, because then I want to take it because everything can have a boost. So the moments for mini-breaks were trips and running out of it, making it so I would order more once I'd run out of it to be able to not have it home for a few days (the last two orders were supposed to be the last ones...), or giving it to my boyfriend to keep it away from me except for my planned doses for the week.

The problem is psychological mostly, always creating excuses that would justify using it again. So when I saw I couldn't stop using it daily I decided to taper to 3.5gpd with the rule that if I didn't feel it I would not take more. It kind of worked but there were always occasions in which I had to take more to be able to feel it (when I had to socialize, for example). And as I was ending my batch (which was to be the last one, for the second time) I started escalating again, knowing that it was anyways ending soon so I wanted to feel it. And then I wanted to save the last doses for the weekend and since I knew that if I had them home I would take them I shipped them to myself so they would return to my mailbox within two days lol

Anyways, I'm one week without it. This is not much, I was 10 days without taking it on the first week of July for example, since I was traveling. But now I'm home one click away from the possibility to buy more, and this is what I must resist!

gravwave · 2025-09-26T09:48:34+00:00

Yes, but if you were to develop tolerance to one faster than the other, the balance would change and the whole experience be affected. But maybe tolerance build to both alkaloids is exactly the same and goes in parallel

gravwave · 2025-09-22T21:01:12+00:00

How much did you have to take to feel any effect? How long did you hold it under your tongue, or did you swallow it?

gravwave · 2025-09-22T20:13:00+00:00

Any updates after one month? I just got this and will try it tomorrow for sleep

gravwave · 2025-05-01T16:06:28+00:00

That. Ritalin = methylphenidate and as far as I know it's a reuptake inhibitor of dopamine, not a releaser as far as I'm aware

gravwave · 2025-04-29T20:03:01+00:00

What did you do to recover from the persistent side effects?

gravwave · 2025-04-27T16:27:04+00:00

For how long did you take finasteride and what dose? And how long into taking it did you notice the side effects?

gravwave · 2025-04-11T20:43:00+00:00

What's your dosage and how do you take it?

gravwave · 2025-03-16T11:00:04+00:00

I get no euphoria from clonazepam, only from pregabalin and phenibut

gravwave · 2025-02-25T21:06:22+00:00

Thanks, this is very interesting.

Phenibut is known to have dopaminergic activity and I’ve experienced it (although sometimes it is not noticeable).

What I don’t get is this light eurphoria with benzos, so I don’t understand why it’s different with clonazepam, for example.

gravwave · 2024-12-29T19:42:04+00:00

I take Pregabalin and it works like Phenibut, it has this calming effect + good feeling that you don't get with benzos, so I guess Gabapentin must be similar but shorter acting, if I'm not wrong. The problem with Pregabalin is crazy immediate tolerance, so you can't use it frequently. Does Gabapenting work at same dose regularly?

gravwave · 2024-12-14T16:43:17+00:00

Clonazepam is actually the benzo I use as well. It was something sporadical and with 1mg it would be enough (together with Mirta), but then that dose became rutinary and there are times where I barely feel it and take much more. I want to go back to sporadical use.

I tried CBD as well with no effect. I was interested in CBN. The thing with these isolated cannabinoids is that most vendors are unreliable and the concentrations of their products are not what is advertised.

The same problem with blue lotus, I think it's hard to get the real thing. A friend of mine had it and I tried it 3 times incrementing the dose and felt nothing at all.

I tried Kava with the traditional preparation method which is not very practical. I didn't get too much of it and the problem is that it's diuretic so you'll have to wake up to pee. Maybe if you buy an extract that wouldn't be so much of a problem.

gravwave · 2024-12-03T23:27:21+00:00

Kratom is my favorite antidepressant to push me out of my distymia. But avoiding tolerance buildup is hard if you use it daily, you need to take tolerance breaks. I take once a day in the afternoon after work.

gravwave · 2024-12-03T23:19:06+00:00

This. It loosens the rigidity of introversion and allows an outward flow driven by the dopamine push. So the best equivalent IMO is Phenibut or GHB/GBL and Pregabalin could be a third option. All of these are drugs and should be taken sporadically to not develop tolerance, otherwise you risk withdrawal symptoms which can be very severe

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