im addicted to picrelhow do i stop?redpill me on living normally
>>521074682I was on 300mg a day for a decade. When I finally had enough I just stopped taking them.
>>521074682do you have seizures?
I can't tell you exactly why you need to get off of it but, because that solution is when you need to come to yourself. But I can help you do it. I'm a formally trained counselor and I have a degree in Psychology on top of it.
>>521074682I take a bunch daily but i'm terminal anyway.>t. 2 different lung diseases, hypercoagulative state and kidney disease with a genetic abnormal kidney deformity.I hate it, rather have painkillers but they won't give them too me because I'm "too young" though I'm fucking dying lol.Least it's something, they suck though and I wouldn't give them to anyone who isn't already dying.
shit is amazing.
>>521075935Here's how.Just stop taking them, I've stopped several times only back on because the steroids I take daily make me go absolutely feral and the lyrica takes some of the edge off.
>>521076235find a local methadone clinic or pain mgmt. if you really are "terminal" and denied opiates, you can sue. you wont win... but you'll get some meds.also, if terminal just get it off the street
why are you all taking seizure meds?
>>521074682taper>>521076576anxiety, but they seem to increase the risk of alzheimer's and fuck up neroplasticity
>>521076505Oh definitely terminal, just a complicated diagnosis, took years to find out, now that it's diagnosed I can get meds but It's a pain I gotta go tell a doctor, then they dish them out with appointments only and it's only a few days worth, currently I'm putting off palliative care because I'm taking care of my dying mother.My lungs are on the race to kill me before my kidney does, they are suppose to do surgery on my kidney but my vascular surgeon is gunshy knowing I've got stage 3 copd and ILD ontop of the COPD, and possibly lung cancer, CT still pending on that.I'm beyond fucked, just in the grey zone of "is he really fucked" because I'm 38, it's mostly doctors refusing to believe I'm actually as sick as I am.My labs are insane my GFR is like 58 and my blood is thrombosising like all the time like a storm throughout my body
>>521074814that's alright if you're ok with having opioid like withdrawal for a few months
Why are you taking them for?
Quit while you can
>>521076576It's also used to treat nerve pain.
>>521076235That's so fucked. Painkillers have a dramatically better safety profile than any GABAergic. Find a heroin dealer if you can.
>>521076693so you're telling me that anxiety is a seizure?
>>521076846Not at all I take over 300mg a day I can stop tomorrow and be mildly depressed for a week, just smoke weed to offset the lyrica depression, it's NOTHING like opiate withdrawal lol
>>521076846>months72-hours, max.
>>521077154Right this euro is a major pussy my 5'1 72 year old mother just kicked years of gabapentin overnight, and she's just less talkative but has no idea what "withdrawal" is.
>>521074682afaik, it's kind of like alcohol or benzos addictionif you can tolerate the physical withdrawals for a month, you should be ok. just remember that shit like this has got you for life. One slip, and you're back on it and you have to go through all the bs again, from the very begining
>>521076846>opioidit works on GABA, not on opioid receptors
>>521074682its not supposed to be addictive unless you are taking recreational doses, they just taper you offI have been on/off gabapentin for the last 5 years and there has been zero issue
>>521076235>they won't give them too me because I'm "too young" though I'm fucking dying lol.maybe they see the hope you don't see
>>521077373>>521077336It's really not that bad, I was a drug addict in my early 20's and went through the whole rainbow, opiates and stimulants were the 99th level of hell, stopping gaba/lyrica is like having a shitty day in comparison and there's really no "pull" to them, as I said I only take them now because I'm suffering from major body shutdown on multiple fronts, a normal functioning human wouldn't and shouldn't need these and would only feel pulled to them if they've never tried anything else.They suck ass.
>>521074814You're unironically going to die soon, this thing fucks up your nervous system and kidneys, if you're not trolling, you should visit a nephrologist.
>>521077460Yes, like my pulmonolgist refuses to believe i have COPD and lung disease even though I've got years of CT scans and other specialist diagnosis because she's a ditzy fucking blonde who wants to believe "it's allergies, you don't want these diseases they are bad!"Doctor's fallacy most want to believe the best or give you good news, I was lead down the road of lymphoma for years because of biopsies, and the first thing doctors always say "Good news you don't have cancer"When I tell them I wasn't here for cancer I was here because the other doctor couldn't diagnose me.It's absolutely retarded they want to give good news, never bad news, it's fine the CT scans speak for themselves, luckily my oncologist did catch my lung disease and kidney disease which I was trying to get fucking diagnosed but took 4 years of doing scans to get a better radiologist.
>>521077560if you abuse it, absolutely will destroy your kidneyspeople abuse gaba for a high
>>521077560Eh steroids are worse, I still don't recommend lyrica but if the dude isn't complaining of CNS issues or kidney pain he's likely fine.
>>521077861no idea why I was on 900mg gaba a day I didn't like that so I switched to lyrica 75mg 2x a day, but tapered myself down to 1 as needed, now I'm about 4 75mg a day but shit went downhill on me bad this year.
>>521077745I've recently uploaded some scans to ChatGPT and it gave me better interpretation than a MD, kek. It even offered to interpreted an MRI, but I haven't got to it yet. the MD said that the MRI shows nothing, ,meanwhile I can't curl more than 15 kilos on my wrist, because it starts falling out of the socket.either way, if they can't decide what's wrong with you, maybe you're actually in not as bad of a situation as you think you are
>>521077154that's the time the drug is out of your system. your brain is still fucked and goes into full withdrawal
>>521077046So hes about to cum in his pants everywhere he goes? Damn.
>>521078032Oh it was just my first visit with my pulmonolgist she hasn't actually seen my lungs yet, I have lol they aren't good and they know about my kidney disease as well, it's like this every new specialist visit, once she gets my ct scans she has to make the lung diagnosis official but my kidney issue isn't up for debate.You don't get a hypercoagulative and hypercalcemic state naturally, unless you're in end stage which I am.I'm on heaps of steroids why I'm even able to talk, my neuropathy is total in my left arm and both legs, if I don't take steroids I curl up into a ball and have to sleep nearly all day and feels like someones taken an axe to my right eye because I can't exhale carbon dioxide without inhaled steroids now.then because my immune systems gone with steroids I gotta take antibiotics in heavy doses after the steroid regimens then cycle back, it's fucking awesome.
>>521077996I'm on 1800mg a day of gaba, it helps. They haven't switched me to lyrica because I just work well with gaba.I had brain surgery though.My primary pain medication is actually an anti epileptic, gaba's are complimentary to it.
>>521078032>MRI shows nothingHah, I had 24 total CT scans over 6 years till they noticed my kidney was backwards....I can sue but my state has capped limits so lawyers want multi millions but can't get it, I'm also probably not gonna be alive by next year so no real point there.So don't always go by what they see, it took 2x the normal amount of contrast to catch my kidney issue.I complained about my left kidney stabbing me for fucking years dude they told me I was just bipolar.I thought it was my spleen
>>521078412The good thing about it is you require less overall medcine than gabapentin on lyrica, and less side effects, it's nearly the same though.
I'd recommend ibogaine or it's non psychedelic and non toxic derivative Tabernathalog which you can buy at everychem.comI'd also recommend checking out the nootopics, peptides, and nootropics subreddits and searching on there for things to help kick addiction
>>521078443I mean, ChatGPT offered to interpret my MRI, which the doctor says it shows nothing wrong. AI will quite likely replace a lot of the interpreting stuff in the near future. Idk if that's for better or worse. It apparently can tell if you're gay from your xrays and scientists don't even know how it's doing it, lol.
>>521078633using bathtub peptides is how you end up with kidney failure
You're not alone opI'm addicted too and have been for yearsI'm on it right this secondKeep reboundingThis is my sign to quit for goodI always convince myself that I have a good reason to take it, need sleep, slept badly last night, feel anxious etc
>>521078485Eventually they will switch me as everyone with my condition ends up on it.The problem is that its controlled here and neuro has to write a big thing to my insurance on why normal gabapentin isn't effective, why I have to switch and why they have to pay.Supposedly its much more expensive.I actually asked my neuro because everyone was using lyrica on research once I got diagnosed and had surgery.Basically I have to use gaba first but I am pretty good on gaba so far.
>>521074682just don't do it bro, works for me
>>521074682By forming tight knit relationships
>>521077373>it works on GABA, not on opioid receptorsSo does xanax, and benzo withdrawal is a monster.
>>521076235R u serious about kidney disease Why
>>521078443How are you facing your demise? Are you religious? Do you need anyone to talk to?
>>521078750Wait what, I can actually upload my MRI images to chatgpt?
>>521076576Helps with anxietyFeels goodLasts longGoat sleepAlso cheap
>>521078929yeah, hence I thought it would be rough, but other anons claim it isn't. Idk, never got addicted to either. I'm just somewhat interested in biochemistry.
>>521074682>>521074814Oh yeah I take these like candyWhat are they again?
>>521077373it doesn't work on gaba receptors, it does shit on voltage-gated calcium channels. that's why benzo and pregabalin withdrawals have nothing in common.
>>521074682> im addicted to picrelDoes it taste any good? Find something else. I enjoy salty-sweet licorice and I don't want to stop.
>>521077560150mg a day is safeIbuprofen is harder drug
>>521079067There are free neuroscience textbooks online if you’re interested.
>>521079003yeah, it interpreted my other examination very correctly. And it was just a jpg scan of it. It told me exactly the same that the doctor did (damaged elbow nerve and carpal tunel syndrome), just in more details. It also told me that surgery is very optional in my case, while my doctor said I should do it. I just changed my sleeping habits and most of the numbness went away.It also told me what to upload for MRI interpretation, but my MRI is on an optic disc and I just haven't get around to it yet
>>521079306sure, why not. but teaching myself in english is more tiresome than if I've done it in polish
>>521079142kekI was on a bunch of anti convulsants and anti seizure meds after my brain surgery and forgot my name when they asked me in a starbucksjust started laughing like a mad man when I pulled out my id and had to read it
>>521079255I'm pretty sure I knew that already, read about it and I forgot it, kek
how the FUCK do i help fix my pretty recently acquired:OCDcrippling anxietyinsomnia, or rather anxiety-fueled insomnia. i've had this for almost a decade though, but my anxiety has been growing and taking over my life more and more since the start of this decadei take trazodone for sleep but cannot sleep and i feel anxious all day and have been unemployed for months :(
>>521079402So, you can upload an mri into chatgpt for medical advice, but you can’t copy and paste text for a translation….?
>>521074682just take ssri like paroxetine instead
>>521076576they started handing out gaba meds to normies for anxiety instead of benzos and its gotten a bit out of control
>>521079546if your life isn't on track, anxiety won't go away. Anxiety isn't always something wrong with you. Sometimes it's something that tells you, you need to do something with your life, but it gets out of handfor OCD theres erp, or however it's called. exposition to the thing and then resisting the compulsion
>>521079255>it does shit on voltage-gated calcium channels.Then they should try high-dose magnesium supplement.
>>521078485Definitely more expensive.>>521078933Yeah it's called Nutcracker Syndrome it's a rare disorder that eventually kills your left kidney, problem is it's both kidneys now from all the drugs they gave me to offset my COPD and inflammatory issues stemming from likely lung cancer, juries still out there.>>521078942Simple as I'm a child of god and the more I suffer the greater my power becomes.It's also crushed my left testicle to the point it feels like someones gripped my testicles in a vice at almost all times.
>>521079596i've got ADHD, give me a break. I get impatient with mundane stuffgoogle translation is crap. if you've got a good translation service, share it
>>521079828“Hey chat gpt, please translate the following text into polish:…”
>>521079691>if your life isn't on track, anxiety won't go away. Anxiety isn't always something wrong with you. Sometimes it's something that tells you, you need to do something with your life, but it gets out of handthe problem is that getting it on track is exponentially harder when you live with anxiety, that's sort of the paradoxi kind of know what i have to do and i think i could manage itbut there's some scary shit that keeps happening for about 1-2 months, which is me being aware of stuff like mucus and saliva in my throat and i get the compulsive behaviour of swallowing manually, or predictively, so i don't have to later on. this is 10000% worse when trying to sleep as i feel like i have to choke when i notice saliva/mucus in the throat and i'm lying down, so i become hyper aware of it and just fucking swallow all night no homo, until it's dawn and i get panic because there went another night without sleepthat's probably an extension of ocd, right?
>>521079611>paroxetineI would avoid this one, unless you're really depressed. I took it for several months. It causes incrased appetite. ALso my nipples got sensitive on it, which tells me my prolactin was through the roofand I only had anxiety caused by untreated ADHD. I didn't need to take this stuff.
>>521079951>the problem is that getting it on track is exponentially harder when you live with anxiety, that's sort of the paradoxmore like the entry into getting in o track is significantly harder, than just anxiety gradually creeping up. I know, cause I went through it. Getting out of your comfort zone is insanely hard for a month or two. You gotta robot through it. Then after two, three months, anxiety drops to less than it was before you started. And after an year, your anxiety should be quite under control. If you can do it without medication, that's even better. of course never get into benzos. If you have to, SSRIs can help to overcome the intial hurdle. The main issue with them I see, is that you stop giving a fuck, so maybe incentive to do something with your life will be gone. Then SSRIs stop working and you're back to square one.
>>521079951>probably an extension of ocd, right?I would guess so. Certain SSRIs help with OCD too. When I took paroxetine my OCD thoughts were less frequent. I can't say I can recommend it, but it undoubtedly works for anxiety and OCD. maybe something milder, like prozac, would work for you. I took prozac too, but it didn't do much for me
>>521079950yeah, no shitbut I don't wanna do it page by page. I think NotbookLLM maybe can do the whole book? idk
>>521080439paroxetine needs weening off protocol, prozac doesn't, btw
>>521079951oh and there's one helpful thing my therapist told me: what's the worst that can happen from your anxiety? and the answer is - nothing. You won't die from it. You won't go insane. It's just extremely unpleasant.
>>521074682Just wean yourself off slowly. Smoke some weed to help with withdrawals.
>>521079648>they started handing out gaba meds to normies for anxiety instead of benzos and its gotten a bit out of controlWhen did they make this switch?
>>521074682i ordered some of these, they were 300mg capsules. i didn't really like them. how can you get addicted to them?
>>521080790>>521080704>>521080539>>521080439>>521080251thanks friend
>>521081445Sometime during covidIt was when they implemented all the state and insurance monitoring checks for benzos so prescribers started handing out alternativesGabs can work well with anxiety, they calm me the fuck out and I take it for serious nerve pain
>>521074682I've been on 600mg daily for seven years. It saved my life. That said, the withdrawal symptoms are the worst I've ever encountered. Anxiety, cold sweats, tremor, vomiting, but that's only half the story. You just feel like you're going to die. The good news is that your doctor will help you taper off, but you need to be totally honest with them about what it's doing to you. Pregabalin has a pleasant narcotic effect, but it might be time for a change.
>>521080790do you know if fapping and cumming especially affects anxiety, ocd, mental health at all? i remember trying abstaining from it a few years ago and i didn't really see a difference other than stronger morning wood back thenalso i've had days where i felt well and slept well after fapping too, so i don't know what to think of it
>>521083099There's a huge scandal under all this, I was also given Pregabalin to replace benzos and was told 'They're less addictive than Valium'. NHS doctors handed them out like sweets. Then in about 2019 they suddenly changed the law to make them Class C Controlled Drugs. Now they've got all these Pregabalin addicts and they've made Pregabalin less accessible. Thankfully there are some online pharmacies with ready supplies, but you're always taking a huge risk with these.
>>521076235Why not go on a murderous rampage with what little time you have left?
>>521084353you should at the very least abstain from pornography. Watching it causes prolonged dopamine elevation (some say it's on pair with coke) and that leads to lowered dopamine afterwards. And less dopmine - less motivation, more anxiety, more OCD. Kind of what cokeheads expirience when not high, but on a lesser levelJust because you sometimes feel ok, doesn't mean much. Dopamine is renewable resource. Do it few times in a row and you'll notice the decline for sure. Maybe nightmares. good diet, exercises, walks, avoiding unnecessary stimulation - all increase dopamine and will help you go through with what's necessary.pick any available job. It will suck at first, but the job isn't even the goal. The goal is the exposition and anxiety decrease. Which will come after you get accustomed to it. Make it a goal to last at least 6 months in it and don't drop it until you've got something else queued up.
>>521083099>>521084441I had an online friend who was taking pregabalin. She was anxiety ridden. Some day all the contact with her ceased and I hope she's managed to do something with her life, left the internet and not an heroed
>>521074682Addicted to preggo balls?
>>521074682I got prescribed gabapentin for nerve pain, but have not taken it, just been raw dogging it. What does gabapentin feel like, also does it do anything for depression. I have been bed ridden for 6 months, due to nerve pain.
>>521074682drink more water and take omega-3 supplements
>>521085954Never had issues with Gabapentin. You should take your meds instead of being in pain, fren.
>>521085800I left all vidya and social too if it makes you feel any better, too overwhelming, straight cutYou can just never leave this place and always come back
>>521085954it doesn't feel really anything and will take days/weeks for you to notice a difference but you will if you notice it if have nerve painit can calm you a bit if you have anxiety and are wound up
>>521084555Meh I'm pretty fucking disabled lol if I do 3 loads of laundry I gotta lay down.
