Pregabalin withdrawal
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I am gradually coming off Pregablin after being on 400mg per day for year. On my doctors advice I am taking three months to reduce it down to nil. Obviously the withdrawal symptoms have been horrific. However I am getting quite a lot of headaches and wonder if any other members on this forum have experienced the same? I am susceptible to them anyway but they have definitely got worse with the withdrawal. I am now down to 50 mg per day and hopefully will stop taking them altogether in a couple of weeks time. I would never never recommend anyone to go on this drug. It is dreadful. Hope to hear from you.
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elizabeth85938 Soxy
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Your doctor has been taking you off this awful drug far too quickly. GP's just do not seem to realise that anything more than 10% taper with a week or 2 in between to allow your brain and central nervous system to stabilise is far too much and the withdrawals will be far worse than they need to be. You are now on the last 50mg and in my opinion it would be better for you to come off this last leg using 'Water Titration' bit by bit. If you look on YouTube there is a video showing you exactly how to do this. For further information, help and support join a support group (that I am in) called Lyrica Survivors (Official) - everything you need to know you will find there and the members are all suffering as you are, very willing to help others going through the same. It is a closed group so just answer the questions to join and then wait to be approved. If I can help you any further, please feel free to post again.
KRMe Soxy
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I very rarely get headaches but got terrible ones when I withdrew from pregabalin. They stopped within a few weeks but weren't at all pleasant.