I have been taking pregabalin for over 3 years now and am trying to come off them, I am having terrible withdrawal sypmtoms. I was on 150mg, took 75mg for a week and felt pretty bad, my GP has now reduced the dose to 50mg a day for 1 week and then 25mg a day for another week and then stop. I am determined to come off them as I don't think they are helping with the pain anymore and I don't want to increase my dose as I think they are highly addictive. I feel as if I am on a different planet! I feel terrible in the mornings, very sick, headaches, this morning I thought I was going to pass out. Has anyone else had problems coming off these tablets?

I tried to come off pregabalin last year as I wasn't sure if it was working as well as it had. I was on 400mg and reduced over several weeks. I felt sick, dizzy and my arms and legs felt shaky and I had that knotted dread feeling in my stomach. As I neared the last week I realised they were working so went back to taking them. I am on 600mg a day now as I have had a stroke and suffer with pain in my affected side.

bears63,

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Darlene

I did take Neurontin at one time.

It was a very disturbing drug. It helped my symptoms, but the side effects...

Hope you find peace with Lyrica...

Yes, just last month, I tried getting off lyrica gradually decreasing my dose to taper it off (I had had it only for about 6 weeks before that) I had serious withdrawl symptoms too.
I felt very sick to the stomach in the mornings, and felt very very depressed and very emotional and tears would just start rolling down. Usually I am a positive, cheerful person. I also had this awful fine rash and unbearable itcing on all my extremities and no antihistamine would work. It took two whole weeks for the itching to slow down, I still have some which I try to ignore. Good luck, I hope you can get off it.
Unfortunately I am back on Gabapentin now and feel dependent on it, eventually I want to get off all of these as they are messing with my brains.