@cdcc Hi, my name is Edd and I've just came across this site today after I googled "Lyrica withdrawal". I've been on 150mg x3 per day for years, even being bumped up to 300mg x2 a day back at the start of the year. I was given this awful drug because I suffer from severe panic attacks and I actually did think it was amazing at the start because it gave me release from my panic. I've tried and tried numerous times to quit, but the withdrawal symptoms nearly drove me out of my mind. I was ok for 36 hours and then it started. I was extremely anxious and agitated and I lay awake in bed all night sweating, teeth hurting, feeling like I was going to throw up even though I couldn't even eat anything (Not to mention the severe itching all over my body). This actually went on for over two weeks without any sign of abating and in that time my nerves were absolutely shattered. I was both nervous and afraid to even be around people. Don't even ask me how I got through that long, but I was in such a terrible way that I went back to my Doctor and ended up back on them but am now thankfully at a lower dose (50mg x2 daily on PRN) and don't even take them some days. I can utterly understand you and how you feel/felt. No matter how intense and bad my panic attacks get I would never again allow myself to be in a situation where I'm taking up to 600mg a day. While this drug may seem like it's a pure miracle for pain and anxiety at the beginning, once your body becomes addicted to it the withdrawals are just too horrific. I pray you'll be ok.

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