Lyrica taper

I would reduce each dose by 25mg. Stay on that for 3-4 days and then reduce by another 25mg. I'm on 75mg twice a day so I would do 50mg twice a day for 3-4 days then drop back to 25mg for the finale. Figue how many 25mg capsules it would take to get off and get a prescription for that many. Remember that not everyone tolerates it the same so you may have an easy or hard time getting off of it.

I am only on 25 mg nightly. When I stopped cold I had depression and loss of appetite. I am 78 years old.

The smallest dose available is 25mg IIRC. Either stay on it or find a compounding pharmacy to supply smaller doses. I would suggest maybe 5mg then go to 20mg 15mg etc.

I have been on lyrica for 5 years. 75 mg BID for nerve pain in my Rt. leg. I started decreasing my does 2 weeks ago to 50mg. My sleep began to deteriorate and now I am having severe panic attacks. I manage to work myself through them, but hoping I will stabilize soon. Any others with any experience in this taper process?

My doctor suggested when I got to 25mg a day and withdrawal caused me extreme depression and lack of appetite to take 100 mg of gabapentin a day when I stopped Lyrica. It helped and was able to stop the gabapentin in 10 days. Maybe much different for you as you still need lyrica. I did not. I had no more pain.

Thank you for the information. If I don't see improvement that could be a possibility. I never expected this to be so difficult. I have however added a supplement ZEN 200 which has gaba and l-theanine in it. And it really seems to help. I hope to be able to switch to the liquid dose and then be able to decrease much slower. Hopefully that will help also.