Yesterday was quite hard because of the Lyrica withdrawals. I’ve read horror stories on forums from people dealing with Lyrica. It used to treat me pretty well, but this time around it’s been a nightmare. I’m understanding their difficulties now. The withdrawals got really difficult around 2pm yesterday, so I took a 25mg dose. That was about 4 hours after my missed dose. That helped a bit, but it was still really hard to get through. I had some sleep issues, but not too bad. Not as bad as I thought. I was really wiped out and kept falling back to sleep thankfully. I haven’t had any issues this morning. More of a hangover type of effect. Aftershocks. I don’t feel any kind of withdrawals at the moment, but the day is young. I broke open a 25mg capsule and dumped out about half of the powder inside, so I have a pill that’s about 10-15mg that I can take if I need to. That helps me taper off more gently. I want this stuff out of my system as soon as possible, so I’ll push through as best as I can. If it gets as bad as it did at 2:00 yesterday, I’ll have to take this small dose, otherwise I think I’ll make it.
The fibro flare up that started Saturday evening seems to be gone. That one was very intense. Sort of a different scale than ‘how bad does it hurt’. There seems to be length of time, pain level, and intensity. There’s also the after effects, ramp down, hangover, aftershocks. I keep getting really bad headaches when the flare up is on its way out. Either barely manageable, or unmanageable. I’m using a lot of acetaminophen to get through those. It just doesn’t ever want to let go of its grip on me. It leaves me with a giant kick in the nuts on its way out the door. Then of course it leaves me with intense spine pain anyway, so there’s never really any such thing as a good day.
Feeling a drop off at 2:00. This is the Lyrica finally hitting me. It’s been 24 hours since I took it last. I expected this (actually earlier than this). Based on this morning, I think it should be fine. I’m prepared to deal with it, but I hope to be rid of it very soon. I had a headache start up out of nowhere about an hour ago. I’ve been able to control it. No clue what that’s about. Maybe early warning of the Lyrica about to drop off.