Clonazepam withdrawal followed by lyrica withdrawal

I am currently in day 10 of withdrawal from lyrica. I was at 150 mg x2 per day. Told to go off suddenly and had severe wIthdrawal. Now doing a slow taper. April 9 reduced morning does by 25 mg. Did this for 5 days. April 14 reduced evening dose by 25 mg. So have held at this for 6 mights. I am a chronic insomniac, however, this withdrawal has been severe for insomnia accompanied by night terrors. It has decreased but not gone.

So my question would be:

Could I withdraw 25 mg tomorrow morning or is it too soon? Not sure how to know.

FYI I mentioned the Clonazepam withdrawal as I have already received advice from here that the lyrica withdrawal is definitely tied to the clon withdrawal.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

 

Just a short modification: I have been advised that my withdrawal is actually clonazepam. The lyrica has been masking my withdrawal symptoms. Now I am actually withdrawing from these 2 drugs simultaneously and it wasn’t planned.

I thought we might have a support group thread you could check out but there are only a few posts from 2015, hopefully someone will stop by with a suggestion for you. 

 

I just did a search on the other medications board where I've moved your post and there were quite a few, not sure if they'll be helpful for you though. 

Hi Pamster,

I can try where you have put me. I was in Withdrawal Support because another admin has indicated that this withdrawal is really clonazepam withdrawal that was masked by the lyrica.

Well my goodness, I'm sorry Night into Day, I'll move the thread back. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6284877/

 

Please read this link. The first page is a lie but by page 4 you get that benzo and lyrica (pregabalin) withdrawal are the same. They actually stae all of the shmptoms and the link.

I believe it.  I feel the same way about gabapentin.

Are you currently on the drug?

Yes, I’m still on Lyrica. I came off Clonazepam in mid February. Now I am coming off Lyrica. It’s a challenge.

i tapered from 900mg/day of lyrica to 50mg/day of the drug before i ran into major problems compromising stability. i had previously tapered ambien 15mg/day to 0mg/day and am currently tapering clonazepam from 4mg/day currently at 2.25mg/day.

 

it's going to sound odd but i found that tapering lyrica was excruciatingly horrific. it was far, far worse than tapering a z-drug or clonazepam thus far and i tapered lyrica very slowly.

 

i know that's contrary to what many others experience, but i just thought i'd share my experience. also worth noting is that i haven't successfully tapered multiple medications at once. i initially tried to taper lyrica and ambien and it was too much, so i eliminated ambien rather easily, followed by the drastic and very much painful decrease in lyrica, and now onto klonopin.

 

you can do it!