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I hate starting topics like this, so sorry if it's a dumb question, but the other night something happened and I think I had a convulsion, at least one, and I want to try and avoid it in the future while not giving up the substances involved (as this is me we're talking about... =/ )
So, substances were just pregabalin and kratom. When I take pregabalin, it potentiates my opies so I can get away with taking less with the intention of lowering my tolerance. However, it's still sky high, but this is why I took kratom, thought it would be more likely to lower opi tolerance than Cod or DHC.
I've had previous experience with both these substances and dosages at the same time before, and had nothing worse than the occasional jolt. So I started with 450mg pregabalin, about 90 minutes later took about 7-8 grams of red veined kratom. An hour after that I took another 150mg pregabalin. I was having sudden jolts all evening in my whole body, but then I had several mini blackouts, where my memory was lost; this happened 4 or 5 times. All I can be sure of are the effects these blackouts had (as I obviously can't remember convulsing). I ended up knocking two cups of drink off the desk next to me. No memory of this, just looked down and there's ginger beer and rosehip tea everywhere, grand. But what worries me is the injuries I ended up with. I got a nasty gash on my thumb that still hurts 4 days later, like the top layer of skin was torn off, I got a similar one on my chest, this was painful to touch and sent shooting pain through my chest if I touched the gash and my shoulder's absolutely wrecked, really painful to move. I'm thinking this could have been from me thrashing around..? Oh, and weirdly, my tongue hurt like hell and is still painful, perhaps I was biting it?
Perhaps stupidly I did the same dose of pregabalin last night, but this time with a lower than usual dose of DHC, 200mg, (not kratom). I monged out, the odd small jolt but no black outs I'm aware of. I was not withdrawing from benzos and have no history of convulsions, but I want to avoid this happening again. I understand pregabalin can cause convulsions, but my dose wasn't *that* high...for some reason I am blaming the kratom, because of all the different alkaloids and the chances of some kind of interaction. I'm also on 45mg mirtazapine every night, but I don't feel that it played a part in this.
Crap, I rambled a bit, but this just unnerved me a bit, so any advice or information would be great.
=)
So, substances were just pregabalin and kratom. When I take pregabalin, it potentiates my opies so I can get away with taking less with the intention of lowering my tolerance. However, it's still sky high, but this is why I took kratom, thought it would be more likely to lower opi tolerance than Cod or DHC.
I've had previous experience with both these substances and dosages at the same time before, and had nothing worse than the occasional jolt. So I started with 450mg pregabalin, about 90 minutes later took about 7-8 grams of red veined kratom. An hour after that I took another 150mg pregabalin. I was having sudden jolts all evening in my whole body, but then I had several mini blackouts, where my memory was lost; this happened 4 or 5 times. All I can be sure of are the effects these blackouts had (as I obviously can't remember convulsing). I ended up knocking two cups of drink off the desk next to me. No memory of this, just looked down and there's ginger beer and rosehip tea everywhere, grand. But what worries me is the injuries I ended up with. I got a nasty gash on my thumb that still hurts 4 days later, like the top layer of skin was torn off, I got a similar one on my chest, this was painful to touch and sent shooting pain through my chest if I touched the gash and my shoulder's absolutely wrecked, really painful to move. I'm thinking this could have been from me thrashing around..? Oh, and weirdly, my tongue hurt like hell and is still painful, perhaps I was biting it?
Perhaps stupidly I did the same dose of pregabalin last night, but this time with a lower than usual dose of DHC, 200mg, (not kratom). I monged out, the odd small jolt but no black outs I'm aware of. I was not withdrawing from benzos and have no history of convulsions, but I want to avoid this happening again. I understand pregabalin can cause convulsions, but my dose wasn't *that* high...for some reason I am blaming the kratom, because of all the different alkaloids and the chances of some kind of interaction. I'm also on 45mg mirtazapine every night, but I don't feel that it played a part in this.
Crap, I rambled a bit, but this just unnerved me a bit, so any advice or information would be great.
=)