So I use a fair few prescription meds with abuse potential and am able to use them with moderation, so thought why not give phenibut a try as an alternative but occasional sleep inducer.
Did my research, dosed 125mg to begin with. Effects where felt pretty quickly but the real GABA mellow feeling took around 3-4 hours to settle in. 5 hours after initial ingestion re-dosed 100mg. Was quite nice and fell asleep very easily getting a comfortable 10 hours sleep with some very vivid dreams, which is great for someone with insomnia!
Woke up in the morning and things started getting bad. Initially I felt hungover like I'd drunk too much alcohol and was very groggy and had tinnitus, but this passed as I woke up. Then the heart palpitations began, my heart was racing, skipping beats, and thudding extremely hard in my chest. At one point it felt like it stopped for a few seconds before resuming it's rapid rhythm again and my pulse seemed to be slowing down and speeding up which is not a good thing!!!
With this came some intense anxiety and panic episodes which lasted all day long. I was shaking at times, felt depressed had no energy or motivation and felt like my skin was crawling. This lasted the entire day and was utterly horrible.
It seems I went through a day of phenibut withdrawals after only one usage of this chemical. This stuff is worse than benzodiazepines and yet it's legal??!!
50g if phenibut will be going straight down the toilet. Thought I'd add to the accumulating anecdotal reports that phenibut is one fucked up drug.