Weaning of Lyrica

So on the 7th of this month, I went down from 75mg of Lyrica to 50mg.
I am slowly weaning myself off it.
I can't just stop taking it all together because I may get severely depressed/have a seizure.

8th-11th I just felt stoned. I was super tired, slept a lot, lost my appetite and felt lethargic.
12th-13th I realised I was depressed, irritable and apathetic.
Ended up going to my friend's place to have a laugh and watch a terrible movie, this helped a lot.

Later I will have to go from 50mg to 25mg, then 25mg to 0mg.
I might wait for the 'stoned' phase of the first decrease ends and then come of it completely. Hopefully this will only give me one depressed phase to deal with.

This decrease and the next two decreases projected,
Green = 'stoned' phase
Blue = depressed phase

Endone

Nerve pain (at least in the case of my arm and shoulder) is like pressing on a tack and having that signal of pain travelling up your limb, over and over again. It cannot be ignored. No paracetamol or ibuprofen can reduce it. It works through a mostly unavoidable messenger pathway that is responsible for your motion and senses. 

The only thing that helped when the pain was at its worst was oxycodone (Endone).
It is a strong pain killer and came with it's own draw-backs. 
It made me tired and sleep a lot. 
It made me less useful, less active, and dulled my ambition.
It has been linked with addiction (not something I personally experienced  after a month of use and not something I want to experience). 
It gave me dull headaches in the frontal lobe (with constant use) which stopped me from ever getting the taste for it.

But all these negatives were fine, if only the pain stopped.

I have other management systems now and will see the neurologist soon, but this was an angel in a time of need.

Price: Controlled medicine ($16.92 for 20 tablets)
Effectiveness: 5/5
Warnings: Addictive (you don't want to get addicted to opiates! I have seen someone weaning off them, it isn't nice), looses effectiveness over time.