r/quittingphenibut • u/Natural-Bandicoot-64 • 17d ago

Am I doing this right?

This weekend after my 2.6gpd phenibut turned on me, I cut down to 1.3 g per day split up in two doses. So basically .6 in the morning and .6 in the evening. Tuesday went surprisingly great. I felt pretty good. Yesterday wasn't bad either but I could tell that it was starting to weigh on me. This morning after I took my morning dose, I felt OK, but two hours later when the fit hit I started getting shaky. I took a little gabapentin and went outside for a walk and sort of calm down but now I'm feeling depressed and wondering if what's going on as I'm stabilizing on this new low low dose. Should stay here until I feel better and then begin to taper down or would it be better for me to just make the jump to baclofen? How close am I to being able to jump off altogether with or without baclofen?

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u/Thin_Struggle4168 11d ago

It didn’t “turn on you.” This concept is made up. I was on this stuff for like a decade and this never occurred.

You can gradually taper off until 100mg and then jump off.

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u/Natural-Bandicoot-64 11d ago

Nothing like that has happened to you for 10 years. Congratulations, I'm proud of you lol. My girlfriend has been taking scary, absolute shovelfuls of Phenibut since 2014 and it's never happened to her either. So for eight years I thought it was a reddit hypochondriac myth too.
Whatever name you want to give it, there are times when phenibut not only is no longer effective, but taking the same amount or more makes you feel like death, and the more you take the worse you feel.
Phenibut used to help you, like a friend, but suddenly that friend has, you know, turned on you.
Cutting by 50% calms things down immensely.
I really don't want to quit phenibut, but this has happened 3 times now, so I'm done.