Lyrica And Alcohol (Page 3) (Top voted first)

You are not supposed to drink while on Lyrica. I made the big mistake of doing that. I took my dose in the morning and then got invited by some friends to go out. I do not usually drink, but started drinking around 9:30 pm. I was found in an alley behind a restaurant at 4 am. The last thing I remember was last call at 2am. I am only posting this to give a VERY strong warning not to drink while on this medication. Luckily I am OK and still alive. It is a horrible feeling to not know what happened in those 2 hours. Please do not drink while on Lyrica.

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One time I took a 600 mg pill and I had never tried it before so anyway what happened was I felt like I was being punched in the head then I'd pass out! I think I was having spasms and my head would jolt back (like I was being hit) and I'd black out! I was on the streets of downtown Montreal! In the morning my gave was full of blood and plenty of scabs lol! F***ing scary s***!

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I've had memory black outs as well

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I read the other posts. My ? Was "does alcohol diminish the effects "therapeutic ". For some may have problems. I don't. I medicate at night and drink and take my 150 mg with my beer. And I drink a lot of beer and beer only. I've had neuropathy since my birthday of 5/24/14.

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A week ago I took 4 75mg Lyrica capsules as an overreaction to continuing lower back pain. Later that same day I went out drinking with some friends. I was apparently roaming around my house sometime AFTER I fell asleep as I had stuff out all over my kitchen. My final joirney of the evening was a head first fall down a full flight of basement steps. I never even knew I was up and walking around...let alone in the stairway. Needless to say I WON'T be drinking on Lyrica ever again!!

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Hi I've just started taking lyrica for spinal nerve damage and had 3 glasses of wine which would normally be ok. But I've just got home now to find this page after searching side effects as I am plastered and had the biggest spin out. its dangerous I wasn't warned by pharmacist or doctor about this.

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No. I drink 3 glasses of wine with no problem but only just started taking lyrica for spinal damage and just tonight drank 2 glasses of wine and spun out badly

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I used lyrica 1 week and then I finished it I feel I addictive in lyrica but I dont used that any more but i had dizzness and headache 2 day but thr I was fine

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Thank u so much!! I have found that it makes me see things that aren't there and talk to nothing I think I'm going to try a lower dose

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I had drink on this drug woke up at night had messed my night ,,wear it upset my tummy bad wouldn't do it any more one beer is fine I had a India beer ,,no probs but any more with out eating is bad most drugs you really shouldn't drink on ,,,good luck it's ex for pain ,,,,makes me sleep like a baby hope this helps youn,

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I take 75mg of lyrica im use to drinking at night at home i drink 6 to7 drinks play on my computer but I'm at home i go to bed and have good night sleep.wow

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Wow! Have you discussed alternative solutions with your doctor? You didn't specify what was the cause of the pain, but that's a lot of pain med for any injury. You'll end up burning out your liver and kidneys in no time like that.

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I also have something similar to you called long thoracic neuropathy under the scapula. I get nerve pain on the opposite side of the nerve damage and all the way up to my face. Because of that they're worried I have an autoimmune. I'm hoping it's just the nerve damage. So I wanted to ask you if you ever got nerve pain on the opposite side of the body of your injury and up to your face ? Did taking this medicine help all that nerve pain? How did having a beer worked out? I'm thinking about having one drink on the weekends when I go to happy hour with my friends.

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Twice this has happened to me, it didn't say on the instructions not to take alcohol, but both times I'd been out with friends and later in bed a good few hours later, my nerve pain started, and I couldn't get comfy so I took my 2 lyrica tabs, after a hour or so after taking them I felt really sick, and 2nd time I broke out in a cold sweat, was quite frightening. It just dawned on me it could be the lyrica. It's happened twice now, I know if I'm out socialising again to miss them out completely.

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Im on Lyrica for disc bulges and im in a constant state of feeling like ive had a drink. Made the mistake of having a few beers at a family BBQ and ended up totally off my head running round the garden doing aeroplane impressions.
Id only had the equivelent of 5 pints over 8hours!
I hadly ever drink and that amount of alcohol over that long would normally keep me at a constant state of half cut. Instead It was comparable to a full on bender!

Luckily I had no sickness or hangover. I wouldn't recomend mixing them as the result seems to be very unpredictable.

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Can you please tell me, detailed, what I need to ask my doctor? I go on the 6th. I've been on Lyrica for 4 years now and my pain is getting worse. Last night I had a few drinks and blacked out, don't remember anything and woke up on the bathroom floor.

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Hi leonale, I have now been up graded to palexia 200mg plus my 600mg of lyrica a day. This has eased my pain of that much it is unbelievable. The blood tests I have had before going on palexia have shown there is a bad infection in my body. The doc is now getting me to have a bone scan scintigraphy along with a gallium scan- infection. Hope this will show what is going on with my body. All from a total hip replacement. With Palexia it is very dangerous to touch any alcohol at all so if anyone thinks they may have to go on this medication, get rid of any alcohol from sight. I have had 3 eye tests over a five week period and each test comes up totally different so now I have to see an eye specialist for that too. I think lyrica can be blamed for that looking at other posts here.

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i have just started taking lyrica and after reading other peoples problems i am spewing at the thought of serious after effects i have noticed severe cramping in the back of my legs at night i hope this will go away if not i will have to stop i was put on it because of burning pain in my hands and legs in bed let me know how to stop taking it cheers

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What a weird drug Lyrica is. I first started taking it in January of 2011. 300MG a day and after about 5 weeks it erased my nerve pain completely. Drinking didin't have any effect on me at all. That same June I came off of it and ended up getting back on it that September. Same dosage and it didn't work anymore. Again alcohol didn't have any effect. Exactly one year later I was going on a vacation and was hoping to ease the nerve pain so the doctor put me on 225MG a day. It did help a bit but strangely enough, the day after drinking I would get really stoned for several hours. Even if just a few beers. Anybody else get this stoned feeling? I didn't get stoned when drinking but only the next day. Really weird. I may get on it again soon and would like to drink without this side effect. Its tough to go out with friends and not drink especially since I don't want them to know about my nerve pain.

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Yes, I'm having the same side effects. I've always enjoyed having a beer anytime of the day...especially when I'm on my boat. Most would label me as a moderate drinker, but beer never really made me drunk. When I started Lyrica for chronic headaches, I couldn't even finish 1 beer on the boat or even at my crawfish boil's....I could not tolerate a beer. Made me feel terrible and nauses although I never threw up. I'm at 300mg a day and it does help with the chronic headaches. I miss my beer buzz...

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I take 150mg/day, and I haven't had any issues with blacking out. I usually only have a beer or two, but I've gone a little crazy before (6+) and I didn't black out. I'm 23 though, if there's any correlation with age.

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