Mixing Alcohol and Pregabalin
- Alcohol also called
- booze, beer, wine, liquor, ethanol, etoh
- Pregabalin also called
- lyrica, pregablin, gabapentin, gaba
Dangerous
Gabapentinoids cause respiratory depression in their own right, and the FDA's review found that risk concentrated almost entirely in people also taking another CNS depressant. Alcohol plus pregabalin is a documented cause of fatal respiratory depression, and pregabalin's long onset encourages redosing before the first dose has peaked.
The risk here is to the body — breathing, heart, temperature or organs. Set limits before you start, because this kind of harm does not announce itself in time to react.
Can you mix Alcohol and Pregabalin?
High risk of death or life-changing injury. Do not combine.
- FDA Warns of Respiratory Depression With Gabapentinoids. https://www.neurologylive.com/view/fda-warns-about-respiratory-depression-with-gabapentinoids
- Gabapentin and Pregabalin May Increase Risk of Respiratory Depression. University of Utah Health. https://pharmacyservices.utah.edu/alerts/2019/12/gabapentin-and-pregabalin-may-increase-risk-of-respiratory-depression
- Deaths related to the combination of pregabalin and other drugs of abuse. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352007822003316
Checking more than two?
Combinations of three or more carry risks that no pair-by-pair chart can show. The checker rates every pair at once and flags the whole-mix ones on top.
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Rated dangerous. Educational information only, not medical advice. Absence of a documented interaction is not evidence of safety.