Lyrica restart?

[wantokporo]

Lyrica worked fabulously for my PLMD even at 50mg. Unfortunately I increased the dose to 300mg. over time to deal with insomnia, which caused daytime sedation and depression. I am now slowly reducing the Lyrica, hoping maybe the lower dose will work for my PLMD and not cause those side effects. As I think that is a long shot, I am wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to go off of it altogether and then after some time (how much?) start it up again and stay at a lower dose and work on the insomnia issue in another way. Thanks in advance.

[Amrob]

Can't really help sorry wantokporo. I took Lyrica 300mg for PLMD for several years but tired(!) of the side effects. I reduced down to 150mg also taking clonazepam but that was as bad in terms of side effects. I'm currently taking 250mg Lyrica and that works ok but always looking for alternatives that work. I do find that iron infusions seem to help a little so as to reduce Lyrica dose slightly.