Avoid is the counselling line
Patient counselling says do not drink alcohol while taking LYRICA. The two can affect each other and increase sleepiness and dizziness. That is an avoid, not a 'one glass if you feel fine' footnote.
Feeling fine is how people miss the fog on a night merge. Week-one dizziness often starts shortly after initiation. Alcohol on that week is a poor experiment.
Levels can sit still and you still fail the stack
Multiple-dose pregabalin (300 mg twice daily in that PK look) did not change single-dose ethanol handling. Single-dose ethanol 0.7 g/kg did not change steady-state pregabalin. So a normal blood-alcohol curve is not a hall pass.
The board will not translate 0.7 g/kg into a 'safe pint.' The labelled instruction is to avoid.
A third depressant is a different visit
Pregabalin plus opioids or benzodiazepines can add respiratory depression, somnolence, and dizziness. Older adults and people with lung disease sit higher on that watch. Alcohol on top of that pair is not a dinner detail.
List every depressant at the visit. Do not add leftover oxycodone to a new 150 mg start. The misuse flag owns the opioid stack. This page owns the alcohol avoid.
Driving after supper wine plus 150
Do not drive until you know how LYRICA affects you. Adding alcohol makes that 'until you know' longer, not shorter. Somnolence persisted until the last dose in 42 percent of adults who reported it in short trials.
Dizziness numbers sit next door. Park the keys if the room already tilts.
Hating wine is not a cliff-stop
If you would rather keep the wine than the capsule, that is a taper conversation. Minimum of one week if you stop, unless a serious reaction such as angioedema forces an immediate halt.
The taper scan owns the week. Do not dump the bottle in the sink after one guilty glass.
Alcohol tag after the avoid
Avoid. Extra sedation. Levels may not even move. Yuki Tanaka posts that avoid after section 17 of the US label.
Panel fog chapter: pregabalin panel.