Well coming off drugs you'll know is pretty hard sometimes and your on a high dose already, the thing is you don't know that lyrica won't cause more adverse effects or the same level of sleepiness. I think they say the side effects are supposed to be less with lyrica, but some people find the opposite. I'm going to resist coming off my current meds because it will probably send my neuropathic pain spiralling downhill. It was improving steadily before a bad reaction to a medication 9 months ago, I'm hoping it will start doing it again. I'm on lyrica because I went privately to get it instead of gabapentin, so I've never taken gabapentin. I find it a breeze, but I'm on fairly low dose 200mg per day. Depends how much the sleepiness is bothering you I guess, I work a intensive job so I can't go up that high.