Long acting vs short acting meds -

There are long acting meds that need to be taken regularly to be efficient and there are short acting meds that can be used as needed. This issue might be something to look into more for your use.

I'm not sure which category Lyrica is in, but we have a nice Medications & Treatments forum - I believe lyrica as well as many other medications have been posted about quite often. Plus the sticky threads have medication & interaction info links posted.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum72.html

Or you can use the search link in my siggy to search for lyrica posts/threads faster.