Question: Is Lyrica not covered by most insurance? I had a pain doctor ask me if I have tried Lyrica and I had a script that I tried last night that was filled a few years ago but not sure if I paid for it as I read that many patients have to pay for this without using their insurance. One pill helped me sleep and with less pain the next day and I was curious if I should pursue trying this medicine out ...also read that is seems to be hard to get off once you are on it which I fear as I am trying to find an option to fentanyl patches as they are not helping me that much anymore...building a tolerance after sixteen years. Also doctors are now fearful of prescribing it so I long to find alternative to severe long term pain relief. I have read both good and bad things about Lyrica but I am willing to risk in order to try other viable options....could one pill , 50 mg really help as I slept so well afterwards and my pain is about fifty per cent less so I read reviews. comments and people really seem sometimes to get rather quick results. some in two days so one night of good restful sleep really surprised me last night. I just tried the fifty mg .. I have a whole bottle of those and I hate to try without my physicians knowledge but he mentioned that he would like to try me on it but I wonder if he would of lessened my dose of fentanyl while titrating the dose lyrica. Do you know???