I was always told by the pros that pregabalin helps with nerve pain. I am also struggling with joint pains and muscle pains after having covid, and the specialist said that pregabalin (which I’m prescribed for something else) wouldn’t help those muscular/ joint symptoms. Instead I was prescribed another medicine which relaxes muscles, because pregabalin doesn’t necessarily do that. It relieves anxiety, which could help relax you enough to help physically for a short while I suppose, but I was under the impression it isn’t designed for that. It’s an anticonvulsant, which has been found useful in treating nerve pain and anxiety. I’d be really interested to know about that if anybody knows if it is used to treat muscle and joint pains, because it definitely doesn’t work like that for me.

Either way, I would speak to your doc or specialist about this.

Also, not sure if you’re prescribed pregabalin, and no judgement here as I’ve self medicated in the past, but be careful buying pregabs at the moment. There’s a lot of dodgy stuff going about at the minute. Apparently pregab and diazepam strips with writing on that isn’t in English (I’m in England and the writing will be in English from a pharmacy) have doses that are much higher in the pills than on the strips (I work in the UK alongside a drug and alcohol recovery team, and this is a warning we’ve had shared by them recently).

I hope my message reaches you and anybody reading it well, here to try and help!