The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of preoperative administration of oral pregabalin on postoperative pain after surgery in thepatients undergoing general anesthesia for abdominal surgeries in Shahid Sadoughi hospital in Yazd, Iran. In this randomized double blind trial, 60 patients, aged 40-60 years old, and ASA physical status I and II, were assigned into one of the following two groups to receive pregabalin,300 miligramgram 2 hours before surgery, orally in the intervention group or placebo in the control group Intravenous pump with 20 mg morphin in 100 ml normal saline was used as the analgesic method postoperatively and the patients received morphine as bolus doses according to their requests. Pain was assessed through visual analog scale (VAS) at 2, 6, 12, and 24 hours after the surgery. In addition, the first request of the patient for analgesia, the amount of morphine consumed, and side effects of gabapentin (dizziness, blurred vision, ataxia, nausea, vomiting) were evaluated during 24 hours and compared between groups.