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Hi Everyone,
I started taking my Flexeril today and noticed that the bottle directs me to take it once a day. Is this common? Any pain medicine I've ever taken is more as needed so I'm really not familiar with taking something daily.
My rheumatologist prescribed it along with the Cymbalta because I wasn't comfortable taking a narcotic not to mention it's a crap shoot as to it making me nauseous or not. We just staggered the start times a bit to catch any side effects or to see if one med didn't actually help.
Also, can I still take my Tylenol arthritis/pm if I need it? I didn't think to ask these things because I didn't realize the Flexeril would be daily.
If it works I am hoping he will continue to prescribe it. I really don't want to go to a pain clinic. I had a horrible experience in my early 20s when they were trying to get the endometriosis under control. They basically told me it was all in my head. (Then I had to have 2 more surgeries to remove the massive amounts of scar tissue. Go figure.)
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So there's a Bigfoot festival going on soon and Hubby is soooo enthused.I've spent so much of my life outdoors. I'm 99% sure their whoops and thumps and such are probably people up to no good tryihng to scare other folisk outta the woods without getting in trouble.Why do I say that?There's moonshiners in my DNA. And people who've lived in the forests since before white folks. If something was out...
Originally my rheumatologist put me on tramadol 4 times a day to get a base of pain relief in my system, then added Flexeril for breakthrough pain. Found out I cannot not handle Flexeril, it knocks me out for days & my major complaint was fatigue.
Many find Flexeril very sedating, so be careful. I always take a quarter to a half the recommended dose (if you can score the pill) of this type of med, just to see how it is going to affect me. But please, seek professional advice.
Other muscle relaxants are: baclofen (relatively mild, I think) and tizanidine (very effective but watch for side effects and may be hard on liver--ask).