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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Fibromyalgia: Wonderful, but expensive, muscle relaxant! This is the only type of muscle relaxant that I can take, experience some relief from pain and stiffness, and still be able to drive, stay awake, etc. LOVE Skelaxin!
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: Have taken only for two days but seems to have helped. Have a L4 L5 problem and after a recent flair up this was prescribed. Seems to have helped to speed recovery.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I have tried everything out there and for me this is a drug that allows me to finally have a day without pain. I have had four cervical spine surgeries and two shoulder replacements.
After the surgeries I started having terrible muscle spasms around the neck/shoulder area. I pretty much gave up and just stayed home.
I feel like a new person.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) : I was prescribed Skelaxin after being diagnosed with advanced DDD and stenosis. It doesn't help with the pain and I get the same drowsy effects that I had with Flexerill.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: Makes my back pain tolerable, and helps me stay active. Doesn't always control the pain, but helps quite a bit most of the time. I am using it with Ibuprofen.
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metaxalone for Muscle Spasm: This drug does nothing for me except for make me extremely sleepy. I have severe back pain and this was "one" of the medicines the Doctor prescribed. No benefit, my back still hurts.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I am amazed. After several months of acute pain, I felt better within a couple of days. I love this medication.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Fibromyalgia: I have found Skelaxin to almost be a wonder drug. No side effects and my muscle spasms are almost gone, no twitching while I am in an office meeting anymore. I am not foggy and can function normally. This has been great for me.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I had a back spasm. The pain went on for almost two weeks. I got a prescription for Skelaxin. It did nothing for me. Taking 800mg of ibuprofen did a better job.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Fibromyalgia: I have fibromyalgia or they say and have been on everything known to mankind even experimental drugs. I am now down to just pain medicines which I am weening myself off of. I tried Skelaxin and has it helped relax the tension I have had for years now. I have been doing stretching exercises and this medicine helps loosen me up so it's not so painful. It's probably just another bandaid but it has helped me so far...very expensive though.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: Likewise. As others here have posted, I had an L-4 / L-5 issue. It required a lumbarectomy in 1995. I also have no ability to control myself from over doing dosage with medicines that have mind altering effects. My doctor knew this and prescribed skelaxin "as needed" and a daily stretching regimin. "As needed" has been very controlable, even for me (with my weakness for over use). My pain is relieved and my mind stays clear.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: My Pain Management Physician prescribed Skelaxin to help control severe spasms in my inner thighs down to and including my feet. My condition is "Failed Back Syndrome" which resulted from 2X Laminectomies at L4-L5. Prior to this I had been using Zanaflex for two years but had side effects. I advised my doctor I needed a medicine, which would help address my spasms without making me a zombie and he prescribed Skelaxin. That was five years ago and it saved my life. While I continue to have periodic spasms, I can eat my meals without my wife standing by in case I choked on my food. I would recommend Skelaxin to any individual who has muscle spasms.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: Treatment for Restless Legs Syndrome - I was recently diagnosed with RLS (a condition I thought to be psychosomatic until I got it - it's real!) I thought my wife and I were going to have to sleep in separate beds due to my tossing, turning, stretching, etc. to get relief. From the first dose of Skelaxin the problem was eliminated. It's a wonder-drug in my personal opinion.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: Episodic incidences of serious back spasms and pain due to having herniated discs of L4 and L5. Skelaxin relieves the spasms so I get back to somewhat normal in as short as time as possible without feeling drugged out and tired. It works so far as to what it was prescibed for.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: Very good! I was given samples to try instead of the usual generic flexerill I usually take for muscle pain/spasm from severe degeneration in c-spine. This medicine works better and for me had no noticable drowsiness. I can actually feel the release of spasm and loosening of joint pain, unlike the other which leaves me half conscious. Great stuff.
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I was prescribed this for muscle spasms in my lower back and it was like I was taking a placebo. I had no noticable reduction in spasms nor did I notice any side effects. Glad it has worked for others.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I was in a car accident and my neck/shoulder was extremely painful. I don't like doctors, but after 3 weeks I gave in a went to urgent care. I don't take medicines and have always done the alternative or holistic remedies. Not knowing anything about drugs, he gave me this script for Skelaxin with some samples to try before filling the script. I have only taken 1 tablet at night for the last 3 days. I noticed today I can move better. Everything that has been hurting feels better. What's more, there is no side effect. I just found out from my research tonight that this is a muscle relaxer. This stuff is a wonder drug. I feel so much better and don't feel like a zombie.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I had a back problem that lasted over 10 days. I went to chiropractor and tried everything. I took one dose of Skelaxin - pain was gone in less then an hour.
I have tried a lot of "muscle relaxants" over the years. All they do is sedate you. This one worked and it doesn't mess with your head -- I noticed no sedating effect, even after a glass of wine. I personally do not like to feel "drugged." I hate feeling the effects of opiates, for example. This had no side effects (my experience, yours may be different). Main feature was that the terrible pain was gone.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I just had back surgery for a ruptured disc three weeks ago and my surgeon perscribed me Skelaxin to help the the remnants of muscle spasms I was still having. I was expecting it to knock me out but I was actually able to study for an exam and I was virtually pain and spasm free.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I have been on Skelaxin since 1994 and it is the only medication that has worked for me all these years. I was in a bad car wreck in '94 and then I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. When I had back surgery in '07 and I was without it for 3 months, I thought I would die. My surgeon put me back on it and when he did, I started feeling better. It is a great medication for me.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: Great medicine if you use during the day. Half of one is sufficient to get away from being drowsy and still pain free.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Fibromyalgia: I have Fibromyalgia and was prescribed this to help with the pain. It didn't work well at all. Carisoprodol is a much better muscle relaxant. I also take Tylenol w/ Codeine #3 which also helps.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I had a muscle spasm across my back for 3 weeks. I took Alleve, Ibuprofen 800, Capzasym, Biofreeze, Ice, my husband massaged the area every night. All this provided very little relief.
I went to the urgent care doctor recently for a sore throat and mentioned the spasm I am experiencing. He gave me Skelaxin samples.
After the first dose I expected to pass out like I do with muscle relaxants but I was not drowsy at all. Instead, I experienced something pleasant - relief!
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Fibromyalgia: I take Skelaxin for the coat hanger neck pain associated with my neurocardiogenic syncopy, and the severe pain I get from fibromyalgia. I love it! It helps me move more comfortably, and I don't feel exhausted or "high". I used to take Neurontin but that didn't help with pain that much. Being a single mom of 3 kids ages 14, 11, and 2 that wasn't an option.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I had a very strange episode of a serious neck cramp. I was still able to move it, but if I did, I would get a constant dull to sharp pain. In fact, I could only sit in one particular position in order to subside the pain. I took some Skelaxin and a small dose of Hydrocodone. It was without a doubt the best way to get rid of that pain. After about 45 minutes of taking it, I was feeling 90% without sleepiness or 'weirdness.' Highly recommended.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasms worked great when I first started taking it. But as with all my meds, my body has become immune to it. It still helps some but not as much. Over all... I think it is a great medicine for muscle spasms. I have Fibromyalgia, but I can't tell that it helps any with that.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: My dr prescribed this to help with some muscle spasms I had related to TMJ. It works wonderfully for this condition. However, I recently pulled some muscles in my back shoveling snow. I used this drug to help try and alleviate some of the muscle spasms, but it did not work as well on this larger group of muscles.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I experienced almost immediate relief from the spasm's I have in my neck. What a relief. I slept through the night for the first time in a very long time.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Fibromyalgia: I have fibromyalgia and it helps with my muscle spasms and my back pains and other pains that i have with my fibromyalgia. My doctor only wants me to take it on a as needed basis for the muscles spasms but when the get really bad it helps alot ...
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Muscle Spasm: I have used Skelaxin for over four years. I have found it quite useful for muscle spasms in my lower back. Unlike Flexeril, it doesn't make me sleepy during the daytime hours. My muscle spasms in the lower back are from a ruptured/ bulging disc in L4-L5 area. Without the Skelaxin, I am limited to very short time periods (5-10 minutes) of work in the yard and house. With Skelaxin, I can work 30-45 minutes before the lower back muscles begin to spasm.
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Skelaxin (metaxalone) for Fibromyalgia: my doctor put me on skelaxin to help me get the knots out of my muscles. the only thing that skelaxin has done for me is make me lose weight
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