Methocarbamol Compared to Alternatives

For Muscle Spasm: I broke my neck and injured my back about 17 years ago! My primary care really didn’t do anything. Finally I saw an orthopedic specialist found that I broke my back and my neck I have been paralyzed for over a year . From my neck to my toes, I had been on opiates Norco to OxyContin and Oxsee fast 80 mg tablets four times a day and soma and a whole bunch of other medications. Then I found a neurosurgeon and a orthopedic surgeon and they did surgery on my neck I learn to walk again but still had severe pain. To this day I deal with severe pain and muscle spasm is horribly painful ! I went to a detox hospital and got off soma , oxie and norco! They gave me morphine ! ? Any way methacarbamol helps, but when I have really bad spasms not so helpful !

For Muscle Spasm: Spasms are unbearable. This helped.

For Muscle Spasm: This is the only muscle relaxant out of the ones I tried that really works for my muscle spasms, and a bonus is it also helps with my anxiety. But the side effects are so annoying and off putting that I can't take it regularly enough to relieve the problem. It makes me VERY dizzy and groggy, even throughout the next day. I constantly feel like I'm gonna fall asleep or lose my balance when I stand up. There is also just a general tired brain fog feeling. If you really need it and are really in pain then it will do the job. But beware of the side effects and don't expect to be very productive the next day unless you force yourself to push through it.

For Muscle Spasm: I've been on 5mg of flexeril for about a year & a half. I take it only when needed but I can rarely take it because it makes me sleepy. If I take it late at night I have a hard time waking up the next morning. I've found if I take it by 7pm it's not so bad waking up the next day. I have severe bladder spasms and flexeril has helped (when I can take it)

For Muscle Spasm: I've taken Flexeril off and on since 'late '98 when I was (mis)diagnosed with muscle-spasms (ER trip was due to a kidney stone). Flex was great at relieving muscles spasms for 7 out of 10 days Rx-d. I took it for all 10 days, tho' the low-back spasms were gone after day 7--the kidney-stone-pain, however, remained. I've been taking it "as needed" (having fractured my T12 or L1 vertebra when I was 8, herniated discs, etc--at this writing, I'm 59) for about 6 months, per my PCP. After the first bottle, I told him about the soporific/zombie effects and he now requires me to take it only when I go to bed to sleep. Flex has a 1/2 life of 18-23 hours. Thus, it doesn't wear off fast. A bit of Melatonin helps me get better-than-zombie sleep. :)

For Muscle Spasm: Been on flexeril for the past 4 or 5 years. It works ok for muscle spasms in my lumbar area. I have several badly herniated discs so I'm in pain most of the time. By itself the medication doesn't do that much but my Dr has me take it with gabapentin and Percocet so together they help a lot.