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Originally Posted by hotjenny314
Sorry to hear that you're in so much pain. Are you getting regular massages/other natural methods of trying to improve things? Be careful of the fallacy that just because a DR prescribes it means it is safe. I'll be hoping that things improve for you.
I get a massage once a month and do regular stretching exercises. It's actually much better now with the synthetic opiate. But nothing will relax permanently so there isn't much they can do. 8 years so far and they tell me it will be life long.
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Originally Posted by teetdogs
I'm well aware of the fact the many medications have dual purposes however in all my years in healthcare I have NEVER and i mean NEVER seen someone use Valium as a muscle relaxer, that is possibly because there are many more highly effective muscle relaxers out there as you know.
Please trust me when I tell you that just because a Dr. prescribes it doesn't mean it is the best thing in the world for you. I have seen more than my fair share of Docs give meds that do no mix well together esp. mixing benzos with narcotic pain killers. It just seems odd that a Dr. would even prescribe them in that situation, not saying that I dont believe you or anything just that I find it odd and think your Dr. is crazy for even giving you Valium as a muscle relaxer when your on narcotic pain killers when there are other better options (see the statement above)
If your already on cyclobenzaprine twice a day you should just get on the ER 30mg ones, little more spendy but oh so worth it.
Sorry to derail your girly thread, I have actually found it kind interesting
PS congrats on the mod stuff.
Hmmmm. I googled it later and it said Valium could be used that way so I didn't think anything of it. Maybe they weren't too worried because they only gave me 10? IDK, I do know it helped.
Spendy isn't a problem, I get my pills from the VA. The Army screwed up my back, so all back related treatment/meds are free until they fix it or I die. So I do have that going for me.
But now this is a derail and I'm really pretty normal for being in pain every minute of the day.
Now that it's controlled I'm fairly active.
And thanks for the thanks.
/derail