what is your pain like? I have compressed nerves and I take kadian, Valium and a very low dose of Neurontin. It often takes a cocktail. I have muscle pain and throbbing and numbness. I can barely walk it so painful and the muscles get more and more irritated as I move, because all the signals are wrong.

So I sympathize. The reason I asked what your pain was like is two people could have compressed nerves or similar MRIs and very different symptoms.

I asked a use some topical compounded creams, but those usually are not covered and expensive.

Too bad on the Lyrica, but I did found it made me very drowsy.

Some people mentioned Zanaflex and that's an excellent muscle relaxer although it did not work so well if I took it all the time.