Victoria,

I've been taking it about 3 years. Am supposed to take 1/2 a 4mg tab a.m., another 1/2 mid-afternoon, then 4 mg at bedtime - but I can never remember the mid-afternoon one! But I find if I take 4 mg all at once during the day, I'm just out of it - it completely relaxes ALL of me, not just my muscles! And if I'm up late as usual and don't take the 4 mg til 3:30-4:00 a.m., I have a really hard time waking up a few hours later to get my youngest around and on the bus. For me, 4 mg is pretty powerful, so I stick with 2 mg during the day.

I thought Zanaflex had a pretty low max dosage when used strictly for muscle relaxant, like 12 mg/day, but maybe not?

How great that your pain was completely gone though!!

beth

Edit: Here's info on both Zanaflex and Lyrica - both have sedating effects, dizziness, etc - especially in the first week, or titrating to a higher dose, so you gave yourself a double whammy dear!

Also, the max dose for Zanaflex is 36 mg/day, but they don't have much long-term research on doses above 24 mg/day. Recommended dose is 8 mg 3x/day. However, that is rec. dose for MS patients and others with severe muscle spasticity, to me it seems high for TOSers???

http://www.rxcarecanada.com/Zanaflex.asp

http://www.pfizer.com/pfizer/download/uspi_lyrica.pdf