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Originally Posted by Dejibo
massage, a warm compress. magnesium, meditation, and yoga, a TENS unit (can buy cheap on ebay) muscle rubs like ben gay or tiger balm. make sure to stretch, and warm up that muscle before you start to hobble around. organize your outtings so you are spending the least amount of energy for the most amount of gain. Use the riding cart at the grocery store. Park up close and use that handicap tag if you have one. Avoid temp extremes. Cold can be just as bad if not worse than heat for me. I get jumpy, twitchy, and jerky in the cold.
There are a whole host of muscle relaxers other than baclofen, but you would have to experiment. Tizanidine, flexeril, valium, Marijuanna, and so forth.
I hope you are feeling better quickly.
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Thank you! I do have a handicap tag and use it (even with the dirty looks I get). I need to get better about stretching, and I love yoga, just haven't done it in a while. Organize, yeah I am organized when it comes to planing the kid's birthdays and making cakes, other than that, I really need to work on that.
I'm going to talk to my doc and make sure magnesium is okay and I think we will start there along with stretching. It seems to help so many and is something my body is probably lacking.
As for muscle relaxers, I have been on baclofen, flexeril and I'm currently on tizanidine (only at night so the paralytic attacks happen while I sleep). They all aggravate the periodic paralysis. I haven't tried valium but I'm allergic to at least the smoking form of marijuana.
Now you see why my doc says I'm a pain in the butt!
Thanks again everyone!