you. My Dr. had given me a prescription awhile back and I started it today.

I was just wondering if any of you were on it for muscle spasms and how it works for you.

Ada

I was on it before, and it worked quite well!

Hubby is on it and for the most part it helps - Does not completely stop them - He still has them occasionally and when he does they are pretty severe but since starting flex they have lessened.

I have both flexeril and zanaflex. I like both but flexeril is my tried and true. It's an old med but has always worked for me

Good luck

Ada,
Hey Sweetie. I hope that you are doing Ok? I haven't been posting, but I have been lurking some what. SO many New folks....

But, about Flexeril, I used to use it many moons ago. It worked pretty well for me for a while. No, it didn't get rid of all of my muscle spasms and what not, but then we all know that NOTHING will get rid of all of the pain and stuff we have going on. I wouldn't want to try to take enough meds to do that, as I would wind up drugged out of my gourd, you know?

But, the Flexeril...it worked pretty well for a while. Then, it didn't. But that is me, I have that weird tolerance thing for lots of meds. About the only thing that I haven't had that problem with is my pain meds, but I have been very careful to take only what I think that I need, which is usually always less than the dose prescribed. I am lucky though, that my dose is one that allows me to do that.

I know that you have troubles with meds too...but it is usually that you can't tolerate them, not that you wind up getting a tolerance built up to them quickly...right? So, Flexeril might work very well for you. I can't remember, because it has been so long since I took it now, if it is a med that doesn't have many interaction problems, or that has lots of intolerance troubles. I don't think it is.

I hope that it works well for you, and for a long time. I know how hard it is to try to find things that work and don't cause troubles, or to have to change meds lots of times trying to find ones that DO work well for us. Lord knows you have had more than your fair share of those kinds of problems.

I did take Robaxin for a while after the Flexeril. It bothered my stomach, and so I stopped it. It worked well, but I couldn't stand the stomach troubles. It is still what they give me in IV form when I have my procdures done, it works very well for me that way. LOL, of course, they also does me up with tummy calming meds too. Now I take Zanaflex, and have for a few years now. I take it like I do my pain meds, only how much I need, even if it is less than prescribed. I just don't like having to change meds all the time because of building up tolerances to them. I would rather deal with a little more pain, than to try to get myself all drugged up and stupid feeling trying to not have ANY pain (a thing that just IS NOT going to happen, no matter what. As I know you know. Stupid Neurontin, and how the docs went whacky prescribing that, and how it made me feel more drugged up and stupid than ANY Narcotic I have ever taken helped to teach me that lesson very early on), or building up my tolerance to a med super fast and having to go through numerous med changes.

I hope that you are doing better? I think of you often, and add you into my prayers every night. I have been worried about how all of that snow you all have been getting there in CO has affected you, pain level wise. I just don't know what I would do if I had to be around all of that snow and cold! I wouldn't be able to move at all, but then I know that I am a Lizard Woman. That is why I am going to be moving back out West soon. Meghan has graduated High School and started Cosmetology School this past yearand is the best in her classes (so the teacher keeps saying!)...AND gotten engaged! Can you believe that? I still can't. Nothing is going to happen with her and her beau until sometime next year, when she is closer to getting certified. You should see the Ring! WOWIE! That is all I can say about that. LOL. Jay is graduating this year, and has been accepted to the U of A here...but ALSO to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University out in Prescott, AZ. That is a private school that is all about aviation and aeronautics and whatnot. It is a pretty big deal to get accepted there. They have two campuses, one there in Prescott, and one down in Daytona Beach, FL. The Prescott campus offered more of the classes that he wants, is interested in, and needs to be a pilot (Yes..he still wants to join the Air Force and be a pilot for them when he graduates. That is what he ALWAYS has wanted to do, ever since he was just a little small fella, LOL). I am glad that is the case, because he will be much closer to all of my family out there in AZ and NV. It is only 260 miles away from Vegas where my folks live. In fact, he is going to be going there to see them, and then for them to go down with him to make a visit to the Embry-Riddle campus in just a couple of weeks. I am SOOO Proud! So proud of BOTH of the kids!

Ok..I wound up talking about more than just Flexeril here, but I just had to brag a little and catch you up on what all has been going on around here. Once the kids are doing what they are going to be doing, I am flying the coop and heading back "Home" out West. I can't WAIT! LOL, that is the line of thought I was going on, when I got side tracked about bragging about my kids. LOL..took me that long to remember where I had been going with all of that!

Ok, I am going to end this here now. I really do hope that you are doing ok. I really do think about you, and worry about you all the time. You are a super special person...such a sweetie, and you have been through so much! You are just awesome, Ada. I hope you know that.

Love and ((Hugs))
Jose

Thanks for the input. I took a whole flexaril yesterday and slept most all day. I cut down to half so I hope that I will be able to keep taking it.

I use Prevacid, Jose, to keep my stomach calmed down but I tried some over the counter pain meds this week and they messed with my stomach even though I was on the Prevacid.

I have just gotten desperate with the pelvic pain. Here I am getting ready to have that VNS put in this month and still dealing with this pain.

Jose, that sounds good about your kids. I was going to tell you about my best friends granddaughter. She went to the school down in Arizona that you mentioned for pilot license and she finished the school but she was having trouble getting a job. Since they have closed so many air companies and flights it seems like they have too many pilots. I'll have to ask Lilah what she is doing now. I do know she graduated though from there.


I wish I could move down that way with you. Like you, I could live like a lizard. I always said I could live in the desert and it wouldn't bother me. After Ky weather and now the weather we have had here this year it makes me want to do something different. This winter was the worst winter I have seen in Co. I have talked to others and the older generation, 70's and 80's said they had seen worse when they were kids. The winters had calmed down a lot in the past years. We were spoiled.

It's going to get up to 70 and 80 Wed and Thurs. though so that will be great. The wind finally calmed down. Out where I live we get a lot of wind.

I still haven't decided what I am going to do yet. I will have my house paid of in 9 months now but I just hate being in this big house and everything reminds me of Bill.

I have a ways to go until my Grandson's are grown. Dustin is 13 and Devin is 12. They spend at least 2 nights a week here so I hate to upset the cart for them right now. They are both in sports and now are getting interested in girls. They went to a Valentines dance on the 14th. Devin said he danced every dance even some by himself. Dustin worked up the nerve to ask a little girl to dance that he liked. I told him he wouldn't know if he didn't ask. She danced with him. He has had a crush on her forever.

Were we thinking about boys and girls at those ages. I don't think so.

I'm glad your kids are doing some things to help them with their future. That is great and it's good that you will be able to make some decisions about what you want to do. When you get moved out west let me know I would come down to visit you. Bill and I were planning a trip to arizona before he passed.

Thanks for all of the good things you said to me and about me. I appreciate them. We have been on here forever together haven't we. I can remember some of the things you went through a few years back. It seems like a lot of us on here have been through more then our share.

THANKS TO ALL of you for your input. I am going to try and stay on the Flexeril. My biggest thing is keeping my chest pain down while on it. It does seem to be helping though.

Ada

Ada, what dose is your Flexeril?

I do remember it making me somewhat tired...

It's a 10mgs. I never get a high dosage of anything. It doesn't take much pain meds to mess me up so I stay at a low dosage. I slept all day yesterday except for taking a walk.

At nights I wake up every hour or so. Since Bill passed, I can't sleep at night.

I am also getting ready to move back into our bedroom. I moved to Devin's after Bill passed because of it not having any windows. You can sleep all day in there as dark as it is. That's why I want to move back to our room because of the window in it and the light will make me get up. I'm trying to get back a little normalcy since losing Bill, I have been a mess. I haven't even gotten dressed most days.

Ada