I understand what your saying completly, and people need to be cautios obvisly. These meds are HEAVY meds, meds that you dont take lightly and meds that shouldnt just be taken because your doc hands you them, and not everybody should take them or be on a combo like mine. I know having 2 muscle relaxants at large doses of course is always a risk, the 1 alone is a risk (soma) for anyone. The valium is also for my seizures, its complicated because taking opiots have a risk for seizures, i already have epilepsy, so then i have to take these heavy narcotics that add more risk to having seizures, but then i have an increasingly higher risk of having seizures when my pain isnt controled. So it really is a very fine balance and a hard one. I was a PT tech, so i knew about all the PM stuff befor my crap even happend. I would never recomend starting out on heavier narcs when just dxed. And I would never recomend a combo im on unless absoutly nessisary and then be sure you have all your drs watching all your meds. The combo im on was my last resort rout unfortantly, i had to go this path much earlier then I thought, but given my situation, not only is the rsd getting worse, so are my complications from the surgeries I had. So thats why ive landed where im at, and until I can get in to see Dr S. in philly in 2yrs to hopefully have some diffrent options, then im stuck where im at. And even then hes an RSD doc, he cant help the prevois damage thats already done and still going.

And im very sorry about your grandmother