Re: Ativan/Stress/Muscle Relaxers

[Guest guest]

,

Without the muscle relaxer Flexeril (cylcobenzaprine) I receive

little or no pain relief even with oxycontin. Reactive Arthritis

keeps my tendons so inflammed at the insertion points that without

the muscle relaxer I am one big muscle spasm with knots easily felt

and also easily seen by other people...even through a tee shirt.

Ray

[Guest guest]

--- Ray in Virginia wrote:

> ,

> Without the muscle relaxer Flexeril

> (cylcobenzaprine) I receive

> little or no pain relief even with oxycontin.

> Reactive Arthritis

> keeps my tendons so inflammed at the insertion

> points that without

> the muscle relaxer I am one big muscle spasm with

> knots easily felt

> and also easily seen by other people...even through

> a tee shirt.

> Ray

Ray,

Ooooh, God! I know what you mean about the knots. I

had two in my neck last week when I saw the doc and he

manipulated my neck and reduced them. Massage

therapists always remark on the knots in my back. I

have some flexeril but it knocks me on my butt and

then I am no good--totally unmotivated.

But yes, even with the Celebrex, I still need the

Ativan--and sometimes the Tylenol #3. The pain is

never really gone--I know it is there lurking. The

meds just make it possible to do stuff and enjoy

myself.

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faroe and the springfield crew

how much of our history's rewritten and under rug swept?

what part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

........Alanis ette

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