sleep/kava/muscle relaxants

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Gretchen ...

When I had the chronic pain support group, we had new members from time to

time that were hooked on Valium and alcohol. Not easy to break that habit.

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Gretchen ...

When I had the chronic pain support group, we had new members from time to

time that were hooked on Valium and alcohol. Not easy to break that habit.

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Hi Carolyn and all,

It does take me awhile in bed to 'get comfortable' with my legs and

back.(and 2 dogs bouncing around!) About Kava, I have tried the real

thing in Fiji which had a real sedative effect, although I could

function, sort of like drinking alcohol without walking like a drunk

(lol).The Kava there was drank out of a big communal bowl, there is a

whole ritual/ceremony connected with it. The Kava supplements I tried

here in the States didn't do much. I was better off with my meditation

prorgram. Somewhere on the Net I saw that Kava has negative

interractions with anti-depressants, both tri-cyclic and SSRI's. I will

try to find this. If you search our CMTUS index/archives for Kava, there

may be some former posts about it. As for other muscle relaxants, I got

really hooked years ago on Valium. Took me about 5 years to get off of

it.Kicking valium was the worst. Recently, for my initial back pain was

given Robaxin and had a good experience with that. Could drive on that

too.

Gretchen