Muscle Relaxer ?

Anyway, I think last time I made the mistake of not keeping on a medication schedule.  I was given a prescription for Robaxin but couldnt take it.   I cant swallow pills, I do have confirmed mechanical reasons for difficulty swallowing,  but I know part of it is psychological as well.  I have tried everything to get them down and nothing works.  My PM dr is the same way so he knows I am not making it up.  Every pill I need to take I chew.  I never complained just dealt with the muscle spasms for months.  Well Robaxin made me vomit, very bad tasting. YUCK. 

This time around I cant do it, I need to be more proactive and get moving on my own.    Every time I trust a dr when he tells me the pill is small, I pick it up from the pharmacy and it is huge!  I am looking for suggestions of different muscle relaxers that I can talk to the dr about.  They tell me there is NO liquid muscle relaxers, which I find hard to believe.  I need something very tiny, liquid, chewable or not bitter tasting to chew.  I did take flexeril for a while, I could get that down splitting it into 4 pieces, however all of the sudden last year I had an allergic reaction to it.  My face and neck blew up like a ballon, got bright red, rock hard, hot and painful.   Very weird that it happened, but thank goodness I was in the hospital for my c5-6 fusion at the time. 

Any suggestions would be welcomed.  Of course it is up to the dr in the long run,  and I will respect whatever they say but I think sometimes they get stuck with the same old prescriptions out of habit.  However, its not going to help me if I cant/wont take it,lol. 

Thanks,

Shell74

Well there is Baclofen, it come in tablet and injectable, an is often used in an inplanted pump, I do not know if it comes in a drinkaable liquid orr not. I know  I take it every 8 hours to control muscle spasms. Anyway you might want to do so research on it, something to think about anyway

Good Luck to you

White Beard

Ekkorose said...

ekkorose said...
With Amrix it can be opened and the tiny beads sprinkled on applesauce and swallowed whole.

Never ever crush a time release med. That is just not safe.

Well, any Flexeril product may send me right back into that horrible reaction I described.  We arent going to try that again,lol. 

I think I may ask him if the diazepam or Baclofen is appropriate.  What would you say the size of the baclofen is for a lower dose?  Mini M&M size is about all I can handle without chewing or crushing it up. 

Today I think I would chew a Robaxin if I hadnt flushed them all down the toilet, this weather is killing me. 

I thought them stating that it was the Flexeril that caused the reaction was very weird too, since I had take it in the past.  It wasnt recentely, probably several years before, but I had taken it briefly.  I thought it was likely the antibiotic but they said no, that should have happened the night before if it was that. 

I am also allergic to Celebrex, I got a nice anaphalactic response with 15 minutes of taking it.  Since both Celebrex and Flexeril both have a Sulfa component they want me to stay away from all Sulfa drugs.  I figure its better just to be safe rather than try again, I just remember crying and rolling back and forth in pain for what seemed liked days.

Guess its kind of like me and wasps, each time I get stung my reaction is 10 times worse.  Started when I was pregnant 17 years ago, never had a problem before that, but every since I get worse and worse.  Now I have an epipen. 

I have crushed both the Robaxin and the Skelaxin.  They are so bitter I gag and have even thrown up.  Even when added to yogurt, pudding etc.  its the same thing. 

I have weird pockets in my throat that have limited peristalsis (movement that makes the food go down), everything beyond thin liquids can get stuck.  Sometimes I gag for hours before I can get things dislodged.   Today it was a piece of chicken from my chicken noodle soup.  It sure is a blast when the macaroni gets pushed up and comes out the nose.  I love those days. 

I take three 10 mg tablets every eight hours, I just measured the tablet they are a white, oval shape, and they are  7/16  inch long and 1/4 inch wide and 1/8 inch thick and you can split them so there is no reason that you could not crush them and put them into apple sauce or something. Usually with baclofen they start you off on a small dose and work you up in 5mg increments till you get to the dosage that is effective for you. I believe that 80 mg is considered to be average  maximum  daily dosage, Baclofen is a potent medication and it is not to be abbruptly discontinued  but rather like so many medication one it supposed to be wean off of it gradually. I have found that Baclofen also helps with relieving pain, and my pain management doctor  told me that allot of people have also found that to be true. 

White Beard