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Posted 12/18/2015 11:50 AM (GMT 0)
Geigertwins, I saw your talking about your terrible back pain in another thread abd wanted to share this with you.

I have scoliosis also and have had back pain most of my life. Then Fibro added more back pain. But then the pain was getting worse and worse and was almost unbearable. I couldn't get comfortable standing, sitting, or lying down so I headed to a rheumatologist. It was discovered that I also now had ankylosing spondylitis which is an autoimmune problem. Ibuprofen and a muscle relaxer has helped me a lot with this. He wants to put me on Remicade infusions but i won't do it at this time.

i have found pickles and olives to help with my pain. We keep all food and diet discussions on a thread called Diet and Food Discussions but I'm posting a link for you. I post about them in the second and fourth post on the thread. This couldn't hurt but might help you too. Others have gotten relief.

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=24&m=3274470

Sherrine
Posted 12/19/2015 2:59 AM (GMT 0)
Im bumping this up in hopes Geigertwins will see it. She works late.

Sherrine
Posted 12/23/2015 8:07 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry it took me so long to see this, I do work very late lately and it has made my pain even worse. I wore a back brace for many years when I was diagnosed with scoliosis when I was in middle school and have always had back pain that is as far back as being in elementary school. I did have the Ankylosing Spondolitis sorry I know the spelling is way off but you get it, test done and it was negative. I still have a lot of pain in my back from working retail, especially right now since we are working such crazy hours. How much and what muscle relaxer are you taking. I was prescribed today by my RA flexerol and only 10mg at night, will that help at all? I hope so I have not tried it yet since I worked till 2am tonight and was sick with a horrible cold all day and went to the RA this am after a 2am shift last night and just wanted to sleep and use heat on my hips, back and hands. My hands are really bad since I over use them a lot at work.

 

Posted 12/23/2015 11:50 AM (GMT 0)
I use Robaxin. The generic name is Methocarbomol. It's been around for many years. I was using it over thirty years ago for back spasms and pain but only until my back felt better.

After I was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis I asked if they thought a muscle relaxer would help and I suggested Robaxin since I don't get side effects from it. They agreed with me so the prescription reads one tablet four times a day. At first it was two tablets four times a day but I was only taking one tablet at a time and was getting relief. Each tablet is 500 mg. (A 500 mg Robaxin and a 10 mg of Flexeril could have the same pain relieving qualities.)

Since eating the pickles and olives I have been able to cut my pain medication in half so I only takr one Robaxin before breakfast and one before dinner. I take these year around.

By the way, whenever I started taking Robaxin years ago I was taking two tablets at a time. The very first dose put me to sleep in about fifteen minutes but the rest of the doses never bothered me at all. It was like I was taking nothing side effect wise. Since I started out this time by only taking one tablet, the first dose didn't make me sleepy at all. I can drive and function normally on this medication but everyone reacts differently to medications. The Flexeril might work just great for you but I would suggest you wait until you have a day off to try it.

Sherrine
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