is soma a very strong muscle relaxer?
Hi my PM doc just changed my muscle relaxer fom baclofen to soma and boy can I feel a difference. When I first took it It felt like I took a few percs. I was nodding while I was smoking a cigarette. but I could hear everything and it was hard but I was able to lift my head up. Whats up with that?
you will adjust to it in a month or so...probably less time...and all though i have never tried lexapro....prozac and zoloft gave me the same up feeling.
I am not a Dr. I just play one on tv.
I take lexapro and have been on it for about 2 months. I take it at night before I go to bed and I dont get a "speed" type of feeling. I dont know if youve ever taken adderall but I dont compare the two at all. I really dont feel the lexapro working at all except itmakes me a little calmer.
ya soma is a pretty strong muscle relaxer, I think it's up there with flexaril.
and ya, even though your body is used to an anti-depressant, you should still start off with a small dose, and work your way up, cause they all work differently.
I was on lexapro for awhile, it's a good antidepressant. I think you'll like it better than prozac.
thanks for the info but flexeril didnt have any (edited) effect on me. Soma makes me feel like I just took a qualude or something. Its really strong with me. Help me to relax though
(edited by mod1- just say it didn't work if it didn't work for you)
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Flexril does nothing to me but knock me out. I have never had any type of benefit other than sleep from it. I would love to try to find something that would actually relax my neck/shoulders. The knots I have can get to be unbearable.
I'm just a Mom, in pain, a tad crazy, giving my 2 cents.
Somas are not like flexaril. Somas are much stronger. So if you don't have a high pill tolerance be careful. Flexaril did nothing for me...a few might put me to sleep. 1 350 mg soma made me feel relaxed.
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ya I agree about flexaril, they bever did much to me, but make me extremely tired..... they should be considered a sleeping pill imo! :P
Flexaril makes me sleepy also and gives me a bad attitude problem. Soma is great and the only muscle relaxer that has ever worked for me. Zanaflex is like being drunk without being drunk if that makes any sence, skelaxin is useless. I have not tried any others.
Carisoprodol (Soma in the USA, Carisoma everywhere else - why do they change brand-names for a single country? The most blatant is Roche's RIVOTRIL which is called 'Klonopin' in the US for some odd reason) is certainly one of the best if not the best muscle-relaxant around. Indicated when the problem results from a sprain or such like more than just a common-or-garden muscle relaxant.
A very good alternative is the benzodiazepine tetrazepam (Myolastin) which in 100mg dose is probably a better choice when the problem is not due to any painful sprains or other similar conditions. It comes only in 50mg tablets and has very little, if any, sedative action normally associated with BZDs.
I admit that the sdative action of carisoprodol is an added bonus for me. Wallace brand Carisoma is the best I have tried, much better than Watson's over-priced version.
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She also changed my prozac to lexapro and yesterday I was speeding my ^*#% off! (20mg) She told me to just take 10. Has anyone else had this experience from lexapro?