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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 209062"><p>Thanks for the tip, Sheila!</p><p></p><p>I only do a muscle relaxer when I'm having extreme muscle spasms which stopped when they took me off the diuretic that was causing my sodium to drop. I still get muscle spasms/cramps, but they're not generally too bad.</p><p></p><p>I do take vicodin for pain, but try to keep it to one pill a day (5/500mg - which means 5mg vicodin, 500mg tylenol). I just take it during the part of the day that I need to be somewhat functional. When it gets really bad and I just can't stand it, I have taken 3 a day and on a few days I've taken 4. (The rx reads 1-2 every 4-6 hours for pain, but I never take 2 at a time.)</p><p></p><p>I don't take xanax, but I do take klonopin for restless legs. I'm not sure if that's the same class, but they're both anti-anxiety. I only take .5mg and almost always only at night and I always wait for the pain medications to wear off before I take it.</p><p></p><p>However, if I do get a doctor that tries to rx this combo, I will now know to run, not walk, from his office. I appreciate you passing that along. This is the kind of stuff I worry about. I want pain mgmt, but I don't want to be out of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 209062"] Thanks for the tip, Sheila! I only do a muscle relaxer when I'm having extreme muscle spasms which stopped when they took me off the diuretic that was causing my sodium to drop. I still get muscle spasms/cramps, but they're not generally too bad. I do take vicodin for pain, but try to keep it to one pill a day (5/500mg - which means 5mg vicodin, 500mg tylenol). I just take it during the part of the day that I need to be somewhat functional. When it gets really bad and I just can't stand it, I have taken 3 a day and on a few days I've taken 4. (The rx reads 1-2 every 4-6 hours for pain, but I never take 2 at a time.) I don't take xanax, but I do take klonopin for restless legs. I'm not sure if that's the same class, but they're both anti-anxiety. I only take .5mg and almost always only at night and I always wait for the pain medications to wear off before I take it. However, if I do get a doctor that tries to rx this combo, I will now know to run, not walk, from his office. I appreciate you passing that along. This is the kind of stuff I worry about. I want pain mgmt, but I don't want to be out of it. [/QUOTE]
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