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Fibromyalgia - Does anything help relieve severe pain during flares?
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How much Flexeril do you take, how often and do you take it every day? I've read it's only meant for short-term use. Same questions with the Flexeril. What meds have you tried in "baby doses"? Thank you.
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I've tried everything you tried and more. They all have bad reactions. Even my eyes going blurry. So I get 100mg of antibiotic (very old treatment) which helps and 4 - T3"s a day. God bless you.
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I usually take 1/2 of a 5 mg Flexeril and then wait two hours if there is no relief and take the other half. Rarely have I taken 10 mg a day. Please ask your physician about this because there are different doses for patients. I do not take it every day. I can go weeks and not take it. Most recently, I was put on Plaquenil 50 mg and it caused brain freeze headaches, so I had to stop it. I was put on Tinizidine (Muscle Relaxant for Fibro) and I felt like I was in another world and I couldn't take it....that was on a 1/2 tablet. Skelaxin (Sp?) didn't work at all. I am sorry, but, I truly don't remember what all I have tried in the past 28 years. I am hard to treat because I can't tolerate many meds.
The jury is still out on Flexeril due to it causing short term memory loss. All muscle relaxants I was told by the pharmacist can do that.
Praying for you and I understand and care.