Posted by yxibow on April 24, 2008, at 1:23:22
In reply to WHO TAKES FLEXERIL, posted by AnxiousAnnie on April 21, 2008, at 23:13:59
> ? Does it help?
> Did you gain any weight?
> I had the choice of Ultram and Flexeril, Ultram made me psychotically depressed.I have a cranial spasmotic and back reaction to dumping a benzodiazepine something like 11-12 years ago. I currently take Robaxin for it -- because I take a benzo, I wasn't allowed to take Robaxin's much stronger relative Soma.
I found Flexeril (cylobenzaprine) to be "yucky" -- it has a lot of anticholinergic activity and basically is a tricyclic. Some people get pleasure out of this. I guess this is an individual thing. Some states have made it a IV controlled substance apparently, although I don't see the mass potential for any abuse, but who knows. It does have the potential for atropine highs, I suppose, which are not a good thing.
I forget if I was allowed to take Skelaxin -- which is fairly powerful. Probably not.
I wanted to take orphenadrine (Norflex) for other purposes, its opiod like effect on depression but that was nixed by my doctor.
Oh, the other one I went through was Zanaflex (tizanidine) which didn't do much of anything. It is related to clonidine but I believe more targeted to its purpose and stronger.
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