I know I have been on many types of medications, this past year. I was struck by a SUV while walking across the street,m a year ago, and I have been on so many medications, and I have to say this one Muscle Relaxer, Zanaflex. It didn't help with my muscles, and since I was already in pain and depressed about getting rid of that and dealing with three deaths in my family, moving, getting married, ready to just take off! The Zanaflex made me feel so weird, so depressed, and tired but unable to sleep due to the weird feelings. I know now, I will never take it again! As I have been on most of the pain and muscle relaxers, Zanaflex is the WORSE!
2007-03-04 17:05:59 · 18 answers · asked by Jersey Girl 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
I agree with the first answerer, BuSpar was awful for me. I couldn't even stand up, I was so dizzy and light-headed. It made me feel like a zombie and so sick.
Other than that, Zyrtec, which I had an allergic reaction to.
2007-03-10 14:59:31 · answer #1 · answered by Morning Glory 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chiropractors are God sent
Much pain is from muscles below is an example of what may help (based on headaches).
Begin with a couple swigs of molasses or a couple of bananas (both are muscle relaxers) daily - magnesium (which regulates many things in the body) and potassium (a needed building block for muscles).
Drink at least 1/2 gallons of water per day. Running a body low on water is like running a car low on oil is the analogy the head of neurology at UCDavis told my husband about 10 years ago.
Now to the cause - muscles - your back, neck shoulders and head have tender spots. They are knots in the fibers of the muscles called trigger points. It makes the muscles tight which makes them press on nerves and other things causing the pain.
The cure - start with a professional massage, you will also want to go back over any place you can get to 6-12 times per session up to 6 times per day rubbing (or lightly scratching on your head) every where that is tender until the knots go away. The place where the skull connects to the spine press up under the edge of the skull (to get to those muscles).
For more information read The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Davies. It teaches what to do and where the pain comes from.
2007-03-06 22:48:49 · answer #2 · answered by Keko 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The worst medication I've ever taken..
Hands down would have to be a migraine medication called "Axert" that I took when I was 16. I took it and it made me hallucinate and paralyzed me!!
I kept seeing my cat repeatedly jump onto my bed. I was hearing my door open and shut - open and shut. I was hearing footsteps all over the place in my bedroom. Then I felt strange sensations all over my body, not really tingling, but a fuzzy feeling like I was getting stroked all over with a rough sponge. I also could not use my legs and for some reason couldn't yell or speak.
It was the weirdest experience of my life and I was so frightened that it had caused a momentary psychotic break or some sort of seizure in me that I swore off migraine drugs altogether.
Luckily 3 hours later I was fast asleep, and then when I woke up no more hallucinations.
I reported the incident to my doctor and she did not believe me. I changed doctors. ;)
Next doctor believed me, thought it was a seizure, and wrote me a script for a low dose painkiller to take when I got a migraine. Works just fine and I don't hallucinate or become paralyzed.
2007-03-05 01:20:11 · answer #3 · answered by Iridescent Leuko 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The worst one was paxil within a week when I started the med my brain went grazy and went got a knife followod my x bf and wanted to kill him,dr took of off it right away, and methdon pills for pain you nod out you dont know it I almost died in fire,i stoped taking any thing narcaric,and i am on effexr and topmax now for 9 years doing fine
2007-03-05 06:47:24 · answer #4 · answered by Dove4ever 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zanaflex did nothing to me. I was given an IV sedative-Demerol? after my C-section and I would swear the nurse must have been injecting water. It did nothing. The worst med for me was Metamucil I had to take once. I never got it swallowed. It was like gritty slime.
2007-03-05 01:16:07 · answer #5 · answered by winkcat 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't actually taken medication in a very long time. But, I remember when I was younger like 12 or 13 or so and my mom gave me a 500mg Benedryl when I had chicken pox and I could not sleep for a week and 3 days. I think it had like a reverse effect. Instead of suppressing my histamines it seems like it boosted them. I normally don't take medication. I like to recouperate on my own and I normally keep myself pretty healthy.
2007-03-05 01:11:47 · answer #6 · answered by radioactive_babywipes 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Flexeril for back spasm also after a bad SUV accident in Wyoming. Not only didn't it fail to work I couldn't wake up the next morning...I actually felt like the worse hang over ever record in human history. My MD switched me to meprobamate as soon as I practically had to crawl into his office I was wasted. Never again.
2007-03-05 01:13:40 · answer #7 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i went on ditlantin as a prophylactic. with in a month, i became allergic to it. within a day, i had a fever, was burned on the inside of my mouth, nasal passages, lips, and skin, had swollen gums, and could not even eat ice chips for a for the next following weeks.
2007-03-05 11:42:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Predinsone
2007-03-05 16:00:39 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the worst medication i had ever taken was whn i was suffering from maleria i.e chloroquine i had taken it at night due to which i was not able to sleep whole night i was mentally dead i think.i cud not even close my eyes i never felt like sleeping nor doing anything else i was very much brain dead
2007-03-05 01:52:44 · answer #10 · answered by fearsomeguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋