Diazepam for muscle spasms

FinsburyParkCarrots

Yep, another medical thread! Asking for people's opinions on this ...

Well, as a gigging musician with too much gear to drag around, I ended up in hospital at the weekend with bad muscle spasms/pain. I had the whole bit: temperature of 101.3, bonkers heartbeat ("sinus tachycardia", the junior doc said, as the senior doc said "shaddap"), suspected pneumonia, you name it. But I'm a tough bastard and impossible to kill. I'm at my parents' house while I get better, which is difficult as my dad keeps trying to make me laugh and I'm avoiding tearing my insides in the process!

Now, I went to my doctor's surgery for "review", and I was prescribed more anti-inflammatories (the usual ibuprofen and co-codamol). A consultant came in and also prescribed diazepam. I don't suffer from anxiety etc., but it does serve in a capacity as a muscle relaxant.

However, I'm very wary of taking this stuff. After all, they changed the name of the Windscale nuclear plant to Sellafield for a reason: to wipe out negative connotations. And valium is now diazepam. Am I just being a bit too suspicious? Has anyone taken this stuff for muscle pain and muscle pain alone? Does it zonk you out?

I'm in pain, but I am getting better and I'm well enough to type shite on a message board now. What do you reckon, though, about this particular pharmaceutical? Tinfoil hat-wearers and drug company bosses equally welcome with opinions. I mean: Three valium a day. I'd be fit for fuck all, banging into walls and sleeping in the laundry basket ...

FinsburyParkCarrots

Here comes the Ask Jeeves bot. Fuck off, Ask Jeeves bot.

norm

3 a day?!?!?! that's batshit insane :shock: :roll:

i couldn't function on 1 let alone 3 valiums...i wouldn't take it fins...unless you can't function because of the pain, i say suck it up and live with it

and the ask jeeves bot can suck it! :twisted: :P

saveyou22

Yeah that stuff can kind of make you worthless, definite zombie mode if you take it everyday. I guess it depends on how long your recovery is going to be. I would rather have painkillers, at least they can be fun.

vduboise

I would leave off on that. It sounds like overkill- unless you are really in pain. Just because they subscribe it doesn't mean you should take it- especially if you're having some concerns. Listen to your body- if you can deal with the pain- just take some Tylenol.

feel better

FinsburyParkCarrots

The packaging says I'm supposed to take "1, 2 or 3 together". Three together? I'd be as stoned as hell. I'd build a teepee out of shit and try to drive the fucker to the moon using brain waves.

iluvcats

take it and go to sleep..

let your body heal....drink lots of liquids though. when a drug slows you down, your digestion will slow down as well. you might get stopped up. I have really bad ringing in my ears and I have taken it for tinnitus (to sleep) before and I expressed concern to my doctor (addiction or withdrawl). He said it was ok to be on it for 30 days. I never took it for 30 days. I hope you feel better soon!

FinsburyParkCarrots

My mum came out with the perfect one-liner, this evening. I thought she was being serious for a split second, until I saw the evil glint in her eye.


"Throw them down the toilet", she said. "They made me feel sick when I was taking them for the terrible depression I had after you were born."

norm

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

My mum came out with the perfect one-liner, this evening. I thought she was being serious for a split second, until I saw the evil glint in her eye.


"Throw them down the toilet", she said. "They made me feel sick when I was taking them for the terrible depression I had after you were born."

iluvcats

well yeah that was dumb, they are not for post partum depression! they are for anxiety.

FinsburyParkCarrots

iluvcats wrote:

well yeah that was dumb, they are not for post partum depression! they are for anxiety.

They used to dish them out like sweeties for the vaguest of reasons, in this country, once upon a time.

justam

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

My mum came out with the perfect one-liner, this evening. I thought she was being serious for a split second, until I saw the evil glint in her eye.


"Throw them down the toilet", she said. "They made me feel sick when I was taking them for the terrible depression I had after you were born."

Lol!

Take one and then go take a nap.

If you don't like how you feel when you wake up, don't take any more of them.

saveyou22

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

iluvcats wrote:

well yeah that was dumb, they are not for post partum depression! they are for anxiety.

They used to dish them out like sweeties for the vaguest of reasons, in this country, once upon a time.

Now they shove xanax down everybodys throat.

Back_Pedal

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

The packaging says I'm supposed to take "1, 2 or 3 together". Three together? I'd be as stoned as hell. I'd build a teepee out of shit and try to drive the fucker to the moon using brain waves.

I hate to laugh at your situation, but that's just hilarious man.

Fifthelement

They work very well for back/muscle spasms. However, try taking just one before you go to bed. When I take one it knocks me out for 6-8 hours. Good luck and I hope that you feel better soon