coming off Zanaflex

[Guest guest]

As of last Friday, I had titrated up to a daily 12 mg of Zanaflex (4 mg 3x day).

I stuck with it thru the weekend and holiday as

our plans were minimal, but the side effects have gotten worse and worse.

Monday night and all day today I have had terrible headaches, dry mouth, nausea

and every dose makes me lethargic enough that I

have to go to bed for several hours. It's great at night though but I don't

want to spend my life sleeping!!

As of the noon dose, I went down to 2mg and I'll do 2mg as soon as I'm ready to

sleep. I thought I was getting a cold or the flu

(stuffy sinus, teary eyes and nose, hot and cold flashes and achy joints except

within the 5 hrs after my Zanaflex dose) but

after reading in the archives, especially Robbies post about the same symptoms,

I think maybe thats whats going on. My doc is on

vacation thru the week, so I am just going to gradually pull myself back on this

drug.

this is a true bummer as it works wonderfully for the muscle spazims and

sciatica pain that make my life so miserable.

Funny thing-my DH, who also has chronic pain (what a pair we are) is on his

first month of Zanaflex and doing really well. He has

not had the side effects I have and has titrated up even faster than I did.

Now I know that I can be a wuss when it comes to drugs-does not take much to

have an effect on me, but I had thought the mal

absorptive factor of my weight loss surgery would decrease my ability to

assimilate the drugs. Does not seem to work that way

with Zanaflex.

This is the 4th anti-spazim drug I have tried this year and the most

effective-as well as the most potent in side effects.

I've decided I will try with 2mg 3 times a day to see if thats workable for me

and keeps the pain at bay.

Truly apreciate the imput and the valuable info in the archives

crone elle

[Guest guest]

i tried Zanaflex i have fibro and some back probs and nothing was working

and as you said it was working good until the side effects caught up to me i

couldnt swallow its an odd side effect but when i called my doc he told me

it was a side effect and he took me off immediately but you sound like you

already know what your doing

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>Reply-To: chronic_pain

>To: chronic_pain

>Subject: coming off Zanaflex

>Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 05:51:29 -0000

>

>As of last Friday, I had titrated up to a daily 12 mg of Zanaflex (4 mg 3x

>day). I stuck with it thru the weekend and holiday as

>our plans were minimal, but the side effects have gotten worse and worse.

>Monday night and all day today I have had terrible headaches, dry mouth,

>nausea and every dose makes me lethargic enough that I

>have to go to bed for several hours. It's great at night though but I

>don't want to spend my life sleeping!!

>As of the noon dose, I went down to 2mg and I'll do 2mg as soon as I'm

>ready to sleep. I thought I was getting a cold or the flu

>(stuffy sinus, teary eyes and nose, hot and cold flashes and achy joints

>except within the 5 hrs after my Zanaflex dose) but

>after reading in the archives, especially Robbies post about the same

>symptoms, I think maybe thats whats going on. My doc is on

>vacation thru the week, so I am just going to gradually pull myself back on

>this drug.

>this is a true bummer as it works wonderfully for the muscle spazims and

>sciatica pain that make my life so miserable.

>Funny thing-my DH, who also has chronic pain (what a pair we are) is on his

>first month of Zanaflex and doing really well. He has

>not had the side effects I have and has titrated up even faster than I did.

>Now I know that I can be a wuss when it comes to drugs-does not take much

>to have an effect on me, but I had thought the mal

>absorptive factor of my weight loss surgery would decrease my ability to

>assimilate the drugs. Does not seem to work that way

>with Zanaflex.

>This is the 4th anti-spazim drug I have tried this year and the most

>effective-as well as the most potent in side effects.

>I've decided I will try with 2mg 3 times a day to see if thats workable for

>me and keeps the pain at bay.

>Truly apreciate the imput and the valuable info in the archives

>crone elle

>

>

LiL Missy

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