Skelaxin and tmj
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Having some very bad lower back pain today that tylenol isn't touching. I was wondering about Skelaxin. I have some and have taken it in the past...but don't even remember side effects or how I felt taking it or anything. Is this addictive?Anybody know anything about it? Thanks!
I am prescribed Celebrex and skelaxin. I have a question about the skelaxin. Well my job is physically demanding I work in a hospital I do patient care I "boost" patients, transport patients, help very unsteady patients get out of bed and walk. So quite often I need to take my skelaxin. My lower back tightens up and I just need some relief. I have been taking it a bit more often than I did say 6 months ago.
In 1994 I had suffered a sub-arachnoid hemmorage(anueurysm) on the outer left side of my brain. I had it clipped, and the surgery involved some cutting into some muscle tissue in the jaw as well as surgical buttons to seal the bone flap they had cut open. I still have chronic pain from the surgery site(mostly the jaw and sometimes the site where it was cut open), but not like the section of the brain where it happened.
I have always been prone to headaches, pre-menstrual migraine & TMJ (disc displacement). Over the past few years I have developed tinnitus with some high frequency hearing loss. I've recently had several ocular migraines, no pain but my vision is so distorted I have to go to bed. Now my headaches cause brow swelling and tenderness, even more painful is the pain, tightness and feeling of swelling at the top of my head. It is right where the fontanelle or soft spot in a baby would be.
I have been getting an aura in both eyes (like a migraine aura with no headache that lasts about 15minutes to a half hour) since I was told to increase my neurontin, daily,but I was also put on Celebrex and Skelaxin at the same time. I've been off of Skelaxin since March 2010. I went off of Celebrex first as I read an article that was in a New Zealand journal of medicine that said it causes rare (9/300 people) visual disturbance.
As far as I understand it, no. The TMJ area and the nerves associated with it usually result in problems near the TMJ and the ear. It, of course, can also affect the teeth and the bite, etc. If you're concerned about your TMD and some vision problems, I suggest you go to a TMJ specialist to see if there may be something going on.
You know, this is coming from a 23 year old who has his own theory on the whole TMJ thing. It's all about posture and how strong your muscles are. If you work on stretching and bodyweight exercises (for your entire body, that will eventually translate to your neck/jaw), you can reverse the effects with due time. Just a few words of wisdom...
I don't think that amount of wine alone would elevate you enzymes but with the drugs you're taking I really don't know.
I believe that Skelaxin may be associated with elevated liver enzymes is some people but again, I am not sure of this. I would Google all of the drugs you're taking with the word "liver" or "hepatic" eg "Skelaxin Liver".
Been to every doctor and everything is fine. My Vitamin D is low and I am working on that. I have TMJ and that may be the cause. I went to a TMJ dentist and he gave me muscle relaxers. I took them for a month and my muscles calmed down. He asked if the dizzy went away and I told him no. He said well I guess it's not the TMJ that is causing it. Can that be right?
So he just said take the hydro because your not taking that many (only 3 a day 7.5) and try this Skelaxin and let me know in 3 months how your doing.
I have really tried to cut back on the hydro but my back hurts so bad it wakes me up (when I can sleep). Please let me know if any of you have had any experence with this for back spasms. Thanks.
A disk in my left TMJ became displaced, my jaw was in a closed lock for almost a year and I was diagnosed with TMJ internal derangement and osteoarthritis. Muscle spasms and pain were very common in the beginning but have since subsided.
My health is otherwise good. I have not lost any weight whatsoever to explain the wasting.
A disk in my left TMJ became displaced, my jaw was in a closed lock for almost a year and I was diagnosed with TMJ internal derangement and osteoarthritis. Muscle spasms and pain were very common in the beginning but have since subsided.
My health is otherwise good. I have not lost any weight whatsoever to explain the wasting. The muscle wasting became very apparent at age 27-28 and came about so quickly that this cannot be normal aging.
i do i have the some pains but my go all the way to my head my eye my ear and a course some of my doctors tell me i have tmj and others say no is something else i ready went to chiropractors tmj specialist right know i,m taking gabapentin i sopuse to take this pill only for the tn nerve pain i already have 2 surgerys for nerve pain and they help but after this last surgery my tmj got worse try to see if you can find a good tmj specialist and good luck i really hope you feel better try t
I still havent found significant relief and i did question my dentist about TMJ when I first started having the headaches and she didnt feel there was a correlation. However, i recently found a website run by a dentist who limits his practice to treating headache pain and states that he has advanced diagnostics, including xrays and a doppler in which he can accurately determine if TMJ is contributory to the pain or perhaps the main cause.
I have terrible jaw pain that also affected my ears and down to my neck, it was found that my atlas was out of alignment causing tmj symptoms and even limited ability to open my mouth. A experienced oral surgeon gave me sleeping meds and ultram and put me on a liquid and soft food diet and it calmed down after 6months of intense pain everyday.
Well I just got back from seeing my dr about the myleogram I had and they pretty much just said I had from L-1 to S-1 messed up and not much they can do. Take the pills and try the therapy and message for awhile and then let us know how your doing. I had got down to 1 1/2 a day through my weening process but my back was hurting the whole time. I think I am still going to try to keep cutting back and see if I can quit when I can take a few days off work.
First off, I'm new to the board, so I apologize if this has been asked before. I've Googled and Yahooed repeatedly and haven't found anything definitive about this.
I have a whole slew of symptoms, starting ten years ago or so, that almost seem to fit a diagnosis of fibromyalgia better than one of MS, chief among them lots of muscle and joint pain, sleep disturbances, and TMJ. But I don't have tender points.
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