how is it?? good? bad? how does it differ from flexeril...i am to take 400mg 2x a day if needed.

Skelaxin served me well. My docs had first prescribed Flexeril back earllly in my "back situation"..and I found I could not take it b/c it gave me very very weird dreams. (do any of you remember the big orange hairy monster in the Bugs Bunny cartoons??)

Anyway.. a had a couple of scripts for Soma too,, but for the last surgery and a few months before, I've used Skelaxin.

Post op, I had 800mg pills. (just in spasm control before surgery, I only used 400mg pills) I tolerate them well. No bad dreams, no sedative effect like Soma. In fact, it was kinda hard to tell it was doing anything - but it does.

I think everyone tolerates medication differently..so theres no telling how your body's going to react.. But - my experience was that it worked quite well.

Hope they work as well for you too!
Susan

I used to take Flexeril. It worked great. My doc switched me to Skelaxin and it is VERY EXPENSIVE like $150 for a month's supply. I told him it was too expensive and I take a generic called methocarbinal. Costs me a $10 co pay. Just as effective. Both of these make me less drowsy than the flexeril.

I have taken both flexeril and skelaxin. I am now on tizanidine. All don't do much but make me very tired. The one I am on seems not to make me as groggy, but I don't feel much relief from it.