is it safe to take musle relaxers?

[blazinspirit]

I have a prescription for methocarbamol, is it safe for a person to take a musle relaxer?

[Burton Borrok]

Hi Blaze,
To tell the truth, I personally haven’t heard of a muscle relaxer as a treatment for HCM – but then there’s a whole world of things I don’t know.

My advise would be to check it out with your cardiologist – providing of course that he is versed in the proper care and feeding of this malady. If he is not an HCM specialist, well my friend, go find one. You indicate that you live in southern Ohio. I don’t know how far that is from the Cleveland Clinic, but that’s one of the top three HCM specialty hospitals in the country. I’d love to be a day’s ride from a facility like that.

Of course if you don’t wish to go there – what with insurance requirements and all – you might want to check with Lisa at the office to see if there is an HCM specialist near you. Demand the best care you can get. It surely pays in the long, and sometimes even short run.
Burt

[angall]

A few years ago I pulled a muscle in my back. A doctor that had just joined my family practioner was on call and examined my back and prescribed a muscle relaxer.

The following day I went to work and I started to have palpitations. I immediately called my cardiologist. To make a long story short...my cardiologist told me to not take any more. The muscle relaxer was counteracting with the medication I was taking for my heart to slow it down. After that mistake (because of not enough knowledge for the new family practioner), I now check the knowledge sheet that comes along with new prescriptions and ask doctors if they ae new if there is a chance that the medicaion they are prescribing could counteract with the medication I am now taking. After awhile you learn to ask quesions for your own sake....
Remember...the only quesion tha is dumb, is the one you don't ask if in doubt.

I'm sure others will chime in.