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what happens if you take robaxin for no reason?

Your muscles will still relax and you'll want to lie down for a while. --Zeromaru[[User_talk:Zeromaru|<sup>T</sup>]][[Special:Contributions/Zeromaru|<sup>C</sup>]] 04:51, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User:share- Methocarbamol is a muscle relaxant that exerts its effect by acting on the central nervous system (ie the nerves that control the muscles) rather than on the muscles themselves. Methocarbamol can be used in any condition where painful muscle spasms should be reduced for patient comfort (intervertebral disc disease, for example) but it is also considered the treatment of choice for metaldehyde (snail bait) poisoning, a condition causing severe muscle twitching. Methocarbamol is also used in the treatment of tetanus (which is characterized by muscle rigidity) and strichnine poisoning (characterized by stiffness and seizuring). In cats, methocarbamol is an important medication in the treatment of permethrin poisoning (which occurs when canine permethrin flea products are used inadvertantly on pet cats.)

An oral dose of methocarbamol is active in the body approximately 30 minutes after administration with activity peaking in 2 hours (in humans).

Could this be added to the article? - Eagle^a^mⁿ 22:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I added a clarification to the trade names, since here in Spain Robaxisal refers to the Methocarbamol/Paracetamol combination, not to the aspirin one. I forgot to explain the edit so I'll just leave this here. Walenzack (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:01, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Methocarbamol and breastfeeding

Pregnancy Risk C Lactation Risk C Adult dosage 4-4.5g q 4-6 hours. T1/2 = 0.9 - 1.8 hours Peak - 1-2 hours Approved by the American Academy of Pedriatrics for use in breastfeeding mothers.

References Parmacceutical Manufacturers Package Insert, 1995

Hale. Thomas Ph.D Medication and Mothers' Milk 2000'Italic text

I use this to control the muscle spasms that i suffer as a result of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Hope this helps.

HB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.110.1.61 (talk) 23:10, 17 February 2008 (UTC) best medication for back pain[reply]

Dosage and prescription information section

This section is incomplete, and contains some erroneous information. It appears that this section was cut and pasted from another source (though it has no reference information) as it contains references to sections that do not exist within the article. This section appears to have been copied from information referring to the injectable dosage form only. As a result, the first line of the section, "For Intravenous and Intramuscular Use Only.", is misleading. Robaxin (methocarbamol) is also available as an oral tablet available in 500mg and 750mg strengths. In addition, methocarbamol is also available in tablets that also contain ASA, APAP, and IBU (I do not have those strengths in front of me at the moment). I will gather that information sometime in the next few days and post it here, or will consider rewriting the "Dosage and Prescription Information" section. I am entirely new to this process, so please, let me know if I have done anything incorrectly or not according to custom.

EazyCure (talk) 06:11, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

state of this article

Honestly, this article right now is kind of terrible.

The grammar is awful and a lot of it reeks of copy-pasting from somewhere else, nor is it written in the proper style at all.

I would try to fix this, but it's not something I really know much about myself. 68.0.245.146 (talk) 05:45, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've tagged the article as needing reorganization. I'm not qualified to judge the accuracy of the information contained in the article but I can vouch for the fact that it is entirely unreadable. Ahugenerd (talk) 00:34, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I cleaned it up. There was a large piece of text there which I think was copied from somewhere else. After removal the article is fine, maybe a bit stubby. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 00:43, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It says nowhere what classification this drug falls into - is it a Narcotic? —Preceding unsigned comment added by CaptBillWilson (talk • contribs) 17:38, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe it's narcotic. They sell it OTC in Canada and it's reported not to have any significant recreational use. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.63.54.165 (talk) 18:54, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Depend's on what your definition or a narcotic is. To me, a narcotic is anything that slows down brain function. As this drug acts on the central nervous system, it does have potential for a recreational high. However, in Canada, it is always mixed with Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen when sold OTC. — ク Eloc 貢 21:35, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing section

I've removed this section from the article because it is not very clear. For example, what is methocarbamol being compared to? Also, is it even worth including a 40 year old study? There isn't anything more recent? -- Ed (Edgar181) 12:10, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In a comparative study by Tisdale comparing activity of Skeletal Muscle Relaxant found that, in Acute local muscle spasm Methocarbamol is superior for muscle spasm and local pain at 48 hours using 5-point scales;(P _ 0.05) but not for local pain (P _ 0.10) using 5-point scales (Tisdale SAJ, Ervin DK. A controlled study of methocarbamol (Robaxin) in acute painful musculoskeletal conditions. Curr Ther Res Clin Exp 1975;17(6):525–530.)

Just a comment--article seems mostly useless to me

  The drug combinations etc are interesting, but the useful stuff would be about the practical effects on the muscles.  I have low back pain, I'm told from tight muscles, and lately I'm also getting painful tightness in leg muscles.  I exercise a lot, so I need to know what exactly happens to the muscles, and what will that do while I'm doing various kinds of exercise.   I have only taken it a few times, have not really felt any great effect, but am reluctant to take it other than at bedtime since I don't know whether the relaxing effect might make it easier to strain muscles when I'm dancing,doing yoga, etc.   
  Please add stuff about what happens to muscles and what their capacities are then.   
thank you,  Rosa-lyn Householder  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.29.134.163 (talk) 15:05, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]