Do these prescriptions sound fishy?!


Question: I had a very nasty accident a few days ago: I slipped on ice and fell directly on my hip bone and left side.

Since it was night, I toughed it out and trudged back to my dorm room (college student) and went to sleep, but the next morning, I had shooting pains up and down my body.

I went to the health center and was prescribed a muscle relaxant and vicodin. The only injury sustained was a pinched nerve in my back and muscle bruising.
I took one muscle relaxant yesterday and have been feeling fatigued and hazy ever since.

Do you think that the doctor should not have even given me the class-3 narcotic?


Answers: I had a very nasty accident a few days ago: I slipped on ice and fell directly on my hip bone and left side.

Since it was night, I toughed it out and trudged back to my dorm room (college student) and went to sleep, but the next morning, I had shooting pains up and down my body.

I went to the health center and was prescribed a muscle relaxant and vicodin. The only injury sustained was a pinched nerve in my back and muscle bruising.
I took one muscle relaxant yesterday and have been feeling fatigued and hazy ever since.

Do you think that the doctor should not have even given me the class-3 narcotic?

Sounds like a normal prescription. If you can take plain old asprin, you may be able to get by with just that, now.

The muscle relaxer is what is making you tired and hazy, some of them make you feel like you are drunk or hung over, soma, flexeril, and robaxin are sleepy ones.

The narcotic is for pain, if you went to the Doctor with symptoms of shooting pain up and down your body from a fall pain meds as well as a muscle relaxer is a normal treatment with a follow up visit. You do not have to take the meds, I would discontinue the muscle relaxer if it makes you feel so bad, try using Advil liquid gel caps for the pain.

I would reccomend crushing the pills and snorting them.

Unless he prescribed a very large number of pills, it seems he prescribed the correct medication to give you some comfort. .

Its very hard to second guess a doctor when they had been able to see you, and take a full history and physical, and I cannot. That being said, if the injury is only a few bruises and a pinched nerve, the treatment sounds correct. The class three narcotic is very mild, and it is used very commonly for all sorts of things. I do not recommend taking it for more than a week or two though, as it can be habbit forming. If your symptoms persist beyond that, you'll need to be seen again, as something else might be wrong.
Muscle relaxants commonly cause haziness and fatigue, and these are normal side effects.





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