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What Causes Lower Back Pain While On Carisoprodol?

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Posted on Mon, 23 Jun 2014
Question: I have been prescribed XXXXXXX 5 x per day for 4 years. I am experiencing severe lower back pain and debilitaton.
Can XXXXXXX be causing my issues? My symptoms include, numbness, tingling and pain.
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Answered by Dr. Shafi Ullah Khan (3 hours later)
Brief Answer:
Not XXXXXXX compressive neuropathy

Detailed Answer:
Thank you for asking!
XXXXXXX / Carisoprodol is a skeletal muscle relaxant and it should make you feel better instead of causing it. Numbness, tingling and pain all correlated with your past history of cervical fusion and is most likely and most definitely because of compressive neuropathy that is a verve is being compressed at your lower spine some where while leaving the vertebral formalin. You need a team of neurologist, physiotherapist and spine surgeons to fix this. It will be slow and steady but hang in there. Lets wait for the radio-logical reports and locate the trigger point, rest will be management and your efforts which will together make it fixed. Conservative approach should tried first with rest and physiotherapy and if not enough then epidural steroids injections and decompressive surgeries would be considered but lets hope it does not come to that.
I hope it helps. Don't forget to close the discussion please.
Regards
S Khan
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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Follow up: Dr. Shafi Ullah Khan (16 hours later)
Is it possible that the cysitc lesion is causing compressive neuropathy?

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D XXXXXXX
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Answered by Dr. Shafi Ullah Khan (16 hours later)
Brief Answer:
Needs clinical correlation for surety

Detailed Answer:
Thank you for getting back to me Mr williams!
In neurovascular structures any thing which has a mass and weight can compress the neural structure and that is called Monro XXXXXXX Doctrine. So yes cystic lesions can be the causative agent for compressive neuropathy but they gotta be there where nerve passess through near the foramina or some ligamentous tight structures nearby. In nut shell to say for sure what is the cause for the compressive neuropathies , it needs a complete clinical correlation to fix this dilemma. But your history with vertebral procedures make it more likely a compression of vertebral origin.Any every comment would be a speculation unless proved by workup and thorough assessment. Don't forget to close the discussion please.
May the odds be ever in your favour.
Regards
S Khan
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What Causes Lower Back Pain While On Carisoprodol?

Brief Answer: Not XXXXXXX compressive neuropathy Detailed Answer: Thank you for asking! XXXXXXX / Carisoprodol is a skeletal muscle relaxant and it should make you feel better instead of causing it. Numbness, tingling and pain all correlated with your past history of cervical fusion and is most likely and most definitely because of compressive neuropathy that is a verve is being compressed at your lower spine some where while leaving the vertebral formalin. You need a team of neurologist, physiotherapist and spine surgeons to fix this. It will be slow and steady but hang in there. Lets wait for the radio-logical reports and locate the trigger point, rest will be management and your efforts which will together make it fixed. Conservative approach should tried first with rest and physiotherapy and if not enough then epidural steroids injections and decompressive surgeries would be considered but lets hope it does not come to that. I hope it helps. Don't forget to close the discussion please. Regards S Khan