Soma (Carisoprodol)
Soma (Carisoprodol) drug description
Carisoprodol is a centrally-acting skeletal muscle relaxant. It works by blocking nerve impulses (or pain sensations) that are sent to your cerebral cortex. Some case reports have shown that carisoprodol has abuse potential, but it continues to be extensively established. Carisoprodol is a crystalline, colourless powder, having a bitter flavour and a mild, characteristic odor . It is freely solvable in alcohol, chloroform and acetone, but slightly solvable in water. Its solvability is practically independent of pH.
Carisoprodol is used, along with repose and physical therapy, to cure injuries and other painful muscular conditions. Because of its anodyne-sparing effect on opioid anodynes carisoprodol is especially useful against various types of pain (whether or not related to muscle cramp) . Carisoprodol is useful by itself or mixed with aspirin along with codeine and caffeine as well.
The most important information about carisoprodol
Carisoprodol may cause vertigo or somnolence. Use heed when operating machinery, driving, or performing other dangerous activities. If you experience vertigo or somnolence, avoid these activities.
Use alcohol carefully, because alcohol may increase somnolence and vertigo while you are taking carisoprodol.
Persons, who must not take carisoprodol
If you have acute spasmodic porphyria, do not take carisoprodol.
Before taking carisoprodol, tell your doctor if you have kidney or liver sickness. During your therapy you may necessity a lower dose or peculiar monitoring. It is not known whether carisoprodol will damage an unborn baby. Without first talking to your doctor, don’t take carisoprodol if you are pregnant.
Perhaps carisoprodol passes into breast milk. Without first talking to your doctor, don’t take carisoprodol if you are breast-feeding a baby.
Carisoprodol is not accepted for employment in children younger than 12 years of age.
How to take carisoprodol
Take carisoprodol exactly as directed by your doctor. Ask your pharmaceutist, nurse, or doctor to clarify these instructions to you, if you do not understand them. Take each dose with a full glass of water.
The highest possible quantity of carisoprodol you should take once a day is 1,400 mg (4 tablets). Store carisoprodol away from humidity and heat at room temperature.
If you miss a dose
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember. Better skip the missed dose and take only your next regularly scheduled dose, nevertheless, if it is almost time for your next dose.On no account do not take a double dose of this medication. Try to keep your doses at least 4 hours apart.
If you overdose
Look for emergency medical attention
Low blood pressure (weakness, fainting, confusion), decreased breathing, and unconsciousness all of that are indications of a carisoprodol overdose
The possible side effects of Soma (Carisoprodol)
Stop taking Carisoprodol and look for emergency medical attention, if you undergo any of the following serious side effects:
- Paralysis or extreme weakness
- An allergic reaction ( swelling of your lips, tongue, or face; or hives, difficulty breathing)
- Sight loss
- Disturbance or tremor
Other, less serious side results may be more likely to occur. Continue to take carisoprodol and talk to your doctor if you experience
- somnolence or vertigo;
- blurred sight;
- headache;
- sleeplessness;
- depression;or
- hiccups.
Also may happen side results other than those listed here. Talk to your doctor about any side effect that seems unusual or that is especially tiresome.
History
At Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan several American pharmacologists gathered to discuss a new drug. It was on June 1, 1959. The drug, initially cogitated to have antiseptic properties, also was found to have central muscle relaxing properties. It had been developed by Dr. Frank M. Berger at Wallace laboratories and had been named carisoprodol (trade name Soma).
Carisoprodol was developed on the foundation of meprobamate, in the expectation that it would have better muscle relaxing properties, less risk of overdose than meprobamate, and less potential for abuse.
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