Patient/caregiver was educated on precautions to be exercised while taking carisoprodol as follows:
- Carisoprodol could potentially interact with a lot of other medications and precipitate serious reactions. If you are being newly started on carisoprodol, discuss with your physician regarding all your current medications and their safety with carisoprodol. Also, notify your physician regarding any current carisoprodol intake, if you are being started on any new medications and discuss their safety with carisoprodol.
- Carisoprodol could take some time to fairly adjust to your body, before any optimal relief with muscle spasms and easing of side-effects is experienced. So, do not discontinue taking the medication without your physician’s consult, as you failed to see the desired result immediately after taking the medication.
- Carisoprodol only helps with relieving muscle spasms, probably by depressing the brain and inhibiting the conduction of nerve impulses from the brain to the skeletal muscles. Carisoprodol only temporarily relieves the spasms but does not fix the actual condition causing the muscle spasms and so, is not a permanent cure. Continue taking carisoprodol as ordered, even if you experience relief from muscle pain and spasms, until your physician orders for the discontinuation on the medication.
- Your physician could change the dose of carisoprodol, based on the response you show, relief obtained, and side-effects presented with. So, maintain compliance with follow-up physician appointments and be accommodative to the plan of dose changes, until you show an optimum response.
- Notify your doctor of any unresolving muscle spasms, progressively worsening muscle pain and discomfort, compromised range of motion in the involved muscle groups, and any continuing or worsening unpleasant side-effects, so that, your dosage on the medication could be revised.
