Does Cyclobenzaprine Interact With Alprazolam?

Question: HCM cut off our last conversation so I waited a few days to answer your last question.

As a child i has minor breathing issues but only when competing in sports. Running, I could only run 150-200 yards before panting hard. Playing basketball, i could only run up and down the courts twice without running out of breath. I was to run after sports practice and I could only run a few laps. I always attributed it to being out of shape but as a kid, your always running around.

I have two questions here for you. After I would run, my throat would burn, I was told it was lactic acid, I still get that burn even though I do not run. What would cause that.

#2, As I come down from this anxiety should I expect good days and bad days recovering. That at first I will have more bad than good but slowly that will change to more good than bad. When talking of good and bad, I am talking of days when the symptoms of the inflammation will be continuing but at time goes forth it will be less. And as I use the Flovent, will it take a bit longer because I will still be having bad days and the inflammation will be still active at a greater degree but again as time goes on, will become less and the flovent will work better.

Days lately are ok, not great but not terrible.

May I ask if I can paraphrase your diagnosis.
I have had a life of Stress anxiety and worry. It has built up and caused extreme worry and now inflammation. I have worried myself to believe I have lung disease, but tests and you say no. That i have Anxiety GAD. To relax and take the medications will bring this down. Time to relax will be long and I will have good and bad days, I must be patient and i shall return to normal.

Does this sound correct, please correct the errors so I know why. Add to it so I know why.

I have a very busy, chaotic weekend, my plan is to add one half more xanax to my med program.

Oh, I must ask. I have done the xanax and flovent one hour before bed for the past week. If I take a cyclobenzaprine for my back pain with the night meds, I sleep really hard, If I do not I sleep just a bit better than if I took no meds. What does the cyclobenzaprine do or interact with the xanax or flovent.

Lipid test results came in from physical 2 weeks ago. all is good there.

You will enjoy this,

In 1989, I was working as Management in a large scale retailer. We were working in the back, unloading a truck. I my haste to unload, my foot go caught in a pallet designed to hold and store freight. I twisted but my foot did not and it threw my back out of place. Normally this would take a few days to fix but I ended up finding I have one more Lumbar vertebrae and that extra one over the years compressed the discs and they became less helpful and caused extra pinching on nerves. This twisting when unloading trucks made it worse and I was laid up for 2 months while the inflammed discs and nerves healed. I was told that the damage was so bad that I would have arthritis in the area as I grew older and the back would spasm occasionally the cyclobenzaprine is to use when my back gets stiff and spasms.

So today is Saturday, it's mid morning. It's the day of my step daughters graduation from public school. Been on the go since I arose this morning. I have told myself to move slowly and don't hurry. Be calm and remember that all dr's say no lung disease. Yesterday, I had a relaxing evening and I felt pretty calm, not 100% not 70% but close. To normal. Today the effort I am doing as I am getting projects done, I can feel a tightness to my chest as I breathe I know that I am adding more breathing as I exert self but I am also focusing on the idea that it too is a effect of the stress and inflammation. With this thinking I hope to convince self to not worry or think on it.

So am I correct in thinking that the long term effects of my inflammation and stress have caused tightness to chest when trying to breathe while exerting

No never noticed it. I think the nicotine actually calmed me down. I was more relaxed, more focused and more attentive. Strange isn't it

I was saying that the attention and relaxed and focused was strange. What were you finding strange. What should I be having troubles with that I don't seem to be.

Smoking calmed me. I actually was more focused with thinking. I could sit in a classroom and listen to a lecture and stay interested in what was being discussed. Now I get bored easily.
Now if I did play sports like baseball when I smoked, I would get winded.

My smoking habits were strange. I went through a pack a day. Please note I said went through. Not smoked. I would never smoke all the way down. Sometimes half sometimes 2/3. When I worked construction it would hang in my mouth but smoke little. I even lit some and they sat in the ashtray more than smoked

Tell me if anyone has ever told you this
When I smoked, at the end of a day I felt as if my airways were raw and sort of burning like when you have run to hard and are breathing heavy.

Sorry to give confusing questions.
1. When I smoked, if I smoked too much in a day, I would get a burning, inflamed feeling in my throat airway. Have any of your patients ever said this
2. You are correct. When I smoked, I would light up and smoke just a portion of it and let rest of it burn up or just snuff it out at half way. My brother often scolded me for wasting a cigarette that way.
3. When I worked construction your hands were busy so I would have one hanging out my mouth but not really smoking much of it
4. Lastly, when I was smoking and tried to play sports, I would get out of breath when running

I am not able to get an answer to you
1 breathing was slightly difficult when I was smoking.
Never was obese especially while smoking. Then I was at weight goal