Be careful, though. Skelaxin is a skeletomuscular relaxant and will turn you into a puddle of warm goo in a heartbeat. It's exactly what you need when you have suffered major muscle damage and need deep healing, but it's definitely not something to be taken casually -- I lost all track of time when I was on it, for eaxmple. You can forget going to work or school or leading a normal life while on it at the full dosage; all I could do was lie on a futon listening to classical music and drifting in and out of sleep. I was able to get up to use the toilet every few hours as the effects wound down, but that was it. (Even so, rising to my feet without agonizing pain was impossible; you simply cannot stand up without using your back muscles to some degree. Every time I got up the muscles would tear free again, causing terrific pain, but thanks to Skelaxin they started to heal the minute I lay back down again.) I was also prescribed hydrocodone for acute pain. Between the two, I eventually got enough rest so that the tendons reattached themselves and now I have regained full function again. Viva Skelaxin!