Common uses

It is a medicine that can relax your muscles. It treats cramps that might appear in muscles. The spasms are the results of spinal cord bruises and wounds or other spinal cord diseases. Lioresal do not treat the diseases linked with rheumatic damages. It may cure many other diseases that your doctor can discover.

Before taking Lioresal

You must tell your doctor or pharmacist about all prescriptions and non-prescription medicines that you are taking. Do not mixed together Lioresal with other medicines prescribed for other treatments. The side effect can be harmful for you health. Do not stop taking the drug without your doctor's affirmation. If you are allergic person or you have any problems with kidneys, heart attacks, apoplexy, you should do advanced control. Inform your doctor if you are pregnant or a breast-feeding mother. Your doctor must make a regular monitoring during the period of treatment.

Directions

Be very attentive before using the pills in order to avoid negative side effects. Study carefully the prescription given by your doctor. Take the prescribed dosage. Do not take two pills instead of one! Keep the tablets in dark and dry places in closed container. Hide the tablets from children. If you forgot to take a pill in time, you must take it as soon as you remember. If you see that the next pill time is coming soon, leave out the missed pill and do not forget to take the next one in time.

Warnings

You are not allowed to begin and stop the treatment by yourself. During the whole period of treatment you must be supervised and monitored by your doctor. You doctor will tell you the necessary dosage that you should take in order to minimize or stop the treatment. Some of the side effects of Lioresal are somnolence and giddiness. It is preferable not to drive car, work with machinery, play hazard games or participate in activities that request your attention. Alcohol can easily stimulate the feeling of giddiness and sleepiness. Ask your doctor to tell you which are the depressant drugs.

For women: If you are pregnant or you are planning to become a mother you should inform your doctor and discus all risks that might appear. The drug can affect your unborn baby. If you are breast-feeding mother you must be very careful because Lioresal is excreted in your breast milk and may harm your baby. Your doctor or pharmacist must inform you about all possible dangers.

Possible side effects

During the period of treatment you may have some uncommon feelings like somnolence, hard sleeping, giddiness, weariness, exhaustion, sickness, constipation, headaches. Call your doctor in order to avoid these symptoms. You might have side effects as embarrassments, frequent urination, retching, intensified feebleness of legs and hands. You can have some problems with eyesight. Your speech can become slurred. You must immediately inform your doctor, nurse or pharmacist if you have any of these symptoms.

If you take too much

The effect of overdose can be harmful. In case you overdosed seek immediately emergency medical attention. If you have such symptoms as nausea, vomiting, tremor, seizures, agitation, drowsiness, hyperactivity, and enlarged pupils, hard breathing, convulsions that mean you have overdose. Immediately call your doctor or seek emergency medical attention. Be very attentive before taking the necessary dose. Do not take tablets in big quantities.

Additional information

Do not give this drug to the non prescribed person. You are not allowed to take Lioresal without medical prescription. Do not treat other diseases using Lioresal. Hide the ordered Lioresal in inaccessible for children places. If you need some more medicines, ask for additional prescriptions before you finish the previous tablets.

Drug interactions

It is not preferable to use other drugs during the period of treatment because it can cause unexpected side effects or the pill will not have the wanted result. There are some drugs that can be taken during the treatment. Your doctor must tell you about the non-prescription drugs that you may take together with Lioresal.