Like all medications, what works for some, may not work at all for others. (We all have different body chemistries.) I did the route of everything else before using Soma. Personally, I don't find it addictive (went three full days without any and didn't feel a thing....well, except tense.) In fact, I can't even find it in the DEA's med schedule. It's considered low end, partly because it is an older med, and partly because it is really, really, really hard to get hooked on it. Sometimes I think the older meds are better than all this new stuff they are prescribing by the bucketful! (That stuff can devolop dependencies in under a week in some cases.)

You will eventually develop a tolerance but it seems to take quite some time, (years even), for that to happen. Can't say that about a lot of the 'modern' meds they are prescribing now.

What I have found is mixing Soma with a painkiller actually lets the painkiller do its job just that much better. I've put several friends onto the combinatiion and many are now taking less painkillers because the Soma won't let them tense up and make what ever pain they do have that much worse. But again, what works for some, does not work for all. No medication is one size fits all...and I really wish doctors would wake up to this fact.

D2003