"I can't help it," she said, pulling a long face, "It's them pills I took, to bring it off," she said." 

 

"Great griefs, I see, medicine the less." 

 

"Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." 

 

"The Apache have a legend that the coyote brought them fire and that the bear in his hibernations communes with the spirits of the "overworld" and later imparts the wisdom gained thereby to the medicine men." 

 

Most of us have tried a medication or two or twenty.  Usually several different times and durations. 

 

The difficulty here is that because there isn't any treatment specifically for SOM, we are prescribed all manner of medications, hoping that the normal side-effects of a medication will provide us with some relief.

 

The four main categories that are prescribed to us are anti-convulsants, anti-anxiety, anti-depressives, and beta blockers.  Additionally, there are other medications that are being added to that list all the time by doctors willing to research, discuss and prescribe to their SOM patients.

 

As regards surgery, it is often the final, desperate step in a person's treatment protocol.  Having a muscle or two severed, with the possibility of additional surgeries, and with the chances that all of that might not ultimately be helpful, is a step to be considered with the utmost seriousness.

 

This thread provides an opportunity to detail your experiments and treatments with prescription medications and/or surgery.

Medications
How you made the decision to take the medication
What was prescribed
Dosage and frequency
Length of time you took the medication
Benefits you experienced
Duration of benefits
Side effects you experienced
Duration of side effects
Experiences when medication was stopped
Your feelings about your experience with the medication

 

Surgery
How you made the decision to have surgery
Information given to you by your doctor(s)
Research that you did yourself
How you chose your surgeon and medical facility
The surgery that you had
Length of hospital/clinic stay
Your recovery
Benefits you experienced from the surgery
Problems you experienced from the surgery
Additional surgeries you have had, or plan on having
Your feelings about your surgical experience