Talked with the on-call doctor about my concern of an interaction between my muscle relaxer and gabapentin. We talked about gabapentin and Vraylar and how my primary dr is concerned about their interaction. I told her about my reaction to invega in June. And that Vraylar has many of the same side effects. She said she’d send a note to my primary doctor and she’d see it tomorrow morning . The on-call dr said to stop the muscle relaxer and try the cream- it’s really for arthritis- . It’s an NSAID but it’s for the skin not systemic. Still, it had a warning about being on blood thinners and using it! My back does feel better almost immediately after using it but hopefully my primary dr will call today early and the on-call dr wrote good notes.

Edit not using the back cream. You can overdose on it and cause gi bleeding. It’s only meant for knees and wrists for arthritis and you’re not supposed to use it if you’re on blood thinners!