#25: carisoprodol (Soma) | For Discomfort of Musculoskeletal Conditions

#25: carisoprodol (Soma) | For Discomfort of Musculoskeletal Conditions | Drug Cards Daily

1 Views • 08/26/25

Side Effects

Subscribers

SHOW SUPPORT BY SUBSCRIBING ► https://bit.ly/3wYWMkb
FREE DRUG CARD SHEETS HERE ► https://bit.ly/FreeDrugCardSheets
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ► https://allmylinks.com/drugcardsdaily

Drug Cards Daily | Episode #25: carisoprodol (Soma) | Short Term Benefit For Discomfort of Musculoskeletal Conditions

Carisoprodol is a skeletal muscle relaxant that is most commonly known as the brand name Soma. The lesser known brand name is Vanadom. This drug has benefits in treating discomfort experienced from acute painful skeletal muscle conditions over a 2-3 week duration of therapy. The benefits beyond a short term duration (2-3 weeks) has not been proven. There are two strengths in a tablet form being 250 mg and 350 mg. The medication is dose qid with tid in addition to at bedtime. Carisoprodol forms the metabolite meprobamate which has anxiolytic and sedative effects. Since CYP2C19 function is crucial to the metabolism to meprobamate it is important to be aware of drugs that may affect CYP2C19 function along with other factors such as race and gender. Asian and African Americans are of note since there is higher prevalence of poor CYP2C19 metabolizer function. Also females generally have a higher exposure to carisoprodol but not to the metabolized form of meprobamate. When monitoring patients it is important to be aware of signs of misuse and abuse along with assessing their mental status along with their level or relief regarding pain and muscle spasms.

HAVE A CRAM SESSION:
►All Full Podcast Episodes: http://bit.ly/FullEpisodeCramSession
►Clips From Podcast Episodes: http://bit.ly/ClipsCramSession

FOLLOW DRUG CARDS DAILY:
► INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/drugcardsdaily
► TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DrugCardsDaily
► AUDIO PODCAST: https://link.chtbl.com/DrugCardsDaily

PASS YOUR BOARDS:
►RxPrep (Industry Leader): https://amzn.to/3z4hotk
►MPJE (Pharmacy Law): https://amzn.to/3uDjs81
►Flash Cards (Pharmacology): https://amzn.to/34A1ngL

SUPPORT THE SHOW:
► https://anchor.fm/drugcardsdaily/support

MAKE A WAVEFROM VIDEO:
►Headliner: https://bit.ly/3fDWV6H
►Wavve: https://bit.ly/3i9Chx5

DISCLAIMERS: Drug Cards Daily provides drug information for educational and entertainment use. The information provided is not intended to be a sole source of drug information that is to be acted upon for patient care. If there are drug-related patient care concerns please contact your primary care Physician or local Pharmacist. This website may contain sponsored content or the use of affiliate links. Partnerships, sponsorships, and the use of affiliate links provide monetary commissions for Drug Cards Daily at no cost to you! This is done in order to keep providing as much free content to everyone that comes to Drug Cards Daily. Thanks for your support!

#fullepisode #learnpharmacydrugcards #pharmacystudent

Up next

#25: carisoprodol (Soma) | For Discomfort of Musculoskeletal Conditions | Drug Cards Daily

Up next

Please note that if you are under 18, you won't be able to access this site.

Up next

#25: carisoprodol (Soma) | For Discomfort of Musculoskeletal Conditions | Drug Cards Daily

Up next

Language