Methocarbamol is the same family of drug as a metabolite of Soma (Carisoprodol) - meprobamate.
The therapeutic index is very low for carbamate drugs. They act as anti-anxiety as well as muscle relaxants but they have a high toxicity and a very small dose window. That's why they and barbiturates were replaced with benzodiazepines.
It is very easy to overdose on carbamate drugs, especially if other depressants like alcohol, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, etc., are being taken.
Personally I have not taken methocarbamol but I have taken Soma.
I have never gotten high from any benzodiazepine, however I have gotten high from Soma and I explicitly stopped taking it because it was a high that I definitely wanted to re experience. From everything that I've heard people say about heroin. That was Soma for me and it was so good that I couldn't trust myself with Soma. So I told my doctor I didn't want it anymore.
It was like I was wrapped in a warm fuzzy blanket and I just didn't want to do anything but lay there and enjoy the feeling, and take some more. I didn't want to eat, I didn't want to do anything other than enjoy the feeling and take some more.
In this case, it’s valuable experience as it relates to the suggestion. I think you would be hard pressed to find any evidence that the two are even remotely in the same ballpark when the comes to effect, potential dangers of use/abuse, and toxicity.
Soma and methocarbomol are wildly different drugs. Chemistry isn’t like baking. A few adjustments to a recipe here or there might get you a different flavor cake but a single molecular bond is changed in a medicine and it’s an entirely different thing.
Methocarbamol is safe, will not get you high or produce any psychoactive effects worth even mentioning, and its abuse potential is incredibly low- as to be nearly nonexistent.
Soma is a fucking gnarly, nasty fucking drug. It has perfectly legitimate therapeutic use and it has a potential for abuse that’s quite high. It goes from being incredibly effective at what it does to being a medicinal wrecking ball that shits all over your brain and turns you into a pile of idiot jelly if you take too much.
I’ve taken both, I’ve overdosed on soma before. Passed out in a fucking food lion with a box of captain crunch in my hands. Woke up in the hospital like “ah fucccck”. I’m not writing any of this as a naive author.
I was prescribed and took a quite high dose of benzodiazepines for over ten years and have, well that much experience with them. I ate plenty (not mineses) recreationally as well, but it never did it for me. Like adderall or other adhd meds for people with adhd, it’s not that fun recreationally. Nonetheless, I have a lot of experience with the entire class of drugs. Soma, again, is not anything like them.
I appreciate that you are clear that your own experience does not speak to your warning about soma and methocarbamol but I think bringing that up despite being able to validate or elucidate on anything you made a point of saying is a…little sloppy. Shit like that can do more bad than good, throwing out what you believe to be potential issues despite having zero evidence to support the idea. I appreciate you mention your lack of subjective experience but what I am getting at is that, well a lot of people here may not be quite so thorough in reading and digesting the comments here, and may easily walk away with the wrong idea. Sometimes it’s better left unsaid if the potential to confuse shit is made worse by mentioning something.
Methocarbamol is solid, but fuck soma so much.
Also, barbiturates and nothin else were replaced by benzodiazepines. Sure I guess it’s just a wording thing, but this is exactly what I’m getting at. This is wrong and lazy to post at best, dangerous at worst.
