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Manufacturer/Marketer :

Novartis India Ltd

Consume Type :

Oral

Expires on or after :

Jan-27

Return Policy :

Not Returnable

About RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is an oral prescription medication primarily used to relieve sudden, painful muscle spasms affecting the spine or joints. It acts as a targeted muscle relaxant to reduce severe muscle tightness and stiffness. This medicine helps restore normal physical movement in adults and teenagers aged 16 years and older.


To achieve the best results, you must take RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE consistently at the regular intervals recommended by your doctor. It is typically taken twice a day, and you should take it with or immediately after food to help prevent stomach irritation. Incorporating simple back care practices, gentle stretching, and keeping yourself well-hydrated can also greatly improve your recovery while using this medicine.


Some people may experience mild side effects such as drowsiness, diarrhea, or slight stomach discomfort when taking this medicine. However, you should talk to your doctor immediately if you notice serious signs like severe skin rashes, difficulty breathing, or sudden jerking movements.


Do not take this if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, breastfeeding, or if you are a woman of childbearing potential not using reliable birth control. You should also talk to your doctor before starting this medicine if you have a history of seizures, epilepsy, or liver or kidney disorders.


Avoid drinking alcohol or smoking while using RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE, as alcohol can severely increase drowsiness and dizziness. Let your doctor know about all other prescription medications you are taking, especially other muscle relaxants or pain relievers, to avoid unsafe drug combinations. Pregnant, breastfeeding, or elderly individuals must consult their doctor to ensure this treatment is safe for them.

Uses of RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is used to treat pain due to muscle spasms. The detailed uses of RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE are as follows:

  • Acute spinal muscle spasms: Relieves sudden, painful muscle contractions associated with conditions affecting the spine, such as acute low back pain or neck stiffness.
  • Musculoskeletal stiffness: Helps loosen highly tightened muscles to restore range of motion and comfort during movement.
  • Post-injury muscle pain: Eases localised painful tension in muscles following physical injuries or orthopaedic strains.

Key Benefits

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE offers effective, targeted relief from painful muscle tightness, helping you return to your daily routines. By directly relaxing stiff muscle fibers, it delivers key real-world benefits:

  • Restores physical mobility: It loosens locked muscles, allowing you to bend, walk, and turn comfortably without sharp, restrictive pain.
  • Provides direct pain relief: By stopping the muscle spasm cycle, it alleviates the continuous, throbbing ache that limits your rest and sleep.
  • Supports rehabilitation: Relaxing the muscles makes it easier to perform physical therapy and recovery exercises prescribed by your healthcare provider.
     
Side effects of Relmus 8mg Capsule
  • Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water to soothe the stomach and prevent dehydration.
  • To reduce stomach pain, avoid foods that are spicy, caffeine-rich, alcoholic, or oily.
  • Apply a warm compress or heating pad to relax stomach muscles and ease pain.
  • Eat smaller, more frequent meals to reduce stomach pain symptoms.
  • Probiotics help balance gut bacteria and ease stomach pain.
  • Teas made with herbs, such as chamomile or ginger, can help with digestion and relieve stomach pain.
  • If your stomach discomfort is severe, continues, or becomes worse despite using home remedies, let your doctor know.
Here are the precise steps to cope with diarrhoea caused by medication usage:
  • Inform Your Doctor: Notify your doctor immediately about your diarrhoea symptoms. This allows them to adjust your medication or provide guidance on managing side effects.
  • Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of fluids to replace lost water and electrolytes. Choose water, clear broth, and electrolyte-rich drinks. Avoid carbonated or caffeinated beverages to effectively rehydrate your body.
  • Follow a Bland Diet: Eat easy-to-digest foods to help firm up your stool and settle your stomach. Try incorporating bananas, rice, applesauce, toast, plain crackers, and boiled vegetables into your diet.
  • Avoid Trigger Foods: Steer clear of foods that can worsen diarrhoea, such as spicy, fatty, or greasy foods, high-fibre foods, and dairy products (especially if you're lactose intolerant).
  • Practice Good Hygiene: Maintain good hygiene to prevent the spread of infection. To stay healthy, wash your hands frequently, clean and disinfect surfaces regularly, and avoid exchanging personal belongings with others.
  • Take Anti-Diarrheal Medications: If your doctor advises, anti-diarrheal medications such as loperamide might help manage diarrhoea symptoms. Always follow your doctor's directions.
  • Keep track of your diarrhoea symptoms. If they don't get better or worse or are accompanied by severe stomach pain, blood, or dehydration signs (like extreme thirst or dark urine), seek medical help.
  • Avoid driving or operating machinery or activities that require high focus until you know how the medication affects you.
  • Maintain a fixed sleeping schedule, create a relaxing bedtime routine and ensure your sleeping space is comfortable to maximize your sleep quality.
  • Limit alcohol and caffeine as these may worsen drowsiness and disturb sleep patterns.
  • Drink plenty of water as it helps with alertness and keeps you hydrated and for overall well-being.
  • Moderate physical activity can improve energy levels, but avoid intense workouts right before bedtime.

Directions for Use

Please follow your healthcare provider's instructions carefully when taking this medicine. To use it safely and effectively:

  • Swallow the tablet or capsule whole with a full glass of water.
  • Do not chew, crush, split, or break the tablet, as this can alter how the medicine is absorbed into your body.
  • Take each dose with or immediately after a meal to protect your stomach from potential upset.
  • Do not take more than the prescribed dose or extend your treatment beyond the days recommended by your doctor.

How RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE Works

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE contains Thiocolchocoside. It acts on the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) to help reduce painful muscle spasms. It affects nerve pathways involved in controlling muscle tone, reducing the excessive nerve signals that cause muscles to tighten and spasm. By decreasing these abnormal muscle contractions, RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE helps relieve muscle stiffness, pain, and discomfort, making movement easier during recovery. Some people may still experience side effects such as drowsiness, dizziness, or muscle weakness, so use the medicine exactly as prescribed by your doctor.
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Alcohol

Unsafe

Avoid consumption of alcohol while taking RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE as it may cause increased drowsiness.

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Pregnancy

Unsafe

Avoid taking RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE if you are pregnant or planning for pregnancy, as it may cause foetal harm. Consult your doctor if you have any concerns regarding this.

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Breast Feeding

Unsafe

Avoid taking RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE if you are breastfeeding as it passes into breastmilk. Consult your doctor if you have any concerns regarding this.

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Driving

Caution

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE may cause drowsiness. Do not drive or operate machinery unless you are alert.

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Liver

Caution

Dose adjustment may be needed in patients with liver impairment. Please consult your doctor if you have a liver impairment or any concerns regarding this.

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Kidney

Caution

Dose adjustment may be needed in patients with kidney impairment. Please consult your doctor if you have kidney impairment or any concerns regarding this.

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Children

Unsafe

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is not recommended for children below 16 years.

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Heart

Unsafe

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is not recommended for use in heart patients as it can lead to cardiovascular effects.

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Geriatrics

Caution

Extreme caution should be exercised in elderly patients during the treatment with RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE as it can cause side effects like dizziness, drowsiness, confusion and liver/kidney problems.

What if I have taken an overdose of RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE

In case of an accidental overdose, seek immediate medical attention or contact a local poison control center right away. Do not wait for any symptoms of overdose to appear.

Diet & Lifestyle Advise

  • Drink plenty of water: Dehydration is a common trigger for muscle cramps and stiffness. Aim to drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of water daily.
  • Apply heat therapy: Use a warm compress or heating pad on the affected muscle area for 15-20 minutes to improve blood circulation and help the muscle fibers relax.
  • Engage in gentle movement: Once your acute pain begins to ease, practice gentle, low-impact stretching or walking under the advice of a specialist to prevent joint stiffness.
  • Optimize your posture: Maintain proper spinal alignment when sitting or working at your desk by using supportive seating and taking frequent micro-breaks to stretch.
  • Rest the affected area: Avoid heavy lifting, sudden twisting movements, or strenuous exercises that could re-injure your healing muscles.

Have a query?

How Soon It Starts Working

The time required for RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE to start to work: The time required for RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE to show its action is unknown. 

The time for which the effects of RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE last: The duration of action for RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is unknown.

What if you forget to take RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE

If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. However, if it is almost time for your next scheduled dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for the missed one.

Storage

• Store in a cool and dry place away from sunlight. • Keep out of sight and reach of children. • Non cold chain - To be stored in cool places at 10ºC to 25ºC or below 30ºC.

Drug Warnings

  • Do not take this medicine for longer than recommended by your doctor (typically limited to a short course of up to 7 consecutive days) to ensure safety.
  • Do not drive, ride a bicycle, or operate heavy machinery if you feel drowsy, dizzy, or lightheaded after taking your dose.
  • Women who are able to become pregnant must use highly effective contraception throughout the entire treatment course to prevent pregnancy.
  • If you have ever experienced epilepsy or seizures, let your doctor know before starting RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE, as it can lower the seizure threshold.
  • Stop taking this medicine immediately and contact your doctor if you observe any sudden skin redness, rash, or peeling.
  • Do not take RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE if you are allergic to it or any of its ingredients, are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breastfeeding, are a woman of childbearing potential who is not using effective contraception, have a history of uncontrolled epilepsy or recurrent seizures, unless your doctor decides the benefits outweigh the risks.
  • RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is intended only for short-term use, usually for up to 7 consecutive days. This is because the medicine is broken down in the body into metabolites that have shown genotoxic potential (the ability to damage genetic material) in laboratory studies. For this reason, prolonged use, higher-than-recommended doses, and use during pregnancy or without effective contraception in women who can become pregnant should be avoided. Always follow your doctor's prescribed dose and duration.
  • Always inform your doctor about your medical history and all medicines you are taking before starting RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE.

Drug-Drug Interactions

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Drug-Drug Interactions:

  • Other muscle relaxants or brain-calming medicines: Taking RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE with drugs that cause sleepiness (like sleeping pills, strong pain relievers, or anxiety medications) can increase the risk of extreme drowsiness and slow breathing.

Drug-Food Interactions:

Alcohol: Avoid consuming alcohol while on this medication, as it can severely compound side effects like dizziness, sleepiness, and loss of coordination.

Drug-Disease Interactions:

  • Seizure disorders or epilepsy: This medicine can increase the likelihood of experiencing a seizure or fit in individuals with a history of brain injury or epilepsy.
  • Kidney or liver impairment: People with compromised kidney or liver function may process this medicine more slowly, raising the risk of unwanted side effects.
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Habit Forming

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Therapeutic Class

[MUSCLE RELAXANTS]

FAQs

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is used to treat pain due to muscle spasms.

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE works on the centres of the spinal cord and brain. This helps relieve muscle stiffness and improve muscle movements, thereby relieving pain due to muscle spasms.

Do not take RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE for longer durations unless advised by your doctor, as it may cause damaged cells (an abnormal number of chromosomes). Do not exceed the dose and duration of treatment prescribed by the doctor.

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is generally prescribed for short durations. However, continue taking RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE for as long as your doctor has prescribed it. Do not be reluctant to speak with your doctor if you feel any difficulty while taking RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE.

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE may precipitate seizures, especially in patients who are at risk for seizures, and those who are suffering from fits. Consult your doctor before taking RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE if you are an epileptic patient.

Diarrhoea might be a side-effect of RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE. Consult your doctor if you experience diarrhoea. Treatment with RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE should be discontinued in case of diarrhoea.

Yes, RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE may cause dizziness (feeling faint, weak, unsteady or lightheaded) in some patients. If you feel lightheaded or dizzy, take rest for some time and resume once you feel better.

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is contraindicated in patients with known allergy to painkillers or any of its components or excipients. RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE should be preferably avoided in patients with a history of stomach ulcer or in patients with active, recurrent stomach ulcer/bleeding and in patients with history of high blood pressure, heart failure, and kidney or liver disease.

Yes, RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE can be taken with vitamin B-complex as it helps to relieve pain and treat a vitamin deficiency that may be the cause of underlying symptoms. However, please consult your doctor before using RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE with other medicines or supplements.

Yes, the long-term use of RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE can cause damage to the kidneys. Normal kidneys produce prostaglandins, a chemical that protects them from damage. Long term use of painkillers lowers the prostaglandins levels in the body leading to kidney damage. Therefore, painkillers are not recommended for patients with underlying kidney disease.

No, taking RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE in higher doses will not make it more effective, rather it can increase the side effects. If the symptoms worsen, please consult the doctor.

You are recommended to take RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE as advised by your doctor. You can preferably take RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE after meals to avoid stomach upset.

RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is usually recommended for 5 to 7 days to manage acute conditions. Always follow your doctor’s instructions.

Although rare, RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE may increase the risk of seizures, especially in people with epilepsy or certain neurological conditions. Seek immediate medical attention if you experience a seizure or unusual muscle jerking.

Older adults may be more sensitive to the side effects of RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE, such as drowsiness and falls. It should be used only under medical supervision.

No. RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE should not be used during pregnancy, while planning a pregnancy, or during breastfeeding because it may harm the baby. Speak to your doctor about safer alternatives.

Yes. RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE may cause drowsiness or dizziness, so avoid driving or operating machinery until you know how it affects you. Contact your doctor if these effects are severe or persistent.

No. RELMUS 8MG CAPSULE is intended for the short-term treatment of acute muscle spasms and is not recommended for chronic back pain. Speak to your doctor about suitable long-term treatment options.

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Country of origin

India

Manufacturer/Marketer address

Sandoz House, Shiv Sagar Estate, Worli Mumbai -400 018, India
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