Health Library Muscle Relaxants for ProstatitisFrom Healthwise

These medications relax muscles throughout the body. They are believed to work because they calm both the central nervous system and the muscles. These medications may make you sleepy.

Muscle relaxants may be used to treat pain caused by chronic prostatitis/pelvic pain syndrome, inflammatory or noninflammatory.

The use of these medications to treat prostatitis has not been carefully studied. However, doctors find that these medications are often helpful, especially for men with chronic prostatitis/pelvic pain syndrome, noninflammatory.¹

The side effects of these medications include:

• Drowsiness.
• Dry mouth.
• Urinary retention.

See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)

Valium can be habit-forming with long-term use.

Complete the new medication information form (PDF) (What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.

Citations

1. Nickel JC (2007). Inflammatory conditions of the male genitourinary tract: Prostatitis and related conditions, orchitis, and epididymitis. In AJ Wein et al., eds., Campbell-Walsh Urology, 9th ed., vol. 1, pp. 304–329. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

Author:	Monica Rhodes	Last Updated: December 27, 2007
Medical Review:	E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine Christopher G. Wood, MD, FACS - Urology/Oncology
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