I have been suffering from muscle tightness, pain and knots everywhere. Please help.

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As per your history, my provisional diagnosis would be

1. Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS)

2. Fibromyalgia with little more inclination towards MPS.

Both are chronic painful conditions. You have tried all oral muscle relaxants, antidepressants, anticholinergics, and antianxiety meds. As you are suffering from chronic pain, other nonpharmacologic modalities of treatments like physiotherapy exercises, ultrasound therapy, massage therapy, and yoga meditation will help you reduce the severity of pain and improve your general well-being, Though they will not relieve pain to zero. Also, a psychologist's opinion would help deviate your mind or attention towards things that are relaxing to the mind. At sites of severe pain and contracture, Botox injections may be helpful but only after specialist consultation. Chronic pain conditions have always been a matter of interest in medicine, but still, more research is needed to understand their pathophysiology and treatment. Pain waxes and wanes for short to long periods throughout life. Another thing I would advise trying to look at other faces of life a happier one. Concentrate on same for the maximum time possible.

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Let me tell you. Neuromuscular blockers (NMB) are drugs that will paralyze you completely from head to toe. You will not be able to even blink, and you cannot breathe. So a patient will be completely motionless but still conscious inside. So along with NMB, he will require drugs that will cause unconsciousness. That is, you will need complete general anesthesia. Also, since you cannot breathe with NMBs in your circulation, you will need an endotracheal tube in your windpipe and will require a ventilator to give you much-needed oxygen and mechanical breaths. So entire procedure is more complicated than you think. Also, NMB will only relax you for as long as they are in circulation. Once they are removed from the liver and kidneys, you will be back to the same as previous. Though you are willing to pour money, you will not be satisfied at all as pain will always be there. Please consult a psychiatrist or psychologist, or pain physician rather than an anesthesiologist.