[fastwheels]

im on 20mg in the morning 20mg in the day time & 20mg at night time im still getting alot os spasms down my back & my legs

can any one help me

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[lil jo]

Hey Fastwheels,
I too am on Baclofen...50 mg a day. My Doctor started me out taking 60 mg as you are then tried to wean me down to just 20 mg a day. He has had to raise it back up. I can tell it helps, but just a bit. I have tried other Muscle Relaxers, and of the ones I have tried, 800 mg of Skelaxin made the biggest difference. If you talk w/ your Doctor, maybe you might can get him to write you a script for a trial of a different muscle relaxer or just try and raise the dosage. I am sorry I can't helkp much, but I know what you mean with the Baclofen not doing a whole lot of good. I have just learned to try and deal with it. Hope things get better for you. Take care and have a good one.
Amy (lil jo)

[Andrew77]

lil jo, on Apr 3 2009, 01:34 PM, said:

Hey Fastwheels,
I too am on Baclofen...50 mg a day. My Doctor started me out taking 60 mg as you are then tried to wean me down to just 20 mg a day. He has had to raise it back up. I can tell it helps, but just a bit. I have tried other Muscle Relaxers, and of the ones I have tried, 800 mg of Skelaxin made the biggest difference. If you talk w/ your Doctor, maybe you might can get him to write you a script for a trial of a different muscle relaxer or just try and raise the dosage. I am sorry I can't helkp much, but I know what you mean with the Baclofen not doing a whole lot of good. I have just learned to try and deal with it. Hope things get better for you. Take care and have a good one.
Amy (lil jo)

I'm on Valium twice a day, Zanaflex 3 times a day, and Baclofen 4 times a day. I'm a incomplete so things are harder to control spasm wise. If things dont improve talk to the doctor on Zanaflex.
Just my limited opinion.

[boduke]

My boyfriend takes 20mg of baclofen 3x a day and that wasn't enough for him so now he's takes 10mg of Valium three times a day or as needed (he was on 5mg but it wasn't enough.) Sometimes it seems like that's not enough either, but it does help him more than no valium

[saradise]

My husband is on 80mg of Baclofen a day, which is the max dose. The doctor says that when you take it orally, you actually don't get as much of the medicine becuase it has to process in your body and go through your blood stream until it actually hits the spinal cord. My husband has really struggled with spasms and we are now considering the Baclofen Pump. The doctor says the Baclofen will go straight to the spinal cord and it will actually be a lower dose than taking it orally. Also, I wanted to mention...a side effect of Valium is confusion and memory loss. My husabnd was on 5mg of Valium a day and although it helped wonderfully with his spasms...he would always be confused and wouldn't remember anything from the day before. And Zanaflex...he tried that too and nothing changed.

[russ1]

Up till recently I was on 100mg of baclofen daily plus 60mg of dantrolene (which I'm entirely unconvinced was doing any good) and 900mg of gabapentin. So bottom line is you could take a bit more baclofen but it does make you drowsy. Would recommend the gabapentin which really seems to help. Have now gone down the Baclofen pump route which is still an ongoing project :-(

[megatrig]

It really is a caseof talking with your doctor/consultant and finding out which drug suits you. Works. Doesn't give you to many side effects that you can't live with and so on.

I'm 5 years into trying to get life back on track and at the moment I'm failing dismally as everything I try hasn't worked!

One option is Botox injections to the "trigger" muscles.

As an example muscle spasm for me kicks off in my quads and then that makes other muscles spasm.

Taking out the quads with injections of Botox can be highly effective. You just repeat the injections every 3/6/9 months ish..

It also means your not taking drugs!!!