BACLOFEN Reviews (BACLOFEN)Average Rating: 3.2 (119 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare BACLOFEN with similar:
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RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR BACLOFEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
1 | Pain/muscle spasms | Facial swelling, lips, hands swelling, slurred speech, memory loss, sloppy gait, worsening of muscle spasms. | I have currently been and still am on gabapentin,for 10 years, hydrocodein/acetaminophen. Both big no no's with baclofen. Were it not for my own researching drug interactions because of the wheezing that flared up ( I have cold) I would have never found out what an idiot Dr I have, who obviously never checked my records before prescribing this drug. I am livid because of his carelessness !!! | F | 66 | 10 days 10 mg | 6/11/2015 | 5 | Benzodiazepine (Klonopin) withdrawa | None really. This medication eased the anxiety and tension caused by withdrawals from Klonopin. I've had 2 fairly significant withdrawal episodes from benzos...once in late 2012 I took Gabapentin which helped. The most recent occurrence was three months ago and the Baclofen really helped. | M | 39 | 1 months 20 mg 3X day | 4/22/2015 | 1 | back spasms | I haven't slept in 3 days it gives me horrible shakes if I don't take it I go through withdrawals I feel emotional vivid dreams I wake up not being able to breathe and I start coughing I can't sleep. I can't stop taking the medication because I go through horrible muscle spasms | F | 36 | 4 months 80 mg | 4/8/2015 | 3 | Chest spasms in the pictorial area | Tiredness but not bad | M | 53 | 3 months 30mg | 12/10/2014 | 5 | Pain | At first I slept a lot! That subsided after about two weeks. | Dosage 10mg x 5 per day. | F | 68 | 2 years | 11/11/2014 | 4 | Gastroparesis | Initially, I had weakness in my arms and legs, however, that disappeared after a week of using it as directed. I used to have extremely painful muscle tension in my back, which would cause me to vomit for a minimum of 8 hours. The tension in my back was insane. This medication, fights off that extreme tension.... However, the double edged sword that comes with it, is the fact that although it fights hard to relax my muscles, some tension won't disappear.... Thus, this will lead to low level tension and being uncomfortable for days, rather than hours. | F | 31 | 3 months 30mg/day | 10/27/2014 | 5 | Fibrmyalgia, ruptured and torn disc | none that I can tell | Its a lifesaver we started slow with one a night now I'm taking 10mg 11/2 tabs 3 times a day, 2 at bedtime and one as needed, I don't know what I would do without it, for breakthrough pain I have valium but I ran out of baclofen before and it was hell. | F | 47 | 15 years 10mg 5X day | 9/26/2014 | 1 | Cervical Dystonia | My arms and shoulders felt weak. I felt weird while laying down (as if it was hard to breathe). I felt tired and had blurred vision. It seemed like it also worsened the Cervical Dystonia. [Note: I took half a pill]. | I was taking this to relieve the muscle pain and tension of Cervical Dystonia (a neurological condition). However, it actually made the Dystonia worse so my neurologist and I agreed that it was best for me to stop taking it. | M | 52 | 1 days 5 MG 1X day | 8/15/2014 | 5 | muscle spasms after spinal fusion | Sleepiness | F | 51 | 1 months 10 | 8/11/2014 | 5 | to control muscle spasms | Drowsy, and a Chilled body temp. After taking flexeril and zanafex with no marked improvements this has been a wonder drug. Only more effective than baclofen is soma 350mg, however I live in a state where there is a bad drug problem, and have been unable to obtain prescription. | F | 35 | 10 weeks 30mgx 3 | 7/5/2014 | 2 | dystonia | Sleepiness, increased muscle spasms, urinary urgency | F | 45 | 4 months 3x10mg | 3/27/2014 | 2 | neck/shoulder pain & spasms | As many others have said, this actually had the opposite effect of what it was supposed to on me. This actually happens to me all the time - if something says "happens to 1% of people taking it" there's a good chance that thing is going to happen to me. It made my shoulder muscles very tense & also gave me dry mouth. On the upside, I didn't have to wake up to pee when I took it, as I usually do. | F | 32 | 5 days 10 mg 1X day | 3/12/2014 | 1 | muscle spasms in back and knee pain | Made my back muscles tense up and hurt worse than before and makes my jaw hurt and lock up to the point that I can't eat. Still have back spasms didn't help that at all. Also makes me have a lot of pressure in my head. | F | 33 | 6 days 60mg 2xday | 2/28/2014 | 5 | Muscle Spasms from MS | I have had no side effects at all. | This drug has been a life saver for me. It stops the spasms. | F | 48 | 5 years 15 MG 3X day | 11/2/2013 | 1 | severe muscle tension | After one day of taking this crap drug I woke up with a severely sore jaw and hands from clenching both all night long. I finally talked to a second doctor who told me to stop the baclophen as it could be having the opposite effect on me than intended. So not only did this crap drug not work on my muscle tension which hurts very badly...it added to my muscle pain in my jaw and hands! | F | 48 | 1 days 2xDay | 6/13/2013 | 1 | Muscle tightness, spasms in legs | Took at bedtime friday, woke up at NOON on Saturday. Face, hands SWOLLEN, very emotional and literally suicidal. Depressed, cried all day till drug effects wore off, then back to normal. | If you become depressed or suicidal, please stop this drug immediately!!! Get help if you need to until it leaves your system!! | F | 47 | 1 days 10 3X day | 4/27/2013 | 3 | Degenerative disc, stenosis, MS | Drowsiness, unsteady balance and more clumsy gait | I started on Baclofen to replace Valium, which gave me a hang over. The muscle spasms in my legs would last for hours but have somewhat subsided since I started taking Baclofen. Unfortunately I have developed regular foot cramping in both feet and electric shock sensations in both legs that Baclofen does not seem to help. | M | 42 | 10 months 10 mg 3X day | 3/7/2013 | 4 | Cerebral Palsy | Been on this as long as I can remember, main side effect is tiredness | F | 29 | 20 years 10mg 3X day | 1/21/2013 | 1 | Cerebral Palsy | Anxiety, digestive problems, stiffness, dry peeling skin, join pain, burning sensation in skin all over body, swelling of hands, arms and legs and feet. Urinary incontanence, two kidney stones. I think I have all the Rare/Severe side affects. | I took Baclofen for 10 years, starting with 60 mg/day. I worked up to that dose under a Dr's guidance. It worked well for muscle spastiscity for about 5 years, then things started to go bad. At first, I had such weakness in my legs that I couldn't move, so I cut back to 40 mg/day. Then stiffness,and anxiety along with incontinance. I had no idea that all this was from the Baclofen! I just thought it was because I was aging. This past May things EXPLODED. I woke up swollen, (I blamed it on hot weather before) my hands were pink and swollen so much that I can't use my thumbs, and my fingers are stiff. I cut myself down to 30 mg/day and was working on weaning myself off the stuff, but things got so bad that at 20 mg/day, that I just stopped the drug. I felt so awful; anyway, I can't say I noticed a difference. The left side of my body is more swollen that the right, and my current Dr. is thinking Lymphedema, but my symptoms don't add up. I don't have the money to be throughly checked out. I'm currently taking Prilosec because I take 1200 to 1600 mg Advil/day, and Oxazepam 15 mg at night. Oh, yeah, I'm also on 25 mg atenolol for the rapid heart beat from Baclofen. I posted this in case there are others suffering as I am because I've been searching the web without much success. I just wanted others to know they're not the only ones. | F | 61 | 10 3X day | 12/2/2012 | 1 | Muscles tension | I have gotten really loopy, and emotional. I have insane vivid dreams, so vivid I wake up hysterical crying and it really doesn't even help the muscle Tension In my back just makes me feel like I need to go to the loony been | F | 19 | 3 days 10mg | 10/30/2012 |