I've on 20mg x 4/day for 30 years. I also take dantrolene 25mg x 3/day also for muscle spasms.
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:20 AM Eric Olson <whee...@wi.rr.com> wrote: > I've been using baclofen since my injury 32 years ago. I know I still > need it because I've been hospitalized several times for GI issues and they > hold all my meds to let my gut rest. After a couple of days without > baclofen, I start having a lot of spasms. My body gets really jumpy even > without being touched. > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:29 AM Danny Hearn <ddh...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> I just got out of the hospital after about a 10 day stay......I went in >> trying to find out what was causing dysreflexia and bad spasms in >> legs,belly and back. They were clueless and just kept pumping me full of >> tons of oral and IV antibiotics of all kinds thinking it must be a UTI >> infection. All they did was cause me to get my bowels impacted from so much >> antibiotics....that caused me a 3 day stay to turn into 10 days. I have >> been home for 2 days now and all the Dysreflexia and Spasms are coming >> back. I can't find the cause....they did CT Scans and X-Rays but can't find >> anything. I have been a C-6/7 Quad for over 21 Years but have never needed >> Baclofen but starting to wonder how many of You use it and may that >> help??? About the only thing I can think of other than what we have >> checked is that I have a Syrinx in my spine, but most doctors don't want >> nothing to do with that issue. I sure wish my life could just get back to >> my normal Quad life without all this Dysreflexia and Spasms going on. Dan >> H*** St.Louis, Mo. >> >
