User Reviews for methocarbamol oral

I haven't noticed any benefits after a week. The only change I feel is being much more gasy.

I take it for muscle spasm caused by severe stenosis in the lumbar spine. I tried it at bedtime and it is like having a cup of coffee before bedtime (opposite of usual side effect) - it takes a long time to get to sleep and my sleep is short and restless. Taking a combination of methocarbamol and acetaminophen in the morning and again 6 hours before bedtime seems to help during the day and then I use a different muscle relaxant at night.

After taking it my pain goes away for about 2 hours. I then have to wait until I am able to use my next dose. After taking them for two days I started getting angry over things I typically wouldn’t. Aggression is my only side effect with this drug. I am diagnosed bipolar depression- hope this helps someone. I have now stopped taking them.

Took it at night for back pain. Woke me up 4 hours later due to gas and stomach ache. Exploded the toilet...back still hurts. Not a fan of this med.

Pinched nerve & does not help in any way

I had a major car accident resulting in 8 broken ribs and a fractured lower back. The Dr prescribed 500mg tablets to take 1 & 1/2 every 6 hours. After a week I started having twitching in my lower jaw and upper thighs very intensely so he took me off and switched me to fleril. The only side effect from this medication I experienced was blurred vision.

Gives you a stomach ache and nothing else No pain relief whatsoever better off just taking a paracetamol table Been using for 4 days and have no given up. 100% don’t bother with this medication.

I had on onset of sudden and very severe lower back pain for no apparent reason. Went to ER to rule out spinal injury and Kidney stones/infection. CT and labs are normal so they sent me home with this. It’s been two days and the pain is better but definitely not gone. This med really doesn’t seem to do anything but make me sleep (which is a plus because the pain has been horrific) and constipated (definite minus). I am going to continue to take it and I start PT tomorrow. Good luck to everyone! Read More Read Less

Was taking flexiril for months and it didn’t seem to work. This seems to be better so far

I've been taking 4000 MG./per day of methocarbamol for both chronic and acute pain for approximately one month. I've been severely suffering from chronic pain syndrome for the past 20-plus years and have tried just about everything available. Unfortunately, I'm also a rapid metabolizer of the vast majority of pain medications that I've tried. Very few pain medications (regardless of the dose) are truly effective at treating my condition. Consequently, methocarbamol has not really been very effective for me (big surprise), however, I have been fortunate to not experienced any type of side effects fron taking it. Read More Read Less

Absolute crap !! Might as well be taking sugar pills.

This has not worked for a single back spasm. I can not recommend this personally but others seem to have better luck. It seems like a mixed bag.

I’ve had multiple spine and cervical surgeries and they’ve had me try all of the different muscle relaxers to reduce pain and spasms and methocarbomol has been the only one with noticeable help. I don’t notice side effects, and it doesn’t make me feel high or foggy which is a huge plus for me.

Given after knee revision and it worked great on my spasms. Would recommend it.

I was prescribed this medication for leg spasms that were very painful, waking me up several times a night!I was also having hand spasms with severe cramping due to my dystonia. This medication brought the spasms down to once a night, with some nights being spasm free! However.. I was experiencing almost every side effect listed except convulsions

Muscle spasms in the lower leg extremities constantly woke me up in excruciating pain

Never really felt it helped at all. When i had adomimal surgery they put me on this plus pain med to help the pain. But never really helped.

useless -and that pretty much sums it up.

sore / spasming muscles from yard work

Taking drug and still getting muscle spasms in my leg and back. The only muscles that seem to be affected are my bowels. I skipped a day so I could use the bathroom.