What is Methocarbamol?
Methocarbamol is a muscle relaxant used to relieve pain and discomfort caused by strains, sprains, and other muscle injuries. It is available in an oral preparation, as an intramuscular injection and for intravenous infusion.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Muscle spasms | 50 |
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4 | ||
| Other | 15 |
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| Stiffness/Spasticity | 15 |
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3 | ||
| Muscle Pain | 10 |
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| Pain | 9 |
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2 | |||
| Muscle ache, whole body | 4 |
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See all 106 patients currently taking Methocarbamol
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Methocarbamol. See all 33 dosages ►
| 1000mg as needed | 100 mg as needed | 1500 mg as needed | 1tbs. as needed | 2 500mg as needed | 250mg as needed | 2 750mg as needed | 3 500mg as needed | 500 as needed | 500 mg all the time (24/7) | 500mg as needed | 6000mg as needed | 6 750mg as needed | 750 as needed | 750 mg all the time (24/7) | 750mg as needed | daily | mg as needed | 2 other daily | 100 mg daily | 250 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 500 mg daily | 750 mg daily | 1000 mg daily | 1500 mg daily | 2000 mg daily | 2250 mg daily | 3000 mg daily | 4000 mg daily | 4500 mg daily | 6000 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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15 | 56% |
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Doctor's advice
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5 | 19% |
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Other
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4 | 15% |
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Course of treatment ended
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4 | 15% |
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Side effects too severe
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1 | 4% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 14 patient evaluations
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- dbrister
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- dbrister
- 750mg as needed
- since Sep 04, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips use in addition to Baclofen when Baclofen seems inadequate See full evaluation
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- itsnotmummy
- Sex: F
- Pain: Some
- Fatigue: Most
- Sleep: Little
- Stiffness: All
- function: Little
- external_stress: Some
- Stickman: most
- Description:F50y
- FM:6y Dx
- See profile
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- itsnotmummy
- 1500 mg daily
- since Feb 16, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips i took myself off of most of my medicatons to see what is helping and what is not in comparison to the side effects and found that with out this drug i have ... See full evaluation
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- Cara
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Severe
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- Cara
- 750 mg daily
- since Oct 25, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Stiffness/Spasticity
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips It helps calm down spasticity. See full evaluation
See all 14 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.