I am currently taking 60 mg of baclofen a day. I am not sure if it has ever really helped me. When I tel my neuro about my increased stiffness and pain when I am walking, he just increases my dose. Fortunately it does not make me sleepy. I am also lucky in that I only occasionally suffer with spasms. My problem is that my left leg feels like a block of wood. It seems to be heavier and stiffer. So walking is more difficult. I am constantly amazed that my knee even bends. It just used to be stiff from the knee down but now it is generally the entire leg.

So I am trying to decide if I should just slowly taper down to see what happens. On the other hand, I do not want to deal with increased spasms. I am not sure what to do. My neuro is not much help. When he prescribed the increase in dosage (January), he told me to try it and if it did not help we could consider something else when I see him in May.

Its worth a try to give it a go. either it will help or it wont. If it helps, hurray! if not, you will have eliminated that suspect from the list.

Hang in there barb.

If you're still having difficulty when you see him in May, you might want to ask for zanaflex capsules (not tablets). It seemed to help me much more than the baclofen when I switched.

I took 20mg x3 for 18 yrs for paraplegia and now with MS, 20mg x6.
I still get terrible spasms. Zanaflex eh?

Might want to talk to the doc about weaning down to a smaller dose or to try something else for the spasms. I tried 20mg of the stuff - one dose of 20 at night and one during the day. I couldn't do the day time one. My muscles relaxed too much that it felt like my knees were hitting bone on bone when I walked. My MIL just upped her dose and is having the same issue that I did.

Hope it gets better soon.

Jim, as you know is in the same place. We did decrease the Baclofen and increased the Tizantidine and it is helping. We're talking with his doctor tomorrow.