I’ve never used it, just knew it was a muscle relaxer. Vet prescribed it, proceeded to order it in a powder - from the compounding pharmacy - which cost me $100 more than just buying pills.
So. Question is, has anyone used the pills? Is there any reason to opt for the powder instead? I figure I would just grind them up same as bute and hide them in her feed. She’s pretty good about that stuff, and I think she’s less picky about that than strange smells from “apple flavored” powder in her feed!!
Had a conversation about Robax/ Methocarb with my vet 3 weeks ago. She said pill form was unavailable or on back order or some such and only available through compounding pharmacy – which is why it’s only offered in powder form.
This is what she told me. I didn’t do any further investigation with online pharmacies or the other 3 vet practices I usually work with. You may be able to find them in pill form, 850 or 650mg, if you dig hard enough.
I prefer the pills myself because, quite frankly, I’ll steal one from horse, and take it with an Advil when my hip locks up. And I know many horses will eat the pills tossed into their grain, or if they’re picky just broken in half. Pills are easier to manage for me.
Well, then heck. I’d order through the website/s and forego giving your vet the extra $100. Unless they charge an absurd amount to call in prescriptions…
I’m happy for you but this makes me cranky. For now I’ll give the benefit of the doubt.
Dosage is 5gm/25 cc scoop - 3-4 scoops twice a day, so 15-20 gm 2/day… that’s minimum 30,000 mg/750 mg pills is 40 pills per day. Can that even be right? Holy hell no wonder they just compounded it. If I’m doing the math right…
Oh and if my math is right it’s almost as spendy to just use pills. Dammit.
How big is your horse? When my horse was on it, it was 14 pills twice a day—so a lot per day but not 40! My horse also just ate the whole pills with her grain. She was better about that than eating the powder.
She’s an 1100# TB. I think my math is screwed up…LOL.
Well wait a minute. 40/day is 20 twice a day… 30,000/750 = 40
hmm…
Yeah, that dosage seems high? I actually have some of the powder on the way from Precision Pharmacy. The vet said the 5 gram scoop was equivalent to 15 pills. The 50 gram container was $59, so $6/day.
I think I’m going to just mix it with apple sauce and syringe it in to make sure she gets it all.
Well she’s eating it fine, thankfully!! I don’t know about dosing on this medication, but I am considering a second opinion on the whole mess that brought us to this point anyways.
If anyone out here is a vet, care to chime in on dosage?
I got the pills about 2 months ago, 500mg tablet I think it was 20/day.
My horse was on this recently and on the compound formula. My horse 15 years ago was on the pills. I also took the pills with back pain but there’s nothing to stop you from weighing out the powder and ingesting that!
my vet is not a fan of compounded drugs but uses them more now. We recently got the “peppermint” powder, very palateable for my horse.
I just went through giving dosages that high to a horse with myofibrillar myopathy. I found robaxin (methocarbamol) in the 750 mg pills from Allivet and it was rather affordable (in my opinion) if I bought 500 pills (1 bottle) at a time. My vet did say something about there being a shortage of the drug and she could not get it from her supplier but I did not have any trouble getting it from Allivet and my vet was good about sending in the prescription for me. Good luck!
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