Has anyone tried baclofen?

I am having a bad flare up from LPR acid reflux and have tried taking just about every medicine there is for it. I am currently on 20mg of omeprazole and have been for years. I was reading on the mayo clinic website about acid reflux and they say baclofen, a muscle relaxer can be used to treat it. I don't know how it would work since it seems that area needs to be tighter not relaxed, but it says it help stop non acidic reflux. I asked my primary doctor about it and he just said he would not recommend it but didn't say why. I not sure if hes even familiar with it being used to treat this. Has anyone tried it? Did it help?

I have experience with Baclofen. I've been using it off and on for about 9 months for GERD.

It works very well, and I'm surprised more people don't know about it. To be honest, I had really bad reflux on the morning I had my graduate thesis presentation, and baclofen helped me really tremendously at that time. I'm prescribed 10mg pills, and I usually just take a bite out of the pill, so I only take in 2 or 3 mg's. Basically, it doesn't technically "tighten" the area, but it prevents TLESR (transient lower esoph. sphincter relaxations).

It would probably be a miracle drug if it didn't have side effects, which you don't always get. Generally, it may make you tired, so that's one thing to consider...But, once in a while (not all the time), the drug may give you nausea, so you have to be careful with that, and maybe keep some zofran on hand. It's interesting because I read that they were trying to make some kind of derivatives of this drug, that would still be effective, but without the side effects. I don't think they were successful though yet.

I would advise to use this ONLY when you really need it, and as a second line defense against reflux, when PPI's/H2's are not working. If you do that, then this drug will probably be effective for you.

TLDR: it works well, but use it only for really bad symptoms, when the other stuff doesn't work.