SKELAXIN Reviews (METAXALONE)Average Rating: 2.7 (310 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SKELAXIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SKELAXIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | lower back pain | No side effects | I pulled my lower back back in april and I reaggravated it about 3 weeks ago. The pain moved from my lower back and spread up towards my right arm from ribcage to shoulder blade. The spasms I had would send searing pain through my shoulder and into my abdomen. I couldn't breathe in deep and moving hurt. Went to the dr thinking all sorts of things wrong and he prescribed metaxalone(skelaxin). First day I took one and I didn't really see a diff. Next day I took all 3 doses and felt awesome. The last two days I've only had to take one pill and its done the job. No pain. However I talked to the pharmacist and he said that if you take pill without food, its actually a lower dosage, apparently taking tthis pill WITH food u get all 800mg...so maybe that's why I havennt experienced any side effects at all. None! Anyways, this helped a lot. | F | 33 | 4 days 800mg 3X day | 8/11/2011 | 5 | herniated disc/muscle spasms | No Side Effects. | This is the only drug that works for me. When muscle spasms hit, I am totally out of commission and in the worst pain ever...level 10. Without this drug I would not be able to function at all. All the other drugs don't even touch the pain or allow me function coherently. Flexiril is the worst drug on the market. If skelaxin doesn't work for you fine! Find one that does. But don't scream and throw fits to take skelaxin off the market that actually works for others. Live and let live. Also, the warning label tells you not to take this drug with alcohol or other drugs - duh! | F | 43 | 3 days 800MG 3X day | 8/6/2011 | 5 | have not experienced any side effects at all, had back surgery was doing fine until an employee at Wal-Mart dropped a box on my back. Thank God for Skelaxin. | Pharmacist says they can't get anymore,Skelaxin works better than the generic. | F | 57 | 800mg 3X day | 7/24/2011 | 1 | Neck/back pain due to MVA | Extreme nausea, diarrhea, headache, heart burn, indigestion of all sorts, very gassy. | This med is very potent it did absolutely nothing for my muscle spasms just made me very sick and weak. Do not take this medicine! It will burn a hole in your stomach and wallet! | F | 21 | 7 days 800 mg 3X day | 7/3/2011 | 2 | Severe neck muscle pain | After the second dose, woke up in the middle of the night puking my guts out. Woke up the next morning and felt so nauseous, so I poured myself some Coke to settle my stomach. Ten minutes later, threw that up too. Been nauseous all day, just thinking about food makes me sick. No difference in the neck muscle pain/tightness. | I might try taking half instead of a whole tablet, and see if that doesn't make me sick. | F | 48 | 1 days 800 3X day | 5/26/2011 | 1 | Herniated discs | I normally have great blood pressure but my blood pressure soared when on this stuff. My face was very red. Had to be hospitalized while blood pressure came down. Finally figured out it was the Skelaxin. | Skelaxin worked as a muscle relaxant. But nearly killed me heart/blood pressure wise. I'll gladly take the back pain instead of using it again. | M | 63 | 10 days 800 mg 2X day | 4/11/2011 | 5 | Shoulder pain | Makes you relax...as it sais it does | these posts are nuts....works great.. Relax as it said to do | M | 42 | 5 days 800 4X day | 3/24/2011 | 1 | back pain | M | 55 | 1 days 4X day | 12/30/2010 | 1 | Neck Pain | At first it worked. Then I started getting panic attacks and sever hives, vertigo, severe tinitus and confusion. It has been 6 months since I stopped this poison and I still get hives and panic. | Judging by the experiences others have had with this poison it should be taken off the market and the CEO of the drug company jailed. DO NOT TAKE THIS POISON. If your MD prescribes it find another doctor. Your doctor should know about Skelaxin by now. | M | 50 | 3 days 400 1X day | 12/2/2010 | 1 | Post op muscle relaxer/pain | Worse muscle spasms, worse neck pain, Worse arm pain, increased heart rate, high blood pressure. | M | 33 | 1 days injection 1X day | 11/22/2010 | 4 | neck pain | Hives, allergic reaction, had to go to hospital for medication to counteract the side effects | F | 50 | 2 weeks 800 2X day | 11/4/2010 | 3 | Lower back / neck surgery c6c7 | I took this med for the first time last night. Have a small headache this morning, more relief.. but not completey. I took this on an emty stomach, but ate about an Hour later. Became groggy about two hours later. | Have experienced a fairly major bicycle accident at age 17, numerous head impacts at work I.G.- machanic shop lift. Lower back problem during this period also. This occured approx five years later after bicycle accident. I have severe nasel problems I.G.- GERD, deviated septum allergies. At age thirty five years of age became very I'll with a blood disorder called T.T.P, would not wish this illness on my anyone. Has changed my enitre life. Have had long term cognitive issues, fatigue, deep bone and muscle pain. At age thirty seven a work related neck injury pushing the disc in to the spinal nerve at c6-c7 approx two years later. A fair improvement, pain has been cut to approx sixty percent. Nerve damage is aparently The cause of remaing pain issues. Have been taking hydrocodone, lyrica, Xanax, piroxicam, and now metaxalone, generic equivalent or substitute for skelaxin. Again, improvement but only dose. I have had migranes for years, woke up this morning with a headache, fingers crossed that it isn't leading to a Migrane headache. Will continue to dose as perscribed for a day or two to saturate my system with this med. | M | 40 | 1 days 800Mg 2X day | 10/28/2010 | 1 | sciatic nerve in stenosis | Serious leg cramps! | Took twice before, no problem. Third time, leg cramps increased at night to agony, had to take strong pain meds. Something told me to check patients' comments, and saw that other patients had same side effect! Stopped skelaxin, and leg cramps stopped. Check all drugs before suffering. I am so grateful for this site, and for other patients who told of the leg cramps. | F | 68 | 3X day | 10/21/2010 | 1 | Low back pain | Have been taking deep breaths frequently, experiencing chest pain, palpitations, restlessness, light-headedness, dry mouth, stomach problems, irritability. | I spoke to my doc about the symptoms and he brushed it off as being symptoms of steroids prescribed the previous week. I didn't take the Skelaxin for two days and just took two tonight and was lying in bed when the pounding heart started again. That's when I knew that this is a side effect of the Skelaxin. The benefits of the medication DO NOT outweigh the troubling side effects for me. I won't be refilling this prescription and I will be notifying my doc that I made the connection with the drug. | F | 32 | 10 days 800 mg 3X day | 10/19/2010 | 2 | Low back pain, shoulder pain, hip p | Very constipated and gassy. | Don't really notice anything that has helped. I think I had better luck taking Excedrin. Very expensive and disappointing. I backed off to 1 - 2 pills a day thinking the constipation would go away, but it didn't. | F | 53 | 30 days 800 mg. 3X day | 10/13/2010 | 3 | muscle spasms/pinched nerves | Nausea, loss of appetite, dizziness | The first time I took it, it seemed to help, but the last two times I get relief for about two-three hours, then feel absolutely sick for the next six-seven. I didn't mix with alcohol and tried it with food and without. I can't even take it to help me sleep, because I wake up feeling ill. Not for me. | F | 30 | 3 days 1X day | 10/6/2010 | 3 | 3 bulging T & C disks | No drastic side effects besides arms and legs feel slightly like Jello about 1 hour after taking it. Enough to notice it, but not drastic enough to effect motor skills at all. | My doctor had me on Somas for constant chronic back spasms. They did not work and gave me severe headaches. Changed over to Skelaxin on Thursday. The headaches have ceased. The spasm pain had decreased by aprox 1/2 of was they were. I still find myself stretching the muscles and doing the "Grizzly bear rub" on wall corners. | F | 39 | 6 days 800 2X day | 9/21/2010 | 5 | possib.bi-lat rotator cuff syndrome | NONE | This pricey pill has replaced 2 a day 500 mg. Naproxen nightmare. It can knock the edge off of excruciating shoulder pain within an hour or two of taking without any side effects. I don't leave home without it. | M | 56 | 3 weeks 800 1X day | 9/8/2010 | 4 | back pain | None that I am aware of | Skelaxin has really helped me from very bad back pain. Sometimes I still have to take hydrocodone. However, there are now many times that Skelaxin itself relieves the pain | F | 66 | 1 months 800 1X day | 9/5/2010 | 3 | Cervical and Lumbar Disk Herniation | Leg cramps; brain fog; irritability; hypersensitivity to light and sound. | Will have to admit during a bout of extreme neck pain flare-up this medicine did help tremendously and didn't knock me out the way Flexeril does, but the leg cramps in the middle of the night scared me and I didn't really know what was causing them until reading some of these comments. After being on this for approx. 3 months the leg cramps have subsided but have noticed hyper-anxiety,jitteriness and an extreme sensitivity to light and noise if I take it more than 3 days in a row. Last Friday my boss asked what was wrong with me, was everything all right, and I had to say NO it wasn't ! Am glad only had to pay for the generic version - the doctor had written the RX for name brand only and I called and made him change after the pharmacist alerted me to the fact a generic was available! Would be wiling to use it again but only only during extreme flare-ups and didn't have to work or drive. | F | 49 | 60 days 500 2X day | 8/17/2010 |