FLEXERIL Reviews (CYCLOBENZAPRINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.4 (559 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare FLEXERIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR FLEXERIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Groin pain, chronic tightness | At first I just felt tired, but actually I felt good st first, it definitely loosened my muscles up! After a few days I started to feel abnormally tired in the day even though I was only taking 10mg before bed. Then started to have weird dreams and bad sleep, twitching at night waking me up. When I woke up I felt really groggy for hours then tired for the rest of the day. After about 5 days of taking it I started to have racing heart rate, not just feeling like it was racing but I took my pulse and it was actually elevated (it is always very low). I also started to feel week and uncoordinated. On exactly the 7th night I woke up with a massive jolt and had a feeling of terrible doom, and a racing heart rate! I felt week as a lamb and dizzy and confused, I could barely speak! The anxiety/panic subsided after about 10 hours but the mental slowness and physical weakness and lack of coordination lasted for about 3 days which was scary. I was having weird thoughts and increased anxiety also for about 3 days. I will never take flexeril again. It definitely helped with my tight muscles but the side effects were very bad! I would never risk it again, who knows how long the effects would last this time! | M | 30 | 7 days 10mg | 9/23/2012 | 1 | groin muscle and lower back pain | Blurred vision, sensitivity to light, left leg numb, left side of face numb, poor sleeping, did not work, still have pain in upper leg area and lower back, only thing I got from it was bad side effects, no pain relief! Agitation, and worried, anxiety increased. | I take clonazepam for anxiety disorder, the prescriber of this medication at our urgent care was aware of this and still prescribed this medication, which I have discovered causes anxiety! This medication did nothing for my pain, it caused many other issues that I did not need...BAD MEDICATION!!!! Way too many side effects!!!! Waiting for the drug to get out of my system, hopefully all side effects go away quickly!!!! | F | 51 | 4 days 10MG 3X day | 9/10/2012 | 1 | Lower Back Pain | Drowsiness, agitation, chest pressure, hard to breath. Did not like the drug at all....no agitation was not from being drowsy...agitation started later in the afternoon...took medicine in the am. Will never take again! | F | 38 | 1 days 10 | 6/26/2012 | 1 | myofacial pain syndrome | Feel as though I am a Zombie. Very difficult to function until, possibly, late afternoon. My eyes feel as though they are bugging out of my head; very, very dry eyes with blurred vision | F | 54 | 7 days 5mg 1X day | 5/28/2012 | 1 | pain | I took this drug twice, about a month apart. Both times, the next day, it was if my brain just wanted to go back to sleep. I had to fight extreme fatigue from it. | It was so bad I even looked in the internet to try to find a way to get it out of my system. | F | 55 | 2 days 1X day | 5/19/2012 | 1 | back pain due to lumbar fracture | I had nothing bad to say about Flexeril until I tried to stop taking it. Cold turkey will hurt a lot. I had, and still have after titration: diarrhea every day upon waking and throughout the day, severe nausea spells, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, depression. When I mentioned all this to my GP, he denied any blame on the flexeril and offered me another prescription for an anti-depressant. NO THANKS!!!! Please people...if you can control your pain with something else PLEASE DO. The medical professionals that deal in this medication are doing harm. My pain is worse now than when I started and now I am drastically ill in other ways. I say to anyone who is 'satisfied' with Flexeril, just try stopping... It should NEVER be taken for more than three weeks...You can't avoid dependency. Well, I couldn't. BTW, I was 'conscious' of the possibility of addiction when I began. I did not become addicted to the Vicodin that I was also given... It's just that I was not told of the dangers...my doctors didn't know | F | 36 | 2 years 10 | 4/21/2012 | 1 | back pain | Lots of them. Reading all the other peoples side effects made sense of all my problems. I thought I was going crazy. Did not work except mess with my head. Do not recommend. | F | 33 | 3 years | 3/1/2012 | 1 | Jaw pain | I wanted to die, I became stupid and couldn't think or remember anything, I was more emotional, had a panic attack for the first time ever, I was taking this with vallium. I'm surprised I didn't kill myself because I'm not in the happiest of living situations. But this medicine also caused damage to my hair very dried out and frizzy. The mental damage was worse but at least after I stopped taking the medication I stopped with the dreams, or worse nightmares. It took four weeks for side effects to stop. | F | 24 | 10 days 10 | 2/25/2012 | 1 | car accident shoulder spasms | Terrible headaches, rapid heartbeat, crying profusely, confusion, nausea, wake up with your stomach hurting bad | This crap should be taken off the market. Made me so sick. Never helped my spasms. Had sleepless nights because what I didn't know was my rapid heartbeat wouldn't let my body rest. This drug also has a lot of other drug interactions. It's been 24 hours since my last dose and I still have that faint "hangover headache". I will never take it again and i am off to flush the bottle. | F | 34 | 1 months 10mg 3X day | 2/25/2012 | 1 | trapezius spasms | Severe depression! Sexual impotance, dizzyness, not hungry | Find another drug! | M | 43 | 2 weeks 10mg 1X day | 2/20/2012 | 1 | Aggravation of chronic disc problem | Intense grogginess, which wasn't horrible, due to the fact that I was laid out with back pain. On day 2 I noticed my words were slurring, and I felt stupid. On day three I took only 1 dose, started to feel a real darkness, depression, and hopelessness. I went in warm hot tub, and within five minutes had heart palpitations and funky heartbeat that lasted for over an hour. I was close to going to ER when it finally stopped. On day 4 I woke up hating everything....depressed and taking it out on my family. Couldn't handle even small stressors that would ordinarily be no big deal. Before noon, told my husband that I wanted to die. I am not usually like this. We agreed to throw the rest of the flexiril away. Please avoid this drug, do not take if you are alone. | F | 44 | 3 days 5 - 10 mg | 1/22/2012 | 1 | Back Pain: pulled muscle | Suicidal thoughts, extreme anger, uncontrollable crying | M | 37 | 1 days 30 | 1/20/2012 | 1 | tight muscles in back | very depressed, uncontrollable crying, had no reason to live, dizzy | I am usually a very happy person but this stuff missed my world up. I will never take it again! | F | 47 | 2 days 10 mg 1X day | 1/15/2012 | 1 | herniated disk and arthritis | groggy, numb, detached from the world, very suicidal | My doctor perscribed me flexeril 10mg 3x a day but I only took 2x a day which was still WAY to much. I have 3 wonderful children that experienced their mother totally losing her mind, to the point of wanting to just die. The crazy thing is I have never had thoughts like that. My world revolves around my children and the thoughts of ever doing them like that is unheard of. It turned me into a person that scared my children bc they knew I wanted to commit suicide. I threw it away after my daughter called a neighbor one night bc I was trying to leave them at home so they would not witness me commiting suicide. I did not realize that it was the medicine that was doing this to me until I researched these forums. My children have a worthless father that I divorced and they about didnt have a mother that to take care of them. THIS MEDICATION NEEDS TO BANDED IMMEDIATELY! | F | 40 | 3 weeks 10 mg 2X day | 1/6/2012 | 1 | muscle spasm | crying spells sucidal thoughts problems sleeping threw the night i took this posion for 5 months and my world got very dark every day i would but the bottle to my mouth to see if i could kill my self it was by the grace of god i did not take the whole bottle to kill myself becasue i was in so much emotional pain that i wished i was dead even though i have 4 children. finally realized after coming across this web site it was the flexril i was taking making me want to kill myself. It took months to get that posion out of my system and now im on anti-depressants, seeing a shrink and doing yoga for the last 2 years to get mind in the state that it once was. My Phyisiatrist says i have PTSD depression and agoraphoia someting i never had before but i know it is the flexirl that ruin my life don't take this med.no matter what or your life will crumble around you take it from me. | M | 40 | 5 months 5 mg 1X day | 12/27/2011 | 1 | low back pain | Uncontrollable irritability and anger, suicidal, foggy scattered thoughts, extreme depression, lethargy, anxiety, | Take .25 mg mirapex for rls, amitriptyline 25 mg and half a 7.5 percocet for pain but doctor took me off percocet for flexeril and I am non functional after one dose last night. I was not depressed but today I am not only depressed but almost in an uncontrollable suicide. I asked my husband to watch my every move. I can't think straight and have panic attacks. Woke up and my head was swimming in circles. Been up for 6 hours and have attacks that feel like my head is blowing up like a balloon, my ears start ringing, and I get real dizzy then its gone. | F | 46 | 1 days 5mg 2X day | 12/10/2011 | 1 | Neck pain | My husband recently committed suicide while on the generic version of this durg. He had struggled with bi-polar disorder for years. However, he was doing well until he started taking the muscle relaxer. I noticed irritability and anxiety. He gave no indication that he was thinking of suicide. It took us completely by surprise. I can't help but think that this drug contributed to his death. I would not recommend it to anyone who has a history of mental illness. | M | 53 | 10 days ? 1X day | 11/27/2011 | 1 | Muscle spasms, muscle stiffness | Started with malaise and vertigo. Spiraled into severe depression, agoraphobia, suicidal ideation, vision disturbances, chest pain, difficulty breathing, weight gain, and skin lesions. | Wrecked my body, demolished my sanity, ruined my life. My skin is covered in blisters, thyroid shot to hell, 100 extra pounds to carry around. It's been four years since I last took Flexeril but I fear the effects are permanent. I am now 23 years old with no hope of a healthy future. Don't take this drug. And seriously, STOP SELLING POISON TO TEENAGERS! | F | 23 | 1.5 years 20mg 1X day | 11/11/2011 | 1 | for Headache pain | extreme migraine headache worse then I had been having | I could not advise to even try it. | M | 61 | 1 days 10 MG 3X day | 11/9/2011 | 1 | Whiplash | diarrhea, nausea, dry mouth, dizziness, loss of appetite | I have been off of this medicine for 4 days and I am still having diarrhea and dizziness. It did help my neck a little. | F | 12 | 2 days 10mg 3X day | 11/3/2011 |