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 | shoulder spasms | Extremely dry mouth, migraine like headaches, rapid heartbeat, anxiety and elevated blood pressure. Also lack of energy. | Taking the generic version. Did help with sleep the first few days but after that seemed to have the opposte effect. Severe headaches started about ten days later. Just had my physical (when doctor prescribed this for shoulder pain) and stress test and everything was fine. The dry mouth was bad but bearable. The headaches and pain over right eye were terrible. Even went to see my opthamologist to have eyes checked. (They were fine). Anxiety levels were way high for no apparent reasons but now I know it was the generic flexeril. This is a bad drug, be careful when taking it. Wish I could take the name brand to see if it has same effects but don't want to risk the headaches! | F | 58 | 18 days 10 1X day | 10/17/2011 | 1 | Back pain | Took flexeril & my body & extremities became so flaccid. I could not even speak, my speech became too sluggish & yet my back spasms did not go away. I will never resort to this med again. | M | 29 | 1 days 10mgS 1X day | 10/15/2011 | 1 | Lower back pain | Didn't fall asleep right away once I did i later woke up hot and having tighness in my chest and feeling anxious. I woke up for work ok then suddenly I started feeling lethargic blood pressure dropped slightly would start crying for no reason and felt really anxious | Will not ever take this again horrible feeling rather deal with the pain I am 190lbs 5'9 and I guess I have a low tolerance level | F | 30 | 1 days 10mg 1X day | 10/13/2011 | 1 | back spasms | I took this and freaked out. I exibited extreme anger and frustration that could not go away untill the medication wore off. If I were to stay on it My marraige would of been over | Could work for others, but be careful. | M | 25 | 1 days 10 4X day | 9/28/2011 | 1 | Lyme Disease - Insomnia | Nightmares,sleep walking,paranoid behavior,sensitivity to lights,sounds.Insomnia,nervousness | I am writing for my daughter who is 98lbs and 4'10.I noticed within the last week of the unusual behavior. Due to her Lyme Disease which she had since 2009, these were different from her other symptoms. Her infectious disease specialist gave her this med to take before bedtime for sleep. I called today to tell her family doctor and he said to get her off of this med (she's taking generic Cyclobenzaprine.mfg Cadista) Be careful with this med, even though she has taken it with no problems for the last 3 months, it sneaks up on you the side effects. Another bad side effects is sleep walking. She was walking at 4:30am and I called to her and she started screaming like she was being killed! Generic Flexeril...BAD | F | 23 | 3 months 5mg 1X O | 9/24/2011 | 1 | Increased heart rate/anxiety, incoherent-difficulty in thinking & communicating, numbness in tongue, mouth, fingers, felt very much not myself, very much effected my normal activities. | Hated it & will not take Flexiril/generic again. Was prescribed it for moderate shoulder pain for which it was instantaneously effective, but the side effects were so horrendous to me that I will avoid ever taking it again. Lesson learned. | 44 | 15 days 10 2X day | 9/13/2011 | 1 | Chest Muscle Spasms | Extreme Grogginess in the morning, lethargic throughout the day. So far 16 hours of tiredness with 8 of those hours full rest. | Do not recommend it on a workday | M | 25 | 1 days 10mg 1X day | 8/30/2011 | 1 | TMJ, Back Pain | Suicidal thoughts, Depression, Anger, Anxiety, | Helped with pain and tension, didn't knock me out but made me slightly more sleepy, didn't have a "drugged" feeling during or after...however..it didn't take long for me to notice that something was up with my mood. I've cried more in the past week than I have in many years and was having frequent thoughts of hurting myself. This drug was the only thing new so I looked online and sure enough....loads of people are having the same experience. Got to say I'm a bit relieved because this didn't feel like me. I'm not taking it again and wouldn't recommend it. | F | 27 | 4 days 10mg 1X day | 8/25/2011 | 1 | pinched nerve, sciatica, muscle spa | 10 mg is much much much too strong for anyone to take unless you wish to be in a coma or out-of-it for days. This is a powerful dosage and should not be given to patients. I took it at bedtime and my husband woke me up at NOON the next day and i did NOT wish to wake up. I had a terrible drug hangover and could not function. I didn't care about anything. I could have slept standing up. The next evening, I felt naucous and went into the bathroom and started to sweat and shake. My skin was pooling with sweat, beads dropping from my hairline onto my face, my legs were shaking. I managed to make it back to bed and everything went 'quiet'.....i lay there and finally went to sleep, exhausted. It's now the 3rd day and I'm still TIRED. Man. I do not recommend this drug unless absolutely necessary. Certainly a lower dosage. | there must be a better drug. | F | 62 | 1 days 10mg 3X day | 8/8/2011 | 1 | upper back spasms | I must have had the oddest reaction to this drug. I took ONE pill and get this, I was up for almost 2 days straight. I felt like I was wrapped up in plastic and floating all over the place. I couldn't even function!! My family and I still laugh about this, but at the time it was not funny! I'm terrified of this drug! It amazes me how everyone reacts differently to medications! | F | 44 | 1 days 1X day | 7/18/2011 | 1 | lower back injury | DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, hand tremors, high blood pressure, feeling of hopelessness, irritability, complete loss of appetite | I take Effexor XR for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and was PRESCRIBED a script for Effexor XR and Flexeril at the same time, a HUGE no no. I was snapping at my family, the darkest depression I have ever experience. My heart was racing and my blood pressure was through the roof. I was so suicidal I went to the hospital and ended up in a psych ward. I am permanently scarred, no going back to what happened to me. Sleep does not come to me now without xanax and ambien CR and I HATE meds. A friend of mine 6 days ago got in a car accident, was prescribed Flexeril in about 30 seconds after his Xrays. 3 days of taking it and he wasn't sleeping, wasn't eating, and depressed. This drug is straight from hell. DO NOT EVER TAKE! I can never go back from the damage done. We need to hold these drug companies responsible for the garbage they pump out and hold doctors accountable for prescribing such horrid drug interactions. DO NOT EVER TAKE! | M | 25 | 10 days 10 mg 1X day | 5/26/2011 | 1 | Capsular contracture | Same side effects and complaints that everyone else on here put | have the same side effects and complaints as everyone else. Hate taking this medication. Also was in a car accident after taking it the night before. I don't recommend anyone to take this | F | 25 | 6 weeks 10 3X day | 3/26/2011 | 1 | chronic upper back pain | dry mouth, irritability and anger that quickly developed into depression and suicidal thoughts | Flexeril worked wonders to cure my back pain; it worked near immediately to alleviate my discomfort. However, I quickly became severely depressed and suicidal while on the drug. I have normal bouts with depression regularly, but this was far more severe than anything I had ever experienced in the past, and it was not showing any signs of receding as my usual episodes do. I did some research into the drug and found that severe mood swings and depression were a "rare" side effect, and immediately stopped taking the drug. After a few days my back pain has returned, but I felt much better emotionally and have stopped taking Flexeril permanently. | M | 20 | 2 weeks 10 mg 3X day | 3/21/2011 | 1 | Back, neck and shoulder pain | I took 10mg at 7pm and it's 10:30am the next day and I am struggling to stay awake. Wierd feeling, very relaxed but anxious at the same time. | F | 47 | 1 days 10 3X day | 3/17/2011 | 1 | injury from caraccdint | servere mental if phys pateint have any aniety depression do not take it will mess you i tok medince like five mmothn stil havent be able get back it put phyc leevl at high like never be fore | it worek for pain not worth what can to to your mental haelth | F | 25 | 1 weeks 1X day | 3/5/2011 | 1 | Neck Spasms | Took 1/2 a pill (5 mg) and had major anger/irate for no reason. | Not worth it.. was way scary mood swing. | F | 36 | 2 days 10 mg 1X day | 2/26/2011 | 1 | shoulder injury | suicidal thoughts, paranoid delusions, severe mood swings, anxiety, dry mouth, headaches, | My mom was the one taking the flexeril off and on for about 1 year. The change in her behavior was gradual. She became delusional and nearly lost her life, her job, and many of her friends. 2 months after she stopped taking it she was like her old self. I cannot know for sure it was the flexeril that caused this. Many people use the drug without these effects. But please beware of long-term use. | F | 55 | 1 years 10 1X day | 2/21/2011 | 1 | shoulder injury | The drowsiness was bad but the blurred vision is awful. I can't see clearly at all!! | F | 39 | 2 days 10mg 3X day | 2/16/2011 | 1 | Muscular tension- headaches | extreme fatigue, lethargic | was given this pill in the er at about midnight and here we are at 530 pm and can still barely function. Could not get up with my kids for school and have basicly slept the whole day. i feel like I can fall over when standing. hate this drug will never ever take it again!! | F | 31 | 1 days 10mg 1X day | 1/25/2011 | 1 | back spasms | severe mood swings, anxiety, anger, yelling at my family for no reason, inability to function, insomnia on the 2nd night | Luckily my back pain started to feel better with heat and massage, so I was able to quickly stop this medicine. I've never felt like this before, I was doing things (like yelling at my family for no reason) that I knew was wrong, yet I was unable to stop myself from doing it. It was as if I was observing this different person in my body. I will never, ever take this medicine again. I would rather deal with the pain I had then feel this way again. It's been 24 hours since my last pill and I'm still agitated and get frustrated very easily doing very simple housework. | M | 39 | 2 days 10mg 3X day | 12/24/2010 |