FLEXERIL Reviews (CYCLOBENZAPRINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.4 (559 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare FLEXERIL with similar:
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| 3 | neck and back injury | I injured my neck and back in 1990. I have had four neck fusions and one back surgery without a fusion. I have no pain tolerance what so ever. I took Flexerils before surgeries so I could cope with life. After my fusions I tapered back to 20mlg at bedtime so I could wake up after 12 hrs of sleep and make it through the day. I will tell you from my long experience (20 years) on this medicine that it works well to give you a somewhat active life back, but eventually it will weaken your muscles, eliminating support thus creating more pain and will Wreak HAVOC in your body later on in life as you age. I now have TACHYCARDIA (fast heart beats150 to 250 per minute) that I have to control with medication for the rest of my life. It also causes overactive mucus secretions that contribute to bronchial irritations that can lead to COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary / lung disease) With these two side effects, it makes managing them difficult. The bronchial medicines aggravate the Tachycardia | USE WITH GREAT CAUTION SHORT TERM and "DO" READ LOTS OF RESEARCH !! Type in query: "ADVANCED" SIDE EFFECTS OF Whatever Drug you are researching for a fully exposed listing of all side effects with any drug !!!!!! Get all the Facts ! Not just a few !!! Bless us ALL ! | F | 55 | 20 years 10mg 2X day | 8/31/2013 | 5 | fibromyalgia & chronic pain. | Miracle drug for me. Accident in '96 completely disabled me. Many Drs & failed scripts later, found that oxycontin, percocet & flexeril gave me my life back. Skip to 2013 & no Dr will treat me severe chronic pain with percs or oxy. Even having problems getting anyone to write me flexeril now. My life is a nightmare of rock hard muscles, tmj, nerve pain & more. Family & friends now send me any flexeril they get so I can sleep, work, drive, be mom & function somewhat normal. I take 20-30mgs b4 bed & 10mgs as needed for muscle stiffness & spasms. Life is unbearable without it. ER treated me like a pill seeker after I fell & blacked out during a time I had ZERO meds & no insurance it dr, when I asked for flexeril to prevent severe spasms. Wtf? I don't get high off my meds, I get a life & work on them. Without them, I'm unable to dress, shower, climb stairs, eat, think, etc. Thank god I have family & friends who give up their meds so I can maintain some semblance of a normal life. Fuck you DEA for taking away our meds so you can shake down Dr Geeks who fold under the threats of losing their licenses so you can stop a small amount of junkies who ruin it for the ones who really need flexeril & oxycodone to function. May you have an accident & get denied pain relief by a Dr you made stop writing pain meds. FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE DEA! I want my scripts back!!! | F | 42 | 10 years 10mg+ | 6/25/2013 | 5 | muscles spams/ back pain | tired and weak feelings | It has worked great for me, muscle pain and a relaxing effect | M | 72 | 10 years 10 1X day | 1/13/2019 | 4 | Back Pain - Severe Scoliosis | Flexeril has been very effective for me. My doctor initially prescribed 10 mg to take at night as needed for back spasms. It works great for getting rid of back spasms - by the next day they are gone! But over time I realized that 10 mg was too much because I felt groggy and irritable the next day. Cut back to 5mg and that works just as well without as much grogginess. | As I said, I realized that 10 mg was too much for me, and I am a big person (~225 pounds and 6'1" tall), so I started taking only 5 mg on my own. That works much better for me - still relieves my back spasm, and I am not as groggy or irritable the next day. I do not take flexeril every night - only when I have a spasm. | F | 47 | 10 years 5 to 10 1X day | 5/21/2013 | 1 | Severe neck and back injury | DEPRESSION, morning fog, irritability, and frequent urination during the night (after years of taking but has gone away now that I am off it a couple years). My mood and irritability levels are much much better after being off it even without the sleep. | I took this medication for 10 years (5-10 mg before bed) to help me sleep following a neck injury and couple surgeries. I had a terrible time sleeping and it did help me sleep, however it has made me much more of a nervous person than I was before. See my other side effects listed. For these reasons I cannot recommend it. However, to-date I have not been able to find something to help me sleep with my neck pain. Nothing else has worked and I live on 3-5 hours a night. I should also mention that I take no other prescriptions and only took narcotics immediately after surgery. That is a road you should avoid at all costs. | M | 46 | 10 years | 10/3/2009 | 5 | FMS, costochondritis, RSD | At first I was taking one 10mg twice a day. As my condition improved I gradually decreased. Now I just take 1/2 a tablet at night. The only thing I have noticed is my breasts have slowly increased in size. I have been on flexeril since 1997, so it may be due to getting older. I am now 58, don't know. I would be interested to see if anyone else on long term use has had the same effect. | I am very pleased with the way flexeril has helped me through some very horrible and painful times. | F | 58 | 9 years | 3/11/2006 | 5 | Fibromyalgia/restless legs syndrome | Dry mouth, drowsiness at first. Mid-day sleepiness makes you crave a nap. | I cut back my dosage to one pill an hour before bed but right before my hot shower to further relax. If I take Flexeril during my work day, it's tough to keep my head up off the steering wheel, and that is NOT good as I drive a dump truck for a living. All in all with a little common sense, this drug helped immensely with my spasms and with the torn rotator cuff. It won't cure you by itself, but it will relax you so you can rest your muscles comfortably. I take an Rx 800mg Ibuprofen with it at bedtime for the diffuse pain associated with the muscle problems. With the complications of Fibromyalgia, Restless Legs Syndrome, Systemic Sceroderma, Lupus and Rhumatoid Arthritis it's nice to know I can get 5 or 6 hours good sleep when I take the Flexeril. | F | 47 | 8 years 20mg 3X day | 2/28/2010 | 5 | Stiff Neck - Sleep aid | None, GREAT sleep aid. | I originally got this prescribed to relieve a stiff neck. But I noticed I slept like a baby when I took it with no side effects. I asked my doctor if I could take it as a sleep aid when needed because it worked so well and she said ok. I only take 1 pill as needed when I'm hyper and can't sleep due to stress at work or home. I never wake up groggy. I've taken it early or at 3AM and it has worked every time. I may take 10 pills in a year. Usually several nights in a row. It just takes the edge off so I can sleep. I forget how it worked on the stiff neck :-) | M | 48 | 8 years | 8/28/2007 | 5 | Muscle spasm,severe pain,now I walk | None | This medicine is a miracle for me ! | F | 58 | 8 years | 10/3/2017 | 3 | whiplash; SCM; TMJ | Aside from loosening my skeletal muscles so I don't experience days-long criks in my neck, ear pain, shoulder or back pain...I sleep too long, have been late for work, lost a job or two because of inability to function and could care less because of the zombie effect at the time, and now that I want to go off of it am searching for info to help me manage all the aches and pains that I KNOW will present themselves to me in uncomfortable ways. | Will I be able to work out and will working out help me feel more limber? I have noticed when skipping doses before that my muscles get more tight at their connections and I become extra uncomfortable. I am afraid I will pull something just during normal daily activity. I don't know how long I should take it easy. Guess I'll be going to the health food store. | F | 46 | 8 years 5-10 mg 1X day | 12/13/2010 | 5 | fibromyalgia | I started taking flexeril ages ago for pain from fibromyalgia. Back then, I could only take it at bedtime, as it turned me into a zombie. But it allowed me to get a good nights sleep, and I woke up fine in the morning. However, if I tried to take it during the day, it would knock me out. After years of taking it PRN, it no longer knocks me out, which I actually miss, because I'm having trouble finding something that does that a dr will continually prescribe me. But now that I can take it whenever... I have a reverse curve in my neck from multiple whiplash injuries, and flexeril is the ONLY thing that will take away my neck pain once it starts (driving long distances really aggravates it). It works absolute wonders for that. After taking for 7 yrs PRN though, I do need 20 mg or occasionally even 30 to kill the pain. | F | 29 | 7 years 10-20 mg | 9/24/2014 | 5 | back pain and headaches | Very sleepy. I've been on them only as needed. | The only thing that worked for my daily headaches. | F | 42 | 7 years 10mg | 8/7/2015 | 5 | pulled muscle in my neck/L shoulder | Dry mouth but that's about it as far as negatives are concerned. My metabolism seems slower but I think that's bc of the Alleve. Sometimes it makes me sleepy but if I drink it with coffee during the day, I'm fine. At night, I don't usually take it until an hour or so before bed. It does relax everything and that can be a positive or a negative. | I've taken this for several years since I first injured my neck area in 2003. My physical therapist said it will continue to happen from time to time and I seem to re-hurt the area every 6 months or so. I take the Flexeril,along with Alleve for a week or two depending upon the severity. | M | 33 | 5 years | 3/27/2008 | 5 | neck pain fibro | Very effective in the relief of muscle pain associated with contracture. Time to time slight drowyness, however rare. | F | 38 | 5 years 10 mg 2X day | 4/24/2011 | 5 | Fibromyalgia | None | In my experience, it is a great drug. Very helpful in reducing pain and in making me drowzy enough to sleep before midnight. I take either 1 or 2 10mg tablets at bedtime and have no difficulty waking at 6 am the next morning. | F | 46 | 5 years | 11/29/2006 | 4 | Lower Back Pain /Neck Pain | No side effects EVER except sleepyness, so I only take this drug at night. Do NOT drive if you have not tried this drug first. I almost drove off of the road first time! Would give it a 5, except need a anti-inflamatory drug to kill the total pain. | Wonderful release of tension and most pain. Take at night and wake up relaxed. I had no carry-over reaction. I do not take a lot of drugs, so perhaps those sleepy after 12 hrs have drug interactions. (works as good as a sleeping pill for me!) | F | 59 | 5 years | 5/3/2005 | 4 | Muscle Spasms | I've been taking Flexeril off and on for years with no side effects. | F | 27 | 5 years | 2/27/2009 | 4 | Neck pain | sometimes groggy. More prone to extreme anger and rage. | This is the only drug that has consistently released the bunching up of my neck vertebrae, alleviating the excruciating pain of a pinched nerve in my 4th cervical disc. | M | 56 | 5 years | 12/25/2007 | 1 | pain,neck and back,muscle spasms | thoughts of suicide,homicide, rage, depession, hopelessness | I have been taking flexeril off and on for at least 5 years. The pharmacy I use gave me a "differant" generic brand a month ago, I was taking them everynight at the time. I became enraged, had suicidal thoughts, cried all the time, cussed my "angel" of a husband (married 36 years) threatened to leave him, angry at the WORLD! I did not take it for a few noghts and woke up"not angry at the world" all of a sudden.It occured to me that just maybe this brand of "generic" might have differant side effects? I researched and found this site. Just about everyone saying the saying the same things I was feeling. I have had problems in the past with "generic drugs" as opposed to brand and I don't care what they say, SOME GENERICS ARE NOT THE SAME AS THE BRAND!!! I have been there , done that more than once. I know they say the"active ingredient is the same, however I did enough research to find out that the "inactive ingr. can cause your body to absorb(thus react) the medication differantly and certainly so, if you are on other medications! I am OFF this Stuff for good, I will deal with not sleeping and the pain before I take this stuff again!!! I would like to know how to contact other people who would like to join me in a Class Action against this DRUG??? The FDA needs to hear from everyone who has taken this also. It is very helpful to them to recieve feedback like this. Just go to FDA.gov to report side effects, they enco | F | 55 | 5 years 1X day | 2/23/2010 | 1 | Damaged neck muscles | Occasional dizziness | I am still taking this for damaged muscles in my neck and I have been for 5 years. These pills wear off so quickly or do not work at all. I have taken them up to 5 times a day and they did nothing. | M | 20 | 5 years 10mg 1X AN | 7/11/2010 |