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 |
| 3 | Arthritis pain in neck, arms, hands | I can't be sure it's cause and effect, but I have had trouble sleeping that became progressively worse each night. I've only taken it for a few days (prescribed to be taken only once a day, at bedtime), but I'm thinking about stopping. | I'm not sure it's helping. I'm also taking Tylenol Arthritis twice a day, but there hasn't really been any change in my symptoms, except perhaps a slight worsening. | F | 50 | 4 days | 3/7/2006 | 2 | Back Pain | No side effects | The medicine stopped working after taking for a few days. I was then prescribed Skelaxin, hich did not work for long either.Ultimately, Soma worked. | F | 34 | 4 days | 7/30/2006 | 2 | Chronic myofacial pain; poor sleep | Very dry mouth, fatigue, mental fuzziness, shortened attention span/inability to concentrate, alternating anger and depression, social withdrawal, tinnitus, stabbing head pain, vivid dreams, loss of apatite, significantly diminished sense of taste, difficult urination | I was prescribed this drug to help with long-standing (9 yrs), moderate-to-severe myofascial pain and sleep issues. My doctor instructed me to take it two hours before bed; because I'm med sensitive, she gave me the option of taking half a pill instead of a whole one if I felt "hung over" in the morning. Even on half a pill, I have been sleeping 12 hours and have to force myself to get out of bed, though it hardly seems worth the effort since I have no energy or motivation to do anything due to extreme fatigue, spaciness, irritation, and depression. I also have to force myself to eat, as I have no apatite and everything tastes flavorless (not a problem you want to have at Thanksgiving!). The effects from this stuff last me until around 7pm, so basically I'm either sitting on my couch staring at the wall while trying to ignore the stabbing pain in my head or screaming at my elderly cats for no good reason all day long (that is, if I can resist the urge to go back to bed). It has eased my pain a good deal but hasn't helped my sleep. I've read that the action of this drug is thought by some to be similar to the old-school tricyclic antidepressants, so it's possible that people who have problems with them might have issues with flexeril as well. And that's too bad, because being pain-free has been nice, though I'd enjoy it a lot more if I didn't suddenly feel that life is pointless. I'm calling my MD tomorrow to get this business stopped. | F | 38 | 4 days 5mg 1X day | 11/23/2010 | 2 | Shoulder and neck injury | VERY short temper, wanting to isolate, anger, weepiness, depression. | This did help to relieve my muscle tension but I felt so mentally and emotionally horrible on it I will never take it again. I felt positively crazy, thought of suicide, snapped at my family, cried at the drop of a hat...I had to stop taking it because I felt like such a nutter. Just doing hot & cold therapy and ibuprofen. | F | 43 | 4 days 10 mg 2X day | 9/25/2011 | 2 | Back sprain | First pill knocked me out (10mg) for 16hrs. No pain whatsoever, extreme mental fog. Threw the bottle out after a few days. Could not work or drive while on these. | M | 36 | 4 days | 5/4/2017 | 2 | spinal headache after epidural | felt sleepy and dizzy - didn't help too much with pain. | F | 40 | 4 days 1X day | 5/17/2017 | 2 | Lumbar muscle spasms | Dry mouth, slurred speech, drowsiness, not even cloudy in the mind more zombie-like. | I have tried this a few times. 10mg 3 times a day. This stuff messes with my head way too much. Day 1 - feels much like nothing is happening, some relief. Day 2 - dry mouth begins, mild drowsiness, slight slurring in speech, mind still sharp but blankness. Relief level for spasms is good. Day 3 - dry mouth, speech slurred, very drowsy, mind floaty and blank, short term memory recall is gone. Light nauseated feeling. Good pain relief. Day 4 - same as day 3, stopped taking. A week and a half later my mind and memory are still feeling subtle effects, slowly getting back to norm. | M | 46 | 4 days 10mg | 10/2/2015 | 2 | Neck pain | I thought I was losing my mind. Only took Flexeril at night and am still foggy and feeling terrible at 10:00am next day. Dry mouth, upset stomach, and the pain remains. Never again. | F | 54 | 4 days | 11/1/2007 | 1 | neck pain/headaches after car crash | --completely knocked out first night and racing heartbeat/anxiety following nights --headaches worse or same after taking --and I was only taking 5mg once a day, at night | I would not take this again. | F | 37 | 4 days | 2/29/2008 | 1 | back muscle pain | confusion, hard to focus or concentrate, very slow in thinking and speaking, had a hard time finishing a sentence or writing an email, one night it knocked me out and the next night I had insomnia. | Flexeril relieved my muscle spasm the first night but it also knocked me out cold. I could not open my eyes. Within 3 days, I was having a hard time thinking, concentrating, putting 2 and 2 together. I felt confused, disoriented. I felt like everything was in slow motion. I would start to panic because I could not seem to shake the feeling. I had to try and work and focus and I could not make that happen. Was reading my sentences over and over again and they would not make sense, my spelling was horrible. Too scary for me to consider again. | F | 35 | 4 days | 1/28/2008 | 1 | Back pain and muscle spasms | After two days I was so irritable and mean to my husband and kids and realized today, it was because of this medication. It also gave me a very rapid heartbeat and such drowsiness that I felt lethargic and even high. It helped the pain but after looking to see of my symptoms were a figment of my imagination and now seeing that so many suffer from these horrible side effects, it is not worth it to me to continue. I have also felt groggy all day, worthless and sleeping 14 plus hours at a time but feeling the same when I awoke. BAD BAD DRUG!!! | F | 39 | 4 days | 11/3/2009 | 1 | Neck pain from being rear-ended. | Explosive anger stemming from uncharacteristic irritability induced by this drug. The medication made me sleep about 14 hours a day when I generally only sleep 5 on my own. The medication also wasn't effective for the pain. Maybe for two hours tops I would feel disoriented to the point of feeling like I was in less pain. Overall would never touch this drug again. | F | 24 | 4 days 5 mg | 9/12/2016 | 1 | Muscle aches | I decided bc of severe back pain and insomnia to take flexeril I was given . The first day was ok and then the next day I felt hypoglycemic all day and also felt confused and had several panic attacks. Every time I stood up I felt like i was going to pass out . If u have ever tried pot it felt like a bad marijuana high in college . Was not fun and will never take again | Take w caution | F | 33 | 4 days 10 | 7/10/2015 | 1 | Shoulder pain | Dry mouth, foggy mind, anger, irritation, high blood pressure, high heart rate, headache | These suck! Did nothing for my pain. Aleve worked 10x better. It’s been 5 days and I still have this high heartbeat. Usually mid to high 70’s laying down. At 110 right now and been laying down for over a hour. Oh and these constant warm sensations suck the big one. From what I see, these mess with your mind more then they help with pain. | M | 33 | 4 days 10 | 10/7/2017 | 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 | Sciatica Muscle spasms lower back | Couldn't sleep because of sciatic pain so Dr prescribed Flexeril for pain relief and so I could sleep. First night slept for 14 hours. All next day severe sleepiness, hangover type headache, pain behind eye, didn't want to do anything and didn't get dressed until 3pm, total loss of motivation to do anything ! Next few nights, no pain relief at all and worse symptoms of sleepiness, headache and even anger. Will not take this again. | I tried it once for TMJ and it took the muscle spasms away. This time for sciatica it is totally useless and caused so many negative symptoms, I will not take it again. Horrible drug | F | 60 | 4 days 10 mg 1X day | 2/10/2013 | 1 | Muscle strain, nerve impingement | I suffered from severe pressure and headaches in my temples, base of occipital and around eyes. My vision was blurry and I was nauseous. My diastolic pressure increased by 10-15mmHg and i had terrible anxiety. It took 5 days for symptoms to go away and diastolic pressure to decrease. I would rather deal with the pain than go through this again. | F | 49 | 4 days 10mg x1 | 11/25/2012 | 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 | 5 | herneated disc | none--drowsy | I take one a day and it helps me sleep with my aching back | F | 59 | 3 days | 1/30/2007 | 5 | Headaches and lower lumbar pain | Sleepy, lightly drowsy, relaxed, loopy | I usually get continuous headaches, was prescribed flexeril & besides making me sleepy loopy and relaxed I've noticed that if I take it 3 days in a row headaches don't appear as often and back pain isn't as intense and sometimes gone all together. I only take it when I feel like I can't handle the pain much longer or if I know I've had pain for over a week already and it continues to progress, overall has helped a lot way better than taking excedrin or Tylenol all the time .. it's less of a dose per say & a longer relief.. oh and the very first time I did take flexeril, the drowsy I don't want to move a muscle feeling was highly intense but I figured it's because your body isn't used to it and within a week of the first time I took it the fatigue feeling I had began to diminish, now it's usually gone after the first hour after I wake up. | F | 26 | 3 days 10mg | 10/8/2015 |