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 |
| 4 | Chronic larangitis | A little on the fatigue side but was given much hope when my voice finally returned. I can sing again. | After numerous visits to the doctor, including ENT, no one could determine why I could not speak as the ENT put a scope they my nose and examined my vocal chords. Just by chance I took a 5 mg dose of cycloben, within three hours my voice retuned. I could talk and sing again. Turned out that my throat muscles were squeezing my larynx due to stress. The muscle relaxant loosed it's hold on my vocal chords and I was singing and talking after eight months of chronic larangitis that no one else could figure out. Thought it was allergies, globus hystericus, or the C word. Turned out that it was from a stressful event that occurred last year. | M | 52 | 3 days 5 mg | 2/11/2015 | 4 | Muscle spasms in back | Sleepy. Slurred speech | Relieves the pain of muscle spasms. | F | 86 | 3 days | 10/29/2015 | 4 | back and neck strain | this drug really helps my back and neck pain...I take it at night because it makes me very drowsy... Since I have such bad reactions to meds and get side effects like crazy, I break the pill in half...The only thing I notice is occasionally I feel a little nauseous in the mornings after I take the pill but other than that, it really helps ease the muscle aches when I get them | F | 62 | 3 days 10 mg 1X day | 2/24/2013 | 4 | tore shoulder muscle | very tired could sleep for days,loss of appetite, | overrall Flexeril helps with my spasms,just gotta make sure that someone is watching the little ones.. | F | 44 | 3 days 10mg 1X day | 12/4/2012 | 4 | Back spasm | At 5 mg, nothing major, just sleepy and hard to wake up until about 12-14 hours after taking the drug. At 10mg, very sleepy and numb body with depression, lack of motivation, and slow ambulation until 16-20 hours after ingestion. | The package insert should state how to dose the drug by body weight. 10mg is way too much unless you are obese. | M | 33 | 3 days 5mg 1X day | 3/5/2011 | 3 | back spasms | major anxiety, fogginess, depression, sleepiness | i am in recovery and was told that this drug would be safe for me to take. after debating for a while i decided to take it, and then only at night. in three days i was obsessively worried that i had somehow relapsed and ruined 9 years of sobriety; however, i just had back surgery 5 months ago and am still suffering spasms and pain to the point of being unable to sit still sometimes. anyway i took this after robaxin stopped providing any relief and it has made me extremely anxious -- like, cannot stop worrying. So. There's that. I hate the spasms but i would rather that then constantly fearing that i have relapsed. | F | 26 | 3 days 10mg 1X day | 7/29/2010 | 3 | Lower back spasm | Became furious with minimal provocation; yelled at spouse for no reason; foggy mental state; mild confusion; lethargy. | I became completely mean and nasty towards my spouse, like I had no filter on my negative feelings or comments. I would think to myself that I was being unkind and should not act that way, then the next time she came in the room, I would bite her head off for the least thing. It was like being drunk and losing your inhibitions, except it was only the negative emotions that were uninhibited. It was very unpleasant for us both. It barely touched my severe back spasm. | M | 28 | 3 days 10 mg 1X day | 9/26/2011 | 3 | Neck Pain/Muscle Spams | Dry Mouth, anxiety/depression. Felt like I was on another planet. Took 1 dose before bed and felt like I was in space for the entire next day. Felt drugged and depressed | F | 39 | 3 days | 5/16/2005 | 3 | Sprained Back | Severe nausea,Dizziness,vertigo, and many more | The first two days went ok but third day was horrid couldn't watch TV without feeling like I was going to possibly have a seizer nausea was unbareable even after eating it relaxed my muscles but I had the spins and had the feeling like I was on a boat | F | 22 | 3 days 10mg | 12/28/2015 | 3 | Neck muscle spasm | CONSTIPATION! The worst case of painful constipation i have ever had. Cannot believe such a tiny pill does so much damage | Of course, it did do as the doctor promised, helped to get me to relax ...relax to the point where i dont even wana move a finger, you'll just want to sleep. All night, and all day the day after taking it. | F | 19 | 3 days 5mg@night | 10/16/2016 | 3 | Neck and shoulder pain | I was prescribed to take Celebrex 100 mg one time a day and it didn't touch the pain. I was given Flexeril 10 mg three times a day but thought I'd best start with just one tablet. The Flexeril took away the pain, but left me feeling a bit woozy. After the pain came back I took just a half a tablet 5 mg at night and it helped me sleep. Since then I've taken just a quarter at a time one time at night but the side effects have noticed her depression paranoia anxiety clumsiness etc. because the pain was so bad I was willing to take the side effects as well. I would really not recommend this pill but instead for pain look at other meds. | F | 59 | 3 days 10mg 1X day | 3/10/2022 | 3 | pinched nerve muscle spasm | Vivid dreams, dry mouth, disturbed sleep, disconnected, depressed, depressed, depressed, uncontrollable crying | helped the muscle spasm, side effects are bad glad i read comments of others on this site, thought i was going crazy | F | 30 | 3 days | 9/6/2008 | 2 | Back spasms/whiplash | Dry mouth, blurred vision, vertigo/dizziness, loss of concentration, mood swings, mild depression, total loss of motivation, feeling of disconnection | Definitely not a good drug. Was prescribed for whiplash muscle spasms, I got to where I only took it in the evenings if the pain was unbearable. Made me super irritable, edgy and overall feeling of mild paranoia. Never experienced the suicidal thoughts others have mentioned, but wanted to choke the ppl I was around. You cannot do much of anything well on this drug, vision is blurred, severe vertigo when sitting, standing up or laying down. Loss of ambition. I should have taken the percocet the doc offered me instead of this crap! | F | 26 | 3 days | 9/9/2007 | 2 | muscle spasms after knee surgery | dry mouth, tachycardia and heart pounding, shortness of breath and fatigue | My muscle spasms stopped but my heart was beating so fast and pounding and I was short of breath,that my doctor sent me to the ER where they could not find out what caused my symptoms (they didn't think it was the flexeril )The pounding heart beat kept me up at night several nights and I couldn't even take three steps without my heart racing and pounding like it was coming out of my chest and feeling like I ran a marathon | F | 28 | 3 days | 1/16/2007 | 2 | muscle spasm in neck | Extreme sedation, bizarre dreams, dry mouth | I took flexeril (generic) last year for an extremely painful muscle spasm in my neck (basically could not turn my head in either direction without severe pain). Not only did the flexeril not work AT ALL, but it made me so sedated that I could barely function at work. I also had some really strange and vivid dreams (this is normal for me, but this drug brought "bizarre" to a whole new level). | F | 40 | 3 days 10mg 3X day | 1/23/2012 | 2 | Sciatic pain | Yep sat at dinner table and told my wife that I think I'm just gonna kill my self. The same way I would tell her I was going out to get a coffee. Weird stuff stay away. Also talked to myself a little too much for comfort cuz I was talkin bac to my self! | M | 42 | 3 days 10mg | 6/13/2012 | 1 | spasms following neck sprain/strain | Dry mouth, tachycardia, hypertension, arrhythmias, extreme sedation, depression. On discontinuation: continued tachycardia/hypertension, vomiting/diarrhea, "hangover" feeling, continued sedation 24 hours after last dose. | WelI, I can move my neck again--that's the only good thing I can say. Eased the spasms after 2 doses, but the side effects were intolerable. Pretty sure I was having intermittent A-fib. If I hadn't been so out of it I would've gone straight to the ER. It's a bad scene, when you need help but are too out of it to get it, both from the same drug. It's in the trash now. | F | 42 | 3 days 10 mg 3X day | 1/5/2013 | 1 | Neck/shoulder tension, tension h/a | Felt like I was losing control, felt like I was cut off from everything and everybody, spacey, morbid fear, anxiety, grogginess, thought I was going to die. | It did do wonders for my neck, shoulders and headaches, but I'd much rather put up with that pain than EVER take this drug again. The stuff scared me to death, I literally thought I was dying, I was almost like a zombie. Never, ever again. | F | 50 | 3 days | 10/20/2006 | 1 | Sholder/Neck/Back | Extremely sleepy. Spacey and lifeless. | I lost my drive, Fine for at night. good night sleep, Although I am taking this to numb the shoulder/back pain and I really cannot say that it did a thing for that. I had 1 Tylenol 3 leftover and took that - it at least numbed the pain for a while so I could loosen up my back. I hate being a test bed for all these new drugs. I don't understand why doctors don't just stick with what works. | M | 35 | 3 days | 12/5/2006 | 1 | sprained rotator cuff | depression (mild to severe), body felt very heavy, insane dreams, extreme sleepiness, irrational thought, suicidal | definitely awesome for falling asleep, but that's about it unless you can lay in bed for several days in a row. it took me feeling suicidal before i realized what was going on and snapped out of it. UGH. works for some but not all, as with most medicines. | M | 21 | 3 days | 10/4/2006 |