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 | Muscle Spasms from pinched nerve | Hullucinations | I have a bulged disc in my neck causing a sharp muscle spasm behind my right shoulder blade. 10mg Dose 3 X a day. Seamed to work controling muscle spasms. Then after a week I noticed very clear and vivid dreams. The symptoms progressed over time. Started having hullucinations when I went to bed even with my eyes open if the room was dark. Could see people like in another world. If I partly closed my eyes the visuals would get more vivid sort of like ghosts floating around. Very strange but I didn't freak out and didn't get paranoid from it. Didn't hear voices. This progressed over time. I sleep with a fan blowing on me at night, and when I would get into bed when it was dark enough, the fan blowing looked like it was blowing snow around the room and I could see the air currents. I held my arm up and I could see like the sweat and heat rising from my arm and swirl around with the air currents that looked like snow. As the currents blew around I would use my breath and blow | M | 43 | 3 weeks | 6/11/2008 | 1 | Neck pain bad discs | Horrible , made my entire body stiffness & pain burning ...super drowsy , very dry mouth , very constipated, Generic brand , I hate this ...god help, me please someone tell me whats wrong with me ! I need support is there some blog or any group whoa can help .my family & fri ends dont understand extreme body pain stiffness I dont want to live this way ! | F | 51 | 3 weeks 5 mg | 4/1/2013 | 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 | back spasms | Increased heart rate at rest from 60 HR to 144 HR. Stopped taking it. HR now 120 to 60 at any given. Time of day or night. | M | 53 | 3 weeks 10MG | 7/19/2013 | 5 | degenerative disk disease | dry mouth, dizzyness, lethargic next morning. | I only take this at night before bed because it makes me extrememly sleepy and a bit dizzy. I have had back problems for several years now and in the last 2 years have not been able to sleep through the night. now, i can sleep through the night and if I do wake, I can go back to sleep very easily. I do think I am becoming addicted to it because I don't want to go back to sleepless nights and all the pain associated with it. I plan on getting at least 9 hours a night with this drug, any less than that and I am groggy and sluggish. | F | 41 | 2 weeks | 11/1/2005 | 5 | Osteoarthritis C2-C6 vertebrae | definitely dry mouth, some stomach upset | i was tired with the first pill but afterwards didn't make me sleepy at all. Doctor suspects my metabolism is high which 'chews' up the drug pretty quick. Also only lasts about 6 hours so I take them every 6-8 hours. Works for the pain! Tolerable side effects for me. | F | 36 | 2 weeks | 2/22/2007 | 5 | Upper back pain/spasms; headaches | None | Each time I have taken Flexeril to help with back tension and headaches it has helped wonderfully after the first day or two on the prescription. I have some anxiety problems and found that Flexeril helped me. | F | 27 | 2 weeks | 7/18/2005 | 5 | arthritis in my spine | maybe dry mouth for a day or two | I love this medication. Before I was prescibed this my back was so tight I could barely move and it wa radiating heat. Now, no problems. Every once in a while my back gets tight when working out but i just stretch and Im fine. I LOVE IT | F | 25 | 2 weeks | 6/6/2008 | 5 | muscle pain, locking up, back pain | Coughing, build up of mucuces | F | 64 | 2 weeks | 5/24/2016 | 4 | Sciatica | Flexeril makes me very drowsy, so I can only take it at night. It also causes some blurred vision and dry mouth. That being said, it is effective in relieving lower back spasms. Taken in combination with advil, it is the only med that gave me enough relief to sleep. The pain from sciatica is excruciating and flexeril did help. | F | 59 | 2 weeks 5 mg 1X day | 3/2/2015 | 4 | Bulging cervical discs & RA | Migraine headache (pain in one eye & the surrounding area, sensitivity to light & sound) | Works exactly as it should, effect very similar to that of Soma. I don't understand why people are complaining about being sleepy while on this medication. It's a muscle relaxer. Of course it's going make you drowsy. Especially if you've never taken a muscle relaxer before. People should give themselves time to adjust to a new med before throwing it out after ONE dose. That's ridiculous. Drowsy, out of it- it's a controlled substance, & I know your pharmacist or doctor definitely let you know that it's not meant to be used when you have to drive. Obviously if you're told that, that should give you an idea that it's not a good idea to take it when you have other things to do. I'm on this medication and it works exactly how I expected it too. My muscles and body are relaxed, & a good amount of pain is relieved. I do not feel "high" or "foggy." I would have given this medication 5☆s, if it didn't cause migraines. A headache with light and noise sensitivity is better than not being able to get out of bed. I would definitely recommend this medication to someone with pain & muscle spasms. | F | 23 | 2 weeks 10 mgs 3x | 4/19/2015 | 4 | Shoulder tendonitus | Extreme drowsiness/sedation. | I took this back in 2001 for tendonitus in one shoulder. I had lost part of my range of motion. I don't remember the dosage or how long I took it, but I think it was about 2 weeks. What I DO remember so well is that it practically knocked me out. I don't know if it was from Flexeril alone, or in combination with the Naprosyn and Tylenol w/codeine I was also prescribed. Anyway, I could only take it at night. Even watching TV took effort, since I was so doped up. All this medication was necessary to make the exercises I had to do more bearable. Without them, the pain was excruciating, and sometimes even after taking it, it was still painful. But I had to do the exercises to get my mobility back. Physical therapy was also painful. This medication seemed to relax my muscles alright, but it also relaxed my brain too much! | F | 46 | 2 weeks | 5/24/2008 | 4 | Strained IT Band and Knee/hip pain | I Slept for 13 hours, stayed awake for 2 then took a 3.5 hour nap, stayed awake for 5 and went to bed. overall almost 17 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period and still tired. Also, very depressed, very out of it, negative attitude, totally unmotivated, grogginess all day. | Definitely helped my pain, a lot, but the side effects are bad | F | 18 | 2 weeks | 9/30/2006 | 4 | tension headaches; whiplash | taking 5mg. lowest dose - sleeping 12 t 13 hours - hard to wake up - groggy all day - made me depressed, weepy- will discontinue | would not recommend for persons who are proned to depression and dont normally have any sleeping problems. However was very satisfied with the way it reduced the pain in my neck and increased flexability in neck movement - but sideeffects outweigh the advantanges. | M | 50 | 2 weeks | 4/19/2005 | 4 | Muscle spasms | Fatigue, vivid dreams, grogginess | Flexeril did help with my back pain. I took it at night so the fatigue wasn't really a big deal. I did feel kind of groggy in the morning, could've slept all day. I would take this drug again. | F | 27 | 2 weeks 25 mg 1X day | 7/18/2012 | 4 | Torticollis-Neck strain | Inability to focus, extreme drowsiness, blurred vision, dry skin, mood swings, mild hallucinations. | I didn't really have too many problems with Flexiril, I'm still taking it, in fact. The severe neck pain I was exhibiting when I entered the emergency room went away after taking the pill, however, it also made me extremely drowsy, so drowsy I didn't even know that I was falling asleep. I don't know if it was because I was also taking it with Norco for the pain. I was reading the other reviews, about suicidal thoughts, and mood swings, I've never experienced any such symptoms since taking the medication, however, everyone can be different. I've recently started experiencing mild hallucinations, and my body feels as if it's moving, or floating, when I'm setting still. I'd recommend this if you ABSOLUTELY need to take it to make pain more manageable. Otherwise, the side effects definitely outweigh the benefits. | F | 19 | 2 weeks 10 MG 2X day | 1/4/2012 | 4 | slipped disk in neck | HORRIBLE dry mouth; some sleepiness. | It works. There's not much else to say, except the HORRIBLE dry mouth it causes. Have plenty of fluid on hand to drink, and brush your teeth frequently, else the dry mouth will cause tooth decay (as it did to me). | F | 47 | 2 weeks 10 3X day | 11/21/2010 | 3 | neck pain | After 2 weeks, out of the blue and suddenly, I experienced flushing, heart pounding, shakiness. Wasn’t sure what it was, so I stopped the flexeril, or I thought it was the stomach virus or something. After a few more days, I went back on it and same thing happened. So the side effects were absolutely terrible, thought I was having a heart attack each time. But it did help my neck ache, have to say that. | Also, I took it at night before bed, but during the day I felt out of it, didn't really bother me that much, until the awful sudden side effects kicked in. Too bad, I got to find something else. | M | 50 | 2 weeks 1X day | 11/5/2010 | 3 | Sciattic Pain | After I stopped taking it, I had insomnia, pain, hallucinations, daydreams, nightmares, impotence and extreme dehydration. | M | 32 | 2 weeks 30 | 4/18/2012 | 3 | Neck Pain and Morning Headaches | The first time I took Flexeril, felt terribly drowsy and slept like a log. I stopped taking it and had a very bad reaction. Felt depressed, "out of it", and terrible nausea. Later started it again and increased the dosage slowly, all side effects except excessive sleep disappeared. | It didn't help me much with my neck pain but got rid of my tension headaches. | M | 29 | 2 weeks | 1/2/2007 |