MAXALT Reviews (RIZATRIPTAN BENZOATE)

Average Rating: 4.0 (314 Ratings)

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MAXALT  (RIZATRIPTAN BENZOATE):  Rizatriptan is used to treat migraines. It helps to relieve headache, pain, and other migraine symptoms (including nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light/sound). Prompt treatment helps you return to your normal routine and may decrease your need for other pain medications. Rizatriptan belongs to a class of drugs known as triptans. It affects a certain natural substance (serotonin) that causes narrowing of blood vessels in the brain. It may also relieve pain by affecting certain nerves in the brain. Rizatriptan does not prevent future migraines or lessen how often you get migraine attacks.   FDA Approval Date: 1998-06-29 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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DATE ADDED
 
 3  Migraine Slightly spaced out. No go in me. Not sure if it's right for me but it does relieve the pain. F 69 0 weeks
10mg 3X AN
11/10/2022
 5  Unrelenting vicious migraines 4 day Increased urination as migraine desists, then horrible bone ache throuhout body, esp spine, fluid shift from peripheral to central. There is nothing else that remotely touches the pain, and if taken promptly, I will avoid having to take anti-nausea supp. For there is nothing so helpless as when the projectile vomiting begins. F 66 10 years
6/30/2016
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 5  Migraine None After suffering for 25years with migraines and taking various things that barely worked without making one feel awful, i can't believe how wonderful this little dissolving tab is. As soon as i feel my neck/head tightening and sometimes already the start of a headache ( which is my warning to a migraine attack) i take one 10mg tab and usually within 30mins the symptoms have disappeared. Just pray there'll not be any long-term bad effects from taking Maxalt. F 65 10 months
10mg 1X M
11/28/2012
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 4  migraine Under-the-tongue: extreme fatigue. Tablet: OK I rotate Maxalt, Imitrex and Zomig for best effectiveness. F 65 1 years
6/9/2002
 1  Migraine with aura Irregular heartbeat about 4-5 hours after taking. Fatigue for 4 days and chest pain severe enough to spend a day in the hospital. Initial diagnosis was heart attack - later reversed and considered side effect of Maxalt M 64 1 days
5/26/2005
 5  Migraine headaches excrutiating. None! It's my miracle medication. I take it when I feel a headache becoming a migraine. I get full relief in two hours. I rarely need more than 1 tablet/1 dose. I am able to go about my normal activities. It is well worth that wait-period because relief is a sure thing. I suffered for years and tried many medications. I am so grateful to have Maxalt. F 63 8 years
3/20/2007
 5  migraines none It's my miracle medicine. I don't need it often. When I do I am so grateful I have it. Relief comes within 2 hours and feeling a lot better lasts 24 hours. Usually then have just usual minor headaches and no need for more Maxalt. However could this be related to my chest pains which are eluding a diagnosis/cause? F 62 8 years
3/25/2006
 5  I had migraines for 30 years. Absolutely none! F 62 5 years
10 mg
4/27/2014
 5  frequent migraines I have had no side effects. Maxalt has been a lifesaver to me. I take about 8 per month at the first twinge of a headache. It started to lose it's effectiveness for me several years ago and so my Dr prescribed Propranolol to be taken every day. This, in conjunction with the Maxalt use when I feel a headache coming has proved VERY effective. F 61 8 years
1/17/2009
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 5   I have had no side effects when I take Maxalt; however, I am starting to have a hearing loss that might be caused by it. I have been taking this drug as needed for more than 15 years. I had been suffering from migraines since I was a child. As I got older, they increased in intensity. I tried every headache product on the market, special diets, vitamins, etc. Nothing worked till I was given Maxalt. Without Maxalt, my work life would have been over. I would have had no pension and been on welfare. I had gotten to the point where I could not work 2-3 days per week, plus I never knew when a headache was coming so couldn't plan anything. Many momentous family events had been ruined by the headaches. The headaches would last for 16 hours, during which time I wanted to commit suicide. I frequently wake up with these horrible headaches in the middle of the night and can barely get to the Maxalt because I don't even want to turn on the lights. This has been a godsend for me. F 61 15 years
11/10/2008
 4  Migraines Memory , forgetful, sluggish Expensive medication F 61 10 days
10 mg 1X day
1/30/2021
 3  Migraine Depends on what other drugs I've taken, sometimes sleepy, tired, mentally dulled; I experienced serotonin syndrome when I used it with nortriptyline. It always makes my blood pressure go up, but that time it went up to 212/130. You should be very careful what drugs you take with triptans. For me any of the triptans just delay the headache. If I have a bad migraine and I absolutely have to be somewhere, then I'll take a Maxalt, and it almost always works, but 24 hours later the headache is back and worse than before. Seems like I have to have my 2-3 days of migraine regardless. F 61
9/10/2007
 5  migraine heavy aching arms, drowsy drugged feeling This is the only medicine that stops my migraine, usually within half an hour. Chest pain once. F 60 2 years
30mg 2X W
12/12/2010
 1  Migraine My chest was tightened with alot of pressure. Was taken to the hosp. with a heart attack. F 60 5 years
11/20/2008
 5  migraines frequent urination and tiredness It is the only migraine medicine that has helped me get rid of my migraines. It usually works within 30 minutes of my taking the medicine. I've had migraines since I was in high school. F 59 6 years
4/21/2009
 5  migrane slight feeling of sickness, cold,sleepy. To know I have maxalt has made a huge difference to my life. Within a couple of hours I can get on with anything. F 59 4 years
3/18/2007
 5  Migraine Tired feeling Been a Migraine sufferer all my life. Rotate Amerge and Maxalt. If caught early Maxalt can kill a Migraine within one hour. M 59 2 years
1/11/2007
 5  migrane For the last 4 yrs, I´ve been taking in average about 1 pill / week. In the last 5 months I started to feel some anxiety and sometimes difficulty to breath. I dont know if this could be a side effect of the medicine This is the only medicine that has worked for me after 40 yrs suffering with the headaches. I have tried various medications and none worked. M 59 4 years
7/27/2006
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 3  migraine Sleepy, dizzy and heavy chest for a couple of days. I have suddenly developed extremely high blood pressure and my cardiologist suggested Maxalt was the culprit. He said relief from my migraine was "not worth dying for" so I no longer take it. Too bad because now I face up to two days in bed again. Monitor b/p on this drug please. F 59 8 months
10/25/2007
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 2  Migraine headache Taking tablets. Relieves the pain well and quickly. About 3-4 hours in, I have to take a nap, and 6-24 hours in I feel like I'm coming down from diet pills. Muscles tensed, jaws clenched. Feel edgy and anxious and can't sleep. I've stopped taking it. I tried Maxalt 3 times. I, too, was rotating with Zomig and Imitrex and will just use them from now on. F 59 2 months
9/17/2007
  

MAXALT  (RIZATRIPTAN BENZOATE):  Rizatriptan is used to treat migraines. It helps to relieve headache, pain, and other migraine symptoms (including nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light/sound). Prompt treatment helps you return to your normal routine and may decrease your need for other pain medications. Rizatriptan belongs to a class of drugs known as triptans. It affects a certain natural substance (serotonin) that causes narrowing of blood vessels in the brain. It may also relieve pain by affecting certain nerves in the brain. Rizatriptan does not prevent future migraines or lessen how often you get migraine attacks.   FDA Approval Date: 1998-06-29 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

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