MAXALT Reviews (RIZATRIPTAN BENZOATE)Average Rating: 4.0 (314 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MAXALT with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MAXALT | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 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 | 5 | Chronic Migraines | Fatigue, feeling like I'm in a daze, frequent urination, I always sneeze approx 30min after taking it. The sneezing didn't start for several years after I started taking it. | Maxalt has been a lifesaver to me! I've had migraines every since I was 16. Without this medication I don't know where I'd be. I'll take the side effects any day to not feel the pain of a migraine. | F | 34 | 14 years 10 MG 1X AN | 1/8/2015 | 3 | Migraine | The side effects depend on when I take the drug in relation to the state of my migraine. If I take the drug immediately at the on-set of a migraine, it typically eliminates the pain within 20 minutes with minimal fatigue. I am not always able to take the medication within this fashion. The onset of my migraines are quick...first symptoms to full blown pain within 10 minutes...therefore, if I take the medication once the pain is severe, then it may take an hour or more for the pain to subside. If the pain does not subside after an hour, I typically take a second Maxalt. Side effects of the drug, when taken in this fashion, include fatigue and trouble focusing. I am also plagued with feelings of lethargy for several hours after taking the medication. | F | 33 | 12 years 10 MG 1X AN | 4/9/2011 | 5 | Migraines | Feel a bit drowsy, a little nauseous. | It's been a life saver for me. The side effects are nothing compared to the symptoms of the migraine, so for me it's a small price to pay. I don't understand why some people have commented that this drug should be taken off the market because they have experienced more severe side effects and were scared or rushed to the ER. Don't comment that it should be taken off the market because you've had a bad experience with it, because there are millions of people who've taken this medication and have gotten their lives back. There was a time when I was getting up to 18 migraines a month, unable to work and spending the majority of my time on the bathroom floor. Maxalt gave me my life back. For those who say it should be pulled from the market--you need to find an alternative treatment and allow those of us to continue taking a med that works for us, and somewhere along the way, get yourself a dose of compassion, common sense, and rationality. | F | 43 | 10 years 10 mg 1X AN | 7/26/2011 | 5 | Migraine Headaches | Frequent urination first few hours after taking MLT tablet. Issues with concentration and memory. Need to have food in stomach or I have trouble keeping it down. I hate the bad taste I get in my mouth from the orally disintegrating tabs - which doesn't help the nauseous feeling. | I get the feeling similar to my head being wrapped in cotton -which is by far better than the pain of a migraine. I tried for years to not take a Maxalt until I couldn't stand the pain...this is NOT the correct way to take it! As others mentioned, take it at the first sign of a migraine, for me that is a stiff neck and disturbed sleep as well as highted sence of smell. I found I am able to do just as well with 1/2 a pill, however I am petite and only weight around 100 lbs. | F | 54 | 10 years 10 mg 4X day | 10/25/2011 | 5 | Migraines every 3 or 4 days | Mild sleepiness, increased urination. No one has every mentioned this before but once the migraine has gone away - maybe an hour or so later, I get a sneezing attack every single time. Maybe 6 or 7 sneezes in a row - I welcome it, it's a sign Maxalt has worked it's magic. | Maxalt is a miracle, but so ridiculously expensive. | M | 52 | 10 years 1X AN | 12/1/2011 | 5 | Migraines | Sometimes feel tired, but not as tired as an untreated migraine attack used to leave me. | When taken promptly I find the pain goes within an hour and even if I delay taking it the migraine is gone within two hours. The quicker I take it, the better I feel, almost 100%; the longer I leave it and the migraine sets in, then I feel tired for hours afterwards. | F | 58 | 10 years 1X W | 2/4/2011 | 5 | Migraine | Slight fatigue although I think it is a result of severe head pain being removed rather than a side affect of the medication. | This medication has been a God-send! I have no side affects and can take it a work. It has worked every time I take it. No other medication has worked for my migraines than this one. I have tried many others with no relief whatsoever. Unfortunately it is very expensive and my insurance only covers a part. I pay about $10 a pill. But I would be willing to pay $100 a pill for for something that cures my migraine like Maxalt does. I've taken it off and on for over 10 years and it has always worked. | F | 49 | 10 years 10 Mg 1X M | 12/3/2012 | 5 | migraine | Feel slightly out of it; but fine if have a nap. | I hav ehad to learn when in the attack to take it. Few migraines now have used it for so long i can't remeber when i started! | F | 48 | 10 years | 2/28/2008 | 5 | Hormonal Migraines | Frequent urination, but I think this helps by unloading fluid volume which might be causing increased pressure within the head. Just a suspicion, as I have not read that in the medical literature. No other side effects. | Taken immediately upon start of a hormonal migraine, it starts to work in about 2 hours 10 minutes, to 2 hours 30 minutes, or not at all depending upon how rapidly my migraine "escalates" before the maxalt is through the blood-brain barrer and starting to work. I sometimes have a very rapidly escalating migraine that causes sudden projectile vomitting/diareah, upon which all oral meds are flushed from my system and will not work. It is my favorite TRIPTAN because it is rapid acting. For my hormonal migraines, it keeps the headache at bay about 13 hours, whereas Frova keeps it at bay longer, but has a longer onset of action for me. | F | 52 | 10 years | 1/25/2009 | 5 | Migraines | It does taste pretty bad, but it usually takes care of the headaches in 15-20 minutes. I've tried almost all of the other migraine medications, and Maxalt is the only one that works without making me feel sick. | F | 29 | 10 years 10mg | 6/15/2014 | 5 | Chronic migraines for 43 years | As many, I have tried most migraine medication to no prevail until I was prescribed maxalt. As a child I was hospitalized with chronic migraines and ad I got older 100% of the time a mrgraine ended me in ER. Since using maxalt, if taken during the first few minutes when vision starts to go fuzzy I can head of most of the horrific systems. I still feel a dull localized pressure and incapacitated for the remainder of the day. I 100% fall asleep and not able to do anything visually maxalt hsd changed my life. I would be violently ill for several day before maxalt and by the next day I function fine but feeling like I have a severe neurological event. I feel a bit slower in thinking and response time and physically a bit fatigued. I can't operate in florescent lighting and I try to keep down stimulus. | I have tried the generic, however was NOT successful. I just won't ever think of walking out my door without maxalt radially available. | F | 53 | 10 years 10mg | 7/1/2015 | 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 | 5 | Migraines | Frequent Urination. Cold Nose. Drowsiness. Heavy limbs. | F | 23 | 10 years 10 mg 1X AN | 9/20/2016 | 4 | None | Many people here have confused the symptoms of migraines as the side effects of Maxalt. Migraines are usually accompanied by visual disturbances, nausea, numbness in the face or body, cloudy thoughts and trouble speaking, as well as the pain behind or between the eyes. I always get visual disturbances (called an aura) before the migraine starts. That's when I take Maxalt, and it really does help me avoid the migraine from becoming severe. Usually the aura disappears and I get a very slight ache around the eyes (which would have otherwise developed into a fullblown migraine). I recommend this even if it only alleviates symptoms. Being out of commission for two hours is much better than being out for the rest of the day and half of the next. | M | 24 | 10 years | 12/28/2009 | 4 | suicide migraines | THE MAIN SIDE EFFECT WOULD BE MEMORY LOSS. ESPECIALLY WHEN ON THE MEDICATION, CAN NOT REMEMBER ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN SAID TO ME OR ANYTHING I HAVE WATCHED ON TV. | STARTED OUT WITH THE ONES THAT MELTED ON TONGUE, BUT TONGUE WOULD START TO BURN AFTER TAKING IT, HAD TO SWAP TO THE PILL. MOST OF THE TIME THE MAXALT WORKS, WITHIN A COUPLE OF HOURS, BUT IF THE MIGRAINE DID NOT GO AWAY, WOULD HAVE TO TAKE LORCET. I HAVE HAD MIGRAINES FOR 18 YEARS, AND OUT OF ALL THE PRESCRIBED DRUGS I HAVE TAKEN IT IS BY FAR THE BEST. | F | 51 | 10 years | 2/12/2008 | 4 | Hormonal headaches | Tiredness. Fogginess. | F | 50 | 10 years 10 mg | 12/15/2011 | 4 | severe migraines | At first the only side effects I had were tiredness, but in the past year I have started having a severe burning sensation in my head and scalp and I get very foggy it doesn't last more than 30-40 minutes mostly then the headache is gone. | F | 36 | 10 years 30mg | 7/21/2012 | 3 | Migraine | None for 5 years with hit and miss pain relief results. Use Imitrex mainly, Maxalt as backup when out. Within last year noticed increase in headache pain before relief, sometimes very severe. Feelings of being very disconnected, sense of something very bad happening until migraine breaks. Last few months Maxalt produces bad anxiety with feeling of impending doom with same hit and miss pain relief. | Stopping medication as side effects have overtaken migraine, which is a monumental statement considering my migraine pain. 40 years old now and am concerned side effects are due to long term use (suffering since early 20's) and probably narrowing arteries from being the McDonald's generation. Imitrex does not produce such profound side effects and is much more effective. | M | 40 | 10 years | 7/15/2007 | 5 | migraines | Just a slight feeling of "cotton-head" but I can fully function on this pill. | THis is the only migraine medication that worked completely on my headaches. I tried them all when I found out that I'd probably been having migraines all my life. This is the one that completely fixes the headache if I get the meds into me as quickly as possible. I usually wake up with the headache and if I take the maxalt and have coffee and breakfast, I'm usually fine, except, as I said, for a slightly cottony feeling in my head. I can do all my activities after taking this. Interestingly, though, my acupuncture treatment seems to remove the headaches completely and since this medication is ridiculously expensive ($110 for six pills right now where i live on my health plan) I am doing the acupuncture again to get rid of the headaches. Try that too. | F | 55 | 9 years | 11/22/2008 |
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)