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 | Migraines | None | Taken for 4 plus years works in 60% to 70% of migraines. Pain Meds for rest. Average 5 - 8 migraines per month | M | 53 | 4 years | 6/7/2007 | 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 | 4 | migraines | I usually get about 2-4 migraines a month. Initially exhaustion was the side effect. However, the last few months I have noticed that my memory is not the same. This is the only prescription medicine I take. My memory is failing. I am 53 yrs old. | I have suffered w/migraines since I was a kid and a migraine would last up to 72 hours. Initially thought Maxalt was a miracle drug. I take it as soon as the migraine starts. Usually 1 pill (10 mgs) resolves it w/in an hour. Sometimes the migraine is so severe after 2 hours I have to take another dose, but the 2nd dose always stops the pain & all the other symptoms. When the pain is gone I am usually left w/severe exhaustion & feeling like I got hit by a truck. But since the migraine is gone w/in a few hours I just sleep off the exhaustion. However lately I have noticed that my memory is not the same. Very scary! Hoping the memory loss is reversible once I stop the rizatriptan. | F | 53 | 3 years 10 mg 1X AN | 4/9/2016 | 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 | Severe migrain | None really, amazing, just a little drained out for an hour or two. | I live in Australia and had Maxalt while on holidays in the US, these drugs worked liked a miracle for me, the migrains were ruining my holiday (and my life, I get approx 1 migrain per week) till I discovered Maxalt, but on returning to Australia have discovered they are not available here, my Neurologist has prescribed Immogren Nasal Spray but nowhere near as affective as Maxalt, very disappointed that Maxalt is not available in Oz. | F | 52 | 2 weeks | 10/29/2009 | 5 | migrain | drowsiness after taking | Life saver, Having 10-15 headaches a month. Nothing worked, asprin, motrin, tylenol #3(painkillers do not work) Maxalt greatly improved the qual;ity of my life. | M | 52 | 4 days | 12/27/2006 | 5 | migraine | None | Works like a charm! So glad I found it. | F | 52 | 10 mg 1X day | 7/22/2011 | 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 | 4 | Migrains | Feels like Ive been in a train wreck - but no real pain. Basically makes me feel very sick - groggy - unfocused - dazed - really non-functional | Works great at stopping the migraine - need to take it immediatly after teh first symptoms (floating lines in my vision) I use the instant disolve whicg wirks very fast. Overall makes me sick but better than the migraine | M | 52 | 2 years 10mg 1X day | 5/25/2011 | 4 | Headaches | Tightening in chest, racing heart, dizziness for about 30 minutes. Then headaches subside. | I started on 10mg and had a strong adverse reaction. Dizziness, slurred speech, pain in chest, heart racing. Once I went to 5mg, symptoms were tolerable and helps me live a somewhat normal life. I've been taking it about 3 times per week now. | M | 52 | 3 years 5 mg 1X day | 7/21/2010 | 4 | occular migraine to head migraine | stiff neck, dizziness, out of it feeling, frequent urination. | Maxalt works within 10-15 minutes and most off the symptoms are gone. Within 30 minutes of taking it I start to feel "loopy" and approximately 6-8 hours later after taking Maxalt, I become very tired and sleepy. The sleepiness lasts through the next day, for most of the day. I've also been experiencing diarrhea. But I attribute that to my stomach upsets on the onset of a bad migraine. Takes me two days to be fully back to my normal self. I'm lucky in that my migraines which may first start with an ocular migraine then triggers a head migraine so I can take the maxalt when I sense the migraine coming on. | M | 52 | 3 months | 7/24/2008 | 3 | Migraine headaches | Drowsiness, light-headedness, nausea, frequent urination, mental impairment, memory loss, tingling in fingers and toes, sunburn like feeling to skin. | This medication alleviated the migraine about an hour after taking but it returned 10-12 hours later and required more doses. Due to flu like symptoms the first hour required bed rest. It also caused frequent urination for the first two hours. The memory loss, mental impairment and tingling in the fingers and toes lasted for days. Although this product did ease the migraine pain the side effects were frightening. I have taken Imitrex in the past with unsatisfactory results. It’s time to try something else. | F | 52 | 7 times | 5/19/2007 | 1 | Migraines | 24 hours after taking 10mg, I had chest pains and went to er. They ran tests on my heart and gave me the ok to go home. Next day, EXTREME chest pains! Went to er and they continued tests including a ct scan and angiogram. Heart is good, has to be Maxalt. I was in the hospital 3 days. I was given nitroglycerin just in case and told to be careful but could try Maxalt again if I needed. I had an extreme migraine (Nitroglycerin gives migraines!) after coming home and took a Maxalt. Within a half hour, headache was gone, but chest pains began. They went from small, crampy pains to increasing pressure toward the center of my chest, then I took the nitro which relieved those pains. I got a sharp horrible neck pain at the base of my skull which continued for 4 days. So I am told at this point it is an allergic reaction to the drug. | I have successfully taken Maxalt for years! It works for me on one dose, and within 30 minutes. This incident was amazing and horrible. I now realize that I have had small chest pains for about a month, and I have taken it 3 times this month. I can no longer take it. I say take it if your Cardiologist says it's alright, but be aware of all these side effects. | F | 52 | 5 years 10 mg 1X AN | 10/20/2010 | 1 | migraine headache | I had a MI within a couple of hours after taking the second dose. I have had continued episodes of cardiac ischemia and a second MI nine months later. I contribute all of these symptoms of cardiac damage to the drug Maxalt. With the warnings in the PDR the drugs is contraindicated in a large percentage of migraine headache sufferers. There must be some research to indicate that it causes heart damage. I intend to find it. | F | 52 | 2 times | 9/12/2004 | 4 | migraines | Heavy body and light headed | Less side effects than Imitrix, only medicine that has worked for me | F | 51 | 2 years | 3/26/2007 | 4 | Migraine | A little loopy like some people have said, very groggy, sometimes an upset stomach with diarrhea but not very often. | This drug is really a lifesaver. If I feel a migraine coming on,which lately is in the evening, so I take it at night, which is great because then I sleep like a baby and wake up clear headed. I'm afraid I'm having rebound headaches with it now becaues I've had to take it so often. One other thing, I've read on this board about esophagus tightening, and I experience that sometimes without actually being on Maxalt, but wonder if it's because I've been taking it for about 3-4 years now. If water goes down the wrong pipe, or sometimes just spit going down the wrong pipe will cause my airway to constrict and I can't breath very well... I've scared myself and my family to death. If I relax it finally loosens up and then I'm fine. But I am getting worried about this now after reading other posts. | F | 51 | 4 years | 12/4/2008 | 4 | Migraines | Sleepiness about 30 minutes after taking 10mg pill & pain also starting to lessen, if I'm not in bed where I can sleep I usually have to drink coffee or I just can't stay awake for a couple of hours. Also dizziness that usually last most of a day. If I have to take 2 pills in the same day or 2 days in a row, my lower legs, ankles & feet swell pretty bad & that kind of worries me, so unless I absolutely have to I don't take doses that close together. It is worth it even though I have these side effects, I just wish I knew that it wasn't causing some problem that can't be seen. | I have been using Maxalt for about 4 months. | F | 51 | | 7/17/2007 | 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 | 3 | menstral migraines | tight chest, dizziness and nausea. | does not work very well. my headaches are bad and last at least 5 days starting sometime within the first couple days of my period. maxalt can take the edge off so i can function somewhat but if i take it at the first sign of headache it just delays the headache and the headache still gets me at night and i wake up with it in full swing the next day. Once in full swing the maxalt only takes the edge off a bit. if i take a second dose an hour after an apparently ineffective first dose, then i get high blood pressure and terribly spacey although the pain subsides a bit. | F | 51 | 1 years | 2/7/2008 | 5 | Migraine | Tired and thirsty | Maxalt has been a wonder drug for me. I was very ill an average of 14 days per month. When I take Maxalt I may not feel well at times, but I am able to maintain a professional career and do activities of daily living with little interruption. For me, the biggest drawback is the tremendous cost. | F | 50 | 4 years | 8/16/2007 |