SKELAXIN Reviews (METAXALONE)Average Rating: 2.7 (310 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SKELAXIN with similar:
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RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SKELAXIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
4 | Severe neck and shoulder pain | I have several neck disks out of line, and trying to prevent surgery. Skelaxin though a great blessing has caused a fast weight gain perhaps, and exercerbation of the depressive part of my manic depression; however the pain is not there. I am cutting back to 800 mg once a day from 3 times a day. I have cerebral palsy have more trouble walking on 3 times a day. | All muscle relaxants do make depresssion worse | F | 54 | 3 weeks | 6/6/2006 | 1 | DDD, back/neck pain | No side effects | Agree with some others; this drug seems to be do absolutely nothing for me. | M | 27 | 30 days | 5/26/2006 | 4 | acute low back pain due to spasm | First two days felt tired, disconnected/light headed, had nausea. On two occassions in the first 24 hours I almost passed out while standing. My wife noticed I was white as a ghost, sweaty and shaking. Also eyelid twitching...very annoying. | I must admit that the back pain improved quickly, but I was also taking Percocet and Nabumetone (NSAID). Not sure which drug helped the most. After 2 days, my body got used to the medications and I stopped the Percocet and felt much better. Continued taking meds for 2 wks. I never had an issue w/ Percocet before. Troubling though, is the fact that ever since stopping the Skelaxin my top right eyelid is always twitching. | M | 37 | 2 weeks | 2/25/2006 | 1 | Lower back pain | None | What a joke! I'm thinking this is a placebo or something because I haven't seen any interruption of pain. I take 800mg/4 times a day. This drug is definitely weak. | F | 30 | 2 months | 2/22/2006 | 5 | Seperated shoulder, strained neck | i seperated my shoulder and sprained every muscle surrounding the joint. I took 400mg before practice and 400mg after. the pain went from a 10 to about a 6. considering football is a contact sport, and strain is always put on the shoulders, this drug is god like | M | 18 | 3 weeks | 1/30/2006 | 4 | neck pain/TMJ | nothing noticable | Originally prescribed for neck pain with little effect, BUT it surprisingly worked better than anything previously prescribed to relax the tight jaw muscles associated with my diagnosed TMJ. I continue to take Skelaxin for the TMJ with ongoing positive results. | F | 48 | 11 months | 1/29/2006 | 1 | neck injury | I remember not being able to think clearly that morning, but I kept going back and forth to the mirror because I thought my face was swelling. I kept trying to call my husband at work, but couldn't get him. So I called a friend. She found me on the floor and called 911. My husband latter told me that my whole body was swollen and cold. Our family doctor even came to the house to help stabilze me. He said that if I had not had an epi-pen and used it that I would have died. I was hospitalized for two days. But I had brain damage as a result of oxygen deprivation. For 1 year I could hardly carry on a conversation because I forgot every other word. I still have word finding problems, but not as bad. Three mounths after this reaction I developed uncontrolled seizures. This happened in 2000 when I was 32 y.o. | F | 37 | 1 days | 1/13/2006 | 4 | neck shoulder pain | Help me relax and sleep but some nausea,I also take 10/500 mg vicoden and beed haveing a hard time sleeping,but since takeing skelaxin sleep has been no problem, Hope it works for you | M | 41 | 3 days | 12/28/2005 | 3 | pulled neck muscle | None | Helped some, but not much. 3 (spaced out) doses of 800mg seems to do as much as taking regular Tylenol, which is precious little. I've taken it for 2 days with poor effect, though it's better than nothing. Will continue to take, because something is better than nothing for this awful pain. | F | 35 | 2 days | 12/28/2005 | 3 | neck pain | medicine in powerful, but it will make you constipated, and have troubles with bowels. | you most judge the outcome yourself, It will work and help get rid of your muscle trouble, but in it's place give you bowel trouble. | M | 30 | 1 weeks | 11/17/2005 | 3 | Neck and shoulder muscle spasms | It makes me feel a little disconnected. It sometimes inhibits sound sleep. | This medicine is usually reliable at lessening the intensity of all but the worst muscle spasms although it only lasts for about 4 hours for me. It is more reliable than the Norflex that I used for 5+ years. | M | 58 | 4 months | 11/13/2005 | 2 | Acute sharp pain near calf | The prescribing sheet suggests it interacts with antidepressents and may cause depression. I take two antidepressants, an anti-convulsant, and lithium. No side effects were noticed; then again, there are plenty of side effects from everything else. | It hasn't touched the muscle tension or pain. I have been taking the 800 mg dose 4 times per day adjunct to ibuprofen and Tylenol. The pain has been so intense that standing was difficult. Percocet kills the pain and allows me to flex. My opinion is that there has to be something better than Skelaxin. Metaxalone has been around since 1964 and wasn't seriously studied until 20 years later. The human studies are remarkably small. I suspect the developer found the results to be too marginal to market the product. | M | 43 | 4 days | 11/3/2005 | 1 | Chronic lower back spasms | I slept through an entire weeks vacation only being up 4 hrs day! I remember NOTHING AT ALL. Bloated and gained 15 lbs and now 4 months later I am having the same reactions again! Here go another 15 ibs! I took 800 mg 4X a day. Very Dizzy, unable to speak clearly, remember short term memory 0r write legibily. Craving ICE water, Diarrhea, seeing double! | Don't take it! Its not worth it. It did nothing for the spasms. Apparently I react to the slightest Central Nervous System medications. I get better results from 1/4 Soma Tabs! | F | 54 | 3 days | 8/29/2005 | 4 | Herniated disc, upper back pain | I could not take 800 mg because I felt nervous and felt breathing was uncomfortable so I discontinued medication. After more servere pain, it occurred to me to take a half dosage 400 mg (broke pill in half) and had a substantial decrease in pain and few side effects. | The first time I could not take at all. Now for last few days, I am taking as needed and the lower dose is helping. | F | 53 | | 8/14/2005 | 4 | Neck pain | minor fuzzyness of thought | Seems to work! SO much better than Soma or Flexeril in that I can rake this during the day and not become a Zombie! | M | 41 | 2 weeks | 8/14/2005 | 4 | neck muscle pain | minor abdominal cramping | My my neck pain go from a 10 to about a 4 or 5. It made me feel like i was in a really good mood and gave me energy. | F | 25 | 3 days | 7/20/2005 | 3 | neck and shoulder pain | some drowsiness, but no mental side effects | It was great at first, I had been taking a more powerful drug that had severely effected my thinking patterns, but the skelaxin after continued use doesn't work as well. | F | 21 | 6 months | 6/24/2005 | 3 | muscle spasm in back | headache, very sleepy, can't stay awake more than 6h. Only taking in PM. | I am also taking neurontin like the F 37 y.o. gal and have never experienced tiredness on neurontin alone. Skelaxin + neurontin must = tired. There is an indication for antidepressants such as Zoloft, maybe one for anti-seizures should be added. | F | 30 | 3 days | 6/23/2005 | 5 | Muscle pain | no side effects | Relaxed my muscles for a prolonged period of time after usage. | M | 40 | 1 weeks | 6/17/2005 | 1 | Chronic back pain | Deep depression. | Actually worked to relieve pain. I took one 800 mg. tablet with one 5-325 MG Percocet, as per doctor's instructions. I hadn't been able to even stand up straight for days. It allowed me to sleep and function again, which was wonderful, but I suddenly started to experience this bizarre depression. Nothing else was wrong with me; it was just out of the blue. As soon as I stopped, the depression stopped. Very weird. | M | 39 | 3 days | 6/13/2005 |