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 |
| 5 | severe tension headache | Constipation, drug hangover, drowsiness | My problem is chronic pain and muscle tension due to neck/back injury causing severe headaches that last up to 2 weeks. I used to take this drug years ago and noticed that I felt so much better when I was on it. I didn't know but I had an anxiety disorder and I was able to relax when on this med. My dr. changed me to an antidepressant and baclofen for a few years but the baclofen wasn't working very well any more. I am now back on flexeril, in fact I asked to go back on it. I can only take it when I am home, not at work or I can't function. It's best to take at bedtime, at least 12 hours from when you need to be at work or functioning. If less than 12 hrs I only take half of a tablet or I have a drug hangover. Only problem I have with it this time around is constipation. I am only taking this drug occasionally now rather than daily just for when I need my muscles to loosen up to relieve a severe headache. | F | 44 | 1.5 months 10 mg 1X day | 6/4/2010 | 1 | Neck Muscle spasm | Nervousness (not able to sit still), extreme depression | I was on Ativan and Valium for a week during a prior extreme spasm. Dr. offered me Flexeril as he said it was "safer". It was prescribed 5 mg three times a day. The first pill didn't touch my pain. After the second dose I was feeling better but I was trying to watch a movie with my boyfriend and just couldn't sit still. Within 12 hours of starting the med, I was feeling very "down". I was withdrawn, didn't feel like speaking, and generally didn't want to be around anyone. I remember thinking I wish the doc had given me valium because at least I would have been drugged and happy! Suicidal thoughts crossed my mind a few times. I will NEVER take this drug again. | F | 31 | 2 days 5 mg 3X day | 5/11/2010 | 1 | Pain relief | Drowsiness, extreme restless feet, serious anger, mild depression. | I would never, ever, recommend this medicine. | M | 18 | 1 days 10 4X O | 4/17/2010 | 1 | Restless Leg Syndrome Leg Spasms | Total and complete insomnia. Loud, pounding heartbeats. Agitated. | Stopped the calf muscle spasms but I could not sleep - at all. After two nights of absolutely zero sleep, I was wide awake and had more energy than I can ever remember having. My chronic low-back pain even eased up but I seriously need to sleep an entire night and wake up refreshed and rested. Told my Dr. to note in my records to never, ever prescribe this medicine for me. I'm afraid I'm doomed to a life of severe calf muscle spasms from having Restless Leg Syndrome AND Period Leg Movements. | F | 51 | 2 days 10 MG 1X day | 4/16/2010 | 1 | herniated disc pressing on a nerve | Have been trying to get off of Flexeril for about a month now. Has anybody else experience withdrawal symptoms? On the nights I dont take it I have severe hot flashes and sweating, nausea and dizziness. This is an awful pill, and I wish I never started taking it. Have been titrating off as my pharmacist advised me to do. So glad to see others are experiencing similar symptoms, especially the extremem mood swings | F | 37 | 3 years 1X day | 3/25/2010 | 1 | lower back pain/strained muscle | Extreme depression, anger/rage. | Flexeril worked great for pain but made me crazy. On the ninth day of taking it, I was IN SUCH A RAGE OVER NOTHING, that I took a knife to my forearm. Multiple cuts and stiches to find out that this medication just caused my week long depression. Never again!!!! | F | 32 | 9 days ?? 1X day | 3/23/2010 | 1 | pinched nerve | blurred vision, pressure headache, severe depression and anxiety, stoned out of my mind | this drug was awful - these people should be locked up. | F | 23 | 3 days 10mg 2X day | 3/7/2010 | 5 | Fibromyalgia/restless legs syndrome | Dry mouth, drowsiness at first. Mid-day sleepiness makes you crave a nap. | I cut back my dosage to one pill an hour before bed but right before my hot shower to further relax. If I take Flexeril during my work day, it's tough to keep my head up off the steering wheel, and that is NOT good as I drive a dump truck for a living. All in all with a little common sense, this drug helped immensely with my spasms and with the torn rotator cuff. It won't cure you by itself, but it will relax you so you can rest your muscles comfortably. I take an Rx 800mg Ibuprofen with it at bedtime for the diffuse pain associated with the muscle problems. With the complications of Fibromyalgia, Restless Legs Syndrome, Systemic Sceroderma, Lupus and Rhumatoid Arthritis it's nice to know I can get 5 or 6 hours good sleep when I take the Flexeril. | F | 47 | 8 years 20mg 3X day | 2/28/2010 | 1 | Back pain | OMG i took one and a half pill and i felt extremly aggitated,paranoid, severe anxiety,tremors. Feeling of being poked in my head and body with cold needles. The worst Hours of my life. The effects didn't fully wear off for 24 hours. | F | 30 | 1 days 10mg 1X day | 2/25/2010 | 1 | pain,neck and back,muscle spasms | thoughts of suicide,homicide, rage, depession, hopelessness | I have been taking flexeril off and on for at least 5 years. The pharmacy I use gave me a "differant" generic brand a month ago, I was taking them everynight at the time. I became enraged, had suicidal thoughts, cried all the time, cussed my "angel" of a husband (married 36 years) threatened to leave him, angry at the WORLD! I did not take it for a few noghts and woke up"not angry at the world" all of a sudden.It occured to me that just maybe this brand of "generic" might have differant side effects? I researched and found this site. Just about everyone saying the saying the same things I was feeling. I have had problems in the past with "generic drugs" as opposed to brand and I don't care what they say, SOME GENERICS ARE NOT THE SAME AS THE BRAND!!! I have been there , done that more than once. I know they say the"active ingredient is the same, however I did enough research to find out that the "inactive ingr. can cause your body to absorb(thus react) the medication differantly and certainly so, if you are on other medications! I am OFF this Stuff for good, I will deal with not sleeping and the pain before I take this stuff again!!! I would like to know how to contact other people who would like to join me in a Class Action against this DRUG??? The FDA needs to hear from everyone who has taken this also. It is very helpful to them to recieve feedback like this. Just go to FDA.gov to report side effects, they enco | F | 55 | 5 years 1X day | 2/23/2010 | 2 | back pain following a car accident | I slept intensely. Maybe the pain was alleviated, but i really wouldn't know because i was zonked out, totally unable to care for my children. It was a very good sleep, though!! | Just I sometimes take it in desperation to ease the pain, but really, I'm just fooling myself, because it knocks me out for quite a long time. Fascinating to hear of others' reactions here. I came here before taking one tonight...I probably will do it and I will watch to see if I notice any depressive feelings. I don't recall feeling that way at all! | F | 39 | 7 months ?? 1X day | 2/18/2010 | 3 | Herniated L4 disk with stenosis | The depression I experience after this drug wears off is practically intolerable. I am usually a happy person, but when this stuff wears off, I become extremely depressed: crying, down, thoughts of apathy/killing my career, giving up, etc. I take 5mg up to 3 times per day. It helps me sleep, but I wake up so depressed, I do not want to meet the day. I stopped taking it during the day all together. A bit of caffeine helps me snap out of it, but when it is happening, the emotions feel so real. I am also opiate-intolerant, so this was a last resort for me. | F | 28 | 4 days 2X day | 2/9/2010 | 5 | Pinched nerve | The most bothersome was dry mouth and periodic mild depression feelings. First week it made me drowsy, then I adjusted and was fine. | Benefits far outweighed side effects. I was incapacitated by severe muscle spasms, use of flexeril made the spasms diminish and allowed me to get through my day. | F | 33 | 2 months 10 mg 2X day | 2/7/2010 | 2 | fibro pain1 | feeling drugged up all the time, really sleepy it's all I can do to stay awake and take care of my family and when I do go to sleep it is impossible to wake me up. | I don't take them as prescribed to me because I'm supposed to take 10mg 3x a day. Thats way too much. But when my fibro is really bad I can take it and get some very welcome sleep. But I have to take it when my husband is home so he can care for our children. | F | 30 | 1 years | 1/23/2010 | 4 | severe TMJ | very drowsy | relaxes the jaw muscles greatly | F | 20 | 1 years | 1/21/2010 | 1 | Lower back muscle spasms | Ridiculously dry mouth and spacey feeling, even 2 days after the last dose. :^( | This was prescribed to me as a muscle relaxant for lower back spasms and, quite honestly, it did nothing for my pain. It did make me sleepy so, I suppose, while I slept I wasn't feeling any pain but it didn't induce a deep sleep or long lasting sleep (took one 10 mg tablet at 10:00am each day, got drowsy and sleepy by noon, slept until 1:00pm) therefore, it was not an effective medication to relieve my lower back pain. The 10 mg tablets were prescribed for 10 days (one table every 8 hours), I only took one tablet a day for 3 days and stopped because the extreme dry mouth and spacey feeling weren't worth it because it didn't relieve my pain. I am really bothered by the fact that it has been two days since I took the last tablet and my mouth is STILL very dry and I am still feeling spacey. Not happy with Flexeril and can't recommend it; I see others here at this site have posted success with it so it must have different effects on different people but, it's not for me. | F | 47 | 3 days | 1/20/2010 | 3 | drowsiness, extremely dry mouth | It did help with post-surgery muscle spasms, but the dry mouth is awful and I will try to go without Flexeril. It did not help much with the pain. | F | 48 | 7 days | 1/10/2010 | 1 | Back Pain | Serious depression, thoughts of suicide, hysterical crying episodes, extreme sadness, hopelessness, all day fatigue | Awful side effects and it did not even help my back feel any better, so in addition to all the negative side effects I was feeling...my back hurt :o( I'm glad at one point I stopped taking it just because it wasn't helping with my pain. For 3 weeks I did not take it and for the last 2 of those weeks my mood was actually pretty good. I felt good with the exception of my back pain. After doing some heavy house work one weekend I decided to take a flexeril Sunday night. The next day all the negative side effects were back, this is when I realized the correlation. I will never take flexeril again, nor would I recommend anyone else take it. The side effects are just not worth it. | F | 32 | 4 months | 1/4/2010 | 4 | sciatic nerve compression | This drug knocked me out the first time I took it only. After that I was able to take it and carry on with my day. I either have a herniated disc or Piriformis syndrome which is compressing my sciatic nerve. I was in pain for about a month and a half before I started to take Flexeril. It hasn't been a week yet, and I'm already starting to feel better. The sciatic pain is still there, but I don't feel nearly as disabled as I was feeling before. The only negative side effect I've experienced with Flexeril is severe dry mouth. I definitely recommend this drug for others with similar experiences to my own. I am hoping that another few days of taking it along with ibuprofen and some stretching and light exercise will completely relieve me of my ailments. | F | 22 | 6 days | 1/3/2010 | 1 | back pain | I was very drowsy after the first dose at the E.R and when i got home fell rigth to sleep but woke up a about 1-2 hours later and felt very anxious and could not sit still | In total i took only 3 of the 24 pills the dr perscribed to me. I would have never been able to function at work and i know i was driving my boyfriend crazy in bed cuz i could not sit still and was always very anxious. I dont know how anyone could function on these pills. To make it worse i was already depressed from having a second miscarrage only 2 months after having a still born then getting put on the depo shot which caused all the pain i was having, and know i would have to waite atleast 3 months to try again to get pregnant, this pill made my depression worse...Luckly my b/f was with me the 1 night and the next day otherwise i probably would have harmed myself because i was feeling exstremly depressed | F | 24 | 2 days | 1/3/2010 |