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 |
| 1 | Neck pain | disturbed sleep,bad dreams, too drowsy to work | M | 42 | 3 days | 8/5/2008 | 5 | TMJ and chronic neck pain | sleepiness (a welcome side effect) | I have lived in chronic pain from my TMJ for as long as I can remember, and I can't take pain medication on a regular basis, as it causes rebound headaches. This medicine (10 mg) allows me to sleep peacefully at night, while relaxing my jaw and neck muscles. Without it, I would be in pain 24/7. | F | 26 | 1 months | 7/30/2008 | 3 | muscle spasms | short duration relief, helps with sleep, does not fix problem | F | 57 | 1.5 years | 7/29/2008 | 3 | Lower back pain | Drowsiness, bad taste in mouth, dry tongue and it always feels like bugs are crawling on my body; but nothings there | It does help the pain / spasms. But I think it could do better or something else is better | F | 38 | 60 days | 7/24/2008 | 1 | tightness in my back | It made me sleepy the first couple of times I took it,felt a little relief,but it's starting to drive me crazy. | I wouldn't recommmend it | M | 30 | 5 days | 6/14/2008 | 1 | back pain | slow thinking process/itchy drugged up feeling face | This medication made me feel drugged up. My thinking process was slowed, my body movements were slowed, my speech slurred. My face was also really itchy, and in a drugged up fashion I would try to itch it by stretching out my mouth as apposed to scratching it. I think maybe I was alergic to this? I stopped taking it because these wierd side effects were to much for me to handle. | F | 32 | 3 days | 6/12/2008 | 1 | Muscle Spasms from pinched nerve | Hullucinations | I have a bulged disc in my neck causing a sharp muscle spasm behind my right shoulder blade. 10mg Dose 3 X a day. Seamed to work controling muscle spasms. Then after a week I noticed very clear and vivid dreams. The symptoms progressed over time. Started having hullucinations when I went to bed even with my eyes open if the room was dark. Could see people like in another world. If I partly closed my eyes the visuals would get more vivid sort of like ghosts floating around. Very strange but I didn't freak out and didn't get paranoid from it. Didn't hear voices. This progressed over time. I sleep with a fan blowing on me at night, and when I would get into bed when it was dark enough, the fan blowing looked like it was blowing snow around the room and I could see the air currents. I held my arm up and I could see like the sweat and heat rising from my arm and swirl around with the air currents that looked like snow. As the currents blew around I would use my breath and blow | M | 43 | 3 weeks | 6/11/2008 | 5 | arthritis in my spine | maybe dry mouth for a day or two | I love this medication. Before I was prescibed this my back was so tight I could barely move and it wa radiating heat. Now, no problems. Every once in a while my back gets tight when working out but i just stretch and Im fine. I LOVE IT | F | 25 | 2 weeks | 6/6/2008 | 4 | Shoulder tendonitus | Extreme drowsiness/sedation. | I took this back in 2001 for tendonitus in one shoulder. I had lost part of my range of motion. I don't remember the dosage or how long I took it, but I think it was about 2 weeks. What I DO remember so well is that it practically knocked me out. I don't know if it was from Flexeril alone, or in combination with the Naprosyn and Tylenol w/codeine I was also prescribed. Anyway, I could only take it at night. Even watching TV took effort, since I was so doped up. All this medication was necessary to make the exercises I had to do more bearable. Without them, the pain was excruciating, and sometimes even after taking it, it was still painful. But I had to do the exercises to get my mobility back. Physical therapy was also painful. This medication seemed to relax my muscles alright, but it also relaxed my brain too much! | F | 46 | 2 weeks | 5/24/2008 | 1 | lower back and neck pain | made me very tired and I think it is addictive, much worse than carisoprodol | it didn't help to relax the pain and in the long run it made my condiition much, much worse; I was supposed to take it three times a day; the doctor was too narrow minded to change it although it was obvious that it didn't do any good | F | 61 | 1 years | 5/20/2008 | 1 | Neck pain | Drowsiness, slight nausea, headache | I tried this a few years ago. My doctor prescribed 10mg 3X a day. I took one in the morning and turned into a non-functional zombie. I tried it again recently, taking it before bedtime. It did not help my neck pain, and I felt tired and depressed for two or three days. This is one nasty, horrible drug which seems to have very negative affects on most people. | M | 61 | 1 days | 4/14/2008 | 4 | back pain, headaches | This medicine did help me..it does totally relax muscles. | I have two complaints though. A: To me it takes too long to "kick in". When I am hurting, I need relief quickly. Which leads me to B: Buddy, when it does "kick in" you own it for about 24 hours. This stuff sticks with you. If you work in any kind of field where precision and alertness are important to you i would recommend avoiding this particular drug. It may work...but isnt practical for those of us living in the real world. | F | 39 | | 4/9/2008 | 5 | pulled muscle in my neck/L shoulder | Dry mouth but that's about it as far as negatives are concerned. My metabolism seems slower but I think that's bc of the Alleve. Sometimes it makes me sleepy but if I drink it with coffee during the day, I'm fine. At night, I don't usually take it until an hour or so before bed. It does relax everything and that can be a positive or a negative. | I've taken this for several years since I first injured my neck area in 2003. My physical therapist said it will continue to happen from time to time and I seem to re-hurt the area every 6 months or so. I take the Flexeril,along with Alleve for a week or two depending upon the severity. | M | 33 | 5 years | 3/27/2008 | 5 | back spasm | NONE. I have only used the 5 mg Flexeril. | I can't imagine what would happen WITHOUT Flexeril! My back spasms, if not caught early (I can feel them "coming on"), are debilitating, I cannot move at all, not even my head or neck, the pain is so bad even from slight movements due to breathing. My first spasm, I didn't know what was happening and started crying, I thought it was really serious and that I was disabled, a back injury or something. Now, I have learned what triggers my back spasms (upper back between the spine and shoulder blade, running up and down next to my spine) and I can prevent most of them through hydration, stretches, and avoiding physical triggers such as carrying a very heavy backpack. I keep the Flexeril for occasional use when the spasms get bad and don't respond to stretching, hydration, and other techniques. Luckily I do not get any side effects. For those people who have experienced mild side effects, try the 5mg dose (I've never tried the 10mg, the 5mg works fine for my back spasms). I ca | F | 29 | 2 years | 3/3/2008 | 1 | Chronic neck/skull base pain | Bad depression | As I was increasing my dosage of this med, suddenly (on Nov 10) I developed bad depression. Over the course of a couple weeks I was very withdrawn, sad, thinking one sad or negative thought after the other, wanted to die, etc. Just a terrible time. Then it occurred to me it might be the Flexeril. Stopped taking it, and depression gradually went away to almost nothing. This drug was evil for me. Works for some, though. I have a sister who liked it. | M | 52 | 1 months | 3/3/2008 | 1 | neck pain/headaches after car crash | --completely knocked out first night and racing heartbeat/anxiety following nights --headaches worse or same after taking --and I was only taking 5mg once a day, at night | I would not take this again. | F | 37 | 4 days | 2/29/2008 | 3 | TMJ, Herniated Disk, Neck Pain | Very tired, anxiety, dry mouth, awoke in the morning panicky, pain lessened from back and neck, dizziness, i am an engineer and i could not concentrate on my work, panic attacks, nausea from anxiety | It helped me initially to get some sleep but i feel over time it has hurt my social and professional life. | M | 30 | 3 months | 2/26/2008 | 2 | dunno | unexpected hard-on loss.....Guy's need I say more?? | M | 35 | 5 days | 2/22/2008 | 4 | Lupus, Fibro, RA body pain | racing heartbeat, seeing things | The side effects I described took about 5 months to subside but finally did. Now I only occasionally have to deal with either. And the side effect of seeing things... it was like seeing a bug crawling near me so that I'd jump a little, but wasn't terrified. Just startled. Not really that bad, and obviously not bad enough to stop taking it. Also, the side effects were drastically reduced just going from taking 10mgs to 5mgs instead. I now take 5mgs with Lorcet 10/650 3x a day every day. | F | 30 | 1 years | 2/8/2008 | 4 | Degenerative disc/lower back pain | sleepiness | I haven't had any bad side effects. It does make me drowsy, which helps me sleep, but it has helped the pain. | F | 40 | 3 weeks | 1/30/2008 |