FLEXERIL Reviews (CYCLOBENZAPRINE HYDROCHLORIDE)

Average Rating: 2.4 (559 Ratings)

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 1  Tension headaches, neck pain Extreme dry mouth, vivid dreams (nightmares), strange buzzing sensation in my head, irregular heartbeat. This drug had absolutely NO effect on my pain. All I got was uncomfortable side effects. Won't be taking it again. F 46 7 days
1/7/2007
 3  Neck Pain and Morning Headaches The first time I took Flexeril, felt terribly drowsy and slept like a log. I stopped taking it and had a very bad reaction. Felt depressed, "out of it", and terrible nausea. Later started it again and increased the dosage slowly, all side effects except excessive sleep disappeared. It didn't help me much with my neck pain but got rid of my tension headaches. M 29 2 weeks
1/2/2007
 1  After shoulder surgery Got out of bed to use bathroom and nearly fell - complete loss of balance and extremely woozy from taking only one pill. Switched to Darvocet which removed all of the pain without any side effects at all. Threw out the damned Flexeril prescription. M 40 1 days
12/25/2006
 1  whiplash, backpain, chronic pain made me unable to function at any level for a good day after the last dose. Made me groggy, weepy, and irritable with a pounding heartrate that kept me up all night so I was a zombie, awake in bed .. yes it helped some of the muscle spasms. but death would also stop them and I wouldn't prescribe that... this is living death don't take it... this isn't the first time I've tried this drug with similar horrible depression, weight gain and increased heart rate dry mouth and basically walking dead.... F 48 2 days
12/20/2006
 1  Sholder/Neck/Back Extremely sleepy. Spacey and lifeless. I lost my drive, Fine for at night. good night sleep, Although I am taking this to numb the shoulder/back pain and I really cannot say that it did a thing for that. I had 1 Tylenol 3 leftover and took that - it at least numbed the pain for a while so I could loosen up my back. I hate being a test bed for all these new drugs. I don't understand why doctors don't just stick with what works. M 35 3 days
12/5/2006
 5  Fibromyalgia None In my experience, it is a great drug. Very helpful in reducing pain and in making me drowzy enough to sleep before midnight. I take either 1 or 2 10mg tablets at bedtime and have no difficulty waking at 6 am the next morning. F 46 5 years
11/29/2006
 2  lower back pain anger, screaming, I hate everyone attitude, mood swings, sleepiness, groggy. It helped the back pain, but my family had to put up with this monster in the morning. F 37 1 days
11/25/2006
 5  lumbar herniation flare-up only a little grogginess, mooth a little dry No bad side effects at all - nothing like some of these folks are describing. I think it works very well! M 53 10 days
11/23/2006
 2  disc bulge L4-L5, severe spasms irritable, moody, completly lifeless, withdrawn, always exausted, loss of co-ordination This is one of the worst drugs I have ever taken. It left me in just a shell of my old self. I no longer cared about my grades, my life, my friends. It did take away the severe muscle spasms, but at a HUGE cost to my life. At one point I walked into the wall, thinking it was the doorframe-- that is how "out of it" I was! I'd rather be on Valium! I will never touch this drug again now that I have found Skelaxin, which allows me to still live as myself. It works different for all people, but you will know within a week if this drug is for you. F 21 1 months
11/18/2006
 1  Neck/shoulder tension, tension h/a Felt like I was losing control, felt like I was cut off from everything and everybody, spacey, morbid fear, anxiety, grogginess, thought I was going to die. It did do wonders for my neck, shoulders and headaches, but I'd much rather put up with that pain than EVER take this drug again. The stuff scared me to death, I literally thought I was dying, I was almost like a zombie. Never, ever again. F 50 3 days
10/20/2006
 3  back spasms Irritable, moody, depressed, groggy and spaced out in the morning that lasted ALLLLL morning. My wife and kids thought I was a moody monster when taking this! It did help me sleep and my back felt better, but I don't know if it's worth it when you feel so depressed you don't care about anything and you are grumpy to everyone around you. M 46 10 days
10/8/2006
 1  back and neck muscle pain sleepiness, "out of it" feeling; depressed feeling; disconnected from reality, in a daze. No improvement in muscle pain. I would never take another tablet of this drug. The mental side-effects are not worth it. F 54 1 days
10/7/2006
 1  sprained rotator cuff depression (mild to severe), body felt very heavy, insane dreams, extreme sleepiness, irrational thought, suicidal definitely awesome for falling asleep, but that's about it unless you can lay in bed for several days in a row. it took me feeling suicidal before i realized what was going on and snapped out of it. UGH. works for some but not all, as with most medicines. M 21 3 days
10/4/2006
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 1  back and hip pain rapid heartbeat, extreme anxiety, lots of fatigue I have chronic back & hip muscle spasms. I had to take 20 mg. of Flexeril along with 1 Advil and 100 mg Ultram to get relief. This combo did considerably relieve the pain, but within a week I experienced rapid heartbeat and severe anxiety. I have never had any history of heart palpitations. I've had depression in the past (not for a long time now) but am not usually prone to anxiety, but while on this I felt really horrible. I was seriously wondering if I'd have to go back on anti-depressants. I had been taking the Advil and Ultram together prior to the Flexeril, so I knew it wasn't those 2 meds. I can't express how relieved I was when I saw this site and realized that what I was experiencing wasn't uncommon. I am on the lowest dose of Zanaflex now so it's not that good for the pain yet but no racing heart or anxiety either. I'll see what happens when I up the dose. I would strongly caution anyone whose had a history of mood disorders, even if they're not presently experiencing the F 30 6 days
10/4/2006
 4  Strained IT Band and Knee/hip pain I Slept for 13 hours, stayed awake for 2 then took a 3.5 hour nap, stayed awake for 5 and went to bed. overall almost 17 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period and still tired. Also, very depressed, very out of it, negative attitude, totally unmotivated, grogginess all day. Definitely helped my pain, a lot, but the side effects are bad F 18 2 weeks
9/30/2006
 2  Back Pain No side effects The medicine stopped working after taking for a few days. I was then prescribed Skelaxin, hich did not work for long either.Ultimately, Soma worked. F 34 4 days
7/30/2006
 2  Back Pain Vivid dreams, extremely drowsy,disoriented, dry mouth. Took one pill at 8pm and 12 hours later I had to get up for work the next morning, when I woke up my eyes couldn't focus on anything, the room was spinning, I felt terrible. I couldn't think straight or focus on anything properly until the early afternoon. How anyone can function taking this is a mystery! F 25 1 days
7/11/2006
 1  Foot Injury (Damned Sesamoids!!!) The drug from Hell and taking you back with it! This drug nearly caused my wife to leave me and take my 3 and 4 year old sons with her. Caused extreme (nearly violent) irritability, complete lack of concentration, appeared as if I were in a dream all the time. Nightmares that carried over into the day and activities of the day. This stuff is WRONG. If you can handle it, you must have experience with drugs and drug usage cause it will kick your ass otherwise! I QUIT USING CYCLOBENZAPR IMMEDIATELY AFTER FIGURING OUT WHAT CAUSED MY REAL TROUBLE! Deal with the pain, say NO to Psychobensaprene. Certainly a money maker for law enforcement and the court system along with follow up care by the medical community. Should be outlawed. M 36 7 days
7/3/2006
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 3  muscle spasm in my back HMMMM..... let's see... how about depression, depression, and more depression? Oh and also some depression. Ooops... and I almost forgot... depression!!! Thought I was going crazy 'til I thought to look up the side effects of this drug. Body feels like it weighs a ton, weepy, hopeless-feeling, irritable, sad, unmotivated, "out of it", "don't feel like myself", "something's not right". I'm so glad I came across this website -- now I know I am not losing my mind!!!!!! I stopped taking it yesterday and I CANNOT WAIT until it is totally out of my system. Yes, after a while it did help the muscle spasm, but it's really not worth it!!! F 28 2 weeks
6/25/2006
 5  Muscle-Spasm Grogginess, Excessive Sleep This worked wonders for me when I had some serious muscle pain from a bad strain. I would caution two things: 1. To work, I had to take enough to knock me out for 23 hours. 2. I built up a tolerance to it quickly despite only taking it about twice a year. I have to knock myself out every time I take it, but I wake up 20+ hours later completely healed vs. 5-7 days awake and with moderate pain. If you've got time to set aside, it's a miracle. F 24 5 times
6/24/2006

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