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 |
| 3 | lower back pain | dizziness, extremely tired alll the time, didn't feel like myself..very out of it | it helped with my back pain but made me tired ALL day, def. made me sleep though but the side effects sucked | F | 18 | 10 days | 6/10/2006 | 3 | extreme lower back pain | EXTREME drowsiness, dizzy, nausea, felt "out of it" all the time, groggy all day long, moody, had some really weird dreams/nightmares, did NOT feel like myself at all, constipation, dry mouth, etc. | unless your pain is UNBEARABLE like mine was..i would not reccomend taking this drug. it made me tired allll day all the time, i would sleep during the night, wake up, and feel groggy ALL day til i had to take it again. it made me have some really weird dreams and just all n all made me feel out of it and "lost"..not like myself at all. i hated it!! it DID however, help my back pain ALOT.. | F | 19 | 5 days | 6/10/2006 | 4 | Back/shoulder pain | drowsiness at work. | Very good medication. Took me from a pulled muscle pain of 9 out of 10 down to 5 out of 10 almost immediately, and now I am healed to a 1. Great medication, just don't take it before work. It will make you want to sleep | M | 39 | 60 days | 5/27/2006 | 1 | tension headaches and back pain | hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, loss of appetite, insomnia, depression, mood swings. | sure, i'll tell you a little bit about cyclobenzaprine. my doctors don't even give a shit that it f-ed me up for months on end. they have no intention of reporting this to the Health Bureau, or even of checking into any potential health concerns, such as that the medicine screwed me up. my life became a nightmare in which everything people said was full of metaphor and hidden messages, kind of like in dreams. i hallucinated voices and became paranoid of many people because it seemed like everyone was talking in code and i was supposed to figure out all the clues. if you are having any of these problems, stop taking the medication. the symptoms have mostly dissipated, but i am left with the wreckage of my concert tour which got half cancelled because i was incapacitated by agonizing mood swings full of terrible paranoia and delusion. luckily someone finally told me to stop taking the medication, but there's no getting back my concert tour, and my tour people told me that Oprah was going | M | 26 | 9 months | 5/22/2006 | 1 | back pain | deppressed, hopeless, frightened, vivid dreams, unwanted thoughts | I took this drug back in December of 05 and I'm still dealing with the side affects from it mentally. I had vivid nightmares all night and then woke up to a "out of the blue" sick deppressed feeling that scarred me soo bad I called the Dr. for an apt. They put me on Adivan to calm me down. My Christmas was a wreck from this drug along with my vacation. I felt so deppressed and scarred that morning that it has lingered with me. I've never felt that way in my life and it's been very hard to get over it. Everything was going right in my life until this stupid pill. It should be banned!! | F | 30 | 7 days | 5/15/2006 | 5 | Statin-induced myalgia | Some morning grogginess, but I'm okay once I get up and moving. | I was only getting a few hours of quality sleep because of my muscle pain before taking this medicine. Now I get between 6 - 9 hours of sleep per night and feel a lot better. I have to take the medicine in early evening so it works well at bedtime. I'm taking a 10 mg dose. | M | 42 | 1 months | 4/6/2006 | 5 | FMS, costochondritis, RSD | At first I was taking one 10mg twice a day. As my condition improved I gradually decreased. Now I just take 1/2 a tablet at night. The only thing I have noticed is my breasts have slowly increased in size. I have been on flexeril since 1997, so it may be due to getting older. I am now 58, don't know. I would be interested to see if anyone else on long term use has had the same effect. | I am very pleased with the way flexeril has helped me through some very horrible and painful times. | F | 58 | 9 years | 3/11/2006 | 3 | Arthritis pain in neck, arms, hands | I can't be sure it's cause and effect, but I have had trouble sleeping that became progressively worse each night. I've only taken it for a few days (prescribed to be taken only once a day, at bedtime), but I'm thinking about stopping. | I'm not sure it's helping. I'm also taking Tylenol Arthritis twice a day, but there hasn't really been any change in my symptoms, except perhaps a slight worsening. | F | 50 | 4 days | 3/7/2006 | 4 | back spasms | extreme dry mouth , blurred or double vision , constipation which caused/worsened hemmoroids , definitely doesn,t mix well with alcohol experienced several blackouts one of which resulted in OUI , also had several occasions of moody/aggressive/violent behavior with friends while mixing with alcohol | don't drink while taking you may blackout and have no control over your alcohol consumption | M | 51 | 3 months | 2/25/2006 | 1 | sprained ligament in lower back | Significant vertigo for months now after only taking Flexeril for about a week. Vivid nightmares. Disorientation. Nausea. Loss of sharpness in cognitive function and vision. I'm afraid I'll never get rid of the dizziness. I'm afraid I'll pass out or misjudge while driving. To top it off, it didn't relieve my symptoms! There's something very wrong with this drug. | I've always been very stable mentally. This drug has turned me into a dizzy, confused, paranoid individual. I only pray the symptoms will improve over time. | F | 40 | 7 days | 2/15/2006 | 5 | Fibromyalgia, Psoriatic Arthritis | Groggy in morning, but other then that, none. | I have been prescribed Flexeril to take as needed for about 3 yrs. I only use when FMS flares up to a point it inhibits sleep. I find if I take 1 pill, 2 on a very severe flare up, my whole body can relax and I can get enough relief for a good nights sleep and get pain level down to managable level. I never have to refill a prescription unless my pills become outdated. It does the trick when I'm flared up and I think the key is not to take it unless you REALLY need it, so your body doesn't build up a resistance to it. | F | 43 | 3 years | 2/7/2006 | 1 | FMS | severe depression. Suicidal. | Took at bedtime. made me sleep 12 hours straight. See side effects. I am not bipolar either. | M | 46 | 8 days | 1/13/2006 | 1 | back pain | Insomnia, anxiety,and constipation. Did relieve the back pain, but the side effects lasted for three days, and on only 1 dose. | Flexeril has a half-life of 1-3 days, which means the drug stays in your system for a very long time (most drugs have a half-life of maybe 5-12 hrs.) | M | 49 | 1 days | 12/26/2005 | 5 | FIBROMYLAGIA | NONE | HELPS A GOOD BIT, STILL NOT THE BEST FOR ME & MY CONDIDTION. | F | 33 | 1.5 times | 12/20/2005 | 1 | lower back pain | Panic attacks, nightmares, spacey, tired, | This drug made my back feel better but the side affects were not worth it. I was spacey and tired for the first few days and then the last night I took it I had horrible nightmares and woke up depressed and feeling very withdrawn and scared. I would never take this again!!! | F | 30 | 5 days | 12/17/2005 | 3 | Muscle Spasims | This drug knocks you down and out, especially the first few times. | Effictive, but soma does the same thing with less sedation. | M | 27 | 2 months | 12/12/2005 | 5 | TMJ/ Bruxism at night | some grogginess in the morning---ability to sleep in which I never had before. Constipation! | I like it as it cuts down my grinding. I really have no side effects except for constipation---and I'm worried that I may be constipated for life if I stay on drug? | F | 29 | 6 months | 12/8/2005 | 1 | Herniated disk | THE WORST, I felt like i was on PCP! I feel like im crazy and my head is 100lbs, vertigo, i feel like i need to pass out. Sure my back feels a bit better but its not worth it. This drug is garbage. Why dont they just give Diazepam | Garbage. Unless you can lay in bed for days. | M | 31 | 1 times | 11/24/2005 | 5 | degenerative disk disease | dry mouth, dizzyness, lethargic next morning. | I only take this at night before bed because it makes me extrememly sleepy and a bit dizzy. I have had back problems for several years now and in the last 2 years have not been able to sleep through the night. now, i can sleep through the night and if I do wake, I can go back to sleep very easily. I do think I am becoming addicted to it because I don't want to go back to sleepless nights and all the pain associated with it. I plan on getting at least 9 hours a night with this drug, any less than that and I am groggy and sluggish. | F | 41 | 2 weeks | 11/1/2005 | 2 | Back pain | Extreme fatigue, blackout. | The doctor told me Cyclobenzaprine would make me drowsy so I took it an hour before bedtime. Within twenty minutes I was so tired I blacked out and fell on my keyboard. I went to bed immediately at that point and I woke up the next morning feeling spacey and generally weird in the muscles, but the pain was still there. | M | 30 | 2 weeks | 10/13/2005 |