ZANAFLEX Reviews (TIZANIDINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.0 (125 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZANAFLEX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZANAFLEX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Multiple Sclerosis | None, other than slight drowsiness. I take it a bedtime to help with severe foot cramping. | Works fairly well for relaxing muscles at bedtime. Other than short-term drowsiness, I've had no adverse side effects from Zanaflex or Tizanidine generics. | M | 50 | 5 years | 3/27/2006 | 4 | Muscle contracture | Excessive sleepiness, so I just use this as my "fall asleep" pill. | This drug kicks in after 30 minutes and wears off after 4-5 hours. It puts me to sleep, so I use it to fall asleep. It does not help my muscles at all. As for helping my muscles, two other drugs I tried work better: Cyclobenzaprine (which is slow to kick in and too slow to wear off leaving me unable to wake up) and Skelaxin (which I can stay awake while taking). | M | 37 | 2 years 2 mg 1X day | 9/30/2014 | 4 | MS | Sleepiness about 40minutes after taking a dose. I'll nap for 45minutes if there's nothing to occupy me. I won't notice drowsiness if I am occupied. | Does a great job of moderating MS related spasticity without sapping muscle strength like baclofen does. | M | 55 | 5 years | 12/26/2008 | 3 | Migraines caused by neck tension | Dry mouth | It has mitigated the intensity of my night headaches. Since taking this medication prior to going to sleep, I only get a smaller and shorter version of the migraines. I still sometimes need to sleep sitting up to keep the headaches from growing to full blown. Still if I weren't on Xanaflex I would be passing out and throwing up and all that has stopped thanks to this medication. | M | 61 | 6 years | 7/16/2008 | 3 | severe shoulder/neck pain | Brief drowsiness when I began taking them, but only lasted a week or so now I take max dosage staggered through out the day with very little if any effects. | When I began taking I noticed they would extend the length of time I would benefit from trigger-point injections. Now I am not sure if the length of time has built a tollerence but I feel as though there is less benefit. | M | 36 | 9 months | 11/26/2007 | 3 | muscle injury | Disappointed with antispasmodic effect | M | 52 | 75 days | 9/25/2003 | 3 | Fibromyalgia | I had to stop taking this medicine because of an allergic reaction to it. For about 2 weeks, I was taking it and I gave it a rating a "3" in terms of helping to reduce my fibro symptoms. However, I broke out with a horrid rash and hives on the 3rd week. We had to rule out a Stevens-Johnson situation at first. That was the intial concern of my physician. However, after stopping the medicine, the rashes completely resolved themselves about one month after discontinuation. | This was a RARE situation for me. I have no known allergies to everyday things (pollen, plants, foods, etc.) and I have no other medicine allergies. So this was just an unusual case. It was unfortunate also, because the med seemed to be helping me quite a bit and if I were not allergic to it, I would probably still be taking it. | M | 42 | 2 weeks | 10/10/2006 | 3 | Fibromyalgia, multiple spinal discs | Nightmares! I hate the nightmares! It works OK, but I have to fight sleep for hours, or I'll be staring in my own Sci-Fi/horror movie. Dry mouth - big time, but I can deal with that. | I take it in emergencies, for really bad back pain, in addition to my regular pain meds. It helps, but I can't take it too close to bedtime, due to the side effect. | M | 40 | 10 months 4mg 2X day | 6/6/2010 | 3 | Muscle spasms | Dizziness slowed speech hard to walk but no pain at all take about 4 and you will be really high lmao that's what I use for | M | 44 | 2 months 4MG | 5/8/2012 | 3 | Back and neck spasms | Paraesthesia. | Way too short 1/2 life. | M | 39 | 7 days 8mg. t.i.d | 12/12/2016 | 3 | Thoracic injury | Dry mouth. Dizzy. Severe itching. Seems to work well | M | 55 | 10 days 15 mg 2X day | 5/12/2022 | 2 | Spasticity | Extreme tiredness yet unable to sleep well. Vivid nightmare | I have ms with disabling spasticity in my legs. I have to use forearm crutches to get around and lately I haven't been getting around much at all. The first 2 days I took the Tizanidine I thought it seems like it's helping a bit. The third day though It didn't seem to help much at all but made me feel so so tired and unmotivated. I don't normally feel unmotivated kind of feel like it put me in a bad mood. It could be in part from the lack of sleep. I did have a nightmare that I was dying and then when I awoke there was a baby crawling on my ceiling. That part wasn't really scary just weird. | M | 54 | 3 days | 5/2/2020 | 2 | Severe Back trap neck pain | Felt like crap and didn’t help at all with pain. Felt like taking a Benadryl for no reason while in pain...also had nausea and did not help sleep. | Garbage. | M | 29 | 5 days 4mg | 10/26/2019 | 2 | Tension headaches | Sluggishness and tired | Doc called this in today, 4mg, told me to take one in the evening. Took the first one and noticed a little grogginess, but felt headache actually coming back and getting worse. About an hour and a half later, took a second one. So far useless, might call my doctor tomorrow. And worse off, I can't take the Fioricet he gave me b/c I really don't wanna mix the two and risk oversleeping tomorrow and missing work. | M | 29 | 1 days 4mg 1X day | 6/29/2012 | 2 | Multiple Sclerosis | Very detailed dreams which I enjoy, I take two 4MG pills before bed. Twice perhaps taking them to close to the middle pill, I became groggy and my wife checked my blood pressure and it was 60 over 40 | I don’t think it helps the spasticity as I have been on baclofen for 2 years and nothing changed, but maybe it would be worse now, who knows | M | 74 | 6 months 4 MG 4X day | 8/31/2010 | 2 | Back pain | None really | It just didnt do much, it made me a little tired but no relief | M | 35 | 1 months 30 3X day | 5/18/2010 | 2 | Neck Pain, CFS, Muscle Pain | Involuntary bladder leakage, yeah wetting the bed, nightmeres, major sedation. | Not a great medicine. I use it for sleep when I can't fall asleep. Otherwise, if you have neck pain that is not muscle related, this isn't your drug. I definately can see it being used as a sleep inducer, not sustainer. Trazodone'll do that. | M | 22 | 3 months | 5/27/2007 | 2 | Fibromyalgia, Lumbar Disc Disease | The medicine works great for spasms and spasticity. The problem was I could not achieve the theraputic dosage without feeling like I was going to faint every time I tried to stand. | I still use it on very bad days when I know I'm not going to have to get out of bed. I break the pills in half and take 2mg every 4 hours. However, I have better luck with Valium and pain medication. I encourage anyone with Fibromyalgia to ask their doctor about Lyrica. | M | 34 | 3 months | 10/31/2007 | 2 | Tension headaches | Tired | Does not seem to relax muscles in neck that are extremely tense. Just makes you tired. You sleep thru the pain i guess that could be a plus. | M | 31 | 1 years | 5/6/2004 | 1 | Cervical Dystonia | Zanaflex (Tizanidine) - I had 1 mg. (1/4th of a 4 mg. tablet). It caused a worsening of Cervical Dystonia and caused blurred vision. It also caused drowsiness and an inability to think clearly. | This is an anticholinergenic. Zanaflex is not supposed to have any antihistamine in it, whereas Cogentin does. [Note: The half-life of Zanaflex is 2.54 hours]. The anticholinergenics that I have tried have either worsened the Cervical Dystonia or have not done anything to help it. | M | 52 | 1 days 1 MG. 1X day | 5/8/2014 |