MAXALT Reviews (RIZATRIPTAN BENZOATE)Average Rating: 4.0 (314 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MAXALT with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MAXALT | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | migraine | After taking maxalt I begin to feel even worse. It seems my head gets worse and my stomach hurts a bit and I just feel horrible for about an hour. After the hours is up I feel great with no headache. Normally this kind of reaction would cause me not to take it anymore but when I get that certain kind of headache, its the ONLY think I have found that helps at all. | F | 26 | 6 months | 7/25/2008 | 5 | migraine | None. | Tried some preventives like "stupimax" which caused me great anxiety and heart palpitations. Tried other meds. for onset. Nothing has worked without horrid side effects but Maxalt. If it doesn't work within 15 min. I take a tylenol with it and that usually works. Sometimes I take the tylenol before if it is mild enough. If it gets worse, then I take the maxalt. (I've also found that lots of legumes (esp. peas) helps). | F | 44 | 2 years | 7/24/2008 | 4 | occular migraine to head migraine | stiff neck, dizziness, out of it feeling, frequent urination. | Maxalt works within 10-15 minutes and most off the symptoms are gone. Within 30 minutes of taking it I start to feel "loopy" and approximately 6-8 hours later after taking Maxalt, I become very tired and sleepy. The sleepiness lasts through the next day, for most of the day. I've also been experiencing diarrhea. But I attribute that to my stomach upsets on the onset of a bad migraine. Takes me two days to be fully back to my normal self. I'm lucky in that my migraines which may first start with an ocular migraine then triggers a head migraine so I can take the maxalt when I sense the migraine coming on. | M | 52 | 3 months | 7/24/2008 | 4 | MIgraine | FeelI may have rebound headaches as I tend to get several in a row | F | 7 years | 7/23/2008 | 1 | chronic migraines | made me sick...at first it was just extreme nausea, then it was full blown vomiting and it only got rid of the headaches in the beginning and even then only for a max of 2 hours...then it stopped working all together and just made me throw-up. | F | 34 | 6 months | 7/15/2008 | 5 | Migranes | out of it feeling, frequent urination, slight fatigue | My headaches are usually gone within the first fifteen minutes after I take Maxalt. Concerned about the long term side effects but can't function with a migrane so will continue to take. Maxalt works well for me and I can still function. | F | 24 | 2 years | 6/26/2008 | 4 | Functional migraine | Jaw pain, drowsiness, frequent urination, neck pain occasionally | Works within 15 minutes, but can only take at home due to extreme drowsiness after 1 hour of ingestion. Usually a 1 hour nap works and then everything is fine. | F | 31 | 9 months | 6/12/2008 | 1 | Migraine | High Fever, ER visit, high high high pulse. Felt like I was going to have a heart attack | F This medicine in the A, could have been all that crack i smoked too | M | 21 | 1 days | 5/24/2008 | 5 | Migraines | A little tension in my neck and shoulders and very slight "Out of it" feeling that others have described for the first hour. | I love this medicine. I've had migraines for 20 years and have tried everything. I've been on Maxalt for about 2 years now and no matter what stage of my migraine, I take a Maxalt and it's gone within 30 minutes. However, my migraines usually last 3 days and I will have to continue taking it over the 3 days (once per day)because the migraine does come back. My doctor warned me about using it too much- but I can't spend 3 days twice a month in bed. I worry that, like other medications I've tried, I'll grow immune to Maxalt and it'll stop working. This is the only thing that has given me real relief for any length of time in 20 years. | F | 40 | 2 years | 5/6/2008 | 5 | Migraine headaches | I only feel really really tired, and the first time I did take it I did feel a littly out of the loop. But now I feel like I am use to it. | This medicine really helps, I had a migraine for three days straight and in bed, and when you have a family you no that you cannot lay in bed for three days. So my Doctor did recommend this to me and I felt like a million after taking it ,..... Thanks!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 39 | 5 days | 4/18/2008 | 5 | Migraine | Brief fatigue | I wonder if some of the people who this doesn't work for have true migraines. I believe it's a vasodilator - the veins tighten up (constrict) and blood just can't get through, so Maxalt dilates them and thus relieves the migraine. It's not a pain killer. So if it's not an actual migraine you're experiencing, Maxalt most likely won't help. If you have a true migraine you probably agree that any degree of fatigue or dizziness is worth getting rid of that pain. I'm convinced that I could not function/survive without a drug that is a vasodilator. Pain killers and anti-inflamatory drugs do almost nothing for my migraines. | F | 39 | 8 years | 4/11/2008 | 4 | migraine | flushed face, sluggishness, had to pee every twenty minutes for an hour and a half, got real thirsty. I have been taking this drug for several years and never has anyone mentioned frequent urination, but this ALWAYS happens when I take this pill. | It works for my migraines, the dissolvable pill makes me want to vomit so I take the tablet. I am "stoopid" sometimes on them, but also my pms makes me feel this way, and my migraines are hormonal, so..........? I am concerned about long term effects and becoming immune to this drug. | F | 44 | 4 years | 4/9/2008 | 1 | Migraines | sleep, heavy drugged feeling, slurred speech, clumsiness, feeling like my whole body is too heavy to move. Effects last 2-4 hours. | I hate this drug. I'd rather have the migraine and drink a liter of cola. The doctor told me I might feel mild dizzyness lasting no more than 15 minutes. I can't take this drug during the day, when I need it, because I can't function for at least an hour when I've taken it. Thank goodness the first time I took the Maxalt it was a Saturday and I didn't have to go anywhere. I could have killed someone if I got behind the wheel of a car after taking this drug. | F | 31 | | 3/30/2008 | 5 | headaches | a little "out of it", but that went away after 10-15 minutes | i just started taking maxalt 10mg after taking relpax 40mg (which worked for a while, but stopped; i think a became tolerant of it). after a few minutes, a numbness washes over my brain (i don't know any other way to describe it) and within a half hour, the headache is gone. it's a miracle! i haven't had a severe headache yet after i got the prescription, so i don't know its effect/abilities on headaches that aren't minor. | F | 19 | 1 weeks | 3/25/2008 | 5 | migraines | drowsiness, faigue, need to take a nap after using second dose | I've been using the dissolvable tab with good success over the last eight years. Often need to take a second tab 1/2 hour-1 hour after initial dose to get rid of H/A. Oral pill does not do anything for me, unfortunately. I have no insurance and price is a huge factor in how many migraines i can afford to treat. | F | 49 | 8 days | 3/10/2008 | 5 | migraine | Feel slightly out of it; but fine if have a nap. | I hav ehad to learn when in the attack to take it. Few migraines now have used it for so long i can't remeber when i started! | F | 48 | 10 years | 2/28/2008 | 5 | migraines | I LOVE THIS MEDICINE! I have been taking it for 6 months now. However, after I took it the first three times I didn't have another migraine for about three months when I was having one almost every other week! It has been an absolute miracle for me! I can take it and within 20 minutes my migraine is GONE! I do get somewhat sleepy with it, but like other people are saying that's a VERY small price to pay compared to the pain I would have without this medicine. I would definately recommend this medicine! | F | 18 | 6 months | 2/24/2008 | 4 | suicide migraines | THE MAIN SIDE EFFECT WOULD BE MEMORY LOSS. ESPECIALLY WHEN ON THE MEDICATION, CAN NOT REMEMBER ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN SAID TO ME OR ANYTHING I HAVE WATCHED ON TV. | STARTED OUT WITH THE ONES THAT MELTED ON TONGUE, BUT TONGUE WOULD START TO BURN AFTER TAKING IT, HAD TO SWAP TO THE PILL. MOST OF THE TIME THE MAXALT WORKS, WITHIN A COUPLE OF HOURS, BUT IF THE MIGRAINE DID NOT GO AWAY, WOULD HAVE TO TAKE LORCET. I HAVE HAD MIGRAINES FOR 18 YEARS, AND OUT OF ALL THE PRESCRIBED DRUGS I HAVE TAKEN IT IS BY FAR THE BEST. | F | 51 | 10 years | 2/12/2008 | 3 | menstral migraines | tight chest, dizziness and nausea. | does not work very well. my headaches are bad and last at least 5 days starting sometime within the first couple days of my period. maxalt can take the edge off so i can function somewhat but if i take it at the first sign of headache it just delays the headache and the headache still gets me at night and i wake up with it in full swing the next day. Once in full swing the maxalt only takes the edge off a bit. if i take a second dose an hour after an apparently ineffective first dose, then i get high blood pressure and terribly spacey although the pain subsides a bit. | F | 51 | 1 years | 2/7/2008 | 4 | Migraines | Lack of focus, fatigue | I've had varying results with Maxalt but it's dependant on when I take the drug (beginning, during) The dissolvable tablets work 100% better for me than the pill did. The lack of focus and fatigue are small prices to pay for not having to spend 2 days in bed! | F | 24 | 2 years | 1/3/2008 |