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Reviewer: PhylomenaD, 55-64 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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Easy to take. I can swallow this without water. Not bad ! I wonder if hoarseness is a side effect too.
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Reviewer: Yresim, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I've been on this for several months. My doctor assured me that it would "start working" after "a while" and said I needed to "give it a chance." But the only thing it ever does is make me drowsy. I guess maybe I don't have muscle spasms when it causes me to pass out in the middle of the day. But they're ongoing any time I'm awake.
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Reviewer: 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I took 5 pills for 5 days for the neck spasm .while taking this pill also I felt so much dizziness .after 5 days I stopped using that pills ,but even after stopped I am feeling light headed and dizziness for more that 4 days
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Reviewer: Liz, 35-44 on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Patient)
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Makes me really drowsy. I just take once in a while when my herniated disc really persists. It makes me sleep 1.5 hours after taking it and I canâ??t resist the urge to sleep.
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Reviewer: heavilymedicated, 35-44 on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I've taken cyclobenzaprine as well as other commonly used muscle relaxants in the past (methocarbomol, metaxalone) with minimal relief and minor noticeable effect, but today I took a leftover dose of flexeril from a script I used months earlier and it really knocked me out. Not sure if taking on an empty stomach had any effect, but it took about 1.5 hours to set in and it took everything I had
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