What is Cyclobenzaprine?
Cyclobenzaprine is a centrally-acting skeletal muscle relaxant used in the treatment of muscle spasm associated with acute painful musculoskeletal conditions.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 90 |
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15 | ||
| Muscle cramping, spasms | 33 |
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8 | |||
| Other | 29 |
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5 | ||
| Pain | 22 |
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4 | ||
| Back pain | 9 | 0 | |||||
| Muscle spasms, lower back | 8 |
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3 |
See all 184 patients currently taking Cyclobenzaprine
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Cyclobenzaprine. See all 26 dosages ►
| 10 mg all the time (24/7) | 10 mg as needed | 10mg as needed | 10mg daily | 1mg as needed | 20 mg all the time (24/7) | 20mg as needed | 2 7.5mg as needed | 30mg as needed | 3 10mg as needed | 40mg as needed | 50 mg all the time (24/7) | 5mg as needed | 7.5mg as needed | daily | mg as needed | 5 mg daily | 7.5 mg daily | 10 mcg daily | 10 mg daily | 15 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 30 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 50 mg daily | 60 mg daily | ||
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1
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4
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50
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1
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1
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1
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3
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1
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2
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2
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1
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1
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11
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2
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3
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4
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14
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2
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1
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38
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9
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8
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22
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3
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1
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1
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Did not seem to work
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23 | 42% |
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Course of treatment ended
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12 | 22% |
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Other
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11 | 20% |
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Doctor's advice
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8 | 15% |
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Side effects too severe
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2 | 4% |
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Personal research
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1 | 2% |
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Expense
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1 | 2% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 30 patient evaluations
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- cureseeker
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- cureseeker
- 10mg daily
- since Aug 18, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips dosages above 10mg result in very dry mouth, requiring extra dental care See full evaluation
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- D'awesome
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Severe
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- D'awesome
- since Aug 26, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Stiffness/Spasticity
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Take early in the evening... by 10pm, so that you have a full 8hrs to sleep. Better yet, use Zanaflex.... it's more effective. See full evaluation
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- clumzychef
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Severe
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- clumzychef
- 30 mg daily
- since Sep 24, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Stiffness/Spasticity
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 30 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.