Tizanidine HCl Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Zanaflex, Sirdalud Retard
Generic Name: Tizanidine HCl
What is Tizanidine HCl?
Tizanidine hydrochloride is a skeletal muscle relaxant used for treatment of muscle spasticity. Off label it is used for tension headaches, low back pain, and trigeminal neuralgia.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Stiffness/Spasticity | 351 |
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34 | |
| Pain | 30 |
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2 | |||
| Other | 20 | 0 | |||||
| Muscle spasms, neck and shoulders | 20 | 0 | |||||
| Muscle Spasms, feet and toes | 17 |
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2 | ||||
| Calf, feet cramps and muscle spasms | 12 |
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2 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Tizanidine HCl. See all 41 dosages ►
| 0.25 2mg as needed | 0.5 2mg as needed | 10 2mg as needed | 1mg as needed | 2 2mg as needed | 2 4mg as needed | 2 mg all the time (24/7) | 2 mg as needed | 2mg as needed | 3 4mg as needed | 4 4mg as needed | 4 mg all the time (24/7) | 4 mg as needed | 4mg as needed | 8 mg as needed | as needed | daily | 4 mg weekly | 1 mcg daily | 1 mg daily | 2 mg daily | 3 mg daily | 4 mg daily | 5 mg daily | 6 mg daily | 8 mg daily | 10 mg daily | 12 mg daily | 14 mg daily | 16 mg daily | 18 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 24 mg daily | 28 mg daily | 30 mg daily | 32 mg daily | 36 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 600 mg daily | ||
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10
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16
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1
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4
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32
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1
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1
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1
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46
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1
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107
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4
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21
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65
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44
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3
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28
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16
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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35 | 41% |
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Doctor's advice
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19 | 22% |
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Other
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17 | 20% |
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Side effects too severe
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16 | 19% |
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Personal research
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7 | 8% |
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Expense
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3 | 3% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 1% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 1% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 36 patient evaluations
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- StandUpLong
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- StandUpLong
- daily
- since Jan 23, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Stiffness/Spasticity
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips no idea - not feeling all that great s I question why my doctors are not willing to change my meds but I guess changing Dr.'s may be my last-but first resort . See full evaluation
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- JesswithMS
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- JesswithMS
- 16 mg daily
- since Jun 10, 2007
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Efficacy
Major
for Stiffness/Spasticity
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips Take as directed. I could never take it during the day, made me way too sleepy. Over time, I found that it lost its effect for me, but helped tremendously ... See full evaluation
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- Flowers
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: severe
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- Flowers
- 18 mg daily
- since Dec 31, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Stiffness/Spasticity
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips I take all 3 of my pills at night, I only take them just before going to bed, my family call these my loopy pills. I don't have leg issues with these pills. ... See full evaluation
See all 36 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.