81 patient evaluations for Tizanidine

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May 5, 2011 (Started Aug 28, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall) (sleepiness, excessive sleeping (hypersomnia))
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: As needed
Advice & Tips: It only helps a little with pain and I cannot take it during the day. It doesn't just make me tired, it completely knocks me out! I take it with Ambien CR for sleep and it is a miracle. Together they make me sleep very well for the first time in my life.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: excessive sleeping (hypersomnia), sleepiness

Dec 4, 2010 (Started Aug 28, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall) (sleepiness, excessive sleeping (hypersomnia))
  • Adherence
    Sometimes
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Dosage: As needed
Advice & Tips: I don't have any idea if this medication helps with the fibromyalgia pain because it puts me to sleep. I take it every night at bedtime and it helps me sleep better than ambien. I take it with ambien most nights, but as I am trying to cut down on ambien, I sleep just as well with just the Zanaflex and my pain med. I may have been having withdrawal effects from cutting back on the ambien so I am back on that for now. I sleep MUCH better with Zanaflex than with any other sleep medicine, I actually sleep through the entire night without waking about 2 or 3 nights a week and the other nights get back to sleep quickly when I wake up. I have never done that, I have had sleep problems since my preschool years.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: excessive sleeping (hypersomnia), sleepiness

Aug 29, 2010 (Started Aug 28, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall) (sleepiness)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Very hard to take
Dosage: As needed
Advice & Tips: This medicine really knocks me out! I took it at 6:30 with dinner and woke up in my chair at 2:30AM, went up to bed and slept til 7:30! I could never take this during the day, but when the pain is unbearable and my husband is home, it is a great escape.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: excessive sleeping (hypersomnia), sleepiness

Aug 20, 2010 (Started Aug 28, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for fibromyalgia)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Sometimes
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Advice & Tips: About 45 minutes after I take it, it puts me deeply to sleep for about an hour. After that I wake up fine and am not at all groggy. Doesn't really help the pain very much and I can't take it during the day because I can't take it and watch a 2 year old. It does give me a tiny bit of relief.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: excessive sleeping (hypersomnia), sleepiness
  • 1 helpful mark

Mar 27, 2011 (Started Feb 01, 2011)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for stiffness/spasticity)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for muscle twitching (fasciculations))
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for jerky movements)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 2 mg Daily
  • 0 helpful marks

Apr 25, 2011 (Started Apr 12, 2011)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for insomnia)
  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for muscle spasms)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (grogginess in morning)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 4 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: It usually causes me to fall asleep within a couple hours - much better then not falling asleep at all! It is giving me very strange, vivid dreams - but I've only been on the full dose a week, so I'm hoping those will fade.
Side effects: grogginess in morning
  • 0 helpful marks

Apr 19, 2011 (Started Aug 24, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for stiffness/spasticity)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (dizziness, dry mouth)
  • Adherence
    Sometimes
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: As needed
Advice & Tips: I've found Tizanidine to be better than Baclofen for me. Both make me tired, requiring at least one nap per day, and result in mild dizziness. Bacflofen actually caused severe cramps, which is part of what it is supposed to prevent. I am certain of it, as I trialed it for several days on and off, and had many severe cramps when taking it only. Both alleviate stiffness well, but the side effects result in me preferring stiffness over dizziness and sleepiness.
Side effects: dizziness, dry mouth

Oct 31, 2010 (Started Aug 24, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for stiffness/spasticity)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (dry mouth)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 4 mg Daily
Side effects: dizziness, dry mouth

Sep 6, 2010 (Started Aug 24, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for stiffness/spasticity)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (dry mouth)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 4 mg Daily
Side effects: dizziness, dry mouth
  • 0 helpful marks

Feb 23, 2011 (Started Jun 28, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for muscle pain)
  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for pain in lower back)
  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for muscle spasms)
  • Side effects
    Moderate (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Sometimes
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: As needed
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Dec 16, 2010 (Started Feb 27, 2005)

  • Effectiveness
    None (for Sleep & Fibro. pain)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 8 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Jan 4, 2011 (Started Jan 01, 2004)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for fibromyalgia)
  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for muscle spasms)
  • Effectiveness
    Major (for increased muscle pain in shoulder and upper back when trying to fall asleep)
  • Side effects
    Moderate (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Very hard to take
Dosage: 6 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Managing getting up. Unexpected benefits can't focus and feeling nasty. It impact my life because is more side affects I have to deal with besides my achy body....
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Oct 12, 2010 (Started Apr 15, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for stiffness/spasticity)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 8 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Dec 14, 2010 (Started Jun 05, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for muscle spasms)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 2 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Medication worked well as far as relaxing so you could get a sound sleep. Reason new MD dropped was due to it also being a seratonin uptake drug. Dr. was afraid with other seratonin uptake drugs I was taking it was to much. Now that it has been d/c'd the pain in the joints of my knees and hips has increased. Dr. added Methadone to treatment plan for pain and sleep.
Cost: $25-49 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Aug 2, 2010 (Started Apr 28, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for muscle spasms)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall) (generalized weakness (asthenia))
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Side effects: generalized weakness (asthenia)

Dec 1, 2009 (Started Apr 28, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for muscle spasms)
  • Side effects
    Moderate (for Overall) (generalized weakness (asthenia))
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 12 mg Daily
Side effects: generalized weakness (asthenia)
  • 0 helpful marks
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