Has anyone experienced nightmares from Zanaflex?

I definitely experienced a nightmare. If I take it once in a while then it's not a problem. But one time, I took a pill two days in a row. I had gotten home from work, and I took a pill on the second day. Then I fell asleep on the couch as I was watching TV. I dreamt that me and some stranger were running for our lives as someone with a gun was chasing us. That was basically the whole dream. We kept running as someone kept shooting at us. Eventually, I woke up in a panic. I immediately realized I was dreaming but couldn't calm down. The dream seemed so real that I was practically panicking. Then I put two and two together and realized that it must be the tizanidine. I looked up the side effects of the drug on my phone. And I was shocked at what I was reading. From what other people went through, I think I got off lightly. I still have the bottle in my medicine cabinet, but I don't think I'll use it again. I live by myself, and the last thing I need is to wake up in the middle of the night and hallucinate about something that isn't there.

OMG yes!! This is the 3rd time I’ve taken this drug for muscles spasms for multiple sclerosis and this was the first time I took it at night. I probably woke up my apartment building I screamed so loud. This creature was right to my left. I had to literally push it away. Fck! And the 2 other times I took during the day, which made me super drowsy, had to lay down and both times I would see weird lights, shapes, lines. What is another drug you use that will help, for me it’s my back? I’ll reach out to my doc.

Yes! I took it many years ago after being diagnosed with fibromyalgia and having a lot of muscle cramps. The very first night I had a terrible dream! It was what only can be described as a night terror! I didn’t know it was the medicine and took it again the next night and it happened again! Rat in my bed! It was so real! I could feel every whisker it had and it’s tail on my body. The next night , a different horrible dream! I will never take that medication again.

YES! The 1st night I took it I woke up screaming and my boyfriend holding me asking what was wrong. I had a terrible nightmare.

And here I was thinking spirits had gotten into my house. My doctor prescribed this to me 2 weeks ago. Two days after I started taking it, I woke up to a young Indian woman standing in my doorway staring at me. The night before that I heard an old woman wailing out in pain. I've been so terrified that I had someone to come into my home to bless it. I haven't had any experiences since I stopped taking it last week. I will never take it again.

I know this is late, but I was prescribed this drug after a back injury. Not only did it give me nightmares, but very dark thoughts as well. I refuse to take it and am on gabapentin now.

I was prescribed 4mg at night, since it can make you sleepy, but I'm going to try am because I have been having terrible nightmares. I wake up several times a night only to go back to sleep and right back to the nightmare.

I just put two and two together. My night terrors have been increasingly worse since I started this Zanaflex. Despite the pain and muscle spasms, tonight will be night 1 without this medication and I hopefully get a good night's rest!!

I’ve taken Zanaflex off and on for years and yes it certainly will cause very, VERY vivid dreams. Some bad dreams and outright nightmares.

But I’m one of those weird ppl who loves to dream - even bad dreams - and can remember many, in great detail.

I often wish I could go back to sleep and pick up where I left off just to see what that was all about.

But yes, it most certainly can cause them.

My dreams are so bad. It is always men (7') tall, standing in my doorway. Or bugs, thousands of bugs. We have NO bugs, as I have the bug co. In every 60 days. I see these things, I picked one up last night , I could feel it, and as soon as the light is on, there is nothing there. When I walked up on the first 7' man, when I reached out to touch him, he was gone. There is never anything in my room when the light is turned on. My health is not good. Lots of operations over the past 3 years. I need this med, but I hate going to bed because of the things I see. I have also been awake through most of these things, could feel an item, but gone when the light turns on. Thank you for taking the time.

I have been taking 2 tizanidine 2mg, before bed and it has worked perfectly. I was just switched to 4mg, one per night and have had God awful scary nightmares. I'm wondering if it is the brand as opposed to the meds...

I’ve been taking 4 mg on and off for the past two months. My doctor did not inform me that this was a drug that needed to be taken every day instead of as needed. I have panic disorder already, I’ve noticed in the past three weeks as I’ve been taking more of them on more of a regular basis that my anxiety all of a sudden started to kick up for no reason whatsoever during the day on and off. I finally took the last pill I’ll ever take last Thursday (6 days ago). I think I am experiencing now with drawl symptoms from it. Still have the anxiety. I’m just wondering if any of you know how long the symptoms usually can last for? It would be a big ease to my mind knowing that this is only temporary and just because of the pills and not something more.

I have been taking Zanaflex for migraines for about two months. I have had TERRIBLE nightmares and very vivid bad dreams. I have even had hallucinations when I wake up from the dreams. I see people standing in my room or random objects. Last night I had a nightmare that scared me terribly. When I sat up in the bed I could see maggots crawling on my pillow. It’s been terrible. I am not taking this medicine anymore as of today.