Metaxalone and Loss Of Appetite: What Users Say

• Com...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 13, 2018

For Muscle Spasm "I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). If anyone knows this awful syndrome, you'll know it's up there on the pain scale. After six years of numerous medications, my doctor decided to give metaxalone a try. (I'm extremely sensitive to medication, so I hate changing them.) The first few days I was a zombie, but that was okay because I never can sleep due to the pain and muscle spasms at night. After about 4-5 days, the medicine tapered off, and I feel like a whole new person! The spasms have decreased and I can sleep a bit more. The only side effect I have is it seems to be an appetite suppressant, but I'm only on week two... that may change and go back to normal. It's not awful. No nausea, etc. I just don't find myself craving snacks/sweets. So far, this has been a winner for me."

• Met...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 27, 2014

For Muscle Spasm "The pain in my lower back due to some extreme exercise moves reacted immediately to this medication. The first sign of improvement was when I lifted myself out of bed the first morning after starting: 800 mg 3x a day. However, I ended up in the hospital a couple of days later due to severe nausea and loss of consciousness. It may be a combination of things that were going on. Still on it after about two weeks, and I am experiencing nausea and loss of appetite, as well as sleepiness. Physical therapy, along with this, is working well. I am about to ask the doctor if I can only take it as needed."

• Tom...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 23, 2021

For Fibromyalgia "I suffer from muscle and joint pain due to fibro and autoimmune. I took one on the first evening and two more 800 mg the next day (schedule was 800 mg x3). I got almost every side effect there was, and a couple days later, I am still not well. Irritability, anxiety, altered mood, complete loss of appetite, and gastritis that nothing is fixing much at all so far. I have been on other meds, but this is in my top 5 worst! Couldn't pay me to take this again!"

• Anonymous
• February 23, 2011

Metaxalone for Fibromyalgia "I take Skelaxin for my degenerated disc disease, it's helping with pain a lot. Also, I'm losing weight because it suppresses my appetite, so that's a plus."