Guide To Cyclobenzaprine

Potential Medication Interactions

Cyclobenzaprine is known to interact with at least three hundred other drugs. Severe interactions exist between it and pimozide, arbutamine, cisapride, halofantrine, grepafloxacin, sparfloxacin, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors. Thus, patients should not take any of these medicines while using cyclobenzaprine. Potentially serious drug interactions may occur if cyclobenzaprine is taken with other muscle relaxants or with opioids or medications that depress the respiratory system. Serious interactions also exist between this medication and carbamazepine, tramadol, guanethidine, and guanadrel. Moderate interactions could occur if this medication is taken with fluoxetine, paroxetine, cimetidine, sertraline, or amprenavir. Patients should always ensure their doctor and pharmacist both have their most up-to-date list of medications. They should ask their pharmacist to double-check for potential medication interactions before dispensing cyclobenzaprine.

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Common Dosage Recommendations

As it is a prescription medication, patients must follow the directions that their doctor provides. The instructions can vary, since patients may need cyclobenzaprine for various reasons, are taking it in different forms, or their condition does not respond to the same dose as another individual. However, doctors will often use general guidelines when they are prescribing this medication to their patients. Adults taking the extended-release capsule often start with fifteen milligrams a day to relax stiff muscles. However, some of them will need thirty milligrams daily. Depending on the patient, this can be one capsule with the whole dose or two capsules of fifteen milligrams. If patients are taking regular tablets, a good guideline is ten milligrams three times daily. This dose can be larger, but should not exceed sixty milligrams a day.

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