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Below are Fioricet reviews, ratings, comments submitted by patients and caregivers. Based on a total of 2 ratings/reviews, Fioricet has an overall score of 6.50. The effectiveness score is 8 and the side effect score is 6. The scores are on ten point scale: 10 - best, 1 - worst. This information is not vetted and should not be cosidered as clinical evidence. | | Fioricet review by 23 year old male patient | | | Rating |
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| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Chronic tension headache |
| Dosage & duration: | | 2 tablets taken as needed, average x2/week for the period of 3 years |
| Other conditions: | | Chronic neck/back pain |
| Other drugs taken: | | Various other analgesics (OTC and persciption) | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Very good pain relief and muscle relaxation. Great for alleviating pain from an especially bad headache but also works good as an adjunct for musculoskeletal pain. |
| Side effects: | | Sedation, dizziness, very mild euphoria, intoxicated feeling (slurred speech, ataxia) at higher or repeated doses. Addiction risk. |
| Comments: | | Good at knocking down a particularly bad headache or other breakthrough pain. Works better when taken at first sign of pain. Butalbital and caffeine can cancel each other's sedating and stimulating effects, but a tolerance to caffeine will negate that. Even so caffeine helps boost the effectiveness of acetaminophen.
Tolerance to butalbital's intoxication effects happen quickly but it can still be sedating. Driving and other functions are impaired; if I have to take fioricet it's typically in the evening and then I'm done for the day. |
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| | Fioricet review by 34 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | migraines |
| Dosage & duration: | | one to two tablets every four hours taken a copule times a month for the period of about 6 months |
| Other conditions: | | none |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | It effectively stopped migraine at the "aura" stage. No need to take any additional medications. |
| Side effects: | | Massive dizziness/ "drugged" feeling. A feeling of being "out of it" --- unable to focus eyes, exhausted, etc. Impossible to function until the effect wore off. Not convinced this is the best option for migraine treatment. Although it was effective, the side effects were almost not worth it. There have got to be better options out there. |
| Comments: | | Every time more than one pill was taken (where one was ineffective in stopping the progression of a migraine), massive dizziness and drugged feeling would result. |
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