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Below are Fioricet reviews, ratings, comments submitted by patients and caregivers. Based on a total of 3 ratings/reviews, Fioricet has an overall score of 7.67. The effectiveness score is 8.67 and the side effect score is 7.33. 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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| | Fioricet review by 50 year old female patient | | | Rating |
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| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | No Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | migraines |
| Dosage & duration: | | l tablet taken onset of migraine for the period of still taking it at onsets |
| Other conditions: | | none |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | treatment benefits include migrain pain subsiding in about 20 minutes. No lingering fuzziness from taking this medication. Did not make me sleepy. If migrain pain appeared hours later another dose taken. This drug is especially handy for anyone with pre-menstural migrain headaches |
| Side effects: | | for me there w4ere no treatment side effects. This medication did not cause drowsiness and I was able to keep doing my daily activiites. I also found that if I drank some coffee it would work even faster. It works in about 20 minutes after taking the medication. |
| Comments: | | I take one tablet at the onset of of any migrain. After taking the tablet in about 20 minutes depending upon how fast I got to the pain. The medication started to work and within about 20 minutes the headache was all but forgotten. This is a safe great medication for anyone who suffers from migrain pain |
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