RITALIN Reviews (METHYLPHENIDATE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.4 (214 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare RITALIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR RITALIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | The mythical "ADHD" condition | Migraine, lethargy, brain damage, depression, nausea, anxieity, paranoia, shortness of breath, painful breathing, fatigue, weakness, suicideal thoughts. | I was forced to take it between ages 7-13. I was labeled "ADHD" and "Autistic" all because I was trying to get expelled in order to transfer to my original school. I didn't care that it meant living with my violently abusive mother again, I was a great deal worse off in the school I was in at the time. There were days when I wasn't made to take it, but nowhere near enough. I never recovered from what the ritalin did to me and I can never hope to live a full life anymore. | M | 30 | 6 years 1 pill 1X day | 3/31/2019 | 1 | Adhd | It didn’t work at all. Looking at some of the past reviews I have noticed that some people have been put on ridiculously high dosages...its no wonder they’ve had bad side effects. | M | 17 | 5 days 10 1X day | 10/23/2018 | 1 | ADD | I have to get off this stuff. I'm so mean and angry. I can't live like this, I swear I'm going to get a divorce if I don't stop acting this way. Not worth it. I would rather be a scatter brain. | F | 30 | 7 days 20 mg | 7/26/2016 | 1 | ADHD | Depression, headaches, nauseas, sweat, irritable, sore. | F*ING HATE THIS SHTYY ASS MED! MAKES ME FEEL F*ING AWFUL!! Piece of sh*t! | M | 19 | 7 days 54 MG 1X day | 11/21/2015 | 1 | ADHA | High uncontrollable blood pressure. | My son took ritalin in the mid 80's into the mid 90's. He is now 36 and has uncontrollable high blood pressure. They have tried everything to control it and nothing has worked. He took it for 9 years. If I had known this was a forever side effect I would have never let him take it. Shame on the doctors and makers of ritalin and shame on me for giving it to him. I cut his life short. Is it worth it? NO!! | M | 36 | ? 2X day | 10/30/2015 | 1 | I never took it | None | F | 26 | 1 days 0 | 5/20/2015 | 1 | ADHD | Extreme weight loss, heavy hair loss, insomnia, extreme social anxiety, fear of people, motor tics, stunted growth | I took it from age 10 to 14. Every few years my doc would up my dose until I was maxed out at the highest dose for my weight so she coudn't up it anymore and it was ineffective after 5 years. While on it, I lost so much weight I was borderline anorexic, I was already tiny only 4' 8" while other kids where 4' 11" or over 5' because it severely stunted my growth and I only weighed 78 lbs. at age 14. I couldn't sleep at all but my parents insisted I keep taking it because if I didn't my grades suffered and I was in trouble at school all the time. I developed uncontrolable tourettes-like motor tics, like the need to make cat purring noises, shaking my head to the side abruptly, clicking my tongue, or breathing in odd rhythmic patterns. It made me OCD to an extreme, Also developed a sudden fear of people was afraid everyone was around me was laughing at me, staring at me, judging me. I was normally an extreme people person with no fear of public speaking or singing but I was afraid to even swallow in class, thought everyone could hear it very loudly. My hair kept falling out in big chunks, luckily I have thick hair so it wasn't too noticeable. Finally stopped taking it at age 14. | F | 29 | 5 years 40mg 3X day | 5/6/2015 | 1 | Hyperactive/adhd | Anxiety, Nervousness, Feeling out of body; detached, apathetic, violent, defiant, suicidal, | I am 41 years old. My parents put me on this medication when I was 2 years old. They claimed it helped manage me. I claim it messed me up so badly that in my pre-high school years, my parents took me to specialists all over North America to find out “what was wrong with me”. The doctors kept upping my dosage. I told them I didn’t like what the medication made me feel like, but parents back then didn’t listen to their kids. At 16 I quit cold turkey (because my parents kicked me out of the house due to the side effects of this drug). I experienced intense emotional distress, like paranoia, anxiety, nervousness, etc. Today, I have gotten much better at managing my emotional issues (WITHOUT DRUGS MIND YOU). But I still feel those emotions rather intensely. DO NOT GIVE THIS DRUG TO YOUR CHILDREN. PLEASE DON’T. If only my parents were more understanding and worked with me rather than shoving pills in my face, I believe I would have grown up without any of the familial drama that led to me being a street kid. I believe that constant attention to the child in positive, understanding environments is THE BEST THING for a child. Listening to your child, I mean really listening, can go a long way to alleviate much of the problems facing ADHD children. | M | 41 | 14 years 10-60 2X day | 4/15/2015 | 1 | ADHD | Anxiety, zombie like, flat expression, loss of interests, lowered threshold of seizures. | F | 9 | 3 weeks 20mg 1X day | 3/29/2014 | 1 | Add | I passed out in class | F | 15 | 1 days 18mg | 12/17/2013 | 1 | Mild ADHD | I was misdiagnosed with mild ADHD back in 1997 simply because I was very antsy and couldn't sit still. I was on this for less than 48 hours due to my "very unusual and frightening reaction" as my mother has described it to me. She told me that within 12 hours of me taking my first pill I completely flipped out! I was calmly watching tv when I suddenly started screaming! I threw the remote at the tv, then threw myself on the floor and had a psychotic episode! I was taken off immediately! The next day at school I remember all of my teachers asking me if I was "alright" because I would not stop blinking (ticking) whenever I would speak. *+*I feel as if this is important to note for anyone reading this; around this time I also developed Tourettes Syndrome, a life long condition that causes a symptom called "tics" which are uncontrolable short and repetitive movements/sounds that interfere with motor skills and speech. Tourettes makes the sufferer highly sensitive to their enviournment and to certain foods, which makes tics worse. I have reason to believe that Ritalin caused this seeing as how I ticked while taking this and have never ticked prior. Also note that this drug contains stimulants, so only take this is you have full blown ADHD without the risk of developing Tourettes Syndrome. | F | 23 | 2 times ??? | 9/22/2013 | 1 | ADHD | Not able to eat,feeling sick after eating,being in a fog or haze the best way to explain it. Yes it was calming but like stoners. | This was from 7 to age 9. My dosage was moved from 10mg to 15mg to 25 over the two year period. The time taken was move up as well from one time a day to 2 times a day. Do I was able to fight the drugs effects so my dosage was moved up. It is a sedation drug in my opinion but not to help learning for children at all. I would really call this drug calming effects and muscle movement but not anything to do with learning to put a child it a zombie like state dosen't help with learning. Think before putting a child on this drug in other schools or class to help them or make it fun. | M | 30 | 2 years 25mg 2X day | 9/10/2013 | 1 | ADHD | It turned me into a zombie, all though I don't remember the years (I was quite young) my parents took me off because they noticed changes in my nature and intelligence. ADHD is a fake learning disability created to give talented children this drug. 1. To make money and 2. To stop free-thinkers and supress this new mindset that is awakening in the minds as each generation passes. RITALIN IS STOPPING HUMAN EVOLUTION, sounds quite ridiculous I know, but I guarantee your children will grow up to be more if their skill and hyper-activity is seen as a positive, rather than a mental disorder. Do the research yourself on the effects of ritalin. | M | 18 | 2 years 15 | 12/11/2012 | 1 | ADHD | Thoughts of suicide depression uninterested in doing anything | This crap is evil it helped when i was in middle school and junior high it helped a little but now that im in 9th grade my grades have been slipping im often depressed and it never helps keep me calm when some one starts something its uder hell for me im always tired i never really want to eat ( unless my body tells me go eat some damn food) and i just want to sleep all the time. I feal like a zombie im paranoid ive been haveing thoughts of suiced for a few years but its not my fault its the damn ridlins fault this fucking drug has ruined most of my life i also tend to be hostle and withdrown from my family and the few friends im still in contact with from my old school and even the ones from my current school. Even now if i stop takeing it things will just get fucking worse for me. | M | 14 | 10 years 10mg 1X day | 11/28/2012 | 1 | My son was diagnosed with ADD | He became a zombie. Never smiled. His concentration was better but, he went from happy to nothing. | He is now 28 yrs old. He's ALWAYS angry. He has a hard time showing any emotion but the anger. Even when he is happy he acts angry. His temper is extremely short. I wish I had NEVER put him on this. He's been angry ever since he was taken off. It's so hard for him and others around him because of the anger issues and mood swings. I blame the Ritalin because he was never like this before taking it. But, at least he's no longer a zombie as he was when he was on it. | F | 53 | 2 years 10 MG 2X day | 10/22/2012 | 1 | ADD | Caused me to get sezuires at age 16. Which continues on until this day. | M | 21 | 8 years 20 MG 1X day | 8/25/2012 | 1 | Adhd | Ritalin made me like a zombie. Terrible headaches. I literally felt drugged!! It did make me very calm and things were easier for me to manage but the negatives definitely outweigh the positives here. | F | 28 | 4 days 10mg | 6/24/2012 | 1 | I was ADHD im afema | 1 days | 12/31/2011 | 1 | ADHD, ADD | Depression, Mild Schizophrenia, Tolerance, Paranoia, Seizures, Dehydration (Daily), Dermatosis, MEMORY LOSS (All of these side effects are still present even though i stopped 11 years ago) | When I was on Ritalin, I was like a zombie. It's the best way to describe it. Eventually I built up such a tolerance my father was worried that it would adversly effect me and got me on a different drug. I'm trying to spread the word. This drug is BAD. All of my side effect symptoms remain, it's 11 years later. The drug damages the brain in a chemical fashion, your brain does not heal from it. | M | 28 | 11 years 30MG 3X day | 10/6/2011 | 1 | Bipolar, ADHD | Twitching, Involuntary Muscle spasms, Drowsiness, Loss of appetite, Confusion, Blurred Vision | I was on Ritalin for two years, and for me, it wasn't worth it. I did not concentrate any better, I believe the only reason I stayed in my seat during class hours was because I was extremely tired after an hour of taking it. I constantly fell asleep on the drug. | F | 21 | 2 years 40mg 2X day | 10/4/2011 |
RITALIN (METHYLPHENIDATE HYDROCHLORIDE): This medication is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - ADHD. It works by changing the amounts of certain natural substances in the brain. Methylphenidate belongs to a class of drugs known as stimulants. It can help increase your ability to pay attention, stay focused on an activity, and control behavior problems. It may also help you to organize your tasks and improve listening skills. This medication is also used to treat a certain sleep disorder (narcolepsy). (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)