ATARAX Reviews (HYDROXYZINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.3 (147 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ATARAX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ATARAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Itching | Nothing for over 40 years (other than drowsiness) then post menopause, its drying effect was bad on my complexion. So I stopped cold turkey OMG! | For a few months after stopping abruptly (an idiot move in retrospect) last April, the insomina was horrid for a few months. That resolved. But what's followed has been a nightmare. The ringing in my years is so noteworthy, I have to attempt to talk over it. I never had anxiety before (a mental brick) now I feel close to panic for no reason. I'll wake up with dread. My resting pulse rate has gone from around 65 to 120 (that's upon waking!). My heart will pound, my pulse will roar through my extremities, throbbing unmercifully. I can go on, but you get the idea. It was so bad, I had all my hormone levels checked. I had a thyroidectomy in the early '60s so I watch that regularly and take dessicated natural hormone replacement. Over 9 moths later, blood levels are all normal, and clearly I am not. I have no other underlying health issues. How long will this last?! (the rhetorical cry of the damned) I'm wondering whether to start back on a very low dose (like splitting the pills to 2 or 5 mg) but I'd rather not. I'll watch this site for any signs of encouragement (OK, that may be wishful thinking-- even documented discouragement will do.) I can't find anything to replicate my experience online. Thanks. | F | 60 | 42 years 10 mg 1X day | 1/7/2012 | 5 | chronic hive, dermatographic skin | I"ve been taking this medication since I was 13 years old. Initially I experienced weight gain and grogginess. Now the only side effect is a small amount of grogginess so I take it at night. | Atarax has changed my life. I have dermatographic/dermagraphic skin, which mean your body constantly produces too much histamine. It is hereditary in my family. I have other family members on it as well, including my 21 year old son. This drug has definitely been a life saver. | F | 51 | 38 years 10mg 1X day | 8/24/2011 | 5 | PANIC ATTACKS | DRY MOUTH | I HAVE TAKEN ATARAX MOST OF MY CHILDHOOD AND MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE.. IT IS A LIFE SAVER.. I AM NOW TAKING VISTIRIL, BECAUSE THE DOCTOR I AM SEEING CAN GET ME THE VISTIRIL FREE FROM THE COMPANY. VISTIRIL IS THE SAME THING AS ATARAX. I DONT THINK I WILL EVER BE WITHOUT IT. | F | 37 | 30 years | 3/28/2006 | 5 | Chronic Hives | No side affects that I can remember, maybe a sluggish metabolism. | I take 1 25mg. pill every 3 days or so. If I don't take them I break out in hives all over my body. This pill has been a lifesaver for me and I couldn't live without it. | F | 40 | 30 years | 1/15/2005 | 5 | Chronic hives | nothing now, but at first it was drawsiness | I started with 250mg daily and withing 2 wks reduced the dosage to half of a 25 mg per day. I have been using the generic pill (Hydroxine HCL) for 30 years. I have experimented with other pills, but nothing worked as well as this one. My allergy comes like a clockwork and I know when to take the pill. You need to reduce the dosage until you find what works for you. That way, the drwsiness will go away. | M | 55 | 30 years | 3/3/2008 | 5 | Bipolar/Anxiety | Dry mouth the first few nights, some daze | Very good cure for insomnia and nervous excitability. It is very safe has little side effects. It's cheap and efficient recommend to all who have probelmy sleep or anxiety. Working 30 minutes after dosing for approximately 8 hours. I took him even as a child when I had periods of depression in their bipolar illness. In poland costs $ 5 per pack 30 tablets 10mg but the best is in syrup because you can individually choose whether or not the dose to the child. | M | 38 | 25 years | 1/22/2010 | 5 | Chronic hives/uticaria & hay fever | When I first started taking it I was very groggy and had dry mouth for a couple weeks. It does take a while for your body to adjust. Now I occassionally experience grogginess only if I take a higher dose than usual for a few hours the next morning. | I couldn't get by without this medication. It took over a year for doctors to figure out what would work for me. Now I only need to take one 25mg dose before bed and that's it. If I forget by late afternoon the next day I start getting the itching and hayfever symptoms. I have to take it every day and use generic. I'm glad to hear no one is experiencing any long term effects. | F | 46 | 23 years | 6/27/2008 | 5 | Severe hayfever/ anxiety | When I increase my dosage at the beginning of the allergy season I feel a bit more sleepy, but then my body adjusts and I am just fine. | My allergist started me on Hydroxyzine for my severe allergies during a time of extreme crisis in my life. I took 50mg 4x/day. Now I take 50mg as needed for sleep and clear breathing at night and take 4x/day during the allergy season. I love that it has no "discontinuation" issues and not at all addictive. This drug has been around for decades and has been shown to have no permanent side effects. | F | 53 | 17 years | 4/20/2008 | 5 | Eczema | I have taken atarax since I was in secondary school year 9. It has been a very good drug for me but it makes me drowsy but only when I take it sometimes if I take regularly the I don't get drowsy. It helps a lot calms my skin down if itchy. I would recommend this to exzeema who suffers from a lot of itching.going abroad to hot countries also helps. I was the worse case bandages being hospitalised and the lot if you are bad then get dr to refer you to st Thomas hospital in Westminster it is one of the best hospitals with all the good doctors in dermatology. My daughter had exzeema aswell by taking her to a hot country Pakistan really cured her exzeema. I'm still taking atarax but only if needed and no more scratching at nights for me cause I'm partially cured in not as bad I used to be. I hope this helps. | F | 33 | 10 years 10mg | 11/7/2013 | 5 | allergies/headaches/pain | works wonders for me | I take the generic form-it is cheaper- it is one of the only things I can take to help me sleep | F | 51 | 10 years | 7/4/2004 | 5 | itchiness | drowsiness, bloating of face, weight gain | F | 38 | 9 years 10 MG | 2/4/2012 | 1 | Chronic Hives | While taking it: Dry mouth, severely chronically exhausted, nightmares, insomnia, muscle cramps, joint pain, severe depression, moodiness, memory loss, rapid heart beat. Even years after getting off of it: Always extremely tired even after getting plenty of sleep, joint pain so bad as to make me limp at times, memory loss, moodiness, muscle cramps so bad as to make it hard to sleep, lack of concentration, anxiety, my son was born with half a heart. | After my son was born with Right Atrial Isomerism (half a heart) I started looking into this drug that I had been on for about nine year of my own child hood and had not taken it for about 5 years before I got pregnant (I had even done a very extensive purification program after getting off of it) and found another person who was also on it long term also had several kids born with birth defects, one of her's even died from it. My exhaustion/tiredness is so severe that even after 8-10 hours sleep I feel like all I can confront doing is going back to sleep. If any of you anticipate using this drug DONT!!!! And if you are on it now get off now before you get the long term effects!!! | F | 33 | 9 years 25 MG 4X day | 5/6/2010 | 5 | autoimmune urticaria | drowsiness very recently splitting headache and nausea (3 days after withdrawal) | i started with 25 mg tab 1/day 7 years ago for autoimmune urticaria. after 2 months, the hives were managed and the itch was less. over the years, i started to taper the dose from 1 tab to 1/2 tab, until 1/4 tab as prescribed by the doctor. and ive been on the 1/4 tab dose for 3 years and the hives almost never appeared. 3 days ago i stopped taking it to check whether hives would appear, now on the 3rd day im not sure whether this splitting headache and nausea are withdrawal symptoms. anyone experienced the same? | F | 27 | 7 years 5 1X day | 4/22/2012 | 5 | Autoimmune Chronic Urticaria | Terrible nightmares, anterograde amnesia, excessive drowsiness, inability to focus/concentrate, auditory hallucinations, "hangover" feeling up to 15 hours after consumption, in instances where the medication did not make me fall asleep within one hour... aggressiveness/mood changes often occurred | This medication makes it difficult for me to carry on basic functions, such as concentrating and left me feeling that something was wrong/missing... I've had days where I took it for three days and mentally I lost more than a week. Often sleep 10-15 hours within 24 hours of consumption. | F | 34 | 7 years 10 1X day | 2/24/2014 | 5 | Allergies/ Anxiety/ tension | i have had no side affects whilst taking this, i think it is brilliant. Although i am supposed to take 50mg in the morning and the same at night but i go straight to sleep within half an hour so i can only take them of the night. | i fall asleep half an hour after taking the tablets so i tend to just take 2 tablets (50mg total)of a night. if i forget to take them i spend the whole day very agitated and tense, i had never suffered with Anxiety prior to taking these. however they are brilliant with my allergies so i cant complain. | F | 26 | 6 years 50mg 2X day | 11/28/2011 | 5 | Extreme food reaction - HIVES | The only side effect I have experienced is the look of disbelief from a nurse who insists I can't be allergic to benedryl and that she/he has never heard of Atarax. | What a shame that more hospitals aren't aware of the intolerance that some of us have for benedryl. Benedryl does nothing for me. It increases the allergic reaction I am experiencing and puts my body into a state as if I was hooked-up to a full strength caffeine IV drip! Atarax, however, saves the day.. at least if I can convince the health professional that some people are allergic to benedryl and all histamine blockers are not the same. | M | 50 | 5 years | 9/3/2008 | 2 | Itching / hives | Extreme sleepiness and grogginess, even up to 48 hours after taking this junk | It made me like a drunk driver! If I take it at bedtime on Sunday night, ALL of Monday is likely to be shot, and possibly some or even all of Tuesday! I was also very prone to lots of mistakes and memory loss, even at age 20! These effects got WORSE over the years and then took two years to get it out of my brain after I stopped taking it! It do well, however, for the itching and hives. Due to screwing up my brain, it (Atarax) can just SIT IN THE FIRE! | M | 39 | 5 years | 2/27/2007 | 5 | Interstitial Cystitis | Sleepiness | I take this medicine at night so that the side effect is actually a little helpful. I take this medicine as part of a three drug cocktail for Interstitial Cystitis (Amitriptyline, Hydroxyzine and Pentosan Polysulfate). Other than the sleepiness, I have had no other side effect. | M | 39 | 4 years 25mg 1X day | 5/1/2010 | 5 | Anxiety, PTSD | Drowsiness | I honestly cannot much difference between this drug and Valium, Klonopin or Xanax. I have to take a lot of it (up to 100 mgs 4x a day) but it works well. I am not that bothered by the drowsiness and I welcome it over climbing the walls.I took benzodiazepines off and on for 25 years. After my 5th withdrawal experience, I have vowed never to go on them again. God willing, I will not. Atarax saved me. I have read that it is not meant for long-term (more than 4 months) use and it may lose effectiveness after that time, but I have taken it off and on for 4 years and it still works. A word about the weight gain claims- I really think it is impossible for an antihistamine to make you fat. There is absolutely no literature to support this. | F | 40 | 4 years | 7/5/2008 | 4 | Allergy | So far I could no feel any side effect but I feel inconvenient when I have not sufficien sleep.If I stop again alergy will start. | I am worried side effects in future. | M | 62 | 4 years | 11/27/2015 |