CLARITIN Reviews (LORATADINE)Average Rating: 1.9 (1014 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CLARITIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CLARITIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Seasonal Allergies | None | Claritin is great, no problems. I swear if you look at askapatient.com, search on any drug, just look at the results. It seems as if every person suffering from side effects posts on this website...then others read all this stuff....which causes some sort of psychological scare syndrome whereby people attribute all sorts of ailments and ills to taking the drug. | M | 45 | 3 years 10 mg 1X day | 4/1/2010 | 5 | allergies | None. You people are funny with all the sides you claim to get. It really is true, people only come to forums to complain | Has worked fantastically. Got rid of seasonal allergies, sinus pressure, sinus headache, congestion | M | 38 | 5 days 10 1X day | 8/15/2010 | 5 | allergies/hives | If I take 20mg a little lightheaded. 10mg usually stops any allergies with no side effects. Wonderful medication for me. | take on and off for years. I guessed four but it could be longer. | M | 45 | 4 years 10-20mg 1X day | 11/11/2010 | 5 | Allergies | None | These are some of the funniest things I've ever read. Some of you morons (and possible psychotics) have a little OTC allergy pill responsible for anything from erectile dysfunction to brain tumors to rage. Rage? Really? Hilarious. I love the idiot who went and had a CAT scan done. That is all I need to know about you to know you are a hypochondriac with great health insurance coverage. Just stupid beyond belief. | M | 30 | 2 years 20mg 1X day | 3/2/2011 | 5 | Coughing | No side effects. Worked great. | I had an allergic reaction to mold or spores when I stay at my summer home. Coughing for quite sometime. Claritin was suggested and I can say that I feel great now. My cough went away within five minutes of taking the rapid acting Claritin. Excellent for allergies or a cough due to allergies. | M | 24 | 1 days 10 MG 1X day | 5/7/2011 | 5 | Allergies | None so far. Seems like a lot of the side effects listed here are for Claritin D which has other ingredients in addition to loratidine. | Please be carefull when you post that you are posting about the right drug. Your misinformation may lead people not to take a drug they need. Palpitations, fatigue and mood changes are all indiciative of Claritin with the Decongestant in it not straight claritin. | M | 45 | 45 days 10mg 1X day | 6/10/2011 | 5 | allergies (stuffed up, sneezing) | N/A | I'm somewhat surprised by all these negative reviews! Not that I don't believe them, but I have been taking Claritin since I was a little kid, same with my whole family, and we never had side effects. The only effect has been near-immediate relief! I've recently been taking the dissolves-on-tongue variety which is quite convenient, and relief lasts at least 24 hours with one or two exceptions over the course of abt. 3 weeks. very satisfied. granted, in Canada this was OTC and only recently (last 10 years?) it has become otc in the U.S., and I think it may be a slightly different composition. but again, I have taken in both countries with similarly good effects. - steve | M | 27 | 21 days ? 1X day | 8/16/2011 | 5 | Runny nose/Sneezing | Increased my mood a lot (made me a happier), dry mouth. (all the other allergy medicines i try get me depressed, and make me in a very bad mood.) | Works great, it gets rid of all my allergies, for the 24 hours. | M | 14 | 1 years | 9/20/2006 | 5 | seasonal allergies | dry mouth | I don't know, but my 6 yo has a severe anxiety condition, but while on claritin the anxiety goes away??? Can't figure it out, but it is a wonder drug for his emotional challenges. | M | 6 | 1 days | 1/24/2007 | 5 | Sneezing, general mild allergies | Loratadine has been a god-send, as far as alleviating my allergy symptoms. It, of course, does leave me with a dry mouth/throat. The unusual thing I have noticed is that my allergies are horrible if I forget to take my pill in the morning - regardless of the time of year. If I go a few days without taking it, I can hardly function. My allergies were pretty mild before taking Loratadine. My fear is that beginning my daily regimen I have opened Pandora's Box and will now be forced to continue until I die. | I would like to see more long-term research on Claritin/Loratadine. If allergy sufferers are made to become dependent on it, then I think it should be pulled from the shelves. | M | 32 | 2 years | 10/29/2006 | 5 | Very itchy eyes, stuffy nose | Dry mouth, and slightly giddy feeling, but otherwise, no side affects. | It helps a lot and I have not experienced negative side affects. | M | 15 | 6 days | 3/21/2007 | 5 | Allergies | Dry mouth. | Relief from itchy eyes/throat and helped relieve difficulty breathing. | M | 24 | 2 years | 8/31/2004 | 5 | Severe Allergy Symptoms | In 4 years of taking Claritin I haven't noticed any certain side effects. I've been looking to see if anyone using claritin regularly for this long has experienced a loss of the sense of smell which began this year. I've also had some dryness issues that began this year only. I've been off of the claritin a week now and neither of these symptoms have gone away and I am more dehydrated. Other than the severe dehydration I haven't noticed anything like withdrawal symptoms either. I'm not sure if my loss of ability to smell is related to the claritin or not. | Claritin has been a life saver for me. I had severe itching, watery eyes, sneezing, sometimes hives and claritin would clear all of this up with the possible exception of the very peak of the allergy season. Then some nights I would supplement with benedryl. I never had any side effects that I have noticed until perhaps this year. | M | 43 | 4 years | 8/26/2007 | 5 | Hay fever w severe headaches | None - until I read this web site and discovered all the things I might blame on Claritin. Which aches, pains and attributes of growing older to attribute to this? Unexplained foot pain is more likely from Lipitor..still checking that. | Ive been taking it daily during spring, summer, fall for 3 yrs...it is always allergy season here in swampy Washington DC. If I am late starting in March, it takes a few days to push back the headaches.And then it works wonders. Zyrtec for two days gave me the racing heart, panic etc described in other posts here. | M | 57 | 3 years | 3/16/2008 | 5 | Seasonal Allergies | Joint pain, elbows, hip and back pain! Muscle Ache. | the product works (Claritin) but had to stop taking it,,cause of these side effects! | M | 40 | 38 days | 12/17/2008 | 5 | Seasonal Allergies | No Side Effects | I am amazed how people think it is always the drug do you people not realize that everyone acts differently to drugs, Ifor one had vivid nightmares with Zyrtec everyone and every drug is different. | M | 5 years | 4/1/2009 | 5 | Na | M | 33 | 10 years | 12/20/2013 | 5 | year round nose allergy | none | I took 1 tablet before going to bed in the past three days (Claritin Allergy+Sinus, 5 mg Loratadine, 120 mg Pseudoephedire sulfate) and my nose is now dry. What a relief it gave me! I don't know if i will have a bit of runny nose again this evening (as it happened yesterday evening). | M | 54 | 3 days 5 mg 1X day | 5/9/2015 | 5 | general allergies | None. | I don't know where these people are getting such wacky ideas, e.g. "claritin almost ruined my marriage." I can only surmise that these are very confused people who aren't mentioning the context of their ostensible problems, such as other medications they are concurrently taking, or pre-existing conditions. I can see how claritin with pseudoephedrine, for example, might result in some of the symptoms being described, but loratadine itself is such a benign drug, and has no such contraindications or side effects as some seem to believe it does (on this Web site anyway). It sounds to me that many people here are experiencing nocebo effect, which is (simply described) the converse effect of placebo. I'm curious to see (which I will check) if people like this also make such wild claims about other innocuous drugs. Claritin nearly ruined your marriage...very funny! | M | 33 | 20 years 10 1X AN | 6/8/2015 | 5 | hives | none | I've been having hives off & on for several months. Tried Zyrtec which worked, but when it wore off, symptoms came back with a vengeance! (also made me drowsy) So I tried Claritin and it has been magic! Although recommended dosage is 10 mg 1x day, I found all I need to do is to take 1 tablet every 6 days and it works like a charm. | M | 54 | 6 weeks 10 mg 1X W | 5/4/2016 |