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 |
| 2 | For allergies. | For two years have been diagnose with severe anxiety. It has never improved, except during certain times of the year. When ? When I was not taking Loratidine. Severe anxiety, déjà vu and vivid nightmares. Trouble breathing, quite short of breath, night sweats, severe distraction, muscle aches in my back and loss of appetite. Made the connection after realizing that every time I took it I got bloated, and soon after felt fatigue. I stopped it for 2 days and the difference was inmense. Am hoping that I can get it out of my system and then get rid of my anxiety meds. | M | 37 | 3 years 10 | 3/16/2014 | 1 | Postnasal drop | I began this medicine I am in college and started to feel foggy didn't think anything of it. Then eating at a restaurant my heart started pounding. My left side went numb and then I got a migraine. I thought I was having a brain aneurysm. Went to ER got a cat scan it was normal. Went home kept taking the drug then each time I ate I would have palpitations. Not to mention the vivid night terrors. I would rather love with this nSal drip than ever take this. I hope I recover I have stoped the drug for two days and still am having palpitations. This drug is not good. | F | 23 | 2 weeks 10 | 3/15/2014 | 1 | For seasonal allergies | Started having persistent, moderate joint and tendon pain over every single joint in my body. I was taking an off brand loratidine, the same active Claritin ingredient. Also dry mouth, mood swings, and chest pain. | F | 42 | 9 days 10mg daily | 3/9/2014 | 3 | Chronic allergies | I feel completely out of it- like I am in a dream constantly! My memory is terrible. I have more anxiety, and extremely vivid dreams and deja vu. My symptoms were so bad I had an MRI of my head to rule out tumor, ect. I also have weird sensations of buzzing in my limbs. All of this was non existent before I started this medication. | It works great for allergies. I do not sneeze, have itchy watery eyes, or have dizziness which is common with my allergies (I am a year round allergy sufferer). I will have to deal with the side effects because nothing else works for me. | F | 24 | 3 months 10 mg 1X day | 2/11/2014 | 1 | Allergies/Sinuses/Post Nasal Drip | I took this medication once over 2 years ago, before bed. That night I woke up having a severe panic attack. I had to wake my husband and up because I didn't know what was happening to me. I then assumed it must've been the claritan, because I have never had a panic attack before. Ok, so I tried to take this medicine last night, and I was completely restless, with a irregular heartbeat. (Seemed extremely fast) sweaty palms and feet, face flushed- again the feeling of a panic attack. All night my chest felt heavy and I felt short of breath. This carried on into the next day. I almost went to the ER because the symptoms were so frustrating. (Including swelling lymph glands in my neck) Then I remembered my previous experience. NEVER AGAIN! This drug is the devil! | F | 31 | 1 days 10 MG | 2/2/2014 | 5 | Na | M | 33 | 10 years | 12/20/2013 | 1 | Seasonal allergies | Seizures, irritability, insomnia | No previous history of seizures | M | 47 | 6 months 10mg 1X day | 12/7/2013 | 1 | Allergies | My son was well adjusted, good in school, plays soccer, Karate, two musical instruments and loved to read. After 5 days of Claritin 24hr at night before bed, he had severe mood swings, hyper activity and what he described as bad thoughts. We stopped the medicine immediately. The symptoms continued to worsen two days after, finally producing a facial tic where he can't control his blinking and has an eye-roll. he was crying for no reason in the morning with sleepiness and then unable to sit down in the evening. The emergency room doctor pinpointed it as the Loaratadine in the Claritin affecting his central nervous system, stating that he's had parents threaten him if he ever prescribed the drug to their child again. It's been 11 days since his last dose. The eye-blinking/rolling continues and his Teacher said he puts his head down on his desk allot and plays with his fingers. He is complaining about School, saying that he feels invisible to his friends. He is moody and his little bro | It should be removed from the market and controlled as a poison. | M | 9 | 5 days 10 1X day | 10/14/2013 | 1 | Allergies | Heart palpitations, severe headache, constant anxiety, panic attacks, vivid nightmares | F | 28 | 1 days 1xD | 9/30/2013 | 2 | allergies | erectile disfunction | M | 55 | 1 times 1X AN | 8/29/2013 | 1 | Seasonal allergies | Stomach pain, gas, belching, insomnia, nightmares | Have taken other antihistamines for years without incident. I am now on my fourth day after taking one dose. Gastric distress subsiding but still present. Insomnia is bad. Felt exhausted last night but was unable to fall asleep for 4.5 hours. Racing thoughts and nightmares, very unusual for me. Took klonopin .25 mg and got rest, although I am not sure that I slept at all. | M | 66 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 8/16/2013 | 1 | Allergies to pet hair | Years ago I used it once and loved it. A month ago I used it and within minutes had paranoia, shakes, nausea and high anxiety. Thought symptoms were because I didn't eat when I took the pill. Slept off side effects with a nightmare and woke feeling weird for the rest of the day. Took a pill yesterday and jjust woke up from a horribly vivid nightmare because I had a very bad throbbing pain in the back of my head and I never ever get headaches. Luckily hanging head upside down for a few seconds helped the pain stop. Now I googled the pain and the word Claritin and will not take it again. Last time when I had the nausea I explained to everyone I felt like I was tripping out and felt overwhelmed with fear and paranoia now I know why. Buyer beware it worked to prevent my regular wheezing, hives and itchy eyes well but the side effects are extreme. | F | 28 | 1 days 1-12hrpill | 8/6/2013 | 1 | Seasonal allergies | I get a terrible itchy nose as well as itchy eyes, so I've been taking an offbrand loratadine and while it does the trick for my itches, it gives me horrible headaches and and makes my sinuses ache worse than I've ever felt. I'd rather endure the incessant itching than the the ridiculous and unnecessary pain. | F | 19 | 10 days 10mg 1X day | 7/29/2013 | 1 | (Hayfever) Allergies | Insomnia after taking Claritin for about 4 days. I was able to go to sleep but would sleep lightly and then wake up with extreme anxiety which degenerated to panic attacks that would continue for hours. After a couple of weeks, I became sleep deprived with continuous anxiety. I was prescribed meds for anxiety by my doctor because we didn't make the connection to Claritin. The antianxiety meds didn't really solve the problem and I became listless and forgetful. When I finally quit taking the Claritin, I began to be more rested after about 10 days. When I had another allergy attack, I started Claritin again and within a week had insomnia and panic attacks. I realized the Claritin was causing the problems, so now I stay far away from it. I did do ONE more test and after just 3 does (3 nights), the insomnia started up again. | The connection between the insomnia and Claritin was aided by information from my mother. She cannot take oral Benadryl or Psuedophed because they both cause insomnia for her, as does Claritin. I have no problem with pseudophedine and Benedryl makes me slightly sleepy. | F | 44 | 10mg 1X day | 7/25/2013 | 1 | Seasonal Allergies | Heart Palpitations, Nasal Drip, Soar Sinus, Itchy and watery Eyes. | The reaction I experienced was a thousand times worse than the Allergy symptoms i was taking it to treat. Following taking this medication Tuesday Night, my heart starting racing like crazy and no matter what i did i could not slow it down. That lasted approx 30-45 Minutes, over the night i ended up developing an extremly backed up synus i kept waking up blowing my nose, or chocking if my head tilted back, Today is the day after, about 18 hours since i toke the medication I feel like my body is just shutting down, a million times worse than my initial allergy symptoms ... Eyes burning nose running throat itching it just wont stop, we will see how long this lasts now, but i am for sure not taking a second dose of that stuff. | F | 22 | 1 days 10 MG 1X day | 7/17/2013 | 1 | allergies | Feeling very faint and lightheaded,short of breath,pain in knees and very thirsty. Also very sore eyes. | F | 55 | 10 days 10mg | 7/16/2013 | 1 | environmental allergies | One and only dose equaled 10 hrs of lucid nightmares! Never again. | F | 42 | 1 days 10 mg | 6/26/2013 | 3 | inhalent allergies | Painful feeling in left side. Finally had horrible, horrible, urgent diarrhea and gas several days after the pain started. Finally realized that symptoms started at same time I started taking loratadine. Bloated abdoment, painful to move or bend. was using generic/store brand loratadine. | F | 43 | 7 days 10mg 1X day | 6/21/2013 | 1 | For hayfever | With these new pills that melt in your mouth I started feeling sick and having stomach pains. | M | 24 | 7 days 10mg | 6/21/2013 | 1 | Allergies | Anxiety, hypothesia in face,arms, legs,tinnitus, depression, confusion, amnesia type effects, fatigue, headache. | Literally thought I was going to die, had ct scan of head and then saw neurologist all for what they thought were neurological symptoms, they decided it was anxiety, neurologist thought Claritin may have been cause or contributed to symptoms, never had anxiety before but this has taken a long time to go away, at time never contributed it to the Claritin as seems to happen so subtly. Looking back over the years I have taken this off and on not for the same length of time and it seems even when taken for a few days it coincided with small bouts of depression. This last time was the worst by far, this is criminal having medications like this available for general sale. | M | 40 | 2 months 10 1X day | 6/10/2013 |