ZYRTEC Reviews (CETIRIZINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.0 (1816 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZYRTEC with similar:
Type: Over-the-counter Drug
|
Results are sorted by Age from youngest to oldest (reviews with no age reported listed first). Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.) Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 |
More on ZYRTEC: Reviews Summary | Drug Safety Information
| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYRTEC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Cholinergic Urticaria | I felt cetirizine sufficiently suppressed my CU, whilst I was taking it. I only experienced an attack on the first day, after that none. Sadly, I had to stop taking it despite its efficacy as it was causing me to have severe chronic headaches, sinus pain,made me feel out of it, sleepy, made me need at least 10 hrs of sleep, and impaired my coordination and focus. It isn't a horrible drug as it has it's positives but I believe the negatives outweigh them for me. | M | 17 | 3 weeks 10 1X day | 1/20/2011 | 2 | Seasonal allergies/ Insect bites | Eczema, drowsiness, irritability | I began taking Zyrtec by the recommendation of my doctor, to help deal with itching from insect bites. I took it for about two weeks, and in that time, I became tired more quickly, and developed a very short temper. I also developed a very painful, scaly rash on my face. I spoke to my mother about it, and she said that when she tried taking Zyrtec, she experienced muscle spasms in her legs! That sounded a bit too scary to me, so I quit taking it right away. I've been off it for two days now, and the rash is almost cleared, and my mood and energy levels are back to normal. Even if it did stop the itching from the insect bites I don't ever plan on taking Zyrtec again! | F | 17 | 2 weeks 10 mg 1X day | 6/21/2011 | 2 | Allergies | I had allergies that were so horrible and thinking evey medicine off the counter would make it better, it didn't. I then heard of Zyrtec and my allergies were getting better, but the side effects were tremendous. I felt so tired and lazy, as if nothing in my life was important. I had so many mood swings and i was extremely sensitive to every little thing. I became aggressive and more angry than I have ever become. I thought it was just me, but I realized I am not the only one with these issues. Thanks to the comments, I finally realized that I needed to stop this drug before it takes over me. | I believe any other medicine will work, but just not this medicine. | F | 17 | 1 years | 5/13/2007 | 1 | Allergy | Insomnia that led to sleep psychosis, rash | DON'T START THIS IS ADDICTIVE. IF YOU KNOW OF ANY CLASS ACTION SUITS AGAINST ZYRTEC, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! | M | 17 | 3 years | 12/8/2007 | 1 | allergies | mood swings not sleeping well dry skin extreme itching when stopping medicine loss of concentraton | I am taking my 17 year daughter off of this medication | F | 17 | 2 years | 3/11/2005 | 1 | allergies | mood swings not sleeping well dry skin extreme itching when stopping medicine loss of concentraton | I am taking my 17 year daughter off of this medication | F | 17 | 2 years | 3/11/2005 | 1 | allergies | mood swings not sleeping well dry skin extreme itching when stopping medicine loss of concentraton | I am taking my 17 year daughter off of this medication | F | 17 | 2 years | 3/11/2005 | 1 | allergies | sleep paralysis, feeling very "out of it", anxious, lack of energy | My allergies were really acting up and my typical medicine wasn't doing much so my doctor recommended Zyrtec. After taking it for a few days, I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time in my life. Since I had just started taking this medicine, I decided to look up other side effects of zyrtec. I couldn't believe that an allergy medication could cause something as horrible as sleep paralysis, but apparently I'm not the only one who experienced it. Also, I noticed that i was really out of it the few days I was taking this but I didn't think anything of it until recently. Also I was a lot more anxious than usual. And I was tired all the time too. I don't understand how this medicine is still allowed to be sold. | F | 17 | 5 days 10 mg 1X day | 2/27/2016 | 1 | allergies | I've been taking zyrtec for seasonal allergies for 3 weeks and then stored taking them. During those 3 weeks I felt terribly depressed, I didn't want to do anything. I thought it was the allergies making me feel bad. I stopped taking it for a few months abd I felt extraordinary. Then the other day my allergies stated acting up a little so I started taking it... I sin began to have anxiety attacks for the smallest of things. | M | 17 | 3 weeks | 12/7/2013 | 1 | Swelling and unknown itching | This is the most horrific medication I have ever been on and has made me even more afraid to take pills.....Parents please don't give this to your children | I started taking this after my allergist recommended it for my unknown itching and swelling. starting out everything was fine, my symptoms vanished and I felt clear.. On the sixth day of taking this I forgot and after that all hell broke lose.. I couldn't sleep lost my appetite I was afraid and paranoid to be alone I couldn't sleep alone and usually i enjoy my privacy. After not being able to sleep for four days I became depressed cried every day and developed lightheadedness on my left side. A week later and it still has not subsided ... Honestly I'm terrified of the damage this might have done to me and won't be able to see the doctor for another two weeks.All in all just STAY AWAY | F | 17 | 7 days 10 | 4/9/2017 | 4 | Pollen Allergies | Headaches due to activity | The drug worked great on my allergies but it had some nasty side effects. I try to work out at the gym with some lifting, but as soon as i started taking zyrtec as soon as i would do any heavy lifting that i really had to strain to do, boom, i'd get a headache, just like that and it'd last for hours | M | 18 | 5 days | 3/19/2009 | 4 | Allergies | The first few months I had had no side effects. I needed Zyrtec everday though for my severe allergies and it worked like a dream. However, recently I had been having violent dreams, depression, and weight gain. I have not changed my diet and I exercise for about 90 minutes a day. I am on no other medication. However the Zyrtec really does help with my allergies. | F | 18 | 1 years | 6/7/2005 | 4 | Allergies and Asthma | None that I have noticed, although I do take it just before I go to bed, so I'm really unable to tell if it may cause any drowsiness. | I have moderate allergies year round, but I am severely allergic to cats. I have recently moved into a house with three cats. For awhile I was taking other allergy pills that were working okay,but I had to take them more frequently, and I was still suffering a lot of symptoms. When I began to take Zyrtec 24 hour, Nearly every one of my symptoms were reduced greatly. Before, living with cats was nearly unbearable, with the itching, sneezing, watery eyes, inability to breathe, etc. Now, I can even play with the cats and I feel fine. Just a little bit of itching still occurs, and my nose isn't always perfectly clear. One day I went just over my 24 hour limit to see what would happen, and my allergic reactions came back with a vengence, so this medicine might have to be a full time thing for me, but it's better than my other options. | F | 18 | 50 days 10 mg 1X day | 11/1/2010 | 4 | severe rash/hives | Slight lethargy, but eminently bearable compared to Benadryl, which knocked me out completely. | I took this to help clear up a severe rash due to an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs, and it made the hives disappear fairly quickly, within 2 or 3 days. It was supposed to take a week, so I was very happy. However, my brother has taken it for hay fever, and it did not help him at all. It is also very expensive. I have 25 pills left and will try them for allergies in the spring, just so as not to waste $60. | F | 18 | 5 days | 8/11/2006 | 3 | ALLERGIES | Weird Dream, "Hit by a truck" feeling when waking up, Oversleeping | I took a Zyrtec pill and after having the weirdest dream ever, I woke up 5 hours late and feeling like I had been hit by a truck. It did stop my sneezing. | F | 18 | 1 days 10 1X day | 4/4/2010 | 3 | Hay-fever | Drowziness, sometimes mood swings... and maybe don't know for sure... hair loss? | Not that bad but I don't think it acts immediatly as when i have hay-fever... i take an extra pill and still i remain with the allergie through out the day... | M | 18 | 2 years | 4/6/2005 | 1 | Allergiesn and Sinus Problems | Utter exhaustion. Drugged feeling, always slightly dizzy. Feel disconnected from everything at times. Outbursts of anger.I first took this drug when i was 15, it worked well for awhile and i don't recall having fatigue as a side effect. I do recall a lot of anger and depression to the point where the doctor wanted to treat me for it but i didn't want to take any more pills. I thought i was depressed because of a broken ankle, not my allergy pills, maybe i was wrong. At one point after returning from a doctors visit finding my ankle was still getting worse i threw my crutch like a javilin at the wall in my house making a large hole. I never had those type of outbursts before Zyrtec. I got off zyrtec the following winter when i kept gettign sinus infections, my depression problems vanished and i was normal again. My ankle was healing and we attributed it to that. | Three weeks ago i had a bad sinus infection and i was leaving to Germany and the doctor gave me augmentin and i asked for a strong allergy medicine because my pollen and grass allergies can get bad in Bavaria. I recieved Zyrtec the first couple of days i felt fine. When i arrived in Germany (4 days after starting Zyrtec) i felt REALLY jet-lagged. It never got better. I can barely get up, i feel drugged and dizzy. I went to the net to research what was up and am thanking God i found this site. Last night will be the last dose i ever take! | M | 18 | 3 weeks | 6/14/2005 | 1 | Itchiness when sweating | Uh, let me think... crushing depression, though i didn't realize it, each time i took this piece of crap, i would be depressed for up to a week afterwards, almost inclined to kill myself, that's how bad i felt | Do NOT take this, EVER. | M | 18 | 4 weeks | 2/6/2008 | 1 | Outdoor Seasonal Allergies | Depression, weakened reaction, mental strain, inability to focus, feeling extremly out of it, ect | I had taken Zyrtec last year for spring allergies and it worked well for that, but i had forgotten i stopped taking it due to these side effects. So a year later my allergies were kicking in again and i bought a bottle of the newly over-the-counter drug. after taking it and heading off to school i began to feel very out of it; in an almost dream like or sedated state. With this very strong feeling i felt terribly depressed and even feeling a little suicidal, dizzy, mentally strained and an overall "zombie-like" high feeling. I could also not focus one bit on my school work and felt psychologically lost all day long. however it did work pretty well for my allergies, but i really would not want to spend another day on Zyrtec. terrible drug, how the hell is this over-the-counter? take this crap off the shelves. | M | 18 | 1 days | 4/22/2008 | 1 | Severe allergies | I've been taking this for around four months, (10mg daily) starting a little while before the Summer began. From then till now, I've become extremely depressed to the point of being suicidal over the smallest things, very paranoid, feelings of worthlessness, had horrible, recurring nightmares of people being torn apart, (no joke) severe abdominal pain, (especially near my spleen) alternate between constipation/diarrhea no matter what I eat or how much fiber I get, (Colonoscopy and EGD came back fine.) have many bouts of nausea out of nowhere, (vomit sometimes) became an insomniac, never feel rested after sleep if I can get it, very irritable most of the time, get tons of extreme anger, (I used to be quite humble.) lots of headaches, muscle pain, lethargy, spaced-out feelings, can't concentrate, feeling withdrawn from reality, constantly lonely even around others, have barely any sex drive at all, been getting sick more than usual and doctors can't get a diagnosis, tons of swelling in | After finding this site, and another like it, I've seen that I'm not the only one who has been experiencing these sorts of things since they started this drug, and have stopped as of last night. So far, I've been having a lot of itching and feeling of being pricked with a needle over all of my body and head. I read a lot of people have these sort of withdrawals to Cetirizine. (Zyrtec) I stopped because I think this is truely the cause of my gradually ruined Summer and I am hoping to get all of those pieces of myself back, to stop being so depressed and irritable, and hopefully go back to how I was before and maybe even get some sleep. This is the only drug I've been on, so I don't think it is anything else and the descriptions here are too similar for comfort. Hopefully things will start improving. I just have to find something else for my allergies. The only OTC thing that works for me is Benadryl, but it makes me extremely tired and emotionally numb, so I save it for nights. I hope t | M | 18 | 4 months | 9/4/2007 |