CELEXA Reviews (CITALOPRAM HYDROBROMIDE)Average Rating: 3.2 (1099 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CELEXA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CELEXA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | manic, depressed | weight gain, night sweats | worked immediately. Enabled me to relate to people socially, eased my workaholic behavior. Eliminated depression and anxiety. | M | 46 | 3 years | 6/20/2006 | 5 | OCD, Anxiety | Has anybody had any problems with their Celexa effectiveness after having solu-medrol injections for an inflamed joint? I feel like my Celexa isn't working anymore and am very anxious. Any help would be appreciated! | F | 46 | 10 years 40 mg 1X day | 9/21/2010 | 5 | anxiety | I took 10mg and felt pretty good - til night time - then i was getting kinda warm. the next morning i almost fainted, my face was hot, sweaty.......and felt awful......i have tried this medicine once before and had the same side effect - after one dose - why did i think i could try it again? not the right drug for me. | i have many friends and family that say it works wonders for them......but i for one am intolerant of medications......some type of allergic reaction. just becareful!!! i almost went to the ER | F | 46 | 1 days 10 1X day | 1/26/2011 | 4 | depression/anxiety | Teeth clenching, sleepiness, lower sex drive | I am combining the use of this drug with therapy. Initially it made me tired but that has tapered off. Absolutely no feelings of depression and no panic attacks. It has given me a positive attitude to work on my issues with my therapist. No weight gain, which is great. The teeth clenching was extremely annoying and it took months for it to go away. Overall I feel much better than I did 6 months ago. | F | 46 | 6 months 10 mg 1X day | 7/21/2010 | 4 | Depression | Not 100% sure if it was this drug, but I developed uncontrolable bowel movements during the day. I would literally release within 5 - 10 minutes if I had no access to a toilet. So I took it at night rather. I developed an addiction to codeine shortly after starting which causes constipation, so this may have balanced it out. I still take it years later and the condition went away. If I take 40mg I clench my jaw at during the day. Also, reduced sex drive. | Very helpful for depression for me. A few friends I know also take it and it helps them too. | M | 46 | 7 years 20 1X day | 9/28/2012 | 4 | anxiety/depression | Weight gain.Incessant yawning! Flu-like symptoms when coming off it. | Have had three separate times on Celexa-each prompted by extreme anxiety and depression.Stayed on drug around 12 months each time. Didn't think weight gain was caused by Celexa at time but now realize that it's a major side effect for me. Drug helped a lot with depression and anxiety but I am reluctant to start on it again but my increasing feelings of fear and dread tell me that I will soon have to.Was wondering whether Wellbutrin would be a better choice. | F | 46 | 12 months | 7/29/2007 | 4 | serious depression | Initial 3 days: debilitating, knocked-off-my-feet nausea, dizziness, trembling etc.; Gradually subsided; most symptoms gone by 4-5 months; 20 lbs weight gain in 1 year, very distressing as another drug had previously caused 30lb gain, most never lost (I used to be tiny!). Otherwise is a wonder drug for me, after moderate but unsatisfactory help from Manerix. Current symptoms are teeth grinding, clenching, hot spells (esp. in morning). | I expect to stay on an antidepressant for the rest of my life, which is just fine. However, the weight gain is so distressing I may have to seek another solution. Still am lower in motivation & drive than normal for me; but a life-saver literally and I am much happier, socially active again. I have no sex drive, but also no partner so is essentially unnoticeable. No desire for a sexual partner -- good I guess since my weight doesn't make me very appealing. | F | 46 | 1 years | 2/12/2005 | 4 | Anxiety & depression | Severe Nausea, dizzy, and tremors. Dr. told me to take 1/2 pill (20mg) in morning and 1/2 at night. This helped. | Have only been taking Celexa for a week but already can tell that I feel more "mellow" now than before. Work is the primary cause of my stress and anxiety and I feel "almost" like I can handle it now. | F | 46 | 7 days | 9/18/2002 | 3 | anxiety/depression | Initial insomnia but after three days or so slept better than I had for years. Hot flashes that were NOT due to menopause, as when I decreased dosage they stopped. Numbness in genital area poor orgasms. | Helped a lot with anxiety/ depression/ sleep. Sexual side effects are now becoming so distressing that I want to quit taking it. | F | 46 | 7 months | 7/31/2002 | 3 | Anxiety and depression | Weight gain, night sweats, jaw clenching, menstrual irregularity, acne; during first month insomnia and yawning | I am concerned about the weight gain, and am thinking of titrating down from 40 mg to a "maintenance" dose of 20 mg. | F | 46 | 8 months | 5/4/2007 | 3 | PMS/Hormonal Issues | Dry mouth, decrease in sexual drive, fatigue, 25-pound weight gain (in 3 years) | I was on Celexa to ''mask'' symptoms of low progesterone and hormonal issues. While on it, I did fine. After a while, though, it seemed to lose some effectiveness and my dosage had to be up'd. I finally found a doctor who understood my progesterone issues and prescribed progesterone for me, and I started weaning off my 40mg of Celexa in early May. I took 20mg for 2-3 weeks, then 20mg every other day for a couple of weeks. Within a week after I stopped, I started feeling jittery/nervous all the time. Then the insomnia hit. Then the nightly panic attacks, hot flashes, hyperventilating, and feeling like I wanted to ''crawl out of my skin.'' It got so bad that I ended up having to go back on the Celexa (at 30mg) just to stop the horrible withdrawal symptoms (which they call ''discontinuation syndrome'' because Celexa is not supposed to be addictive). My docs told me my symptoms were like the Paxil cases from the ''20/20'' special. I couldn't work for a week (thank God my boss is so wonderful). Now I'm being switched to Prozac (10mg) for my weaning off period, since the half-life is much longer and the weaning process much easier than Celexa's. I'm praying I don't go through what I went through with Celexa; it was the most horrible experience of my life. BE VERY CAREFUL if you plan to stop taking Celexa, and ALWAYS have your doctor fully monitor you throughout the process. I learned the hard way. | F | 46 | 3 years | 7/22/2004 | 2 | depression/anxiety/SAD/PTSD | restlessness, hyperactivity, insomnia, irritability | I became manic on this medication. If it weren't for Ambien and Lorazepam, I would have stayed up all night every night cleaning the kitchen sink with a toothbrush. After 4 months, I had the familiar 'flat' feeling that I've had with other anti-depressants (Paxil, Prozac) that makes me feel so hopeless; so I decided to discontue. I was recently diagnosed with a mood disorder and I meet the criteria for bipolar 2, which studies are showing that anti-depressants do not help and usually make the patient feel worse instead of better. | F | 46 | 4 months | 9/30/2007 | 2 | Dysthymia | Wellbutrin XL stopped working after 6 years. Celexa was the first antidepressant my doctor had me try. On a dose of 20 mg daily, I suffered dizziness to the point of falling down at least once a week, usually on steps or stairs as if losing my balance, worsening fatigue, sleepiness, grogginess, 'brain fog', headaches, even a few minor motor vehicle mishaps (scraped my car along a wall in my workplace parking garage--TWICE). Celexa also made me quite alcohol-intolerant; one cocktail made me very loopy, headachy and nauseated. | My dysthymia manifests as apathy, cynicism, lack of motivation, head-to-toe body, joint and muscle aches, dyspepsia/IBS, overeating, fatigue, 'brain fog', insomnia, and a generally unsociable, 'bah humbug/grumpy old hag' attitude. Celexa 20 mg made my body feel FABULOUS--all my ol' lady aches and pains magically disappeared, I swear I felt 28 again--it made my IBS diarrhea vanish, and I slept a little better, but it did nothing for my mood, attitude, outlook, energy level or motivation. I had headaches every day and plodded around in a fuzzy zombie-like brain fog for 4 weeks, hoping the side effects would fade and the depression lift--but alas. I stopped taking it cold turkey with no problems, but I also immediately started taking Cymbalta and I've remained on Wellbutrin, both of which may have minimized any withdrawal symptoms. | F | 46 | 4 weeks | 1/16/2009 | 2 | insomnia, anxiety | Dry mouth, dry nose, muscle spasms/twitches, nightmares (much more terrifying than an average nightmare might be), loss of libido, agitation, slight weight gain. | This was supposed to ease daytime anxiety and help with sleep at night. It was given to me to try after Prozac killed my libido. (I otherwise had no side effects). Celexa not only did that also, but it gave me a whole bunch of other symptons I don't need and that Prozac did not give me. Since everyone's body is different, I rated it a 2 rather than a 1. | F | 46 | 2 months | 3/29/2008 | 1 | Depression, Anxiety, Psychosis NOS | Intense pressure in the top of my head. Suicidal thoughts. Very down mood. Extremely increased sex drive the month after I went off of it, this part could be useful... | I took Celexa for about 6 months and got hauled into the County Mental Hospital for calling a Policeman to complain about harassment from my landlord. I admitted that I was so distraught over the housing situation I was having suicidal thoughts so he handcuffed me and dumped me off at the booby hatch. A remarkably horrifying experience. I was also taking 1 mg. Lorazepam to sleep. The hospital forced me to take Geodon. I took the one pill in order to be released and that made my head jerk a couple of times. A year later, went to a psychiatrist who prescribed Lexapro. After a month on Lexapro she added an anti-psychotic and after a week I almost really did kill myself. I also became very clumsy and my leg was kicking involuntarily. I couldn't sleep and my eyesight went bad. She said I was on a subclinical dose so was hallucinating the symptons. Stopped everything and a week later my therapist said I was glowing, the treatment was really working! When I told her I went off of everything s | F | 46 | 7 days | 10/18/2005 | 1 | Depression, Anxiety, Psychosis NOS | Intense pressure in the top of my head. Suicidal thoughts. Very down mood. Extremely increased sex drive the month after I went off of it, this part could be useful... | I took Celexa for about 6 months and got hauled into the County Mental Hospital for calling a Policeman to complain about harassment from my landlord. I admitted that I was so distraught over the housing situation I was having suicidal thoughts so he handcuffed me and dumped me off at the booby hatch. A remarkably horrifying experience. I was also taking 1 mg. Lorazepam to sleep. The hospital forced me to take Geodon. I took the one pill in order to be released and that made my head jerk a couple of times. A year later, went to a psychiatrist who prescribed Lexapro. After a month on Lexapro she added an anti-psychotic and after a week I almost really did kill myself. I also became very clumsy and my leg was kicking involuntarily. I couldn't sleep and my eyesight went bad. She said I was on a subclinical dose so was hallucinating the symptons. Stopped everything and a week later my therapist said I was glowing, the treatment was really working! When I told her I went off of everything s | F | 46 | 7 days | 10/18/2005 | 1 | mild depression | High Anxiety felt horrible dialated pupils next morning.Many other issues that came on over time. | Found after a couple weeks that I had had an adverse reaction to this drug. Damaged my nervous system. Left me with tinnitus and many other issues. Took on Dec. 17 2009. Got to three years out and I have had a relapse due to some supplements that I took. Now trying to heal the nerves from this latest fallback. I must be extremely sensitive to these drugs as they work in the same system in the brain as LSD. Be very careful and research before trying any of these drugs. I wish I would have known about adverse reactions before I decided to take this drug. It might have saved me all this damage that I've had. I'm probably permanently damaged from the reaction I had. Be cautious! | F | 46 | 1 days 10 mg. 1X day | 4/8/2013 | 5 | anxiety | like | felt good | M | 47 | 10 1X day | 11/5/2010 | 5 | depression | little dizzy and headachey for about a week...then it stopped and i was fine.. i've been on the medication for over 8 months...one tablet daily.... Perfect.... its is an exceptional medicine in my opinion.... | M | 47 | 8 months | 5/23/2002 | 5 | Depression, SocialPhobia, obsession | Sexual side effects (Lack of desire, delayed orgasm, slight feeling of disassociation from orgasm), sleepiness during the day, vivid dreaming. | I've taken various doses from 20mg to 40mg. It has alleviated almost all depression at any dose (20mg, 30mg, or 40mg), but obsessive thinking only stops at the highest dose. Sleepiness is the most uncomfortable side-effect. I can't get up in the morning even after sleeping 10+ hours. Tired all day. Sexual side-effects are profound but I have no partner so no loss, really. Weight gain, too. I've always been heavy, but now I'm really fat. Drug still good, though. A life saver. Play with the dose 'til you get it right. Try dosing at night, or splitting dose between morning/evening, or whatever works for you. I split pills to get the 30mg dose when needed. | M | 47 | 4.5 years | 5/9/2005 |