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 |
| 4 | depression/anxiety | slight weight loss at first, dry mouth, heart palpitations at increased dose. | Not a miracle drug but it did significantly help me. Very few side effects. Unfortunately, when I increased it up to 40mg I began having heart palpitations and my doctor made me stop taking it. I've since tried zoloft and lexapro but they have had more side effects and less therapeutic effects than celexa. | F | 23 | 3 years 30mg 1X day | 3/25/2013 | 4 | anxiety | sleepiness. fatigue | F | 23 | 2 years | 5/31/2003 | 3 | major depression | 1st week: nightmares, would wake up in a bath of sweat in middle of night, disoriented. these s/e's disappeared in 4-5 days. Cured my depression really effectively but the one side effect that never went away was the no sex drive AT ALL, so switched to wellbutrin. I gained 20lbs on celexa. That sucked. | F | 23 | 7 months | 7/19/2004 | 3 | depression, social anxiety disorder | For the first week on Celexa I experienced SEVERE hot flashes, tingly adrenaline rush type feelings several times a day for no apparent reason, and just an overall strange feeling. Those side effects have went away but I'm now experiencing increased ,very vivid and odd, dreams. Also experiencing irritability and anger. | Has helped alot with the depression but still have days where I will be mildly depressed and have suicidal thoughts. Celexa has done absolutely nothing for my social anxiety disorder-still have the avoidant personality. It has just made it less depressing. Sometimes I feel emotionally numb and foggy. Have emotional highs and lows almost like Bi Polar disorder. | F | 23 | 1 months | 11/15/2004 | 3 | Depression | Dry mouth, insomnia at night, yawning and drowsiness during the day, slight decrease in libido, decrease in appetite. | F | 23 | 1.5 weeks | 11/24/2006 | 3 | Depression | Initially while getting used to Celexa (I started at only 10mg for the first week) it made my heart feel racy, I had no appetite (thus lost weight), was sleeping all day and felt completely jittery and anxious at night. Those went away and tapered off after about 1-2 months. | Celexa has helped with depression, I'm not as weepy as I used to be. | F | 23 | 8 months | 7/19/2007 | 3 | depression | none, really | seems to work average,can tell when i DONT take, but hasn't really given me the results i have had with other medication. | F | 23 | 6 months | 7/14/2002 | 3 | OCD, anxiety. | extreme drowsiness, a little sexual impairment... | if u want to take it, take in combo with an NARI or wellbutrin. alone is a hypnotic, just for me. | M | 23 | 1 months | 12/18/2009 | 3 | depression, ocd, anxiety | weight gain 138 lbs to 158 | i feel better on it than not being on it, but the bulging fat that's noticeable when i wear my shirts is embarassing. At first it was hard for ejaculation, but eventually i was able to. | M | 23 | 1 years | 8/15/2009 | 2 | Anxiety and panic attacks | Rapid heartbeat, tingling in hands and feet, insomnia, shaking, weakness/restlessness in legs, making anxiety worse, making panic attacks more frequent. | F | 23 | 1 months 10mg | 4/20/2012 | 1 | Anxiety | Yawning, retardedness- slow you down too much, make you sleep all day and night, affects performance; I was unable to do anything productive, in a day I would only be able to write one page a day where as I used to write one page an hour, makes you careless yet content with life, happy, then the brain pain kicked in, concentration gone out the window (all the while your mind can't recognise these things because your so out of it being happy that it is then too late by then) nose bleeds in the mornings, rise in body temperature and hight tepm head, strange fevers that no amount of paracitamol will cure, pain in the eyes, dry mouth causing you to drink alot of water but that still doesn't help, kills your memory, but clears your mind so you can focus on reading but you probably won't be able to remember it, calms you down if you have social anxiety so you are able to be urself without fear and helps you think before you act if your normally hyper person. | F | 23 | 7 weeks 10mg | 3/3/2012 | 1 | Anxiety | Increased Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression, thoughts of suicide, dilated pupils, blurred vision, dizziness, Nausea, lack of concentration, drowsiness, insomnia | I hate this medication. I only took 3 pills and after the first pill my entire mental outlook changed... for the worse. I've never had severe suicidal thought before but after the first dose I woke up in the middle of the night and had hallucinations of someone telling me to kill myself. I had to take an ativan to get back to sleep b/c I was so upset. The next morning, I felt like crap: My pupils were dilated so much I couldn't see straight and the nausea was so bad I almost had to call in to work. Finally, I started to feel normal again and then it was time to take the next pill! I felt awful- like I was on ecstacy but without any of the good feelings, just the cracked out, dirty drug feeling. I desided the symptoms of my anxiety were better than the side affects of this medication. Even if I did ride it out, whose to say I would even feel any better, and if I ever wanted to stop , I'd have withdrawl symptoms... no thank you. I'll just stick to the ativan- it may be addictive | F | 23 | 3 days | 12/22/2005 | 1 | Depression and Anxiety | worsened depression, tingling hands, restless leg syndrome | I took this medication for depression and anxiety. Within a week I felt a lot better, but by 3 weeks I was feeling worse than ever. By week 4 I was feeling so hopeless I found myself seriously considering taking an intentional overdose of sleeping pills. I have never been suicidal and this alarmed me. I immediately stopped taking celexa and felt much better within 2 days. I realize I am more prone to this side effect because of my age but it was still quite alarming. | F | 23 | 1 months 10 mg 1X day | 2/8/2011 | 1 | Major Depressive Disorder | I felt suicidal and couldn't stand to be alone. In the beginning, this drug also made me feel sick to my stomach and very tired. Alcohol mixed with the pills worked well, but I wouldn't recommend mixing alcohol with these pills. | If Celexa doesn't work for you, then do not take Lexapro. The same also is true for the reverse... if you didn't do good on Lexapro, then Celexa is not for you. | F | 23 | 2 months | 11/1/2004 | 1 | Anxiety | Hostility, fear of water or being splashed by something wet or getting something ichy on me, anger, wanting to punch everything in sight, shaky legs with knee pain, the feeling i needed to move around ( I started doing push ups on the floor and I was hyperventalating ), I saw see threw hallucinations of snakes crawling all over the floor and on my bed sheets. I had to be rushed to the E.R. where they gave me a shot of ativan, but i was still in so much distress from the side effects of celexa and was still hallucinating off it ( It looked like there were spiders and webs flickering all over the ceiling ). I was threatning people in the E.R. to give me something stonger because I needed help, but they said this is just the way it goes sometimes with medication. Then I was released to go home even though I still felt like crap and my pupils were still full blown dilated and they stayed dilated for three whole days after that. I could have actualy killed someone or myself that day. Its a good thing nothing lead to that happening. | < Nothing, but bad side effects. It induced nothing, but a state of extream violent rage with hallucinations and bad body sensations. It just wasn't me. I will never in my life touch celexa or go near it again. | M | 23 | 1 days | 11/4/2004 | 1 | depressed | terrible i nearly died | my name is chris.. I am 23... i have always been a generally happy person. I was a very relaxed person even in stressful times i could just handle it... well 2 and a half months ago that all changed.. I was going through some depression and i went to a friends house and she gave me a pill called celexa.........HUGE HUGE HUGE MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!!... I took it and came home and went to bed and woke up about 3 in the morning having a complete mental breakdown....... I slept about 4 hours in about 10 days... my mind was going so fast that i couldn't concentrate on anything all i could do was pace the floors in total panic and fright.. every ounce of food that was in my body left quickly... i lost 10 pounds in just a matter of days.. i couldn't eat because i would gag. heart pounding around the clock .. couldn't sit still at all..... terrible terrible nightmares when i would actually doze off for like 3 minutes.... I nearly died........ well that was 2 and a half months ago and i am alittle better now... my mind still races and i am extremely anxious and my heart still pounds around the clock which is very annoying but i am starting to sleep a little now.........the worst is behind me and i am just hoping i can get completely back to my normal happy energetic lovin life self..... good luck to all....... | M | 23 | 1 days | 3/22/2004 | 1 | anxiety depression | Severe nausea and vomiting and dizzyness room spining feeling when wakeing up couldnt eat food without feeling sick heartrate rapid and irregular felt very drugged almost high like more depressed almost visited the er | Was prescribed along with bloodwork at doc took only 3 days felt weird and drugged expierenced alot of side effects gunna try something else | M | 23 | 3 days 20mg | 5/21/2015 | 1 | Chronic Dizziness | Anxiety, panic attacks, terrifying nightmares, suicidal thoughts, nausea, increased dizziness, disturbed sleep, confusion | I was given 10mg Citalopram for 24/7 dizziness which I have been suffering with for over a year. No-one could find a cause for it so was thought that perhaps anxiety could causing it despite not feeling anxious. The 17 days I was on it were the worst of my life yet I kept hanging on having read about the initial side effects fading over time. However the final straw came when I woke up on the final day of taking it, wanting to kill myself, all of a sudden I was looking at knives in a different way. I couldn't stop crying, I had overwhelming dispear, the like of which I've never felt before nor do I want to feel again. I've been off the Citalopram for 11 days now and I am still suffering great anxiety and panicky thoughts almost all the time - I never felt this way prior to taking the drug. I also feel constantly sick. I hope I am still suffering withdrawal and will eventually return to how I felt prior to taking the drug but I have a feeling the experience will stay with me for a very | F | 23 | 17 days | 11/27/2008 | 5 | Anxiety, Depression, Slight OCD | The first week, it just felt funny, like the morning after a long night of drinking, and you have that shaky/hung-over feeling. Lost of sexual appetite. | This drug saved me, almost literally. I tried Ativan, Lexapro, Kilonopin, and a lot of other anxiety drugs. Lexapro made me want to kill myself, and the rest of the other drugs basically made me feel the same way. Celexa is amazing. I have no side-effects, and has truly changed my life. | F | 22 | 2 years | 1/28/2008 | 5 | GAD | sedation, dry mouth, yawning, decreased appetite, delayed orgasm, increased sweating | within two weeks of taking it my whole life had improved. my mood became very steady and i felt very content. the anxiety went away along with the derealization i was experiencing. i had increased motivation to do things. exercise felt amazing. sex was great. my sleeping patterns had improved, my eating habits were better. i never felt stressed out. | M | 22 | 4 months | 2/21/2009 |