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 |
| 2 | Anxiety | Exaggerated startle response, getting startled by everything, even expected noises. | Tried this as an alternative to Paxil due to sexual side effects and weight gain. Did not work for me at all even at 60mg, quickly slid back into anxiety and panic. | F | 25 | 6 weeks | 3/13/2007 | 2 | bipolar | reduced sex drive, nightmares worse than usual, some difficulty sleeping, RLS sometimes, not very good control of mood swings. If I tried to stop taking it, VERY dizzy. | still looking for something else | F | 35 | 2 days | 1/26/2007 | 2 | anxiety | I had taken Citaprolam (Celexa) for about one week. I only took about 1/4 of the prescribed dose because I'm sensitive to these drugs. I was a little tired and sleepy at first but felt okay. After about a week I developed a rage that was unlike me. I felt like biting off the head of everyone around me. Stopped taking it and I got back to myself again. | M | 58 | 7 days | 1/24/2007 | 2 | Panic attack | I was a thin blondy cute girl who loved sex and now i'm a fat girl with no sexual drive. Celexa gave me the opportunity to stop having stress for nothing, but also stop me to enjoy any situation. I feel like a robot with no too bad or too high emotions. | Side effects of Celexa began after 2 months. Also, even with a high dose, panic attacks are still there. Moreover, panic attacks are worst because when it occurs, i have intense feeling of burn in my whole body. | F | 24 | 1.5 years | 1/8/2007 | 2 | Foggy head feeling, hard to focus | Slight clearing of the foggy head and focus but after one week could no longer ejaculate during sex even after a couple of hours of stimulation. My girlfriend says I am going to wear her out and she does not like it. | Not being able to ejaculate is making me depressed. Am used to a Happy Ending during sex. | M | 59 | 9 days | 11/30/2006 | 2 | stress, worry | I took the celexa 10 mg for a week, after that i woke up with a major panic attack, to the point I went to the hospital by ambulance. The next day was just as bad. Then the doctor placed me on klonopin with celexa, so i continued it for another week. i felt tired and chills through my body. sex no desire, I would have sex 3 -4 time a week now no interest. I stopped the 10 mg cold turkey, first day i feel great, today is the second day i feel great and focused. | I stopped cold turkey, i am going for a psy evaluation to see what happen., What i have done was to take half a klonopin .25mg but i wake up with a slight hangover. The pharmacy told me it will take a week to get the celexa out of my system. My sister had a similiar situation as well, that is why I decided to stop the meds. To control my stress, I do listen to Worship music and pray and that has helped alot. If i get a little down I listen to the music and pray. For all of you going through these trials, my heart goes out to you all, and i will keep you all in pray | M | 43 | 14 days | 11/11/2006 | 2 | depression | MORE agitated/anxious than usual, no improvement in depression. | F | 22 | 2 months | 9/18/2006 | 2 | depression/anxiety | not much interest in sex; didn't lessen the anxiety much if any | I don't believe it's doing what it's supposed to for me. I don't feel any different after taking it for three weeks now and having the dosage moved up from 10mg to 20mg at the end of the second week | M | 68 | 20 days | 9/16/2006 | 2 | Depression/Axienty/Adult-ADD | I have trouble achieving orgasm.. Had repeated sex with girl friend several times for hours at time. Surely is was nice for her but for me it is very annoying. Also I get severe headaches if I "havent" taken it for that day. While it calms down my axienty and helps a "little" with the depression. I also feel very unmotivated. As another patient said on this site, if you are any kind of creative artist, stay away from it. I was into drawing, computer art, music, song lyric/poetry writing and many other things related. Now I am unintersted. I've also lost a lot of sexual desire. While it DOES seems to reduce the "racing thoughts" associated with ADD it does not improve my concentration. It only slowed the "excess" of random racing thoughts. And in my opinion it only helped a little with that. | M | 35 | 6 months | 9/13/2006 | 2 | Panic Attacks | Part 2 - When I was weaning down, I began to take it erratically for a week, then i forgot to take the Celexa for a few days I experience the electric Zap in the back of my head and sort of on the side of my head (this felt more like an electric seige of my head) It was quite dibilitating and I became quite scared and went to the urgent care room a couple times in following weeks. This happened twice and following weeks I had sharp pulses in the same spot in the back of my head. Sometimes these pulses would come if I moved my neck a certain way. My mind was also very fragile and still is at times after these episodes. These symtoms have gone away since I upped my dose and have taken in consistently for the last 3.5 months, however, I have had several panic attacks since, which never really happened since I started Celexa. Anyone have any similar experiences? If so please drop me an email. I haven't read anything yet about people feeling the pulses/zaps in the "back" of their | Friends don't let friends take Celexa! | M | 30 | 5 years | 9/6/2006 | 2 | Panic Attacks | First off, this evil little pill did actually stop the panic attacks (other ones such a buspar, paxil, wellbutrin, and prozac all gave me flat out side effects from the get go) but that came with a price, which is the following: I gained about 25lbs. If I remember correctly I was taking 20mgs at first. I lost it after a couple of years from exercising. Then a loss of libido and couldn't orgasm a lot of the time, took forever to get aroused - My libio started to work better as my dosage went down to 10mg and then 5mg. Lack of motivation and lively interest in things. At times i experience heightened anxiety if i touched caffeine which i did not experience before taking Celexa. Tired and lazy 75% of the time. Did not always have the best concentration before, but this drug made it worse. The worst experiences came with with going without the med over a few days, the electric zap feeling in my head and my mind feeling fragile. This last time which happened 3.5 months ago is when I was tak | I've been doing quite a bit of research in the last 3 months and I wish that I never started taking these pills or at least not this long (5 yrs.) I wished I would have known about Cognitive/Behavior Therapy, blogs like these, and the following two books: The Antidepressant Solution: A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and "Addiction" by Joseph Glenmullen, Anxiety, Phobias, & Panic: A Step-by-Step Program for Regaining Control of Your Life by Reneau Z Peurifoy, and John Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness for beginners meditation cd. From these resources, I've learned how subvert oncoming panic attacks or greatly shorten their duration and I have only begun to practice these autor's wise advise. Now I just have to be patient and careful when I do start to wean down again. Dr. Glennbullen's book has given me comfort that many people have the terrible side effects that we have had and that he actually has a detailed plan in tapering of | M | 30 | 5 years | 9/6/2006 | 2 | Depression, anxiety | First days,nothing particular.Then, lost of appetite, insomia. Sex? Forget about it! It's almost as if i have no penis...After 9 days, I experienced a very severe case of itchiness. Half night scratching...I then tried to lower from 20 mg to 10 mg. I will give you results later as it's just 2 days since I lowered the dose. | Very astonished by the itchiness. It's what I find the most unbearable. I'll try Benadril to compensate for this problem. Still, I don't itend to give up unless the itchiness does not disapear. Depression, negative thoughts, suicidal ideas still flirting around so far. More news within 1 week... | M | 54 | 11 days | 7/26/2006 | 2 | depression | None | I experienced no lifting of my depression at all on this drug. i might as well have took a sugar pill. | M | 34 | 3 months | 7/15/2006 | 2 | depression | Severe sexual side effects, I would rarely even get excited. I also was very tired no matter how much sleep I got, and extremely irritable. | It did help at first when i was suffering from severe depression, but it is very hard to get off once you've been on for a while, and the side effects are very depressing in themselves. | F | 20 | 4 years | 1/6/2006 | 2 | Depression | After just 4 days of Celexa (20 mg/day) I noticed my sexual response chnaging. At first I was only able to achieve orgasm by extremely vigorous masturbation - everything else was just too tame. My actual orgasms took as long as 15+ minutes and only if I was careful to maintain mental concentration on the pleasure I was feeling, otherwise the orgasm would stop within seconds and I'd have to start over. Not only was I stroking fast and furiously, my heart was pounding away at racing at 150-170 beats per minute. (I have low blood pressure, and am fit, so am able to sustain this.) When it finally arrived, my orgams were very intense. I was OK with this, but after a week, I was unable to achieve orgasm period. I was trying for up to 2 hours several times a day. All of this was in vain. My groin became extremely uncomfortable (feels like my prostate is going to explode.) The worst case of 'blue balls' ever! This is having a devastating effect on my well-being. I telephoned my doctor | The Rx fact sheet that was stuffed into the box said that "sexual problems" were a side effect. Nothing further. The FDA web site says that this affects only 6% of men - but I learned that the 6% is phony because that was during the drug trials and the doctors were not allowed to solicit information from their patients. In other studies, it seem 70+% of men have this problem with Celexa. This information should be made more readily available to men! | M | 54 | 10 days | 11/17/2005 | 2 | PTSD/DEPRESSION MARINE VIETNAM VET | ALWAYS SLEEPY: PUT ME IN A TRANCE AT TIMES..I SPENT MORE TIME THINKING ABOUT VIETNAM WHEN I WASN'T TRYING TO SLEEP... FELT LIKE I WAS FLOATING AROUND..LOSS APPITITE.. | I TOOK THIS DRUG FOR A FEW DAYS THEN STOPPED... | M | 59 | 3 days | 10/31/2005 | 2 | Depression | Brain fog; abdominal bloating and severe pelvic pain! | My daily dose of Celexa was 5mg. Celexa did elevate my mood; and I handled life situations in a more positive manner. In return, people responded to me more positively. However, the abdominal bloating and pelvic pain were severely problematic and I had to discontinue the drug. | F | 45 | 8 months | 9/19/2005 | 2 | Depression and irritablity | Dry mouth. Excessive perspiration. I was one who was very thin and never perspired much. This made me very hot and perspire heavily and I gained weight. When I went off I stopped perspiring so heavily and I slowly lost weight and was able to exercise again without feeling too tired to do so. I used to run and once I started taking Celexa I couldn't run anymore, I felt too fatigued. All I wanted to do was lie on the couch and watch TV and I quit cleaning house. I was no longer crabby but I couldn't stand the perspiration and a messy house. So now I'm off of the Celexa, I no longer perspire or lie on the couch all day. My house is clean again, I have the energy to run and exercise again but I still get crabby. Withdrawal was pretty bad, I felt like I was losing it, weird head zings too but it went away after a couple of weeks. | F | 40 | 2 years | 9/19/2005 | 2 | depression | Some sleepiness, constipation, loss of sex drive. | This drug didn't really have any negative or positive effects. I'd say it slightly reduced anxiety, but overrall it really didn't do anything. | F | 27 | 1 years | 9/3/2005 | 2 | Depression | Fatigue, diminished sex drive, apathy, alcoholism | I only took 10 mg a day for 2 months and I quit cold turkey. I went through a horrible withdrawal even though the small dose. Lots of anger and a worse depression than before. I don't know what the heck these pills do to our brains but I sincerely hope never to try one again. | F | 30 | 2 months | 8/13/2005 |