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 |
| 1 | Depression | Cough, aggression,anger,suicide thoughts, loose appetite,confusion,compulsiveness | M | 50 | 1 months 10mg | 2/6/2017 | 1 | psychosis, bipolar, severe depressi | No sex drive, weight gain, extra friendly. I haven't been on resperidal and celexa for two months. Lost my sex drive. Still have memory problems. But getting it back. No as emotional | F | 28 | 3 years 20 | 8/10/2016 | 1 | Depression, anxiety and weight loss | No sex drive, inability to orgasm, not feeling like myself, feeling "fuzzy" headed, headaches, diarrhea, suicidal | It helped me be comfortable around people, and I even sought out groups of people to spend time with! It seemed to lessen my anxiety, but, alas, I get the same results from a satisfying sex life so I stopped taking it. The withdrawals were extremely challenging as well. | F | 44 | 1 years 10 mg | 7/24/2016 | 1 | Anxiety | Made me numb to feelings and did not help with anxious thoughts. | F | 14 | 1 days | 7/13/2016 | 1 | Panic reaction | Nausea, tooth pain, severe anxiety, headache. | I will not be using celexa due to side effects. | F | 74 | 1 days 10 mg | 7/3/2016 | 1 | Depression during pregnacy | psychosis, suicidal, doing things and then not remembering doing them, weight gain? | This is on behalf of my friend. She is pregnant and her depression got worse and she was prescribed Celexa. She's been having horrifying side effects. Apparently she sees things and then doesn't remember, has tried to hang herself then doesn't remember, says weird things and doesn't remember... everyone tells her she's done this stuff but she swears she can't remember. She's also put on a decent amount of weight, more than pregnancy weight. Not just her stomach and hips (typical pregnancy weight) but everywhere... and I'm thinking Celexa might be the culprit since it can cause weight gain. She's naturally very tiny so this is a bit odd. She's been very self conscious because of this weight gain. I'm not sure why her doctor put her on this medication but he/she is an idiot. | F | 21 | 1 months 1X day | 12/29/2015 | 1 | Depression | Hair line gone back, hair fell out in bunchs, sweaty, slow, manic, weight, anger, paranoia, psychotic, vision issues, sick feeling, low motivations, immume system shock, lazy, delusions way to many | This rubbish is what made me lose my mind I ended up walking out on a job cause this stuff made me so crazy Dont go near SSRIs rubbish stuff made my scalp sore to total crap led to mw using crap rogaine hair foam utter trash avoid this damages organs I over dosed sometimes also never take it lightly please | M | 25 | 3 months 40MG | 12/22/2015 | 1 | anxiety | Hair loss, vison haze, heart palps, lazy | This was the start of my downfall i lost all my hair from it and lost my life slowly avoid this crap as its led me down a path of destruction | M | 24 | 3 months 40 | 10/2/2015 | 1 | Depression and anxiety | I had one endless panic attack. I could not sleep. No amount of klonopin could put a dent in it. | It was the worst thing I have ever taken. | M | 31 | 1 months 20mg 1X day | 8/15/2015 | 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 | depression | Uncontrollable anger, rage, suicide thoughts | My symptoms of depression intensified after starting Celexa. I have never before experienced such horrible thoughts and been as angry as I was on this medicine. It also took me into a deeper depression when I tried to stop taking it. | F | 33 | 10 days 40mg | 5/16/2015 | 1 | Dr. Said I was Depressed | Ringing in ears, no emotions. | Warning DONOT TAKE, side effects horrible, withdrawals you want to die,should be under strict Drs care while taking and weaning, Deal with life, meditate don't pop a pill to feel better, should be taken off the market! | F | 59 | 10 months 20 1X day | 4/26/2015 | 1 | anxiety/stress | While I did experience a relieving overall calm, the bad outweighed the good. 30lb weight gain (I'm a distance runner). Extremely lethargic (I started sleeping whenever I had free time). Antisocial (I love a party). Unmotivated (chose sleep over daily runs). Chewing on the inside of my cheeks while asleep (never did this before). Stopped for a week. Lost 3lbs, but became uncontrollably irritable. I started taking it again just to function until I can find an alternative. | I would not recommend this to anyone. I regret starting. | F | 40 | 7 months 10mg | 4/15/2015 | 1 | for depression | It made me tired, lethargic, un-motivated, numb, agitated, annoyed. | F | 40 | 2 days 20 mg | 12/30/2014 | 1 | Depression, Panic Attack, OSD | Change of personality, anger, loss of feelings at all (even after 2 years off this medication) | This medicine, at the same time you think that it is helping you, It is changing something in your brain that the only thing that can save you after that, is another medicine. Even after 2 years off I was with bad sensations (no feelings at all, no sensations of love, anger, etc.) that this medicine brought to me.. Fluvoxamine brought I my feelings back that citalopram had taken away. I hate citalopram with all my force! | M | 28 | 1 years 20 1X day | 12/5/2014 | 1 | Depressed | Celexa ruined my life, started out on 20 mg, I told the doctor after a few months of taking it that something just wasn't right and doctor said that not to worry that I just need a increase in dose to 40mg, at the time I was depressed as I was dealing with renal cell cancer and lost a kidney, Celexa changed me, it wasn't helping the depression it was making me depressed more and I went away and forgot to take my Celexa with me and that was the best thing that could have ever happened after a little over a week I started to see that this medicine changed me, changed my personality, mood swings and I realized that people with depression don't know why they are depressed, I was depressed because I had a reason. Shame on the doctor and shame on this drug company that makes this medicine as I have heard of similar stories of how this drug ruins lives. | F | 40 | 20 1X day | 12/3/2014 | 1 | MDD & GAD | Increased suicidal and other intrusive thoughts. Racing thoughts. Hyperactivity. Increased paranoia. Increased impulsivity. Decreased sex drive. Decreased appetite. Weight gain (20-30 lbs). Marked unusual changes in personality, behavior, and mood. Emotional numbness and inappropriate expression of emotions (especially smiling and laughter). | My experience is too long to detail here but suffice to say my experience on this medication was absolutely horrifying and left me extremely apprehensive about trying medication again. This was my first time giving medication a try after suffering for eighteen years without and it was the only medication I was taking at the time. I did not drink or participate in the use of recreational drugs at all whilst I was on this medication. I called it quits after all of the wretched side effects finally accumulated into one of the worst panic attacks I've ever experienced in my entire life, which resulted in me missing one appointment with my doctor and lead to her refusing to see/treat me anymore. My condition was worse than ever before for over a year afterwards, I suffered several very severe depressive episodes and my anxiety disorder developed into agoraphobia. I had one friend who was also taking this medication at the time and had been for a few years, at a much higher dosage than me, who had expressed never having experienced any problems with it at all... however she was also on several other medications simultaneously. Another friend also opened up about taking this medication later on, same dosage, and expressed that she also had serious problems while she was on it and ended up quitting. | F | 29 | 3 months 20 1X day | 11/26/2014 | 1 | Anxiety | I've tried many meds for anxiety & no luck except Prozac for 7 yrs then it pooped out so tried this. I am sensitive so Dr put me on 5mg after dinner. A little nausea at first but not bad. Then for the next 5 days I slept! I had extreme fatigue & drowsiness. Couldn't go anywhere but my bed, bathroom & fix easy food items. I was a slug. I couldn't go to my yoga or water aerobics class. I basically lost s week sleeping. I didn't want to be around anyone. After existing for a week I told myself this is not normal & I am having a bad reaction because this is dangerous unhealthy drowsiness. I took 2.5mg the next night & stopped. It's been 48 hrs since last dose & can keep my eyes open & can read my book again. There is no getting past that kind of reaction. I had no anxiety of course because it knocked me out. I'm feeling better now. Be careful with this stuff. No wonder people gain weight you become so inactive. No pills for me. Glad some have good results but I read a lot that people just keep taking it hoping side effects will lessen & are quite miserable. Strangest medication I've ever taken & scarey. Good luck trust your gut. | F | 62 | 7 days 5mg | 10/23/2014 | 1 | depression | constipation, listlessness, fatigue, drowsiness, weakness | it's crap. tried it before at a higher dose and it didn't work then either. | F | 19 | 1 years 10 1X day | 5/6/2014 | 1 | depression | anxiety, blurry vision, increased to total insomnia within a week, high BP (resting >160), then neuropathy (shaky handwriting, decreasing brain-hand connection) | Because Blue Cross dropped Lexapro (after 10 years on it, so $50/mo instead of $5/mo), my GP recommended Celexa as an alternative. It landed me in the ER when I passed out exactly 2 weeks later. The connection to Celexa was made by me a week later with the neuropathy, and I quit immediately. Unfortunately my GP noted Celexa in the 'allergy' section of my chart, so it was never reported to the FDA, CDC, manufacturer etc. An EXTREMELY DANGEROUS drug for me !!! | F | 60 | 14 days 10mg 1X day | 3/12/2014 |