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 | Major Depressive Disorder | Increased generalized anxiety | Miserable Discontinuation Syndrome for 7 days, including flu like symptoms: aching muscles, vomiting, nausea. | M | 26 | 7 months 40 mg 1X day | 2/8/2014 | 1 | Depression, anxiety | Abdominal cramps, gas, bloating, headache, apathy, loss of libido, no motivation to exercise, wanna sleep all day | Yes, it did take away negative thinking and irritability but at what expense? My husband calls it marijuana in a pill because it makes me feel good but I'm just wasting my life in la-la land. I was very active prior to Celexa now just feel lazy to do anything. | F | 38 | 2 months 10 mg 1X day | 1/12/2014 | 1 | Anxiety and depression | Can't orgasm. WTF? | Only on this for 3 days. Who needs an exercise plan when your on Celexa? You'll loose 10 lbs just trying to have an orgasm. Weight loss guaranteed!! | F | 45 | 3 days 20 1X day | 1/11/2014 | 1 | Anxiety | Anxiety, insomnia, weight gain, zombie | If you want to feel like a zombie with anxiety, this is the drug for you | F | 43 | 6 months 1X day | 1/8/2014 | 1 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Lethargy, Extreme Hunger Pangs, Diarrhea. Side effects subsided quickly, but it didn't relieve my anxiety. | M | 30 | 3 months 20 | 10/17/2013 | 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 | 1 | depression | High pitched, constant ringing (a whine) in my ears, interrupted urine stream, clenched jaw, seriously dead libido | High pitched constant whine (ringing) in my ears that appears to be permanent even though I only took the drug for 2 weeks and have been off of it for 4 months. This is especially distrubing because this potential side effect is not mentioned in the official side effects listed by the company. However, even though the manufacturer does not disclose this, once I experienced it myself and did a search I found out that many others suffer from this and that it is definitely related to the drug timewise. Because this appears to be permanent, I would really caution others to think twice before taking this drug. They are not kidding about the libido problem either. Not only did I not feel like having sex but when I did try I felt like I was dead of sensation down there (I'm female). This is how it was described on wiki: "Genital anesthesia... Although usually reversible, in some people these sexual side effects become permanent after the drug has been completely withdrawn. This is known as post-SSRI sexual dysfunction." | F | 56 | 2 weeks 20 mg 1X day | 3/15/2013 | 1 | Panic Attacks, depression | I hated this medicine! It made me hear voices telling me to kill myself, it made me see things that wasn't there and the list goes on! I had to go stay in the mental hospital a few days because of this evil drug!! | I would never take it again and I would never recommend it to anyone! | F | 26 | 2 months 20mg 1X day | 3/5/2013 | 1 | off label - dysautonomia | constant blood pressure swings, uncontrolled tachycardia, insomnia, mood swings, panic attacks, mood swings, depression, intrusive thoughts, suicidal thoughts, lack of appetite, difficulty breathing, difficulty focusing | all symptoms subsided and then went away within 48 hrs after discontinuing the drug | F | 37 | 7 days 10 1X day | 1/4/2013 | 1 | anxiety/stress | Rapid heart rate,insomnia,sweating,tremors,diarrhea,migraines,severe anxiety,muscle weakness,drowsy(during the day),and dry mouth...I think that covers it | F | 30 | 1 weeks 20mg | 7/9/2012 | 1 | bi-polar II disorder | I had all the side effects associated with this drug as well as hallucinations. I would hear things and see stuff. I was extremely angry! I wanted to die. The doctor kept insisting I stay on it but I went off of it because the side effects were so horrible. I've been free from all these behavior modifying drugs and have never been happier in my life. I feel free! | F | 50 | 3 years 50 mg 1X day | 4/5/2012 | 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 and migraine | Made anxiety worse. | Took this initially for anxiety (with some associated depression) but continued on it because it made migraine with aura more stable. During stressful life events I would get anxiety pangs that lasted weeks at a time when taking this. Only when I came off the medicine and those incidents stopped happening (even during stressful times) did I realise that bastard drug had been making it worse for years. Here was me thinking it helps control anxiety! It may do that in some people but certainly not all, thus it may help you or it may not. This family of drugs is far from one size fits all, it will work well in a % of people and poorly in others. Certainly I felt much better when free of this drug and not being a victim of extended anxious sensations, which made it hard to sleep, ruined my appetite and at their worst made me feel like a frightened rabbit. Problem is the pangs would go (making me think the drug had helped) and I would stay on it because of the migraines, but they would always come back. Why I didn't realise it was this drug years before I will never know. | M | 37 | 9 years 10mg 1X day | 2/21/2012 | 1 | anxiety | sweating,racing thoughts,detatched,didn't to engage in conversation, low appetite, shaking, | i was on this drug for 12 weeks and posted some months ago, after coming off cold turkey, which i now know i shouldn't have, 8 months on still experiencing discontinuation syndrome, although getting weaker it is still annoying. I have found lot of sites with information but i wondered why some people have none or very little withdrawal symptoms and other's have a difficult time. Please read the following it may be because this drug deplete's certain vitamins in the body: Coming off Anti-depressants (SSRI's) needs to be done gradually. Drugs alter body chemistry and it wise to let the body become accustomed to any fall in chemical stimulation. However, if symptoms begin to reassert themselves this is often interpreted as the 'depression' returning. In such cases, most patients continue taking the drugs. They are unaware that depression is a condition requiring time to grow. It creeps up over a period of months, or even longer. It is not instant. The problem with stopping anti-depressants (SSRI's) appears to be a build up of a chemical residue in the body. Components of the anti-depressants lodge themselves in muscles and organs such as the kidney and liver and can take several months to disappear. In the meantime they can still actively enter the bloodstream and mimic the drug's action. As the effect fades any withdrawal symptoms will repeat themselves. But the body is responding to a toxic residue from the drug rather than re-entering a state of clinical depression. | F | 55 | 12 weeks 20mg 1X day | 2/9/2012 | 1 | Dr advice | I had 1 panic attack and was advised to take celexa. This was the worst thing I've ever done. I was afraid to sleep because it caused me to have PVCs. My blood pressure went through the roof, couldn't keep my hands from shaking, head aches, chest pains, and my testes hurt like crazy. I went to the ER and they just told me I was having an anxiety attack and basically brushed me off. I actually thought I was going crazy myself until I read the side effects. If anyone recommends this drug please look up the side effects first. | M | 28 | 3 days 20 | 1/7/2012 | 1 | ibs | lips swelled up peeled and cracked. could not stop "dancing" | BE CAREFUL its nasty | F | 51 | 1 days 20 1X day | 12/12/2011 | 1 | anxiety,panic attacks | Made my head hot all over felt really bad mad me panick. | F | 34 | 1 days 30mg | 11/19/2011 | 1 | Depression | This drug caused severe Cervical Dystonia (a neurological condition of the neck), so I immediately stopped taking it. | I didn't like the drug due to the Cervical Dystonia it caused. I stopped taking it. | M | 49 | 1 days 10 MG 1X day | 10/25/2011 | 1 | PTSD/ Depression | agitation anxiety dizziness drowsiness dry mouth fatigue increased sweating increased yawning loss of appetite nausea sexual difficulties shakiness trouble sleeping vomiting | Governments, insurance companies and private individuals pay billions of dollars each year to psychiatrists in pursuit of cures that psychiatrists admit do not exist. Psychiatry's “therapies” have caused millions of deaths. For more information on the TRUTH about psychotropic drugs, especially antidepressants, and the history of Psychiatrists and Drug companies, PLEASE VISIT: www.cchr.org/videos/psychiatry-an-industry-of-death/an-industry-of-death.html | F | 21 | 6 months 80mg 1X day | 8/19/2011 | 1 | pmdd/depression/anxiety | exhaustion, sluggish, mood swings, suicidal thoughts, trouble with memory | I've only been on the medication a week, but my symptoms have gotten 10x worse. I am also on lithium for bi-polar depression/anxiety etc (amazing drug), but my pmdd has been horrible so my doc prescribed me celexa. He told me I'd have sexual side effects thats it. YEAH RIGHT. I'm awake, then exhausted, then awake, then exhausted. Moody, angry, suicidal, empty, and I eat constantly. Worst drug ever | F | 27 | 7 days 20mg 1X day | 6/6/2011 |