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 | Celexa has made me very sleepy, I yawn a lot now. Also I find it hard to concentrate on school work. Easily distracted, grades are slipping bad. I laugh way more now, its like im high all the time. I laugh at almost everthing now. Especialy when Im around pretty girls, I will laugh way more. I dont know why. "NEVER TAKE CELEXA" It sucks, my grades are shot to hell now i cant frikking concentrate any more. F- this drug. | Dont take Celexa, ever. | M | 19 | 4 weeks 1X day | 4/12/2011 | 1 | panic attacks and axiety | I took half every night and I still felt sleepy during work hours with headaches when I could go to bed, teeth grinding all the time and painful, tired I could hardly do anything. | F | 31 | 22 days 20MG 1X day | 2/24/2011 | 1 | Neuropathy | Anxiousness, constant jerking and shaking. Unable to think properly or concentrate. Made me feel simply horrible. | It is one of the worse drugs I have ever taken. | F | 38 | 5 days 40mg 1X day | 2/9/2011 | 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 | Migraine, anxiety | Awful! Insomnia, dizziness, headache (using for migraine), nausea, sweating, uncontrolled muscle spasm, indigestion, racing pulse, anxiety, total zombie feeling. | Taking lexapro before which was awesome. HAP insurance made me switch to generaic, no generic for lexpro, forced to use celexa. Only been on it for 10 day, first at 40mg then up to 60mg after one week. I will be stopping today due to negative side effects. | F | 30 | 10 days 40 - 60 1X day | 1/31/2011 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety/OCD | First day I took it, I felt extremely angry. After anger subsided, I had an odd sense of well being. Have woken up feeling like a zombie ever since, neither happy nor sad...just numb. I want to get off of this drug immediately. I was better before it! | F | 19 | 10 days 10 1X day | 12/28/2010 | 1 | Because I was feeling depressed | I can barely walk!! I have had internal bleeding. I have no insurance, and am getting the run around. Every piece of my legs hurt down to the tendants, toes, and so much more. I feel like I'm going to lose my job because I have went from being able to walk just fine my whole life, until early sept. I was advised by my nurse over the phone that i need not to stop any medications without the doctors opinion and that my troubles walking have nothing to do with my medication. Its come to the point where I have been to the ER for internal bleeding, free clinics telling me to get mental health help. I have had blood work done. I am two seconds from losing my job and my home. I can barely hold up a cup of coffee at times. And my hands hurt so bad even while typing. I NEED HELP IMMEDIATELY. This whole world is about cash. I am a waitress. 28 yrs old. and my life is crumbling. I have had so many side effects I can't keep track. My memory is so toast that the only thing I know for sure | DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION OR IT COULD RUIN YOUR LIFE LIKE IT HAS RUINED MINE. I PRAY TO ONE DAY HAVE MY HEALTH BACK, IF I'M NOT ALREADY ALMOST DEAD. I WENT FROM A SIZE 5 TO A 1. PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT... | M | 28 | 39 days 20 1X day | 11/9/2010 | 1 | anxiety | Difficulty falling asleep, continually-stoned feeling, depression thoughts that I've never experienced before including suicide, embarassing sweating episodes, loss of lobido, muscle spasms particularly in my lower left leg, yawning, and memory loss. | When I saw my doctor for mild depression, I wish he'd encouraged me to see a counselor instead of starting celexa. I hate this drug and wish I had never started it. I am decreasing from 20 mg to 10 mg daily. I believe that this antidepressant is not working well for me with what I believed to be a mild case of anxiety. Prior to taking Celexa, I had not experienced self esteem problems and lack of confidence. Wait loss seems to be a problem for me too. I have lost 20 plus pounds in the last month. My advice: DONT DO THIS MEDICINE if your male and facing anxiety. | M | 42 | 30 days 20 mg 1X day | 10/23/2010 | 1 | abc | M | 55 | 47 days 30 1X day | 10/21/2010 | 1 | anxiety | Very tired, dizzy. Felt completely drugged and disconnected | Without sorrow one cannot appreciate happiness. Personally, I'd rather be my old nervous and stressed out self than the zombie feeling I have today. Day 1 I was really dizzy and tired. Day 2, I hit the side of my garage with my car. I couldn't judge the space. Normally, I would have flipped out. Instead, I fell asleep at 6pm and woke at 7am the next morning. I have a busy, high stress job, no way this is gonna work for me. They say the symptoms should go away in time. Not taking that chance, gonna turn back now before its too late..... | M | 36 | 2 days 10mg 1X day | 10/6/2010 | 1 | axiety and panic attacks | I actually didn't know this was an antidepressant, it was prescribed to me for anxiety. Strangely, it made me so depressed I could hardly leave the house and I flunked a quarter in college while taking it. | F | 41 | 3 months 1X day | 9/14/2010 | 1 | Depression | unsure | My brother took his life on day 27 of taking Celexa, 10mg's daily. He was going through a shameful addiction and in therapy for it when he committed suicide. I encourage you all to seek counseling along with your drug treatment and to stay honest with your friends and family about how you are feeling. There is always hope and you CAN get through this. www.save.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_ID=705F9F6A-F141-B5EB-C8A6B86CA0B2001E | M | 27 | 27 days 10mg 1X day | 8/22/2010 | 1 | depression | I can't get out of bed, don't dare drive, can't eat (no desire to and nothing appeals to me, a foodie) and am nauseous all the time. And still depressed. | I went on this to help me deal with my husband's bi-polar disease which is currently in full bloom. It certainly hasn't helped and has seemed to make things worse for me. My health-care provider said this one had the least number of side effects, so I guess I'm not an anti-depression med candidate if that's true. HAS ANYONE FOUND SOMETHING MORE NATURAL TO USE FOR COMBAT DEPRESSION AND/OR RELIEVE THE SIDE EFFECTS OF CELEXA/ | F | 68 | 5 days 10 mg 1X day | 8/15/2010 | 1 | anxiety and depression | SEVERE chest pain beginning on day 3, and worsening each day. Went to the ER on day 6 and was diagnosed with chest wall inflammation after an x-ray and exam. Had to stop taking it. | Symptoms improved soon after stopping the Celexa. My doctor had not heard of Celexa causing this type of a reaction, but it definitely seemed to be related. | F | 33 | 6 days 10 1X day | 7/11/2010 | 1 | Anxiety/Depression | 1 day was enough! Burning head and almost a Seizure!! I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS IF YOU'RE EPILEPTIC! | need I say more! | M | 30 | 1 days 20mg 1X day | 6/12/2010 | 1 | Anxiety? Social Anxiety | TERRIBLE REACTION... Day 1- woke up 2am soaked with sweat, thought it was a normal side effect. Day 2- Went to do my normal run, very stiff had to stop. Day 3- Muscles buldging out of the back of my thighs, limping, felt like fire going thru my veins. Felt like I was in a microwave heating from the inside out. Went off of it and slowly my muscles relaxed, not able to run anymore though my body feels like it has aged 20 years. Dr. didn't believe it could cause this and told me to re try in a week, Took only 2.5 mgs this time, instant fire in my legs.... I believe that it caused Peripheral Neuropathy.... | Start out very slow, see how your body reacts. I was not able to even metabolize 5mg's of this med. Thank god I knew enough not to start at 20mgs. | F | 38 | 3 days 5mg 1X day | 6/5/2010 | 1 | anxiety | just started celexa 20mg by only taking half (10mg. this is my second day and im am absolutly disconnected from everything around me. i feel like nothing,and am hot and foggy. i dont think this medication is right for me. i only suffer from general anxiety. beer does better for me than this crap. wow what a long strange trip its been. | see for yourself. i dont know | M | 29 | 2 days 20mg 1X day | 6/5/2010 | 1 | depression | Euphoria. Lack of concern about consequences of actions. A feeling that nothing that could happen would make me feel bad or sad. Friendliness. | I went off Celexa because I realized (cognitively) that the euphoria I was feeling & acting on was not good for me, that my behavior had become a problem. I did not consult a psychiatrist or even a full-fledged medical doctor, I was going to the Indigent Clinic & out of work. I dropped the drug totally, cold-turkey. Then I started feeling spacey, strange, I had dizziness, a feeling I couldn't describe; I passed out once & fell off a ladder. Then after about 2 weeks I went into the deepest depression I've ever been in. It lasted for over 9 months. At the deepest, I was in bed about 22 hrs of every day, I wanted nothing but to sleep my life away. I would try to watch TV & I would burst into tears. I thought about dying as a release. I finally dragged myself back to the Indigent Clinic, told the resident, he put me on an antipsychotic which made me incredibly ill, I ran a high fever & had abdominal pain. I stopped taking it. He told me never to take another anti-depressant, he said I might be bipolar. After that, I never consulted the Indigent Clinic again for anything mental, or anyone else. I do not trust anyone to prescribe anything for mental problems for me. I know of no one here I would allow to prescribe for me. I have gradually gotten better. I started reading articles about mood-boosting foods & behaviors, I changed my diet gradually, got completely off of caffeine & started eating foods with Omega-3's like | F | 54 | 3 months 1X day | 6/2/2010 | 1 | Anxiety | Severe agitation, tremors, weight gain, odd electrical sensations, sexual dysfunction(I have been off this drug for two years and this has not resolved) | I would advise you to use this drug only as a last resort (like only if your suicidal). Please talk to your doctor about other forms of treatment. Psychiatric medications can have serious lasting side effects. | M | 21 | 7 months 20 1X day | 5/28/2010 | 1 | Anxiety | every single one imaginable and then some, and made my panic attacks more frequent and WAY worse. I've stopped this HORRIFIC medication about a month ago and have been living a hell on Earth. Barely able to work, headaches, SEVERE skeletal and muscle pain, horrific vivid dreams. For the whole 2 weeks of feeling decent on the medication, this withdrawal which seemingly is NEVER going to end is NOT worth it. If I could sue the makers of this drug I WOULD. I HATE this drug, and would never recommend it to anyone. | Worst medicine on the market. | F | 34 | 3 months 20 1X day | 5/23/2010 |