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 | Anxiety | Loss of sexual appetite, hard to achive orgas, floppy | Horrible, Doc recomended it becuse I was stressed at work. Took the first pill and felt stoned all the time. I then cut it in half, it was a little better and then went to a fourth of a pill, 5mg for a week or so and just stopped 2 days ago. I have been lightheaded ever since.. Yawning ALL the time and just feel spacey. I quit as soon as I found out that the sexual side effects can be permanent!!!!!!!!!!!!! Canada has pulled it from the shelf and you should do some SERIOUS thinking before taking it. I want to punch that doctor. | M | 30 | 15 days | 7/25/2006 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Extreme anxiety/panic within 20 minutes of taking the first dose and it lasted over 24 hours. I wanted to die. Shaking, nausea, hot flashes, blurred vison. | Would NEVER take this or any other SSRI again! I'd rather have a normal panick attack and take Xanax everyday than this crap! I'd rather be depressed too, this was absolutely horrible. | F | 28 | 1 days | 5/24/2006 | 1 | anxiety | insomnia, sweating, shaking, dry mouth, | I took it at night, thinking that it would make me sleepy. I was so wrong. The first two nights I went to bed and woke up two hours later and never went back to sleep. It is now the morning after the thrid night.. and I've yet to go to bed. I've been up 30 hours and I feel like I could go run a marathon, I'm so full of energy. My heart is racing, I've been drinking water all night to help with the dry mouth, I was violently shaking and sweating all night. Yeah, I'm not taking it again. I'd rather have my anxiety attacks. I've never missed work for those, but I am missing work to cope with the side effects. I want my Ativan back. | F | 26 | 3 days | 5/1/2006 | 1 | Depression/Bipolar | The worst anxiety attack of my life about an hour after taking it. I was flushed, panicky, headache, jittery, etc. | This stuff sucks! Gave me a near death feeling of anxiety! It is so horrible. I only took it once and it took nearly 2 days for the horrible side effects to wear off. | F | 28 | 1 times | 4/20/2006 | 1 | Anxiety and Depression | Loss of libido, sexual side effects, incredible dry mouth, changes in appetite, numbness, shaking. | This medication is a joke. It did nothing for my anxiety or depression. I had a serious loss of libido, and no interest in sex. Ever have an orgasm and not even feel it? I did on this medication. Then when I missed a dose one night, the next morning my libido returned ten-fold. It hit me so hard I would have had sex with ANYBODY. Then I'd wake up at night with a mouth so dry I thought my mouth was full of cotton. I've never been so thirsty. Now that I'm going off of it (slowly mind you) my appetite has increased tremendously, I get the shakes, and my lips are numb. What the hell? | M | 33 | 4 months | 4/17/2006 | 1 | Major Depressive Disorder | Tremor,(shaking SEVERLY),dry mouth, migraine headache, nausea, throwing up, vertigo, teeth grinding, "disconnected feeling", inability to go to sleep or stay asleep, severe nervous feeling. | I read this board before I took CELEXA and still took it. WRONG MOVE. After the third day of taking this med, all hell broke loose! I stood up and was knocked back down by a severe Migraine Headache (this medication triggered my very first) I continuously vomited everything I ate and drank, including water!! DO NO TOUCH THIS MED!!!! DON'T LEARN THE HARD WAY LIKE I DID!! | F | 31 | 3 days | 4/12/2006 | 1 | Suicidal, Depression, GAD, Social P | I call cipramil(Celexa) the tooth cracker, the jaw clenching mad me crack teeth, yawning constantly, agitation, insomnia, tremors, couldn't concentrate, blured vision, felt like utter crap, memory loss and forget about orgasms | Pray you have a good dental plan and take a few days off work to adjust, I found it one of the dirtiest AD's on the market from all the side effects I suffered. I don't tolerate SSRI's or SNRI's and I'm angry my GP and Psychiatrist kept persisting with them. They have all caused me nothing but grief but this one had the least withdrawal syndrome. I wanted to rate it a five because I think sites like this should be reversed so people can read about other peoples misery on these drugs FIRST before they start taking this crap. I do know that they help some people but they also make peoples life a misery | M | 35 | 6 months | 3/2/2006 | 1 | Depression and Anxiety | Nausea, total loss appetite, tingling and numbness in arms and legs. | I only took Celexa for 4 days at 10mg and they were the worst 4 days of my life! I literally could not sleep and was in a constant state of panic. I thought I was dying and I could not turn off my mind. When I closed my eyes, I would hallucinate. The thought of food made me want to vomit and I lost 5 pounds. The doctor suggested adding a sleeping aid and I refused and quit taking Celexa all together. I will try psychotherapy instead. I would never touch this drug again! | F | 43 | 4 days | 1/24/2006 | 1 | Anxiety for life change (2nd Deploy | Decreased sex drive, tired, small weight gain. Anxiety did subside. Felt like was looking at my life through a glass | Coming off it is the worst. I went off cold turkey, started feeling horrible feelings/thoughts. Went back on and attempted to taper off slowly. Been off for like 5 months now, now I am more depressed as ever and have very uncharastic thoughts and feelings. I feel like I am losing my mind. I really need help and cannot find any. I have been back to my PCP about 5 times and no help. One Psyc Dr. said he could help but insurance won't pay for it. Any help would be great. | M | 32 | 8 months | 1/17/2006 | 1 | depression | headache, tremor, anxiety, diarrhea | I tried it for 1.5 month and it did not work for me. I'm switching to Zoloft... we'll see. | M | 26 | 40 days | 1/11/2006 | 1 | depression | I became manic...didn't sleep for 3 days. | I bet it's great for weight loss and fatigue | F | 43 | 7 days | 1/11/2006 | 1 | Premature ejaculation | Complete sexual shut-down. | Apparently permanent chemical castration. Don't ever take this drug because it can ruin your sex life forever. Website over here: ssri-side-effects.com/ | M | 39 | 1 months | 1/7/2006 | 1 | depression/anxiety | weight gain, exhaustion, emotional numbness | it never really helped the depression - it just took the edge off of all of my feelings. one word of caution - this is HARD to come off of. when my body was without it (after weaning off for months) I thought I would certainly LOSE MY SH*T! I just found out that prozac is easier to come off of (so you can switch from celexa to prozac when the time is right).. My problem was I was profoundly hypothyroid and very undermedicated when it was finally discovered, so once my thyroid meds were great, I was great to come off the SSRI.. Hate those things, though.. | F | 29 | 5 years | 1/5/2006 | 1 | depression | inability to have orgasm teeth grinding very bizarre dreams dry mouth insomnia night sweats | Personally, I would be cautious before taking this drug. I'm going to start weaning myself off celexa this week and I'm very nervous after reading all the withdrawal symptoms. I plan to try an herb to see if that helps the depression. | F | 34 | 90 days | 1/4/2006 | 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 | postpartum depression | Panic attack (felt like a heart attack), severe dry mouth, severe dizziness, nausea and shaking. | I was a new mom going through the blues, and was put on celexa.7 days after taking, I just woke up one morning very dizzy and then everything happened so fast-could not walk and I thought I was dying of a heart attack.I called an ambulance and thought that would be the last time I would see my baby.Celexa is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.All of that and they just call it side effects!!??Be careful. | F | 24 | 7 days | 12/16/2005 | 1 | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Suicidal thinking, homicidal thinking, tremors, vision problems, and prolonged withdrawal culminating in Hypothyroidism | One of the worst drugs out there. Equally bad as Paxil in my opinion. Highly addictive and nearly impossible to quit. | F | 19 | 5 years | 12/6/2005 | 1 | Depression | Awful dreams every night, and lots of sweating. | After two weeks of taking this medicine, I could not take the dreams I was having on a nightly basis - usually about animals like snakes and other horrible creatures. I was switched over to Wellbutrin and have been happy ever since. | F | 27 | 2 weeks | 11/27/2005 | 1 | Depression | Extreme Anxiety. Panic attacks | Had been taking Prozac for 6 years. Worked fine for a long time and then started to lose its effectiveness. Switched to Celexa. Caused me MAJOR anxiety. Took me 3 months and a lot of Prozac to get back on track. | M | 45 | 3 days | 11/14/2005 | 1 | ocd | Got wound up beyond belief. OCD not any better. Also got more tense | M | 47 | 4 days | 11/1/2005 |