CONCERTA Reviews (METHYLPHENIDATE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.3 (772 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CONCERTA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CONCERTA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | ADHD | extreme anger and depression | it works, but it made me black out. there are 4 months of my life where i was an angry, scary person. I tried to hit my mother with a metal pipe because she told me to do the dishes. | F | 21 | 4 months 18 1X day | 9/8/2023 | 1 | ADHD-PI | Extreme rise in blood pressure. Hot flushes. Chest tightness. Headache. Extreme tiredness. Irritability and feelings of extreme rage. Increased sensitivity to noise. | I feel terrible on this. I cant wait for it to be out of my system. | F | 38 | 2 days 18mg 1X day | 7/4/2020 | 1 | Adhd | Extremely Agitated, moodiness, tunnel vision , zombie like state, hostile. Emotional wreck Worst 2 weeks refused to take the last we weeks. | Well it worked on not having a million things going on in my head. It turned my brain into a zombie brain. And I knew it but was stuck. | F | 38 | 14 days 20 mg | 4/8/2020 | 1 | ADHD | FEEL ROBOTIC. FEEL SO SO SO DEPRESSED. CANT EVEN FOCUS ON STUDYING. insomnia. such bad anxiety. feel like i cant socialize with anyone and feel awkward even ordering food. i am not happy | this pill sucks. seriously losing hope any adhd medicine will ever work for me. went off adderall for this because i didnt like the side effects but at least i could focus on adderall so evidently i need go back. | F | 22 | 12 days 36 2X day | 3/5/2017 | 1 | ADHD | My son who is now 14 has been taking this since he was 5 yrs old. He started experiencing racing heartbeat, very rapid weight gain and extreme hunger, severe insomnia, agitation, withdrawn, anxiety, swollen face | My son is not acting like my son anymore. He was a very cute 5 year old and now has swollen face, etc. and weighs 210 lbs. of which was gained rapidly over the past year. He is now 14 yrs. old. He is starting to exhibit strange behaviors like being extremely withdrawn, becoming very agitated, only wears certain things and only those things, won't get his hair cut because he can't stand the little hairs touching his face, constantly looking in the mirror thinking there is something in his eyes, rapid heartbeat, | M | 14 | 9 years 36 MG 1X day | 2/28/2017 | 1 | ADHD | Depression, HUGE loss of appetite, anxiety | It helped while I was in school but the loss of appetite was horrible. | F | 17 | 3 years | 7/21/2016 | 1 | ADD | Very low patience. Mood swings. | Its very helpful to focus at school or work but whenever I take it my patience for people is low. | 17 | 1 days 32 | 6/24/2016 | 1 | ADD | Anxiety, extremely aggression, fatigue, headache, appetite changes, Blurry mind, nausea, vomiting, being forgetful, faster heart pumping especially after trying to eat or smoking cigarette,paranoia , dreaming about harming myself or others, mood swings, hallucinations, acting too much impulsively, irritation, feeling like zombie. | Good to take if you want to focus your work or school but better to not take any medication, i think better to find put joyful things to do instead being pushed to do things what we don't like. This is because stimulate your nervous system and changing all your behavior which is open to debate, i had lots of side effects and can't tolerate Concerta or Ritalin. | F | 35 | 3 months 36 1X day | 4/5/2016 | 1 | For college and work | Loss of appetite, depressed, anxiety, acne, fast heart beat, nausea | I started taking concerta for school about two years ago. I am currently trying to be done with it. It gives me horrible acne. It makes me depressed and have horrible anxiety. Which makes me smoke ciggerates which if I don't take the medication i can't stand the smell of them. I have never been so depressed in my life. It helped me in school but I can find other ways to concentrate. It gives me head aches and make me nauseous in the morning. I have a three year old and if I take my meds I have to wait till I come down to even be social with him. Cooking for him when I take it makes me sick to my stomach. I get head aches here and there. It's the devil stay away find alternative ways to coup with everyday task. Also any loud noises like music loudly irrates me and i just want to be left alone in my room plus it makes me feel tired but can't sleep. | F | 24 | 2 years 36 | 3/19/2016 | 1 | My daughter was. I recently took her off | My daughter is always angry out of control. I took her off a cpl days ago. I want my daughter back. | F | 12 | 2 days 27 | 1/20/2016 | 1 | Add | F | 18 | 3 days 18 MG | 12/7/2015 | 1 | Adah | shit | 15 | 1 days 50 | 11/24/2015 | 1 | to take a overdose | Bad dithers and shaking badly and feel faint. | F | 1 days 27 | 10/31/2015 | 1 | ADHD | My child took his fist dose of concertae hours later began to have twitches to his mouth gets worse while talking. It helped with his focus stayed on task at school and finished homework before coming home. I will not give my child this med anymore. It just breaks my heart to see his mouth twitch. | M | 7 | 1 days 18mg | 10/6/2015 | 1 | I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 7 | I was always depressed, lying around the house, lethargic, no appetite what so ever!, Irritable, Flat, Depressed. | I NEVER EVER give this medicine to my children because I know how it effected me and still is. I was very depressed all those years on that drug and no one would listen to me because I was a foster child. It made me feel disconnected with all emotions. Some of the effects are residual and still affect me as an adult. I developed severe OCD, which I am currently trying to control. I also lost 1/3 of my weight. I started high school weighing 170, by the end of my Freshman year I was down to 116 because they kept upping my dosage. The only thing I had an appetite for was chips or sometimes other junk food. | F | 25 | 10 times 36 2X day | 7/20/2015 | 1 | Add | SEVERE DIZZINESS AND HORRIBLE NAUSEA!! | F | 43 | 2 days 36 | 7/19/2015 | 1 | My experience with Concerta was TERRIBLE! I highly don't recommend this drug to anyone, ever. After several months of taking this my mind went into a psychotic state. I heard terrible voices in my head. I thought people could read my mind. many strange things happened to me as a direct result of this medication. I became similar to someone with scitchfremia. I would have awful nightmares each night. I would be so scared to go to sleep because of these terrible awful nightmares. Because of that I lost sleep which only made things worse. I thought people were out to get me and wanted to hurt me. I wouldn't wish this experience on anyone, not even my worst enemy. Please whoever reads this, be carful! This is a potent drug. | F | 21 | 4 months 36 mg | 5/16/2015 | 1 | ADD | When I first started taking CONCERTA, it helped a bit with my ADD in the sixth grade. Then things started going downhill. At the time , I was misdiagnosed with ADHD. I started to feel very lethargic and I stopped turning in my homework. I also slipped into bit depression and I stopped talking with people my age. I stopped CONCERTA for a year, then I came back to it because my parents forced me to do it. My friends I made in seventh grade saw a change and told me to try not taking the pill for a week. I tried that, and I was less irritable and more energetic. I was forced to take the pill again and lost my appetite, lost concentration, lost interest in school. | F | 15 | 3 years 37 MG | 3/21/2015 | 1 | ADHD | Anxiety, Social withdrawal, Weight and appetite loss, Depression, Chest pain | I was given Ritalin for 4 years and they switched me to Concerta. I remember ritalin making me socially withdrawn, I had trouble having close friends but I still played at recess and stuff. From age 10 to 13 I went through hell. I was taking the pills 365 days a year. I know for fact I was on 36mg for a short time but then I was upped to 54 and that's when it started. I entered high school and I couldn't make friends, I couldn't socialize. I was thin and never ate, I remember chest pain and my heartbeat going crazy giving me chest pain. I had high anxiety levels all the time. I stopped taking it in the last month of the first highschool year, my parents were forcing me to take it, and even told me the side effects were in my head. When I stopped I started getting more depressed and slipped into depression, I had anxiety attacks and chest palpitations, though no more chest pain. It took 2 full years to get rid of that and to this day I still have anxiety and still deal with episodes of being overall extremely depressed. My appetite came back so vividly that I have stretch marks because of the weight I too suddenly gained as I felt hunger for the first time in 3 years. I was never anxious or depressed before taking concerta and now I'll probably have to deal with it for the rest of my life. It's been almost 8 years and I still deal with this. For the love of god don't do this to your child. | F | 20 | 3 years 54mg 1X day | 12/6/2014 | 1 | adhd | Horrible nightmares severe heartburn trouble sleeping depression | M | 32 | 1 weeks 27mg | 10/27/2014 |
CONCERTA (METHYLPHENIDATE HYDROCHLORIDE): This medication is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - ADHD. It works by changing the amounts of certain natural substances in the brain. Methylphenidate belongs to a class of drugs known as stimulants. It can help increase your ability to pay attention, stay focused on an activity, and control behavior problems. It may also help you to organize your tasks and improve listening skills. FDA Approval Date: 2000-12-08 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)