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 |
| 5 | ADHD | Trouble falling asleep. | We started my daughter on this when she was diagnosed in kindergarten. We didn't want to go the medicine route, but when she ran out into the street in front of a truck, we knew we had no choice. The first few days were very questionable, with her having major meltdowns in the early evening as the drug was leaving her system. After her little body adjusted, she was fine and I knew we had done the right thing when she said,"Mama, before I took my pill, my brain didn't work right". Now she is in fourth grade and still takes her Concerta once a day. We see a huge difference in both her focus and behavior when she doesn't take it, and more than two days without it and we are all unhappy...especially her. We do not allow her to use not taking it as an excuse for poor behavior...but the truth is, she struggkes maintaining appropriate behavior without it. Her health is good, she is happy and well adjusted and her teachers comment about how good her focus is in class. I would say that Concert a has made a huge difference in my child's life and as long as she continues to avoid averse side effects, she will continue on it as long as possible. | F | 9 | 4 years 27 1X day | 10/4/2011 | 5 | ADHD | loss of apatite, and if i missed a pill, I was completely high the entire day, but if i continued to not take it I calmed down a bit more, but still had severe ADHD, so I just made a point not to forget taking them. | My family has a history of depression on both sides, and because of this pill, I am the one exception. not only am I not depressed, but I'm a complete narcissist and so proud of it. This drug has made my life great. I took it until I was 18. at that point, I was pretty certain that I could live my own life without the help of concerta. I've been off the pill for 2 years now, and in that frame of time, I've managed to flunk out of 2 different colleges, get "let go" from my job. I am not this person. about 2 months after I stopped, I had my first panic attack. 2 months after that I had my first anxiety attack. I also gained 80 pounds. begging my doctor to put me back on. | F | 20 | 5 years 90mg 1X day | 9/28/2011 | 3 | adhd | Yes the lack of hunger but does anyone seem to get to much off the tablet? | M | 19 | 16 years 54mg 1X day | 9/23/2011 | 4 | Adult ADD | 18mg the first week, very tired. Around 5/6pm start getting tired/agitated. I take 10-20mg instant release around then. When it wears off, very hungry and little anxiety. | Gave me my energy back. I can articulate my thoughts and words much better. More patience with people in general. Less hostility/outbursts. | F | 33 | 1 months 36 mg 1X day | 9/16/2011 | 1 | ADHD | As a 16 year old, I shouldn't have to worry about something like a pill. But for me, it's the biggest decision of my life. I took It for a year and saw improvement in my grades, and chores. Thats good, but the side effects are terrible. I can't fall asleep until 12 pm every night, and I wake up at 6 am. I'm already short and this lack of sleep isn't helping me. Nor is the fact that I eat maybe 1 good solid meal a day. It also disables me from being erect. I'm the most out going, confident, and Fun guy out there. But on concerta, I am a walking zombie. I wake up with a stomach ache everymorning and get headaches frequently through out the day. No amount of water can cure my dry mouth. Worst of all, I experience extreme depression. Thoughts of suicide should not be in a 16 year olds head. I feel worthless, un loved, and feel there is no meaning to life, this is odd for the Christian that I am. I stopped taking them 3 weeks ago when I had suicide thought and layed crying in the middle of n | M | 16 | 1 years 56 mg 1X day | 9/7/2011 | 5 | ADD plus sucidal | well really no change when taking just 1 at 36mg taking 3 pills at 36mg each my wife is happy I am feeling smarter plus thinking about writing a book | I am 49 years old, I was a failure in school,hid in the military, always putting people down, had cancer, Over the past year I have tried twice to kill myself without regard to my family or friends, I slept in parks, more focus, now,I don't need spell check, The side effects sometimes suck but I have a family and they need a dad. | M | 49 | 4 months 36 x3pills 1X day | 9/4/2011 | 3 | ADD | Been taking Concerta on and off for the past 5 years or so. I only take Concerta for school, so I go without during the summer. While taking Concerta before the only side effect I noticed was an extreme loss of appetite. After being off of Concerta for the summer, I have taken it for three days this school year and one during the summer. I still experience an extreme loss of appetite but I now also have persistent dry mouth. | I think Concerta does make it easier for me to focus in class and to organize my thoughts. The appetite loss isn't really a bad thing since I am overweight. You do however need to make sure that you eat, if you don't, it could cause a loss of energy and sadness. The only negative thing about taking Concerta for me is the dry mouth. It's very uncomfortable and no amount of water, juice, gum etc... seems to help. I'm hoping that either the symptom will fade with use or that a lower dosage will help. | F | 16 | 54 MG 1X day | 8/29/2011 | 5 | ADHD | Extreme anxiety, and panic attacks, GAD, trouble with maintaining healthy weight index. PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCE, INABILITY TO DRAW OFF | i was a very weird child, failing in more areas than life aside from school, after several years of very expensive and unsuccessful psychoterapy options, i was placed on concerta 54mg, my grades shot up, and i was the star student. It changed my life completely. Now its 11 years later, and i will be starting college soon, i am trying to take myself off of it, because if i miss a day i am a monster, cant even cross a street safely, however with proper support and physician observation, i hope to be tapered off concerta completely in 12 months!!!!!!!!! i have made a lifechoice, maybe life will be better, and i will be able to focus more without concerta if taken off of it properly | M | 19 | 8 years 54 1X day | 8/28/2011 | 4 | i have adhd and depression | the first week was like having the worst flu in the world. but after 2 weeks i calmed down and am doing better. I am a housewife and noticed i do get things done. im a bit more mouthy or feeling more emotional. I do have a slight less appetite but i sleep fine. i do feel unbalanced driving at night though..i all of a sudden can feel like im going to pass out while driving. i do experience dry mouth so make sure you drink alot of water. im alot calmer but i feel silly and back to my old self pretty qiuck in the evening. i do like this medicine..but just a warning again the first 2 weeks on this med is hell. just suck it up and it will pass i promise. also before taking this med my heart rate was 110-120 bpm and high blood pressure....2 months after this medicine im in the normal range so thats good. good luck to all!!! | F | 30 | 2 months 56 1X day | 8/26/2011 | 1 | Hyperactivity disorder | About 8hrs after my 7yr old took his 1st ever dose of Concerta he began having severe tics. He keeps sticking his tongue out over & over again along with rolling it around in his mouth. He also keeps shrugging his 1 shoulder. This has been going on for 4hrs & I am hoping it wears off by morning. I will never give him another one again! And tics do not run in either side of the family nor do any other issues listed! | M | 7 | 1 days 27MG 1X day | 8/26/2011 | 1 | ADHD | Paresthisia, Weakness in arms, such horrible anxiety that I slept all day because it wore me out. | Stay away from Concerta, especially if you have difficulty with anxiety beforehand. Nowhere near as powerful as Strattera was for me. I will comment on Strattera as well. | M | 26 | 12 days 36mg 1X day | 8/25/2011 | 1 | ADHD | Loss of Confidence Nervousness | I really feel akward around people at school and dont really have a social life with concerta and i have hardly any confidence whereas without them i have lots of confidence | M | 14 | 5 years 54 1X day | 8/12/2011 | 4 | adhd | chesty cough/post nasal drip, headaches, dry mouth and mucous membrane, poor circulation, lack of appetite, sometimes stomache aches, and others. racing heart | I've been taking concerta for a long time, so it's difficult for me to tell where things are a result of the medication or just a personal quirk. I have worked out that my heavy cough started around the same time I started on the medication and just never left. The dry mouth thing has been difficult and it definitely had a negative affect on my music. The loss of appetite thing is mainly annoying when you aren't in a family type situation where everyone sits down for dinner together. I've really found that you have to force yourself to eat or it just doesn't happen and the meds wear out and you're starving. Or when you eat heaps and then they kick in and you feel sick. I've occasionally gotten sharp pains in my stomache. Not too bad, but noticeable and I believe after looking at the common symptoms list that this is why. I also stopped growing soon after I started taking it, whether I was meant to stop growing at 12 or not will always be unknown. Whenever I've gone to the doctors, or even my paediatrician, they always comment about my racing heart. I really believe this is a side effect as well. All in all, the side effects do suck, but it's just something I deal with. Because I've been on the medication for almost 10 years most of the side effects are just things I see as being personal quirks. It's the little things that get frustrating though, mainly the cough and dry mouth as these have further consequences (dry mouth makes cavities more likely etc). | F | 21 | 8 years 54 1X day | 8/10/2011 | 4 | ADD | trouble falling asleep (in the first 5-6 years of taking it), extreme loss of appetite (not having a DESIRE to eat), Mild depression, Anxiety, irratibility | i have a love hate relationship with concerta. It does its job: it allows me to maintain concentration on a particular job. But, its side effects were detremental to my emotions, social life, sleep cycle and appetite. the concerta makes me have no desire to eat. food seems repulsive. But, i still felt hungry physically (hunger pains), and if food was put infront of me, or i would walk by the pantry or refrigerator, i would instinctively eat. The first few years i took the medicine, i couldn't fall asleep easily, especially if i took it after 10 AM. Now, i can take it at 4 pm (if necessary) and fall asleep at 1 (which is a great improvement). It certainly helps me stay awake at night (which used to be a negative side effect, but now with my homework is a great positive side effect). But the WORST SIDE EFFECTS were depression anxiety and EXTREME irretability that seemed to be directly proportional to my dosage (i got up to 54 mg in 10th grade, and hated it so much that i dropped down to 18 mg later to find a balance between 27 and 36) (((**** my original dosage in 2nd grade was 18 mg))). i am still much more social off the medicine, and am verymuch less irratible. I am comfortable with my current dosage of 27 mg (17 years old, 5' 7" 120 lb wet) although i have self destructive tendencies with relationships that do not seem to exist when off the medicine [i am still expirementing to see if those are due to the medicine or just my personality]. i would like to work my way | M | 17 | 11 years 27 MG 1X day | 8/8/2011 | 3 | ADD | severe weight loss (210-170), severe irritation and agitation, loss of apetite, depression worsened, concentration better | My concentration did get better but when I take it I almost feel high and its find of uncomfortable but it does help me do my work but Im not sure if the side effects are worth it. I needed to lose weight because I went form obese to overweight which helped me fight off any obesity disease and a family diabetes. | F | 16 | 5 months 54 1X day | 7/25/2011 | 3 | ADD | Huge lack of appetite(not feeling the need to eat at all), headaches, really sensitive to things. | F | 16 | not sure 1X day | 6/18/2011 | 1 | adhd | suicidal tendicies psychosis hatred of myself and others, homicidal thoughts loss of appieitie or emoitons and worse | i was on concerta for 2 years....i developed psychosis i would and could imagine ways to kill everyone around me in different ways this happend at least once every half hour fo 2-10 mins, i obsessed oeer little details to it, i saw my school counsoler they said i watched to many movies and i was fine, i started cutting my wrist hateing my life hateing everyone, i hated my self so much thhat the first thing in the morning and the last thing id say at night was i wanna kill my self or just die... i attempeted suicide daily.... my parents thought it was for attention, they didnt believe me...i sat there and pulled a knife accross my neck in front of them and they sat there said nothing and didnt seem to care altho it didnt pierce that fact still haunts me to this day...when my uncle died i locekd myself in my room and carved i wanna die into the walls (in small areas and they still remain there today) i hated living i hated myself, i went insane, my parents and school said no im normal yadday yadda, they refused to take me off of it, my doc even after telling him all that in tears he said no i dont want you off of it, i took my self off of it... for awhile until i abused it 5-6 at a time of 56 mg for 12 hours of euphoria and beautiful halucinations... but after the pill wore off my depression was horrifying...2-3 years since ive been off of it i still hate myself, i still hate ppl, i still have impulse thoughts of suicide, i still do drugs to ease the pain and insantiy. i will | M | 18 | 2 days 1X day | 6/14/2011 | 1 | ADD | It did not work for me at all, in fact in made me care less about life, My school work has been effected, my grades are getting worse the longer I have taken it | M | 16 | 6 years 70 1X day | 5/31/2011 | 3 | ADD | shaky, no desire to eat, NO CREATIVITY | im 18 and a guitar player. A very good guitar player, it is my life. Now I can barely play it, can't even play my own songs. I also cannot write anything new. I feel as if i have just started playing and I have played for 11 yrs. If the next week this doesn't improve.. Im going to stop talking it. I can concentrate now, and am wayyyyy more social. | F | 18 | 5 days 32 1X day | 5/30/2011 | 1 | adhd and depression | complete loss of appetite without feeling sick, Horrible depression | I wouldn't recommend this stuff to my worst enemy! | M | 20 | 5 days 36 1X day | 5/16/2011 |