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 |
| 2 | 10 yr old son is taking it for ADHD | It definitely has helped with his hyperactivity, but he has huge, uncontrollable mood swings. Now he has to take another med for his mood swings. | F | 31 | 2 years | 10/3/2006 | 5 | ADD | Sinus headache, sometimes trouble sleeping (not often), decreased appetite, decreased libido | This medication has changed my life. My son is on it as well also with positive results. I can feel the moment I start to digest it. I will get a "rush". Sometimes my heart rate will speed up, I will get fidgety for 10 minutes or so and sometimes a pulling or pressure in my sinuses. I also know when the dosage is depleting because I will feel moody or sad. I know it's time for bed then! My sexual response is better but I have decreased libido if that makes sense. I am less irritable, make better decisions, relax well and most of all, can hyperfocus LESS. My ADD causes me to hyperfocus for long periods of time causing severe burnout and stress disorders. Concerta allows me to focus normally on tasks without having to go into 5th gear to get things done. I can pace myself. It's wonderful. I just wish it wasn't so expensive! My son who was on ritalin is definitely benefiting from concerta. Ritalin made him very depressed in the valleys before his next dosage. Horrible. He co | F | 32 | 1.5 years | 5/31/2006 | 5 | social anxiety inattentive add | This medication completely changed my life. Im so social now i can have fun without being worried about being judged by anyone. Im dating which i couldnt do before concerta. I can focus on my work and have kept a job for a year, before i was having nervous breakdowns and quitting jobs every3 months. I know everyone responds to medication differently but ive been on every anti depression and every anti anxiety med out there and this is the only one that has given me complete releif of social anxiety and my add and also the general dysthymia that goes along with having these conditions. If ypu have a true dopemine imbalance this mefication can and will change your life | F | 32 | 1 years 56mg | 8/27/2012 | 4 | ADDHD | I am Dizzy off and on. Occasional mood swings. | I am on 18MG right now. The only side effect I have noticed is being dizzy. It had worked a little but I think I need a higher doseage. I took Concerta a couple of years ago a noticed a big difference. I was also on a higher doseage back then. It has kept me calm for the most part...I am a very high strung person. | F | 32 | 3 weeks | 1/25/2009 | 3 | Adult ADD | dry mouth, constant need for fluids, complete loss of sex drive, loss of appetite until end of day then I eat non-stop, persistant almost obsessive behaviour on some tasks, withdrawn. | I felt the medication initially worked but after 3 months of taking it I am not getting the the same results. Im up to 54mg/day and don't want to increase. I still have better focus but not the result I was hoping for. | F | 32 | 3 months | 8/4/2006 | 3 | ADHD | Works perfect...then I just started having massive crying spells and suicidal thoughts. I have ADHD but I am not depressed or anything. It's really bad. I am gonna stop taking it immediately. | F | 32 | 8 months 36 1X day | 3/23/2010 | 3 | ADHD | weight loss, dry mouth which led to horrible breath,anger outbursts, increased perspiration,hyper focusing, | I loved being able to concentrate, and the weight loss was an unexpected side effect. However, the way I treated my family was not worth it. I would rather be scatter brained and keep a messy house than be thin and bitchy all the time. Also my sister started taking it in the past 6 mths, ( to lose weight), she has lost many relationships because how it causes her to behave. | F | 32 | 2 years | 12/28/2009 | 2 | ADD | Irritability, insomnia | Didn't have the rush like ritalin. | M | 32 | 2 weeks | 1/19/2006 | 1 | adhd | Horrible nightmares severe heartburn trouble sleeping depression | M | 32 | 1 weeks 27mg | 10/27/2014 | 5 | Brain Injury - concentration | Major side effect is frequent urination. It usually lasts the first couple of hours after taking it. | It has helped me tremendously. I work full-time and I started out on long acting Ritalin. Unfortunately, it took too long to kick in. This medication kicks in fast and lasts for most of my 8 hour work day. I am taking 36mg. Sometimes I experience what I call a 3pm shadow, where I start to wear down by the end of the day as the sun starts to go down. Days like that I take a short acting stimulant. For those people who can relate to having a brain injury, you understand what I mean. | F | 33 | 6 months | 5/16/2006 | 5 | Adult ADD | none | Makes me alert, awake and able to focus without hyperfocusing on little things. i was on Adderall XR and was WAY too jittery and there was a HUGE peak and then crash and if i missed a dose, i would be super sleepy all day. Strattera was next and it zapped my sex drive and did absolutely nothing for me. Concerta has changed my life. it helps you focus all day without the jittery side of effects of other stimulant drugs. | F | 33 | 2 weeks | 5/22/2008 | 5 | ADD | I experience headaches and loss of appetite. I also find when the medication wears off is when I get really, really hungry. Some days I get dry mouth. I also smoke a lot more. However, it is working for me. I just started realizing that I was losing weight. It seemed that I started losing weight just after my daughter turned a year. So at first I thought it was my body adjusting back to prepregnacy. However, I now weigh less than I did before I was pregnant. It seems that the weight is just falling off of me. In two weeks I have lost about 5lbs. I also thought I was losing weight because I started college and was more active. As I look back to when I started losing weight is when I started Concerta. Which is around when my daughter turned a year old and started school. I do eat but not as much and I eat before I go to bed. So it is not my body it is the Concerta. Overall, this drug is working for me and is much better than Ritalin. With Ritalin I was experiencing major | F | 33 | 4 months | 11/25/2007 | 5 | Adult ADHD | Increased appetite first week. Now limited appetite, but I make sure I eat what I need. Headaches at first-- now going away. | My son has been treated successfully with Concerta for about 2 years. As I became more educated about ADHD for his sake-- it didn't take long for me and my family to realize that I had a whopping case of ADHD as well! The doctor chose to try me on concerta since it works so well for my son. It has been tremendous! I can't realy "feel" the medicine working. I can only go by what peopole tell me. That I am more organized, more attentive, less impulsive, etc. I can, however, tell when the medicine is wearing off. My thoughts start racing again, I get kind-of jittery... My husband tells me he can tell when it starts wearing off because I start jabbering about random topics and interrupting the normal flow of conversation...but, by that time, I am usually home from work and able to cope with myself even if he can't...lol :-) | F | 33 | 1 months | 4/26/2007 | 4 | ADD. depression, Bipolar | Loss of appetite, upset stomach | Reading through the comments, tt's so strange the range of effects this drug causes in different people. I at first hated it and though it made me spaced out, but now I can tolerate pretty well. It calms me down IMMENSELY. I can handle situations where I used to freak out much better. It has also leveled out my Bipolar, though I do notice if I don't take it I get depressed. Some of my depression is circumstantial and some is just there. I have a low stress tolerance and this drug allows me to slow down and take things as they come. I was on Adderall XR, but I could not take it anymore. LOL. It gave me wayy too much of a buzz. I could not stop taking it! I loved it so much. It made me focus like crazy on anything. And I mean, anything like the most boring stuff in the world. Too bad it's just too much of a good thing for someone with prior substance abuse issues. Concerta is definately lacking in buzz or abuse appeal, which is good since that's not what it's for anyway. I can focus, jus | F | 33 | 2 weeks | 10/20/2006 | 4 | ADD | I have noticed my agression going up or is it my confidence? No physical side effects as of yet. | I think you must cut down or out on coffee and any other stimulants. It appears that you must also take plenty of exercise with this in order to reduce any of the other side effects. After one day, I have only good things to say about this drug. I am only taking 18mg a day, which I think is a safe bet to start off with. A higher dosage may possibly mean more side effects. | M | 33 | 1 days | 3/21/2006 | 4 | adhd | none so far, just scared it will make me gain weight | F | 33 | 4 days 25mg | 6/29/2012 | 4 | adhd | Hello there. The the main side effect that i could see being a problem for me was the feeling of my heart racing, even togh when my pulse was taking the bpm were normal and really low. THinking about it made it worse,I dont really have alot of the side effects as of now, mainly the rapid heart rate and trouble getting to sleep. | I was diagnosedwth adhd when i was young, acutally very young, W2hen i was in second grade i started taking 5 milligrams of Ritalin every day< But was to young to really feel it was doing anything. I was takin off of the medicatio and never took it again, i went through the rest of elementry school,middle school,and high school, and a couple years after high school without taking any medication. I am 33 now when i was 27 i was put on adderall and that was a life saver for me due to the fact when i was not on any medication my life was a mess everything was wrong with my life and the way i lived. after 3 years on Adderall i was takin off due to not upping dose and i felt like it had stopped being affective for me. i went 4 years with taking anything after that, just recently i was put on Ritalin 5 milligrams and felt like that worked for a week or so then it wore off, maybe it was just me, so i was put on 10 milligrams in the morining and 5 milligrams in the afternoon. I did not like that at all i had major mood swings, aybe due to the act my brother was shipping out to Iraq and that was something i could not handle. I went to my doctor and talked to him about trying a new medication and mentioned concerta, im on 18 milligrams and feel like its working, I feel the same as i did while taking ritalin twice a day. with decreased mood swings and i does make me a ton happier through out the day.Im wondering how long it will take to get used to it. wheni was on adderall i fell li | M | 33 | 2 days 18 1X day | 8/13/2010 | 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 | 3 | ADHD | I am experiencing some insomnia issues and I might be noticing a change in my impulsive nature, and finally I believe my desire to constantly eat everything all the time is going down. | I have not noticed and sexual side effects which is important and I have also not experienced any headaches while on the 18mg dose. Although I am concerned about the long term effects being aggregate. | M | 33 | 4 days 18mg 1X day | 4/26/2010 | 3 | adhd arnd | definitely wakes me up in the morning however, i'm 33 yr mother, and have been prescribed 144mg/day and i don't now anyone else to be taking such a high dose. i would rate it a 5 however, i don't have the clarity/focus i thought i'd have, even though it's way better than before taking it. And the downer is i've become extremely paranoid, and for what, i have no clue. | sometimes i think the dr's use us as guinea pigs/lab rats. i don't want to end up a statistic. | F | 33 | 8 months | 4/11/2006 |