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 |
| 4 | ADHD | Social distance, irritability, sleepiness, loss of appetite | I've taken the pill on three different doses. 27 MG at 6-9, 36 MG from 9-14, and 54 MG recently. The first dosage calmed me down considerably and make me quit bouncing off walls, but eventually it wasn't strong enough, so I was increased to 36. After a long while of taking this medicine, I've become much calmed without the medicine as well. Recently, 36 wasn't quite enough to get me through the day. I would start falling asleep about 3 hours after taking the medicine, and find myself unable to keep awake. With 54mg, which I've been taking a few days, I'm now completely awake throughout the day, but I also feel a little angry all the time, now. Overall I've had a good experience with this medicine, and I've even overcome the social problems that it gave me, all it takes is the force of will. | M | 14 | 8 years 54 MG 1X day | 1/31/2011 | 4 | ADHD | My family would have never thought that I had ADHD because I got a's and b's and rarely a c in elementary school. I went to the doctor because I had SEVERE memory problems. It seemed almost impossible for me to remember something somebody told me a minute ago. But I found out I had ADHD. I lost 16 pounds taking this pill, partly because I was growing up and working out. I was 96 (a little chubby) and I went to 82 in 7th grade. Now I'm in 9th grade and I weigh 86. I get hungry sometimes but I have a loss of appetite and sometimes I just don't feel like eating. I am now really skinny and people even comment about it. I havent started my period and I'm flat chested and very short. I have developed severe OCD. Everything I do has to be perfect. My room needs to be clean, my backpack, my makeup has to look perfect, my body, my school work, anything! I am less out going and I am sometimes awkward. I'm not confident at all. The good thing about the pill is that I am a straight a student looking to be a valedictorian and go to UCLA. I am taking an honors class as a freshman in high school currently and I plan to take at least 5 ap classes. I am one of the top students in all of my classes and i am very productive (even though i HATE school).Yes this is a lot of stress and hard work but I'm willing to do it. Insomnia has always been a problem for me. I feel like I have no energy and I feel depressed. All i want to do is sleep. But when I don't take my pill I cannot do anything. | F | 14 | 2 years 36 MG | 2/22/2012 | 4 | ADD | Fast heart rate, anxiety, easily annoyed attitude, and loss of appetite. | Concerta helps me to focus more and stay on task. I am an outgoing and social person, even on concerta. However, on concerta I sometimes refrain myself from socialzing at times that I normally would. My first year taking concerta I lost 19 pounds in the first three months at 18mg. After I became more immune to the pill, my dosage went up to 56mg. I have gained the weight back, although in muscle since I am an athlete. If you are an athlete and take concerta, know that while you are playing in a game you may feel like you are about to throw up sometimes. This is due to your loss of appetite in lunch and since you didn't take in much energy from the little food you have eaten, the acidity in your stomach causes you to have a strong gag reflex. Also, after going a day without eating on the pill and exercising, you should hydrate because you will become dehydrated on top of being starved and will become easily annoyed by everything around you. Overall, concerta has helped me maintain good grades and stay organized. | F | 14 | 2 years 56mg | 11/21/2015 | 4 | ADHD | loss of appetite, can't feel hunger, higher heart rate sometimes it's over 100 BPM resting, insomnia, | Concerta is great but I have to take sleeping pills to get any sleep at all. After I started taking concerta I have noticed that most of the time I just don't feel hunger. | M | 14 | 5 years 54mg 1X day | 11/22/2020 | 3 | ADHD | Extreme loss of appetite until knocked down to lower dosage,Zombie like states all throughout the day, small insomnia, no twitches or ticks, when i work out extreme loss of breath, when i was taken off of it for one summer gained 20 lbs in 3 weeks then lost it all again during the length of school. | M | 14 | | 12/8/2009 | 3 | ADD | My son, who is in a boarding school, was off the Concerta for 3 weeks during the Christmas break and when he started back in feel into a deep depression that week that I never seen before or since. During this time he attempted to hang himself. He called me before the attempt and told me that he was felling something that he never felt before and asked me if I thought he could be possible bipolar. He couldn’t explain why he was feeling the way he did and indicated the he never felt that low before or since. Has anyone seen this behavior when Concerta was reintroduced into the body? | M | 14 | 6 months 36 1X day | 1/23/2012 | 3 | add, adhd | Pros - helped with grades and helped me to focus cons - weight loss (im currently 96 lbs ), hard time getting to sleep, depression, lack of emotion, over thinking | F | 14 | 8 months 18 | 12/11/2012 | 3 | ADD | Anxiety attacks, deppression, racing heart, sweaty palms, dry mouth, headache, loss of appetite | Fine at 18 mg, but severe behavioral problems at 36 mg-- anxiety attacks, deppression and paranoia. I couldn't stop crying and I decided to stop after only a few days on the higher dose. | F | 14 | 3 weeks | 4/21/2007 | 3 | ADD | Short term memory difficulty, headache, zoning out in a social setting | No decreased appetite, clearly improved concentration | F | 14 | 1 days | 3/28/2007 | 3 | ADD | Dry mouth, slight headache, unable to sleep, sore throght | Helped in school a LOT! makes me feel calm and content. | F | 14 | 6 years | 10/20/2008 | 2 | ADHD | it sucks don't give this to your kids I had shortness of breath I thought I was going to die I didn't wana eat at all AND I LOVE TO EAT but I'm kinda under weight anyways shaking. depression. crying for no reason I rather stick With ADHD dan take this mess | F | 14 | 2 weeks 27mg | 6/4/2012 | 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 | 1 | ADHD | i always feel depressed when im on it. im never myself. suicidal thoughts used to come to mind. weird twitches:/. i hear stuff. i can never sleep. it makes me zone out. and i have an unreasonable amount of anger issues when i take them | it does help me concentrate but i do not like what it does to me | M | 14 | 72 1X day | 5/7/2013 | 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 | 5 | ADHD, OD, and OCD | Once this medicine is taken with breakfast my son goes from bouncing off of the walls and being way too hyper, to relaxed and happy. By the time school lets out he is crabby, and just plain angry. He is fine after a small snack of fruits or vegetables. Overall this medicine works wonderfully. He is in 9th grade now and has always only gotten A's. and B's on his report cards since he started this medication in 1st grade. He is now an Honors student who has chosen to go into the medical field. He loves school and loves to learn. ADHD doesn't get in the way of what my son wants to achieve in his life. He doesn't fit in with big groups of kids but has one or two goos friends and he is fine with that. He is on a swim team. I would suggest swimming for any child with ADHD. It is a great outlet for their energy since they have to use their entire body to swim. My son did ok in softball and soccer too, but swimming is his favorite because he said he can move all around so freely. My son is also on Kapvay which is a long acting form of Clonidine. This helps with his higher blood pressure and sleeplessness due to taking the Concerta. He was on 72mg of Concerta for a few years but we took him down to 54mg with no problems two years ago. My son also got horrible migraines. Sometimes 4 or more in one day. His neurologist put him on Zoloft since my son has high anxiety and his Migraines went away completely! My son has a great team of doctors and for that I am very grateful. | 15 | 8 years 54mg | 11/15/2013 | 5 | ADD | Some insomnia, dry mouth, felt a little tired and yet at the same time energetic, and that is about all I remember, if there was anymore. All in all there were no bad side effects. | I was in the test study for this. I was about 12 and this was a wonder drug, it helped me so much then. Everything was so lucid, everything, even the hardest questions made perfect sense and I was able to focus so much better. The strange part was that I was able to see the world slower at will ex.: cars seemed slower, people walked slower. It was very strange and I liked it. I was like a computer; being able to analyze things very fast. This happened all in the 4 week I think it was study. I am off of it right now. | M | 15 | 4 weeks | 1/9/2006 | 5 | add | no real loss of appitite agression alot having a little sister realy gets the agression and just drop of a pin ill go off on her i cant adgust from one setting to another to quickly | one thing i love it it saved me life with out it my life in school was shot wouldnt have learned a thing but one of my major problems with it is increased desier for well sexual activitys like im not perfict and some days i forget to take it and im crazy but but not active but every day i cant get sexual thoughts oput of my hear yea im a teenage guy but its to the point that i cant control the thought and i cant not have them to were im having a battle in my mind about it and its just.... bad ... and i know last time i went to my nerologist we had brought up something about side effects and they mentioned something about sexual something but my mother cut them off and i got a little embaressed so... yea | M | 15 | 4 years | 4/17/2006 | 4 | ADD/ADHD (Unsure) | Stimulated, hyperactive, happy, interested, feels the need to yell at people, jumpy, pounding and rapid heartbeat, raised temperature, incessant talking, improved memory. | Best and most effective medicine I have ever taken. Crazy, major high! Feels like I'm on speed or something :D I still have trouble reading, however. But sometimes, the side effects are a little over-the-top. I'll get used to it, though, as it has only been 6 days. | F | 15 | 6 days 54 mg 1X day | 9/19/2010 | 4 | ADD/ADHD | Dizzy for the first few days. Appetite was cut. A LOT. Depression? Mood swings. | I've always been abnormally hyper and unable to focus. When I was in elementary school, the teachers would put me in a desk in the corner with a cardboard box around it so I wouldn't get distracted(didn't work). Concerta has helped my ability to focus. It does cut appetite (makes you feel full) and I've lost 10 pounds because of it. I was underweight to begin with so this raised some concerns. It does make you dizzy for the first few days and if you skip a few days and then start taking it again the dizziness returns. My doctor first prescribed me 36 mg and then switched to 54 mg. I take the 36 over the week end so that I'm not dizzy when I go back to school. I've been having some mood swings. Crying one moment, screaming in anger the next. I've been feel depressed lately, but I'm not sure if that is just situational or a side effect as I've been under quite a bit of stress lately. I've had similar effects as a few other ratings on this page. I can't remember what I did yesterday o | F | 15 | 4 weeks | 10/29/2008 | 4 | add | arms are weaker at times,mood swings,loss of appetiate, non drosiness. | started taking the 18mg I. 2nd grade for add. Helped a lot .was very angry though. Didn't seem to notice loss of appetiate at first. I was very concentrated I was skinny before I went on this medicine but when I went off this medicine one summer I ate like a beast.that was in 6th grade.gained some about 20pounds and I'm still trying to work off the rest of the weight. Sorry about misspelling typing on an itouch. | M | 15 | | 6/30/2008 |