STRATTERA Reviews (ATOMOXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.6 (443 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare STRATTERA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR STRATTERA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | ADHD | brain fog, dizziness, dissociation, visual spots, memory loss, learning problems, increased blood pressure. | I've really not enjoyed this medication. It has put me into a permanent fog and has made learning and memory way harder. I've also had a lot of fatigue and almost no motivation. | M | 22 | 6 months 40 1X day | 10/25/2021 | 1 | ADD | This stuff helped kill my marrage, I was on the drug for 6 months. Dry mouth, the sweating was awefull.The fatigue was out of this world.Felt spaced out. Just had a baby boy in Aug. when I got home from work I was shot just wanted to sleep. I had no energy to help with the daily routine with my son. My sex drive sucked.Painfull orgasms, I thought it was all related to a compressed disk. Switched to Vyvance been on it for 3 days. Night and day differance. have energy and much better focus. | Hind site is 20/20 This drug was evil for me | M | 40 | 6 months | 1/28/2009 | 1 | GAD, Depression | Inability to sleep, Extreme mood swings, Prolonged periods of depression, Decrease in grades, Thoughts and attempts of suidcide. | Strattera is only approved to treat ADD/ADHD, but for some reason my former doctor thought it would be good to put me on it to treat depression. The six months I was on it 4 years ago were nothing but sheer hell. We went and saw a doctor we never saw before ( just because our normal doctor was out of town ), and he took me off of strattera and put me on Lexapro. It has done wonderfully. Truly consider things with your doctor before taking this medication. | M | 15 | 6 months | 6/10/2008 | 1 | ADHD | Anxiety, severe mood swings, severe hallucinations, depression, suicidal thoughts.. | This medication is horrible. My son started to taking Strattera six months ago. At first, there were very limited side effects with this drug. As the months went by, I started to notice some pronounced changes in my sons behaviour. This boy went from being someone who would not hurt a fly, to getting into altercations at school. His grades started to slip, and his mood drastically changed. He finally opened up up to his dad the other day that he was seeing things and having bad thoughts of hurting people and himself. I immediately took him off of the drug. It has been three days since he has taken Strattera. He has calmed down and is feeling a little better. This drug is pure poison. His paediatrician said that it was safe and that there were minor side effects...that is bull. He has since retired and my son is due to see his new doctor shortly. Please be careful and do your research before considering Strattera. | M | 14 | 6 months 60 1X day | 5/22/2012 | 1 | ADD | Nightmares, tremors, sleep problems, paranoia, extreme lethargy, severe depression. | I recently found that I had been misdiagnosed for years. I changed doctors and went to a highly regarded doctor who extensively questioned and tested me to diagnose me with Bipolar II or Soft Bipolar. With everything I've learned, it makes unbelievable sense. It's a new designation, only recognized this year. The constantly being tired, distractability, memory problems - the drugs working for a couple of months and then "poof", the benefits were gone. All clues to Bipolar II. I've always slept eight hours a night so I did NOT consider this to be a possibility. The Vyvanse and anti-depressants helping temporarily but just masking the real problems. Particularly interesting is that mixing two anti-depressants can send a Bipolar II or Soft Bipolar in a psychotic episodes (or "manic" or "hypomanic" periods). I myself was also on Prozac and the combination made me nearly psychotic and suicidal. My doctor is slowly taking me off anti-depressants and adding Seroquel. In five years, the doctor says, my brain will regenerate and I will experience life as I have never known it to be. It's just a suggestion for those who were BEYOND frustrated like I was... if this sounds familiar, please read "Why Am I Still Depressed?" by James Phelps. I hope the best for everyone hurt by taking this drug. | F | 45 | 6 months 40 mg 1X day | 2/21/2010 | 5 | Severe ADHD | I have one nervous tic now, I have not had a nervous tic since puberty. | I am so incredibly happy with strattera because what I call the television (my mind working so fast it is like someone changing a channel every second i.e. another thought) has slowed down to a normal rate, my sister was so impressed she said "wow this is the first time i have had a conversation with you that you weren't gunning to say something or answer a question. my only side effect is a tic which i have not had one since puberty it is sniffing quickly kinda like a dog once every six to twelve hours it varies though not stress induced or anything i can think of but ya know what i would rather deal with a lil sniffing than trying to deal with the world when i am running a thousand miles an hour. | M | 28 | 7 months 100mg 1X day | 9/4/2011 | 4 | ADD | i've experienced cold sweats at night and my body temp is never consistent on strattera which is VERY annoying, loss of appetite i have to force myself to eat. | Other than the bad side effects I feel like this medication has really helped me focus at work and my boss says she can see a huge difference in my work. Cold sweats are the other thing that drive me NUTS. its worth trying it, everyones body is different. ( I personally cant handle stimulants) so this is the only one thats not. Good luck | F | 25 | 7 months 25 MG 1X day | 11/7/2013 | 4 | adhd | Constipation | This drug hurts me | M | 29 | 7 months 69 | 2/12/2015 | 1 | ADHD | Nausea, which went away with time. If I skipped a day because I forgot (go figure), then a symptom of my ADD would be horribly worse the following day. Severe fits of obsessive compulsive behavior and horrible mood swings, or a total inability to pay attention to anything for any reasonable length of time. Like walking around in a distracted daze all day. | I hated this stuff. I refuse to try another pharmaceutical because of it. I was a different person on this stuff, and not a pleasant one, either. I was already an unhappy person before I started on it. I never could manage to take it on a regular basis to get it working, and had a general hatred toward the world around me. I thought I was losing my mind, and it was not until I dropped the meds that I realized they must have been the cause of my problems. Otherwise, when asked about them during that time period, I would tell people I was fine, or tired, or that there was something wrong and I didn't know what. Don't give an ADHD person who can't remember things a drug that they have to remember in order to get it working properly. I cringe when I hear people talk about it. Awful, just awful. | F | 23 | 7 months | 7/31/2009 | 4 | Adult ADD | Lost weight,increased heart rate,increased perspiration in response to physical exertion | F | 51 | 8 months 60mg 1X day | 8/30/2010 | 4 | ADHD/ANXIETY/NON STIMULANT | FOCUSED ALL DAY AND ALSO FOLLOW A PERSON THROUGH CONVERSATION. I UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND ME...NOW ALL THE CONS BAD THINGS ABOUT DRUG: GAVE ME CHILLS, CONSTIPATION, HEADACHES, DRY MOUTH, LOSS OF APETITE, EXTREMELY EXTREMELY TIRED, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, AND WHAT SUCKS IS EXTREMELY BAD SEX DRIVE, SHRUNK PENIS, RETROGRADE EJACULATION...ITS A GOOD NON STIMULANT DRUG AND NON ADDICTIVE BUT PAINFUL SIDE AFFECTS RUINS INIDIVIDUALS LIVES. I RECOMMEND IT BUT BE CAREFUL, SOME RETROGRADE IS PERMANENT, CANT HAVE BABIES 8( UNLESS PAY THOUSANDS FOR INVITRO...TRY MODIFINIL...ITS NON STIMULANT NON NARCOTIC...AND HELPS I HEARD...I WILL EXPERIMENT WITH THAT DRUG | M | 22 | 8 months | 2/13/2009 | 1 | A.D.D | Nausea, Mood swings, thoughts of suicide, disturbing thoughts, extreme lack of sleep. | I started taking it in the beginning of the school year, and my grades shot up, but, i started to act strange, and not want to be around anyone. My behavior was unlike me. I started to get thoughts that disturbed me, and i had thoughts of suicide. I barley got any sleep, and it sucked. | F | 16 | 8 months | 4/16/2009 | 1 | ADHD | insomnia, manic, irritable, delusional, completely changed my personality. | I was diagnosed with ADHD in college and was first placed on this medicine. It seemed to work well in the beginning. After 6 months of taking it the side effects changed completely. I could not sleep or eat and went into a manic state. I was placed in the hospital and under psychiatric evaluation for more than a week. I DO NOT recommend this to anyone. I went from being perfectly normal to a psychiatric ward on suicide watch. Please be very cautious if you decide to take this medicine and make sure you are closely monitored. | F | 26 | 8 months 80 MG 1X day | 10/23/2011 | 5 | Adult ADHD | Dry Mouth, slight euphoria | M | 39 | 9 months | 8/16/2006 | 5 | ADD | Very Dry Mouth, bad taste. I am going to now try to take it with dinner. I usually take it right when I fall asleep at night or in the morning without breakfast -so I am anxious to try it with food. | This has really helped me focus at work, concentrate on projects, cut down on being figitaty at work and has allowed me to be able to stay connected with conversations and meetings. The days I don't take it because I want to avoid the bad taste/dry mouth, I realize it within a few minutes at work and wish I had the cotton mouth. | M | 37 | 9 months 100 1X day | 4/23/2010 | 5 | ADHD | Please give this drug time! My side effects for the first few months were awful!! Insomnia, stomach pain, vomiting, memory blackouts, aggressive with alcohol but it did pass and despite these side effects I am so much more stable I no longer have mood swings or emotional outbursts, I am confident and assertive I have never felt more sure of my own opinions in my life. Stick with it it is difficult but it is worth it in the long run. | F | 28 | 9 months 80mg | 2/7/2017 | 4 | ADD | constipation, suicidal ideation,difficulty sleeping,nausea, hot flashes, palpitations | I now take 40 mg am and pm and that makes the side effects much better. Now I'm only bothered by constipation, all other SEs have passed. It's good for everything except when I need to write a paper at school. Then I take dexedrine too. | F | 28 | 9 months | 1/14/2008 | 3 | ADHD | moody and sleepy the first day or two, nausea if I don't take it with a lot of (non-dairy) food | I've been much less anxious and less irritable since I started taking Strattera. I'm not sure that it helps with my concentration much though. I'm only on 50 mg though so I may need a higher dose. | F | 28 | 9 months | 10/9/2009 | 1 | ADD | memory loss, always tired, urinary and sexual side effects | It was very helpful in making me calm and docile, however it was to the point where I wasn't myself and was getting comments from friends about how boring I had become. I found that it didn't help me concentrate, rather it made me tired and dazed most of the time combined with the fact that my short-term memory seemed to stop working. I also started having noticeable sexual and urinary side-effects within a few weeks of taking it. Trouble urinating, burning sensation, ejaculating before an orgasm, major loss of sex drive, you name the symptom I had it... I got tested for std's about 3 times during the 9 month span because I kept having so many issues, fortunately (knock on wood) I still have never had an std. I went to quite a few doctors and urologists and nobody was able to make the connect between my issues and the strattera. This site provided the connection that nobody could make and I stopped taking strattera. Since then everything has gotten back to normal, unfortunately this includes my terrible ADD which has come back stronger than ever. | M | 25 | 9 months 60 mg 1X day | 4/7/2011 | 1 | ADHD | Nausea, dizziness, dry eyes, dry mouth, tiredness all day, problems sleeping at night, waking up every hour or so, irregular, painful, and heavy periods, some thoughts of suicide, eyes blacking out and having a dizzy feeling when standing up. | I hate this drug. I started taking it and immediately felt terrible side effects, it helped my concentration but I feel less motivated to do things, my period also started getting really heavy and painful on straterra, whenever I stood up my eyes blacked out and I couldn't see anything and I had a really bad headache and I felt like I was going to faint, about an hour after taking the medicine I would have a random flushing sensation where I would get really warm and sweaty and then get chills. I noticed a decrease in athletic ability, and sudden paranoia about things. I definitely would not recommend this drug. After having some initial problem my doctor told me to take the pill at night, which made my sleeping problems even worse. And to top it all of I had a mental breakdown in front of my class because I just couldn't handle all of the stress that strattera was putting me under. | F | 14 | 9 months 80 1X day | 7/16/2011 |