ATARAX Reviews (HYDROXYZINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.3 (147 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ATARAX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ATARAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Itching | Nothing for over 40 years (other than drowsiness) then post menopause, its drying effect was bad on my complexion. So I stopped cold turkey OMG! | For a few months after stopping abruptly (an idiot move in retrospect) last April, the insomina was horrid for a few months. That resolved. But what's followed has been a nightmare. The ringing in my years is so noteworthy, I have to attempt to talk over it. I never had anxiety before (a mental brick) now I feel close to panic for no reason. I'll wake up with dread. My resting pulse rate has gone from around 65 to 120 (that's upon waking!). My heart will pound, my pulse will roar through my extremities, throbbing unmercifully. I can go on, but you get the idea. It was so bad, I had all my hormone levels checked. I had a thyroidectomy in the early '60s so I watch that regularly and take dessicated natural hormone replacement. Over 9 moths later, blood levels are all normal, and clearly I am not. I have no other underlying health issues. How long will this last?! (the rhetorical cry of the damned) I'm wondering whether to start back on a very low dose (like splitting the pills to 2 or 5 mg) but I'd rather not. I'll watch this site for any signs of encouragement (OK, that may be wishful thinking-- even documented discouragement will do.) I can't find anything to replicate my experience online. Thanks. | F | 60 | 42 years 10 mg 1X day | 1/7/2012 | 2 | Interstitial cyctitus | Severe Tiredness sleeping up to 12 hours a night and still tired during the day. Weight gain of 6 pounds. Dizziness and rash. Heaviness in chest. | F | 40 | 1 months 10mg 1X day | 1/4/2012 | 3 | Severe Eczema | I do not think this drug should be used by any kids under 5 as it seems to reduce the brain wave patterns which could effect learning in kids who are not suffering from anxiety. Does it slow development in normal kids taken it for itch. | This drug in my opinion "Should be categorized as a chemical mind alter drug and not a antihistamine" something that might actually reduce normal kids ability to make the grades in grade school. Ex. Have your child off it for 3 weeks toss them simple puzzles to put together watch and time. Now put them back on and do the same thing and puzzles and be shocked for yourself. | F | 2.6 | 365 days 1.5 MG 2X day | 12/30/2011 | 5 | Allergies/ Anxiety/ tension | i have had no side affects whilst taking this, i think it is brilliant. Although i am supposed to take 50mg in the morning and the same at night but i go straight to sleep within half an hour so i can only take them of the night. | i fall asleep half an hour after taking the tablets so i tend to just take 2 tablets (50mg total)of a night. if i forget to take them i spend the whole day very agitated and tense, i had never suffered with Anxiety prior to taking these. however they are brilliant with my allergies so i cant complain. | F | 26 | 6 years 50mg 2X day | 11/28/2011 | 3 | anxiety | wieght loss, moody, head aches, emotional | im 14. and every 1 thinks I have anxiety problem so they put me on this. But I don’t think I have an anxiety problem and I don’t know whether to take the medicine and shut my mouth or to stop taking it. | F | 14 | 25 1X AN | 11/5/2011 | 5 | chronic hive, dermatographic skin | I"ve been taking this medication since I was 13 years old. Initially I experienced weight gain and grogginess. Now the only side effect is a small amount of grogginess so I take it at night. | Atarax has changed my life. I have dermatographic/dermagraphic skin, which mean your body constantly produces too much histamine. It is hereditary in my family. I have other family members on it as well, including my 21 year old son. This drug has definitely been a life saver. | F | 51 | 38 years 10mg 1X day | 8/24/2011 | 3 | Severe Eczema | None yet | Dermatologist prescribed Atarax for my son who suffers from severe eczema to help ease the intense itching. He would wake up in the middle of the night and itch so bad there would be blood on his sheets, nails, clothes, etc. So far it has made him able to sleep without itching which in return is making the open wounds from itching ALOT clearer. Hopefully it keeps working along with the prescribed creams and his eczema can be a thing of the past :) | M | 1.5 | 7 days 10 2X day | 2/8/2011 | 4 | severe allergies | Drowsiness; nightmares on the first 2 nights. Lots of muscular pain. Feels like my fibromyalgia is back in full swing. Bad copper taste in mouth. | This drug has proven helpful in reducing the symptoms of the hives and itching. Its early days yet so I am hoping the side effects would wear off. Today not as bad as yesterday, so am looking on the positive side. | F | 48 | 3 days 25 3X day | 1/17/2011 | 5 | Anxiety | Bad taste | F | 58 | 30 days 25 1X day | 12/7/2010 | 2 | PTSD/anxiety/panic attacks | dry mouth,couldnt sleep at all,my joints ached severly and made my fybromyalsia 10 times worse!and gained 10 pounds in one month. | F | 33 | 40 days 25 6X day | 10/29/2010 | 4 | anxiety/panic attacks | very sleepy, nightmares/daymares | im not one to have nghtmares or anything of the sort. but since ive began the medicine it helps calm me down but i also have bad nightmares. | M | 18 | 2 weeks 25 mg 1X day | 8/27/2010 | 1 | intertitial cystitis | Took for 2 yrs with increasing tiredness and groggy feeling, but helped with ic symptoms. Then began having tremors, muscle twitching,dropping things, numb fingers. | Was referred to neurosurgeon who was considering neck surgery, but turns out to be caused by atarax. Stopped taking 5 months ago with no improvement. Arms so weak, can't do daily tasks. | 45 | 2 years 15mg 1X day | 6/21/2010 | 2 | vestibulitis | It does make you a bit sleepy. But the worst side effect was the gastritis that resulted. That's inflammation of the lining of the stomach and means at least 6 weeks of Nexium type drugs. It is very painful. | I looked up the side effects of Atarax and sure enough, there was gastrointestinal distress...and that's what I have now. I will not take this drug again even though it helped with the vestibulitis. I found that the herb Valerian root capsules works just as well with no side effects, take at bedtime and sleep like a baby. I did not take Atarax for a straight 200 and some days...I actually only took it when the auto-immune problem flared up, so it was off and on for almost a year. | F | 63 | 250 days 25 mg 1X day | 6/16/2010 | 4 | nerves, and allery | I stopped taking atarax, and I notice that all my arthritis type symptons are gone. I would take at night before bed, and wake up each day with seems like so many joints aching. It owuld take half the day to begin to feel better. Now Two nights without it and no joint aches. Is this a true sympton of this drug, because emotionally it has helped me so much and also with my allergies..thank you | Would like very much to continue to take but..tha joint pain does seem to be related to this 10 Mg pill | F | 69 | 25 days 10 mg 1X day | 5/24/2010 | 1 | Chronic Hives | While taking it: Dry mouth, severely chronically exhausted, nightmares, insomnia, muscle cramps, joint pain, severe depression, moodiness, memory loss, rapid heart beat. Even years after getting off of it: Always extremely tired even after getting plenty of sleep, joint pain so bad as to make me limp at times, memory loss, moodiness, muscle cramps so bad as to make it hard to sleep, lack of concentration, anxiety, my son was born with half a heart. | After my son was born with Right Atrial Isomerism (half a heart) I started looking into this drug that I had been on for about nine year of my own child hood and had not taken it for about 5 years before I got pregnant (I had even done a very extensive purification program after getting off of it) and found another person who was also on it long term also had several kids born with birth defects, one of her's even died from it. My exhaustion/tiredness is so severe that even after 8-10 hours sleep I feel like all I can confront doing is going back to sleep. If any of you anticipate using this drug DONT!!!! And if you are on it now get off now before you get the long term effects!!! | F | 33 | 9 years 25 MG 4X day | 5/6/2010 | 2 | Anxiety & insomnia | Increase in appetite | I take other medication in addition to this, one of them being oxycodone 15 mg. Atarax does not make me tired, sleepy, dazed, calm my anxiety or anything. I think my body has a high tolerance for sedating medication. I even took 100 mg at night time and I was still up for hours. | F | 39 | 9 days 50 mg 4X day | 5/5/2010 | 5 | Interstitial Cystitis | Sleepiness | I take this medicine at night so that the side effect is actually a little helpful. I take this medicine as part of a three drug cocktail for Interstitial Cystitis (Amitriptyline, Hydroxyzine and Pentosan Polysulfate). Other than the sleepiness, I have had no other side effect. | M | 39 | 4 years 25mg 1X day | 5/1/2010 | 2 | Sleep Initiation+Staying Asleep | hangover,grogginess,unclear thinking | Initially worked well to improve the quality of my sleep; after a while, however, I noticed that I'm always groggy, tired, and listless while taking this medicine-even after a full nights sleep. I normally sleep 8 hours-with this drug I sleep 10 hours and still don't feel energetic. | M | 25 | 2 years 50 mg 1X day | 4/29/2010 | 5 | Anxiety/Sweating & Asthma | Slightly drowsy for the first few days. I seem to not be able to sleep through the night very well although when I do sleep, I sleep well and feel like I am fully refreshed upon wakeing. | I always had a problem with extreme sweating in situations that made me feel slightly anxious. I've also had to use a fast acting inhaler for weezing all the time. I workout often and workout hard. I am very healthy. My doc prescribed me Atarax 10mg and so far, this has almost been a miracle drug for me. I now rarely weeze for no reason, allergies are not bothering me, My sweating has been reduced to basically nothing (unless physically induced), and I am waaay more comfortable in most situations as the Anxiety is almost disapeared. As I've said above, I workout often and watch my weight, along with other aspects of my body closley. The weight gain some are contributing to Atarax, I have personally not experienced. Considering I smoke weed as well, the hunger people claim this induces, has been nothing I have noticed either. I have noticed I pee more and I am thirsty a little more when taking Atarax though. Maybe it's my higher protein diet, or a combination, but I have also noticed being slightly more gassy as well. It made me worry when I read people contributed weight gain to this medicine and possibly it's different for everyone but I am a firm believer that the weight gain is more so due to personal lack of motivation/will power or another drug. | M | 24 | 10 2X day | 4/16/2010 | 1 | Eczema | At first made me very sleepy and I slept good on it, but last time I took it, I stayed awake all night long and all night the next day, today I'm hoping it will wear off. Also, there was muscle spasms, jerks, and twitches combined with general restlessness that night. | I hate it so much. Don't take this stuff, just scratch yourself or use topical medicines. | M | 27 | 3 days 25 MG 1X day | 4/6/2010 |