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 |
| 4 | Hives/Angiodema | Weight Gain(~4 lbs every month), extremely increased appetite(was eating 3000+ calories when only 1500 is required), racing heart, sleeo the first two days after starting the medication | Although I love atarax for what it does to my hives, I cannot stand its side effects. Every year, after my seasonal allergies end and I get off atarax, I have to start exercising twice as much to take the extra fat off my body. I am a very skinny person by default and eat very healthy normally but when I'm on atarax, its like my body has a mind of its own. I get extremely hungry every two hours and eat crazy amounts of food. I don't think gaining 12-15 pounds every year and losing it in the next few months can be healthy for my body. And I'm talking about 15% gain in weight...its nothing to sneeze at. Aside from all the crazy side effects, this drug does work wonders on my hives unlike any other anti-histamines like benadryl or claritin. One curious thing after getting off atarax this year was I lost my appetite. It's been going for a few days now....let's see how long it lasts. | F | 27 | 4 months 20 mg 4X day | 2/24/2010 | 4 | UNKNOWN BREAKOUT OF SKIN | sleepyness, dizzy, weight gain - 8 lbs in 4 months | After taking it, the itching stopped for several hours. one pill was often enough. when the itching was real bad, I took two of them, day or night. I was able to work but had to have coffee in the afternoon so that I wouldn't fall asleep. I stopped taking it because of the weight gain. | F | 40 | 4 months 10 4X day | 2/19/2010 | 5 | Bipolar/Anxiety | Dry mouth the first few nights, some daze | Very good cure for insomnia and nervous excitability. It is very safe has little side effects. It's cheap and efficient recommend to all who have probelmy sleep or anxiety. Working 30 minutes after dosing for approximately 8 hours. I took him even as a child when I had periods of depression in their bipolar illness. In poland costs $ 5 per pack 30 tablets 10mg but the best is in syrup because you can individually choose whether or not the dose to the child. | M | 38 | 25 years | 1/22/2010 | 5 | HIVES | DROWSINESS, BUT IT STATES 'MAY CAUSE DROWSINESS'. | IT CURED THE HIVES QUICKLEY. HAVEN'T HAD A REOCCURENCE SINCE 28 MAR 2003 | M | 40 | 3 days | 11/14/2009 | 2 | Contact dermititis | This medication upon first use stays in your system for quite a while. Effects are extreme sleepiness, had a difficult time getting up the next morning, arms and legs completely lifeless. Can you say real bad nightmares when taking this stuff? That may go away after continued usage. I was in a fog the next day after taking this the night before. | For individuals with moderate pain not requiring opiate based pain killers I think atarax would be a great sleep aid. No way you would combine this medicine with vicoden at night, may not wake up the next day. | M | 44 | 2 days | 10/13/2009 | 3 | Various allergies & anxiety | Extreme drowsiness, some periods of insomnia, extremely vivid nightmares, auditory hallucinations, paranoia, emotiona apathy, lack of energy, lack of motivation | This is the only anti-histimine that has been effective for me - I *cannot* take Benedryl in any form. | F | 30 | 3 years | 9/18/2009 | 5 | severe skin allergy- unknown source | Drowsiness and that becomes more tolerable with exposure. Resting hand tremor in very high doses (125mg/day) | Atarax changed my life. I had a disfiguring skin allergy and the most intense itching, even in sleep. I'd been to many dermatologists and tried everything to no avail. Atarax relived the itching to the point I could completely recover. At my highest pt I was on 125mg daily. Now I take it for maintaince only when symptoms develop and I've not had a recurrance of anything that level in two years. An added benefit for an insomiac like myself is that it can be counted on as a sleeping pill as well. I don't know what I would have done if I'd never found it. | F | 37 | 2 years | 7/29/2009 | 2 | interstitial cystitis mast cell deg | increased heart rate, sensitivity to sound, lack of motivation, sensory hallucinations (scary), easily startalled, presence of people not there, sore throat that passed with time, dry mouth and bad breath, increased body temperature after taking, muscle twitches, agitation, memory problems (bigtime), urinary retention, dysphoria, my eyes pop open at night and can't sleep but my mind is going strong along with my feet and picking at my fingers | i'm not lying when i say i had all those side effects, i was on elavil too and thought it was the elavil, the 'tripping on acid' feeling didn't go away after the elavil stopped and i figured it was from the atarax, turns out both are anticholinergics and as you can see, i must have a problem with anticholinergics, yay me, frustrated. started at 50 mg at bedtime (asked dr. for lowest dose--turns out they make 10 mg--thx doc!), took 25mg last night and still feel trippy and up all night, wonderful...sigh. this was a substitute for klonopin by my psych at one time and i said 'no'. i should have listened to myself. i almost went to the hospital last night b/c of this! i didn't go b/c i thought there was nothing they could do...turns out there is a drug to counter the anticholinergic effects...thank goodness for the internet...no wonder drs. hate the internet...people are more informed now!!!! | F | 36 | 2 weeks | 6/22/2009 | 3 | interstitial cystitis | drowsiness was tolerable, lessened after 1st week. Now after 4months I realized I am steadily gaining weight - 3 lbs/month despite dieting and exercise. I have never gained weight like this!! | F | 45 | 4 months | 5/29/2009 | 1 | anxiety before operation | Did not work at all | 100Mg | M | 52 | 1 days | 5/28/2009 | 4 | Unknown skin allergy and insomnia | Weight gain, intense pain in calf muscles, headaches. | Atarax was great at taking away my skin allergies, they are fully gone but as a result, I have on-going intense pain in my calf muscles to the point I can't stand sometimes. | F | 19 | 3 months | 5/16/2009 | 1 | itching, bad allergy to dust mites | Made me very sleepy, my body at least, not so much my mind, I went to sleep but woke up about half an hr later with whole-body tremors originating in my chest about once a second, my mind was awake but my body was too fatigued to do anything like tell someone symptoms. It also made me very nauseaus. It's about 20 hrs after taking the one pill, but I'm still very nauseaus and barely have the energy or motivation to not just sit here, stare, and drool. I'm feeling very out of it, and any amount of movement makes me feel short of breath. I'm about to call the doctor to see if I should be concerned this isn't going away. | this cure is far worse than the symptoms it was prescribed for | F | 30 | 1 days | 5/12/2009 | 5 | Contact Dermititis | Dry mouth the first two nights, deceased snoring. | my wife got a happy bouns when I started in on this drug. my snoring decreased so much she doesn't have to wait for me to fall asleep to come to bed. the itching went away in the first week and has not returned. we were not sure if it was the drug that stopped the snoring so i quit taking it but have returned to it since. | M | 35 | 30 days | 12/30/2008 | 4 | Hives | drowsiness | Had my first ever onset of hives 5 days and ago & bendrayl and clartin did not help it got worse to the point I was scratching myself raw. Doctor put me on Atarax yesterday (10-20 mg every 4-hours, 30 mg total yesterday). I woke up this morning after a restful sleep and noticed a dramatic decrease in the size, bumpiness and itchiness of the hives. Still a bit itchy but infinitely better. I took a 10 mg pill at the start and near end of work today and felt slightly fuzzy in the head, but not sleepy. Don't think I would do well at work if I took more, but 20mg helped me not itch and scratch all day. Started on a 7 day taper today of prednisone to help with the hives, which I HATE b/c pred gives me insomnia but the doctor said taking 20mg of Atarax before bed should conteract it, so I'm optimistic my hives will be gone soon and my sleep won't be ruined by prednisone as it usually is. | F | 34 | 2 days | 10/21/2008 | 3 | Interstitial cystitis, insomnia | Fatigue, 'dead' feeling emotionally, low energy, PAINS IN HIP JOINTS AND CALF MUSCLES | I started taking Atarax because I read that it helps bladder pain due to interstitial cystitis. I noticed that it helped insomnia and it works very well for this. Because of MCS (multiple chemical sensitivities), especially to wood smoke, I have allergic brain reactions that trigger out-of-control crying jags and rage, as well as profound depressions that can border on suicidal. I spent thousands of dollars on psychotherapy before discovering that all I had to do was take an antihistamine and I'd be fine. For this, Atarax as well as Benadryl work wonderfully well. However, the price I pay is the side effects I listed. I thought I had arthritis until I figured out that the pains come and go according to whether I have taken Atarax or not. The more Atarax I've taken, the worse the pain, sometimes almost crippling. I have the same reactions to Benadryl and have entered these comments on the Benadryl page as well. | F | 77 | 3 years | 10/20/2008 | 4 | Anxiety | Dry mouth, indigestion, tingles, brain zaps. | Sometimes it works great other times, not so much. The more I dose daily, the more "out of it" I feel - but sometimes I need that. I like that it can be taken as needed as well as daily to help keep me calm. Not sure if I need a higher dosage or change of medication all together. I would recommend trying this before jumping into highly addictive Benzo's. | M | 30 | 4 months | 10/7/2008 | 3 | anxiety and instead of taking | sleepiness,tired,prickly feeling like electric shocks,dizziness,lightheadedness,a little emotional on 25 mgs 3 times a day. I am taking the generic brand. | Instead of taking klonopin which gets abused easily and my brother was after my klonopins when i was on it. I was told to get off it and see if the electric shocks like prickly feeling goes away but today is hard on me because not taking any medicine for my anxiety. I feel off it that i don't know if i can survive off it and going off 25 mgs is hard on me. Should i ask to be put back on it or what? What should i do? I am on day 1 of not taking the medication. | F | 23 | 7 days | 9/16/2008 | 5 | Extreme food reaction - HIVES | The only side effect I have experienced is the look of disbelief from a nurse who insists I can't be allergic to benedryl and that she/he has never heard of Atarax. | What a shame that more hospitals aren't aware of the intolerance that some of us have for benedryl. Benedryl does nothing for me. It increases the allergic reaction I am experiencing and puts my body into a state as if I was hooked-up to a full strength caffeine IV drip! Atarax, however, saves the day.. at least if I can convince the health professional that some people are allergic to benedryl and all histamine blockers are not the same. | M | 50 | 5 years | 9/3/2008 | 4 | My toddler takes it for allergies | If I give her less then the prescribed amount of 10mg 3 times per day, it helps with the drowsiness. I usually give her half of that. | It has helped my daughter a great deal. She still has extreme eczema but it has worked well for her hives. It has cut down on the amount of scratching and she no longer scratches to the point of bleeding all over her sheets at night. Her quality of life has greatly improved. | F | 1.5 | 1 years | 8/21/2008 | 4 | Anxiety | At first I noticed it was hard to swallow. But that side effect disappeared. Maybe a little sleepy. | I was prescribed 25 mg of Atarax when I went cold turkey off of valium which I had been taking for years. This pill seems to help with anxiety issues. I am only taking 10 mg at a time because of the sleepy issues. I am doing fine. Nothing bad to say. | F | 55 | 4 months | 7/9/2008 |