ZYRTEC Reviews (CETIRIZINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.0 (1820 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZYRTEC with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYRTEC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | allergies | Nasty, nasty, nasty! Gave this to my 10 year-old son for allergies (chronic sinus infections). I just started Clarinex myself 2 weeks ago, but before that nobody in our family or extended families have ever been on allergy medicine, so it's very new to me. I don't like the idea of my child being on medication like this every day. Anyway, we started the Zyrtec and within a couple days, our son turned into a nasty, combative, argumentative child. My ordinarily calm husband and myself were at our wits' ends with him and were ready to consider therapy. My husband wondered if it was the Zyrtec. Then I remembered that when my son was little (and his older sister also), I could not give them cold medicine because it would turn them into little monsters. I figured it was because they were sick. Anyway, I stopped the Zyrtec several days ago and WHAT A DIFFERENCE! Overnight, he changed back into the son I know and love. The doctor called in a prescription for a nasal spray this afternoon | I notice that a large percentage of children with this same reaction are male. I wonder what the correlation is, if there is one. | M | 10 | 1 weeks | 4/15/2006 | 2 | allergies, asthma | Fatigue. I would take Zyrtec at night before I went to sleep and it made it difficult to wake up in the morning. I think for years I never realized that this might have been due to the Zyrtec, because I never felt sleepy, just persistently low energy. | Wow. I stopped taking Zyrtec 3 days ago because it had ceased to be effective for me. I found this site because I was wondering if Zyrtec caused drowsiness, since I'd noticed how much more awake and alert I'd felt in the past three days. Reading all of these posts, I wish I'd thought about this years ago. My doctor prescribed Zyrtec to me for allergies when I was 14, and for years I've taken it daily without even stopping to consider whether it was worth it. As for people who say it causes behavioral problems in children, I have a theory: when I'm not in my college classes, I work most afternoons as a nanny for a family with three girls, aged 4-10. The youngest is a wonderful girl, and she's generally cooperative and calm. However, I can always tell if she hasn't had enough sleep the night before, (because of a nightmare or something,) because she will be terribly grouchy, throw temper tantrums, and can be really defiant. I've never attributed this to her personality, only to her | F | 22 | 8 years | 4/12/2006 | 1 | Hayfever | Depression, moodiness, feelings of being "out of it", anger. I was also very tired after taking it. It did help my hayfever, but I'd rather sneeze than weep or rant over nothing. | It was pretty obvious to me after taking it that something was wrong, but none of the side effects were disclosed on the pill bottle or on the zyrtec website. I'm glad I was able to find this site via google so I could get the real story. Where the heck is the FDA? | F | 37 | 4 days | 4/10/2006 | 1 | allergies | My son took this in past and then a few months ago restarted it for allergies-horrible side effects-headches, eye aches, belly pains, crying, rash nape of neck, sore throat, acting out, ect. I had him to the doctor 3 times, the ER 1 x and for a psych eval. I took him off it thanks to this site and there is a dramatic change-able to get him to school w/o crying, tantrums ect. Please how can we get a warning for this med- [email protected] | Please consider this med a source of any problems you or your child is having. I wouldn't have believed it if i did not see it first hand. | M | 6 | 3 months | 4/10/2006 | 3 | Hives | Weight gain, drowsiness & hair loss | I started taking Zyrtec for hives. My allergist told me that if I took allergy shots for 2 yrs the hives may go away. However, that did not happen. I have since stopped taking shots and now take zyrtec to control the hives. Since I have been taking zyrtec, I have gained a lot of weight. I didn't even realize that it could be a side effect of the drug till I read everyone's comments. I have been trying so hard to loose weight but it has been a lost cause. After reading everyone's comments I know realize that weight gain seems to be a common side effect. I have been taking zyrtec daily for the past 5 yrs. I am now trying to take it at the onset of hives. I have been able to go a week w/o taking it. I have been suffering from other allergy symptoms but I can deal with those. I just need it to contol the hives. As long as there are no hives I am not going to take it. | F | 28 | 5 years | 4/8/2006 | 4 | severe year round allergies | initially, i was a bit groggy. this symptom wore off after the first week or so. otherwise no side effects. | just an FYI: i am a physician and ZYRTEC is NOT addictive. for those of you who are coming off of it and experiencing side effects: the effects you are experiencing are due to your allergies no longer being suppressed by ZYRTEC--or any other antihistamine for that matter. patients with severe allergies that take antihistamines chronically are used to not experiencing the side effects of their allergy and sinusitis and when they come off and experieince them again- they often blame their drug- when in reality it is their allergies/sinus problems that are to blame. please refer to your dr. or pharmacist if you have questions about these types of medications! | M | 39 | 8 years | 4/7/2006 | 2 | Allergic rhinitis | None | Basically did nothing for me, a lifelong allergy sufferer. Some of the other OTC and prescription medicines do a lot better for me. My current favorite is Singulair®. | M | 38 | 2 weeks | 4/7/2006 | 4 | Auto Immune Disease | I Take Zyrtec (2) times a day both 10 mg. I also use singular and bendryl no dye 4 times a day. I am having some troubles with Zyrtec. My itchiness appears when I go to bed and I can't sleep. My doctor says this is normal that I need to just learn how to relax. I say let the doctor relax, he doesn't experience what we experience. Now the doctor wants me to go on depoxen that will help with my hives also. Oh boy! I think I will just stay on Zyrtec, it does help. | F | 45 | 1 years | 4/6/2006 | 1 | sneezing, itchy watery eyes, sinus | Depression, anxiety, drowsiness, memory loss, loss of concentration, irritability, eliminated sex drive, apathy...I could go on, but I just don't have the strength | I've not felt depressed since puberty...but after just three days of taking this stuff, I'm a mess. I can't focus on anything, I've lost my appetite for anything but junk food, have had tightness in my chest (at 31?!?!), I've experienced narcolepsy, I've actually put on 5 pounds in 3 days! I'm irritable, angry, exhausted....in short, depressed. That's it. I'm not taking this shit ever again...I'd rather sneeze! | M | 31 | 3 days | 4/6/2006 | 1 | allergies | son becoming more anxious, seemed to get upset easily, c/o abd pains, headaches ect. | M | 6 | 30 days | 4/4/2006 | 1 | seasonal allergies | shakiness, anxiety, uneasy feeling | my son has been taking the chewable form of this medicine on and off for about a year under his pediatrician's advise. I used to combine a pseudoephedrine syrup for him before sleeping because his problems with the stuffy nose would not go away with the zyrtec. zyrtec only seemed to help relieve the itchy nose, coughing and sneezing but not the sinus problems due to the allergies. As I started him on zyrtec for this spring season I suspended the use of pseudoephedrine because the pharmacist told me not no combine anything else with it, eventhough I never seemed to have problems of interactions between the two drugs. I continued giving my son the zyrtec pills at night before bedtime. however two days ago, he started feeling anxious and shaky in school with an overall feeling of being uneasy. the school nurse checked the side effects of the drug and told us this might be one of them. after checking this website I found important information on side effects for children and I am definitel | M | 8 | 1 years | 3/28/2006 | 1 | ALLERGIES | TROUBLE BREATHING, MOOD SWINGS, EXHAUSTION, WEIGHT GAIN, DEPRESSION | I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRUG TO MY WORST ENEMY. FURTHER STUDIES OF THIS DRUG SHOULD BE DONE IN ORDER TO KNOW THE PROFILE OF THE PERSON IT HELPS AND WHOM IT DOES NOT. | F | 42 | 15 days | 3/28/2006 | 4 | asthma, pet dander | getting foggy, dizzy 3 x times in 5 years. ALL OF A SUDDEN QUIT WORKING. Sneezing now and using inhaler. | Going to go off and see my reaction | F | 50 | 5 days | 3/25/2006 | 1 | seasonal allergies | My son has been taking this medication for about three weeks. He has become irritable, angry,having temper tantrums which he never did! He has also complained of abdominal pain and itchy skin. I discussed this with his doctor and have stopped the zyrtec. I did not know about these side effects and thought he was getting sick for some other reason. If parents try this med they need to be aware of these awful side effects. My son is having outbursts, crying when the littlest issue aggravates him. | It's now three days since my son stopped taking zyrtec. I feel I have my son back. An example of how this affected just the routine day to day stuff - when I asked him to brush his teeth he would scream and start crying, telling me no, this went on for every routine morning task from dressing to eating breakfast. This type of behavor went on all day. The behavior got progressively worse over a few days. Normally he needs just a little positive encouragement to do all these activities by himself and is a happy, well adjusted child. These last three weeks have been awful. This drug should come with a BLACK LABEL warning. My doctor said she thought it was possibly the medicine. When I came across this site, after stopping the medicine, I felt that I had been underinformed. The doctors really need to hear from parents observing these side effects. I believe that all parents should demand that their doctor officially report the side effects to the FDA. | F | 4 | 21 days | 3/24/2006 | 4 | Hayfever type allergies | My 7 yr. old daughter has been taking this regularly for about 5-6 months. Until this year we had never had any behavior problems at school - not paying attention and not minding teacher. This is the only thing I can think of that has changed. | The medicine works very well at controlling her allergies but I am going to take her off of it and see if the behavior problems get better. CAN SOMEONE TELL ME IF IT IS SAFE FOR ME TO JUST STOP GIVING IT TO HER OR SHOULD I SLOWLY CUT THE DOSEAGE? | F | 7 | 5 months | 3/23/2006 | 1 | seasonal allergies | My son has been taking this medication for about three weeks. He has become irritable, angry,having temper tantrums which he never did! He has also complained of abdominal pain and itchy skin. I discussed this with his doctor and have stopped the zyrtec. I did not know about these side effects and thought he was getting sick for some other reason. If parents try this med they need to be aware of these awful side effects. My son is having outbursts, crying when the littlest issue aggravates him. | F | 4 | 21 days | 3/23/2006 | 1 | allergies, sneezing | I have been on zyrtec for about 3 years and have been unable to quit because every miss just one dosage, I get horrible migrains and nausea where I can not even get out of bed. These migrains last for as long as I do not take the zyrtec. I also have hair loss and have become more alergic to things that I was not before. I have also had panic attacks that may be related to the zyrtec. | Does anyone have any suggestions on how to quit this stuff? Please stay away from this drug!! | F | 34 | 3 years | 3/22/2006 | 4 | allergies | weight gain, inability to stay focused at work, drowsiness | I came off of my birth control in December because I was gaining weight on it. My doctor put me on Zyrtec in January for my allergies adn since then I have put on 10 pounds in 3 months. I definately feel like the Zyrtec has caused the weight gain. | F | 26 | 3 months | 3/21/2006 | 4 | seasonal/animal allergies | increased appetite, weight gain, headaches, drowsiness, inability to focus in school/work | my doctor told me to only take the drug when i feel allergy symptoms beginning to come on. this is usually first thing in the morning &it kicks in fairly quickly but leaves me drowsy &out-of-it all day. i also seem to have headaches on the days i don't take it, &i've gained some weight.. i definitely notice an increase in appetite | F | 19 | 2 years | 3/21/2006 | 3 | 3 y/o son allergy | F | 31 | 1 years | 3/18/2006 |