ZYRTEC Reviews (CETIRIZINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.0 (1820 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZYRTEC with similar:
Type: Over-the-counter Drug
|
Results are sorted by Date added. Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.) Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 |
More on ZYRTEC: Reviews Summary | FDA Adverse Event Summary
| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYRTEC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | severe allergies and asthma | Agitated, restless, nausea (wanting to throw up constantly), hyper yet exhausted throughout the day, headaches, unquenchable thirst, dizziness and memory loss/lack of concentration. | It did relief my allergies and asthma attacks but I still have to sneeze a lot, sniffing and itchy eyes. Recently I went to my doctor and he suggested to quit the zyrtec. Never made the link between the side effects and zyrtec if it wasn't for him .If I don't take it my symptoms are much, much worse. But after reading this site I realized it's not worth it, so I'll quit. | F | 26 | 10 years | 3/17/2006 | 1 | allergy | My 5 soon to be 6 year old son started taking zyrtec about 2 weeks ago. On his last progress report, his teacher stated: "Alex is such a nice boy to have in class. I can always count on Alex to pay attention. Great job!". Since starting Zyrtec for less than two weeks. . .we've had 3 bad behavior letters sent home siting "dangerout behavior" like stabbing with pencils, throwing mulch and poking kids with a stick! He went from darling to dangerous in less than one week! I found this web site, thankfully, and will NEVER give him another zyrtec. I'll take the stuffy nose and continue with his allergy shots! | F | 38 | 14 days | 3/16/2006 | 3 | Seasonal Spring Time Allergies | Depression, very bizarre dreams, reduced drive, memory problems | Every year I (during the spring time) I resort to taking this stuff. And Every year I experience the same thing - depression, weird feeling, no drive. I knew something was going on because there is a definite pattern. I only have to take this stuff during the spring time due to my allergies - my eyes get very itchy and sneezing all the time. The zyrtec works on the allergy portion as expected but boy! There are some side effects that occur that are not mentioned. I used to take Claritin - that too made me feel weird but not depressed like this stuff. I guess if you have to use it for a shot time it'll get you through it - but I would not recommend for any length of time. Test it out - your mileage may vary. | M | 38 | 14 days | 3/14/2006 | 1 | Allergies | severe moodiness and tempers, lack of concentration, poor performance in school | My son started taking this medicine after allergy testing showed he was allergic to 90% of the allergens in the test. The medicine did seem to help his allergy symptoms. Meanwhile, my son started having lots of problems in school concentrating eventually leading us to getting him tested for seizures (per his pediatrician) and weekly meetings with a therapist/counselor. I asked both his pediatrician and allergist if any of this allergy or asthma medicines could be causing these problems and was told no. Meanwhile, he was barely passing kindergarten, then first grade, then second grade even though testing showed he was above average intelligence. This spring, it seemed like his allergies were getting worse so I stopped Zrytec and tried Claritin and next thing I see is that he is making 100s and getting good conduct marks at school. I didn’t put 2 and 2 together until I gave some Zrytec to his little brother and suddenly he started having big brother type mood swings and troub | M | 7 | 3 years | 3/7/2006 | 5 | Cronic Hives | Fatigue, Weight Gain, low sex drive | Zyrtec is the only thing that works on my hives to keep them under control. I was on a dose of 2 times per day and have been slowly cutting down to 1/2 a pill (5mg) a day. When i try to stop completly, i get headaches and hive right away. After reading the board I finally know i'm not crazy. | F | 43 | 5 years | 3/3/2006 | 1 | enviromental allergies | Mood swings, aggressiveness, tearful, negative, abdominal pain, extreme loss of appetite | After 7 months of successful zyrtec use my 4 yr old began to exhibit changes in his mood/personality. He was very negative, at times aggressive and yet tearful, emotionally unstable. We thought it was a phase, growing pains, etc. He began to complain of stomach pain and had no appetite. He was on the verge of weight loss. His grandmother questioned whether the Zyrtec was upsetting his stomach. Prompted by her theory I searched the internet and found this site. The comments here blew us away. We stopped the Zyrtec immediately and the there was a dramatic change the following day. We had our son back. I have been told by our dr. that Zyrtec, unlike Claritin, crosses over to the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. Please consult with your pediatrician about other options. DO NOT ASSUME that your child is just going thru a phase. PLease talk to everyone about this - our info has already benefitted someone third hand thru my son's pre-k teacher ! | M | 5 | 8 months | 3/3/2006 | 5 | allergies (mostly animal) | none that i notice. i take it right before bed every night. | i LOVE it! i live with cats, and am VERY allergic, and Claritin wasn't working. i switched to Zyrtec a few years ago and haven't had any problems since. If i don't take it, the eyes start itching and running almost right away. it's a lifesaver. | F | 25 | 4 years | 2/28/2006 | 1 | Mold, dust mites, pollen, food | Memory loss, balance problems, extreme insomnia, heart pounding, high blood pressure. I have been off for a year and am doing the allergy shots and noticed a difference in only two months. Getting better all the time. Side effects from Zyrtec take a long time to shake. Zyrtec D(with sudafed) is even worse. | F | 54 | 8 days | 2/24/2006 | 4 | allergies - mold dust | tiredness maybe higher blood pressure | does control my allergies as I have not felt this good for a long time never used allegra - i was very tired and then cut the dose in 1/2 and it improved a great deal | M | 50 | 4 days | 2/21/2006 | 1 | Severe Allergies | Depression, hair loss, anxiety, weight gain but I didn't have allergy problems I became a miserable person. | It works great for allergies but it made me emotionally a wreck, I thought I was crazy until I read this board and realized the reason why I felt this way. I am getting off it and can't make it past 3 days because I get horrible hives and itch, headaches, nausa. Horrible!!!!! I feel like it has taken away 8 years of me being happy. | F | 28 | 8 years | 2/21/2006 | 5 | Seasonal Rhinitis | None | Only thing that works for my allergies anymore. Wish that the FAA would approve it for pilots so I can take it to work with me! | M | 30 | 2 years | 2/19/2006 | 1 | itching | sleepiness, irritability | NEVER AGAIN! I also have sleep apnea. This medication makes me so sleepy that I can not wake up when I stop breathing! I took it at 10pm and still feel the affects at 6pm the next day. When driving I had to pull over to sleep because I could not stay awake. I have also been yelling at my husband for two days for no reason at all. This medication is not worth my marriage! | F | 53 | 2 days | 2/17/2006 | 1 | Hives | severe sleepiness, akin to narcolepsy, lethargy,increased appetite with gross weight gain, mild depression, dermatitis, Dermatographia, mild forgetfulness of common terms and names. I gained 75 lbs while taking Zyrtec, fifty of them in the last 6 months. I suffered from severe intermittent urticaria (hives) for thirty years, until my doctor put me on Zyrtec 10mg. every night before bedtime. When prescription runs out and it takes a couple of days to renew it, hives return and are very severe. I suffer tingling in the hands and fingers, and sometimes the wrists, and dizziness, with a buzzing sound I seem to hear in my head, rather than as an outside auditory sound. It's like a bee buzzing quickly through my head. My feet swell without clinical rationale. | I became mildly depressed, believing I was suffering some serious disease, and perhaps actually at risk of dying. I asked my doctor if there were any side effects, and he didn't suggest any. I didn't question the Zyrtec until I finally saw a commercial on television which listed drowsiness as a side effect. Bam! That was it. I hadn't realized it, but the lethargy, sleepiness, drowsiness almost to the point of narcolepsy started about four months after beginning the regimen of Zyrtec. I was a nurse for thirty-seven years, and didn't have the sense to even consider that Zyrtec might be the culprit, since it worked so well against the Hives. When I began reading the comments of others here, I began to cry uncontrollably. I may have found relief from Hives, but Zyrtec has made my living Hell. I'm going off Zyrtec at once, and will advise other users who have presented with similar possible side effects to stop taking Zyrtec, and see their doctor at once. | M | 61 | 1.5 years | 2/14/2006 | 1 | Alergies | Our 7 year old son was having violent temper tantrums, throwing things, punching and hitting other family members. These tantrums would last up to an hour or more. He was unable to handle anything that didn't go his way. He was like a monster and we did not know what to do. I thought he was ADHD or ODD and we began threapy for him. THANK GOD I FOUND THIS WEBSITE! It never dawned us us it could be the Zyrtec. Neither his doctor or his therapist knew anything about the pschological side effects that Zyrtec can cause. After further research I found that the following pschological side effects were listed in Zyrtec's own studies *** ABNORMAL THINKING, AGITATION, AMNESIA, ANXIETY, LOWERED LIBITO, DEPERSONALIZATION, DEPRESSION, EMOTIONAL LABILITY, EUPHORIA, IMPAIRED CONCENTRATION, INSOMNIA, NERVOUSNESS, PARANOIA, SLEEP DISORDERS *** Amazingly, the doctor perscribed the medication and never warned us of this! Everyone should be aware of this and I can attest that children should not be taking | Needless to say we took our son off the Zyrtec as soon as I read the information on this website. It has been about three weeks and we have seen much improvement. I pray that there are no long term effects on our son. Any other parents' comments are welcome. Feel free to e-mail me. I would love to hear from you. | M | 7 | 1 years | 2/13/2006 | 1 | | 2/9/2006 | 3 | Hayfever | Extreme tiredness. I take it in the morning and by 7pm i can't keep my eyes open. | Great for allergies but the tiredness is unbearable. I try to restrict taking it to when i visit my sister, who has five cats. Makes it hard to drive home though. | F | 40 | 3 years | 2/6/2006 | 1 | Allergies | Upset Stomach all the time. Tremendous appetite Very Sleepy all day even when taking it at nite. Slept great but could have slept all day. | M | 34 | 10 days | 2/2/2006 | 2 | hives | irritability, making poor choices, mood swings, crying, not at all acting himself. | My now 6 year old son has been taking zyrtec for two years - off and on. This past fall we had to increase his dose due to increase hives, and have been giving it nightly. He also began kindergarten this fall and it has been a nightmare! My always sweet, polite child was hitting, not paying attention, the teacher was calling me daily about his poor choices. We never put two and two toghther with the zyrtec!! I took him off it last weekend, as it's always bothered me pouring this med in him every night, he has been a totally different boy. He's back to being well behavied, much more impulse control - I could go on and on. On a hunch I looked this up and found this site - I am floored that that I was not warned of this and how awful my son's first year of kindergarten has been! I will not put him back on this! I am now concerned on what we will treat him with when the body covering hives do come back - the zyrtec did take care of them. | M | 6 | 2 days | 2/1/2006 | 3 | Dermatographism/hives/allergies | Me: sleeplessness, maybe weight gain, memory loss, concentration problems. Maybe hives worsened by stopping meds Daughter: sleepy | I have taken this for about 10 years to treat hives/dermatographism (I can not go un-treated or I do nothing but scratch continuously) and mild allergies. Zyrtec is the only thing that has worked for this long, other meds have stopped working after a year or so. Daughter (5) has taken it for 2 weeks for post-nasal drip/snorring/ causing sleep disturbances. My daughter finally has an easier time falling to sleep and will now sleep through the night. It controls my dermatographism/hives as long as I take the next dose within 28 hours of the previous dose. I tried switching from taking in AM to PM, but couldn't sleep even after taking a sleeping pill. Wonder, after reading the comments on this site, whether this med has caused or worsened my weight gain, concentration/short term memmory problems, depression/anxiety. I never made the conection. Also wonder whether I can ever get off of it since it may actually be causing worsening hives/itching symptoms when I miss a dose. I am also | F | 45 | 10 years | 1/23/2006 | 3 | Dermatographism/hives/allergies | Me: sleeplessness, maybe weight gain, memory loss, concentration problems. Maybe hives worsened by stopping meds Daughter: sleepy | I have taken this for about 10 years to treat hives/dermatographism (I can not go un-treated or I do nothing but scratch continuously) and mild allergies. Zyrtec is the only thing that has worked for this long, other meds have stopped working after a year or so. Daughter (5) has taken it for 2 weeks for post-nasal drip/snorring/ causing sleep disturbances. My daughter finally has an easier time falling to sleep and will now sleep through the night. It controls my dermatographism/hives as long as I take the next dose within 28 hours of the previous dose. I tried switching from taking in AM to PM, but couldn't sleep even after taking a sleeping pill. Wonder, after reading the comments on this site, whether this med has caused or worsened my weight gain, concentration/short term memmory problems, depression/anxiety. I never made the conection. Also wonder whether I can ever get off of it since it may actually be causing worsening hives/itching symptoms when I miss a dose. I am also | F | 45 | 10 years | 1/23/2006 |