ALLEGRA Reviews (FEXOFENADINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.2 (857 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ALLEGRA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ALLEGRA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | I took one 180 mg tablet for minor dog allergies and felt TERRIBLE anxiety and mood swings the next few days. I always felt tightness in my chest and a racing heart. I felt like I was going crazy for 3 days, until the side effects finally wore off. Happy to say i am feeling much better 4 days after. | M | 19 | 1 days 180 1X day | 7/6/2015 | 3 | Chronic urticaria | I was taking one 180 mg pill a day for chronic urticaria but stupidly stopped when I had no hives and they came back a day and a half 10x worse and my lip started swelling which is angioedema and commonly happens with chronic urticaria and I read the main thing to do is suppress them and I read a study where people had much higher than normal doses so I took about 5 pills in one day (I'm starting a new job, I HAVE to be at work and not covered in hives, I can go to the doctor in a few days) and so my hives are under control but now I have a terrible runny nose that feels unnatural, I could tell it was from the medicine not a cold. My head feels a little funny like when your nose is stopped up but not as terrible. The sensation makes me feel a little loopy. I hope the nose thing goes away as I go back to smaller doses. | Like many commenters I've been irritable and crying but I really think it's because I'm covered in ugly burning itching hives and there's a fairly good chance they'll never figure out why and I could be like this for 20 or more years. I've never had a serious disease before and it makes me sad. | F | 28 | 180 3X day | 6/24/2015 | 5 | Seasonal Allergies | I've found that Allegra has been the most helpful Antihistamine (over others like Claritin of Benadryl) for my seasonal allergies. I take one dose every day just before bed (so that I don't have to wait for it to kick in come morning) and it doesn't keep me up while fighting my allergies that keep me up at night and bother me throughout the day. | If I take too much at a time it does keep me up and makes my heart race. Now I know not to take more than one a day, but otherwise I don't experience any terrible side effects. | M | 21 | 4 years 180 mg | 6/20/2015 | 1 | severe allergies | stopped perspiring, over heating, nervousness, leg pain, leg cramps, back pain, stomach pain, facial rash, moody. severe heart rate increase when exercising. | Stopped Allegra and placed child back on Claritin and now he is doing much better, the stomach, back and leg pain has stopped, He is now perspiring, and his moodiness has stopped. It has only been three days. Hopefully, all the other symptoms go aways as well. | M | 9 | 90 days 30mg 2X day | 6/19/2015 | 1 | Allergies | Basically the drug just didn't work for me. ...At all. It didn't touch my allergies in the slightest. It did, however, give me the world's worst case of dry mouth... | F | 30 | 3 weeks 1X day | 6/11/2015 | 1 | Tree Pollen Allergy | Horrible prolonged anxiety which turned into a general feeling of unease and a rapid heart rate. | It has been two weeks since I stopped taking it but I still feel general nervousness. I have never before taken something that has made me feel so unlike myself. It was a total relief once I put two and two together to realize why I was feeling this way. I have never before taken Allegra and I will never take it again. I would much rather be dealing with itchy eyes and a stuffed nose than this feeling of dread that I cant shake. I hope with time and lots of water my system will be completely rid of it and I will be back to feeling like myself. | F | 25 | 3 weeks 60mg 1X day | 6/8/2015 | 1 | Allergies-grass pollen | Shakiness, tremor, nervousness. HORRIBLE. | Back to Benadryl forthwith!!!!!! | 52 | 4 days 60mg/PRN 1X day | 6/8/2015 | 1 | Seasonal allergies | One day our son (16 year old) came to us and said he has been feeling very sad and almost on the verge of weeping for some time. He had been on Allegra for about 30 days. He said this feeling would not go away and he had no reason to feel sad(he is a great student, has many friends and is very social and has a pleasant personality). We took him back to his pediatrician and she stopped his Allegra immediately. It has now been two weeks since and he is fine now. We gave him some homeopathic medicines that helped immensely during this period - Nux Vom 30 (two to three times daily) and Argentum Nitricum 30 ( once daily). | M | 16 | 30 days 90 2X day | 6/6/2015 | 1 | Allergies | Horrible crap, should be pulled from the shelves. Weak legs horrible anxiety for NO reason, felt worse than the allergies made me feel, took days to recover. | Pure garbage, we should sue their asses. | M | 43 | 5 days 25mg 1X day | 6/5/2015 | 3 | allergies during spring | Rash...little red spots all over my son's body. | Stuffy nose | M | 7 | 1 days 10 | 5/25/2015 | 1 | Seasonal allergies | My son has severe allergies in the spring so he was taking Allegra as advised by his pediatrician. He became moodier and moodier - more and more irritated, depressed, anxious, and angry. It caused a lot of problems for him. | Helped with allergy symptoms but not worth the side effects - they were very scary. | M | 14 | 35 days 2X day | 5/24/2015 | 3 | seasonal allergies | HEADACHE, lack of sleep, migrane | This really works for stopping allergies, but as I continue to take it a migraine hits me every single day and it makes me feel horrible and it is so bad it effects my sleep. If you have bad allergies and want to clear them it works if you can handle the side effects. | F | 15 | 1 weeks 30 | 5/18/2015 | 1 | yes | This is a horrible medication. I have been taking Walmart brand fexofenadine for sinus issues. I worked initially to dry up my sinuses and post nasal drip. However, after about 2 weeks I started having heart palpitations, tremors, panic attacks, pain in lower back, trembling in left leg. I went to the ER twice. Was given a clean bill of health (and of course a High medical bill will be coming in the mail.). I started thinking the most horrible things were happening to me such as ALS, MS or some other devastating muscular, or cardiac degenerative disease. I started eliminating all vitamins, asthma medication except for Fexofenadine. I kept on taking that and the symptoms persist. I finally figured out what was happening to me. I immediately started pushing fluids. I am a nurse, so I knew to start drinking tons of water to get this drug out of my systems. I will never ever take this drug again. it works very well to reduce my sinusitis, however it has horrible cardiac, CNS A | F | 50 | 1 months 180 mg 1X day | 5/8/2015 | 1 | Allergies | Woke up with terrible headache. Nausea and vomiting ensued. Fatigue. | Horrible medication. Needs to be pulled off the market. Why is it category C for pregnant women? That's worrisome right there. Stay away!!! | F | 35 | 1 days 30mg | 5/6/2015 | 1 | Erectile Dysfunction,dry mouth,lack of appetite, all that's said side effects here I Experienced :'( I just wany to be back to normal | M | 21 | 2 days 120 | 4/29/2015 | 1 | allergies and sinus | Itching and difficulty sleeping nausea | Would not recommend it for use due to side affects | F | 45 | 5 days 180 | 4/19/2015 | 1 | Sinus/Allergy | Depression, itching, unable to sleep. | Horrible OTC medication. Imagine, I only took it once a day for two days! I should have listened to the doctor on call at the hospital when he told me over the telephone that I could stay taking Zyrtec instead of switching. There are more reviews against Allegra than for this damn poison. Those of us with the same side effects cannot be wrong. | F | 35 | 2 days | 4/9/2015 | 1 | Allergies | Severly depressed, Hand shakes, Blood pressure, Extreemly irritable, unclear thinking. | I really feel that depression should be required on the list of side affects on the bottle. This was not just the kind of depression like blah day, but the kind that makes you want to not talk to anyone, stay in bed, and hate to say it as it is certainly not the manly thing to say but actually feeling like you want to cry for no reason! | M | 38 | 7 days 1X day | 4/2/2015 | 1 | Indoor/outdoor allergies | Anxiety. Depression. | First of all, let me address those who are criticizing people's experiences and calling them "hypochondriacs." And let me offer a well deserved rebuttal for these critical and close-minded individuals who see it fit to parade their uninformed, unstudied opinions around. People react to medications differently, individually. This is a thread to educate, to communicate. Not to tear down. My experience on Allegra is very much like the experiences I have read on server all different websites. During the four weeks that I was on this medication, I began to experience extreme anxiety and depression for absolutely no reason. I have a fine job. All of my relationships are healthy. It occurred to me to search the web for any sort of correlation between Allegra and anxiety/depression and I found multiple webpages and threads that exposed these sort of symptoms. For those of you claiming that prior experience with depression/anxiety or hypochondria are the real culprits--this is completely untrue. I am a high energy, charismatic person and have never had any trouble with anxiety or depression. Allegra caused me to feel completely numb, unable to find any source of joy and crying due to a sense of doom and hopelessness. I didn't want anything to do with my friends. I was completely inconsolable. The side effects of this drug are very real. I've stopped taking it and after two days I'm beginning to feel like myself again. Everyone around me has noticed a difference. We need to b | F | 25 | 4 weeks 1 xD | 3/27/2015 | 1 | Sinuses, allergies. | Extreme depression, severe anxiety, total insomnia. Crazy stuff. Thought I was losing my mind. | When I put two and two together I couldn't believe an over the counter drug could do this to anyone. What I felt like it must be to have a BAD LSD Trip. Never again! | M | 55 | 1 days 180 | 3/27/2015 |