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 | Loss of sense of smell & taste | Horrendous mood swings, hostile one minute, crying the next. A constant need to shovel food into my face (which is ridiculous because I can't taste anything anyway), I have gained about 10 pounds in the last two weeks, bloody noses, face feels hot and puffy, back aches, feel stiff and sore all the time. | I have completely lost my sense of taste & smell, which the doctor thinks is due to allergies, never mind that I don't have a runny, stuffy nose or itchy eyes or anything. I came to this website before I started taking Allegra so I kind of knew what I might be in for, but I wanted to try it anyway just in case it actually DID do something for me. I have issues with depression and anxiety to begin with, and this drug only magnified those problems. I'd go from yelling at someone one minute to bawling the next. I also had a lot of aches & pains that were different than the normal ones I am familiar with. I told the Dr. this stuff is horrid, now he's going to try me on Zyrtec instead, but from what I've read on here about the side effects of that, they are even worse than Allegra. My advice is if you start taking this medication and all of a sudden feel extremely depressed or angry, STOP taking it! | F | 41 | 2 weeks | 11/8/2007 | 2 | Post sinus-surgery decongestant | nausea all day for days, delayed period, zombie-like fatigue, IBS type symptoms, dizziness. | It is very expensive...why pay so much for these symptoms? I will stick with Claritin-D. I was taking one in the morning and one at night and it kicked my butt. | F | 25 | 14 days | 11/1/2007 | 3 | Allergies (hay fever) | Very similar to many others. Anxiety, restlessness, depression (moody). Insomnia (wake up after 4-5 hours sleep, cannot get back to sleep). Dry mouth, thirsty. Dry scalp and skin. Neck, back and joint pain. | Decided this year I was too old to cope with hours of sneezing. Exhausting. Take this medication on a daily basis, and will continue until the end of the allergy season, regardless of the significant side effects (which are not good). It does stop the hay fever symptoms. I do wonder though, what it is doing to my body. | M | 63 | 60 days | 10/29/2007 | 3 | stuffy sinuses, exhaustion, eczema | After 2 years, experienced extreme dry eye. However, when I stop, my eczema, stuffy sinuses, and difficulty waking come back. | Any alternatives other than claritin (didn't help allergy related-eczema) out there? | F | 29 | 2 years | 10/20/2007 | 1 | Seasonal allergies | My 2 year old was prescribed the 30 mg suspension. The side effects were extreme lethargy, listlessness, and fatigue. She also stopped eating and laid around all day. | F | 2 | 4 days | 10/7/2007 | 3 | mold, ragweed, tree pollen | Aggression. I only have it around 3 months of the year but it always changes my mood for the worse. | If you feel more angry get off this medicine | M | 38 | 2 years | 9/30/2007 | 4 | Allergies | Headache, sore throat, change in bowel movement, sleeplessness | The first two or so weeks I was on allegra I had constant headaches, a sore throat, irregular bm, and had trouble sleeping. After that, the side affects went away and I've been fine. It definately helps my allergies; without it, I'm just a sneezy-congested mess. It doesn't always last 24 hours, even though it's supposed to. On days when my allergies aren't bad, I'm fine for the 24 hours, but on days when my allergies are really bad it seems to stop working after about 12 or so hours. All in all, though, I've been pretty satisfied with it. | F | 22 | 7 months | 9/27/2007 | 3 | fall seasonal allergies | Dramatic loss of sex drive, unable to maintain erection, climax takes very long time. Anxiety, restlessness. After a month on Allegra I am grouchy and somewhat angry and dissatisfied for no reason. | My allergy symptoms are much better, but I can't live like this! I'm stopping my once per day tablet right now. | M | 42 | 30 days | 9/24/2007 | 2 | sinus congestion, post-nasal drip | abdominal cramping, nausea, lack of appetite, back pain, constipation, diarrhea | As soon as I started taking Allegra (about a month ago) I noticed I didn't have much of an appetite anymore and food just didn't sound good to me. For the last two weeks I've had nausea, abdominal pain, and bowel problems similar to IBS. I though it was just a stomach flu, but after looking at what others have said here, I'm going to go off the pills for a few days and see if that clears it up. Allegra has helped my congestion, but not done much for my post-nasal drip, and it's really not worth it to keep taking it if it's giving me all these side effects. | F | 19 | 1 months | 9/24/2007 | 1 | allergy | The dr. prescribed this for my 8 yr. old son. He was too exhausted to make it through his school day. But more severly a DRAMATIC change in personality...he turned into an aggressive angry monster...not at all my son. Stopped giving it to him. My 42 yr old very healthy husband then tried it for his allergies..caused erectile issues..and on day 2..he had PROFUSE sweating..sweat literally dripping off of his clothes..he had to wring out his shirt to finish his work day..by end of the day dehydrated. | We are throwing this prescription away!!!! | M | 8 | 5 days | 9/24/2007 | 3 | repeat sinus infections | sleepy, dizzy, dry mouth | I have been taking Allegra D for about 10 years off and on during season changes because that is when the sinus preasure is at it's worst. In March of this year I devloped Hives. I'll get a spot that itches and I scratch and then the hives appear for about 10 min then go away. Allegra does NOT help this at ALL. As a matter of fact Allegra is not helping with my other allergies anymore either. I went to the Allergy Doc and he couldn't find anything that could cause these hives but he did switch my meds to Zyrtec D...which I have been taking for a about 3 weeks and I feel like a normal person again and my hives are none exsistant. I haven't experienced any side effects so far. I wonder if I developed some sort of immunity to allegra D and if it caused my hives some how???? Anyone ever heard of anything along those lines? | F | 30 | 10 years | 9/21/2007 | 3 | seasonal allergies | change in menstrual cycle-only 10 days between periods, headaches, nausea, abdominal pain | my allergy symptoms improved greatly, but the side effects are not worth it. | F | 40 | 9 weeks | 9/21/2007 | 3 | allergies | extreme dizziness | F | 19 | 1 weeks | 9/21/2007 | 3 | (Fexodenadine 180mg) Sinus Allergys | Dry mouth, Blurry vision, hungry, heart irregular. At first couldn't sleep. Helped my sinus drip but still had itchy eyes and fluid on ears. Off Fex. for 2 weeks now. | After being at the eye doctor I found out my pressure was up. No other changes in life except Fexodenadine. Stopped meds. After stopping Fex. my ear has opened up a good bit. go back to doctor in Oct. see if pressure is down then. Anyone else have pressure raised in eyes??? | F | 39 | 3 months | 9/10/2007 | 1 | allergies/sinusitis | Took one pill about 7pm. By 1am was awakened by headache, severe nausea, aching back and could feel every heartbeat. Felt as though I wanted to "climb the walls". | All this from one dose. I will never take this or any similar medication again. | F | 49 | 1 days | 9/7/2007 | 3 | Year Round Allergies | RECCOMENDATION: CUT THE PILL IN HALF OR EVEN QUARTERS, depending on your sensitivity level. I have had allegeries since I was a teenager. I too suffered all the symptoms, dizzyness, anxiety, increased heartbeat, etc. I have found that cutting allegra 60mg in half or quarters works best for me. Side effects are minimized and it still gets the job done. Hope this helps you guys. | M | 28 | 5 years | 9/3/2007 | 3 | ragweed allergies | headache, dizziness, dry mouth and throat, back pain, anxiety, feeling "spacey" | I used to take Allegra all the time during allergy season without any major side effects, but for some reason this year it makes me feel worse than the awful allergy symptoms I take it for! There really seems to be no allergy meds out there that don't cause annoying or severe side effects- it's really too bad b/c allergies ruin my life for about 3 months every year! | F | 29 | | 9/2/2007 | 4 | allergies | i am an hiv patient and suffer depression, and illness just makes me more anxious and more depressed. turns out i'm just having allergy problems. allegra caused an upturn in my anger, i become irritable easier. i get dizzy a little bit though that could be sinus pressure as much as allegra. eyes are still a little itchy and kind of dry. i use eye drops for that | it was odd that today it dawned on me that i was so angry at nothing, and the only thing that had changed was allegra use. i have used it in the past without noticing any side effects but back then i was always in a rage. evidently the only physical thing wrong with me is allergies and sinus draingage. maybe allegra causes some additional anger and depression. as a chronic depressive, i can deal with it, it's worth not having the allergies that always lead to painful, ugly sinus infections. | M | 40 | 4 days | 8/30/2007 | 1 | Seasonal Allergies | Heart Palpitations, anxiety, jittery. | I have had heart palpitations(from smoking and coffee which I have since quit) before and had a heart work up and it was found I was in good health. I had also taken Allegra for the last few years and had no problems. On August 13 I started taking Allegra as I do every year everything was fine. I started have these palpitations after a couple days and didn't put 2 and 2 together until yesterday and realized the only thing I changed in my life was taking Allegra, I stopped yesterday and I already feel better. | M | 35 | 10 days | 8/24/2007 | 1 | Allergies | Ridiculous anxiety--I was jitty, depressed, dry-mouthed, developed sores on my tongue, sleepless--in sum, miserable. | one pill when allergy symptoms arose | F | 26 | 1 weeks | 8/20/2007 |