ALLEGRA D Reviews (FEXOFENADINE HYDROCHLORIDE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.9 (322 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ALLEGRA D with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ALLEGRA D | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Allergy and congestion | Bad heart Palpatations; terrible anxiety; blurred vision; eye floaters; sore back, neck, and backs of legs; insomnia where I would be up for 36 hours at a time; loss of 30 pounds in 3 months without excersize; terrible gas and change in bowel movements; severy dizziness; labored breathing where every breath feels like I only fill half my lungs than have to breath in harder to continue filling my lungs to capacity; central apnea where i would feel like I stop breathing as soon as I fall asleep; numbness in calf muscles and feet, as well as a numb dizzy feeling in the back of my brain; ears would get red and feel like they were on fire, so would my cheeks down to my neck; sharp pains from time to time in heart and chest; confusion; loss of sex drive (but not completely); blood pressure went up from a normal 113/76 to 132/85; and a bad case of hypochondria because I couldn't pinpoint where all these symptoms were coming from. Every doctor I saw (5 total) said it was NOT the Allegra-D, jus | STAY AWAY FROM IT! The two ingredients of Allegra-D are fexofenadine and Psuedoephedrine. I recently learned that the psuedoephedrine is the main ingredient used to make crystal methamphetimine (or it usually is), and I found out because a doctor thought I was a user of the drug when i took a urinanlysis for a regular physical. He told me that they found crystal meth, which shocked me because I don't even drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. To make a long story short I found the fact about the pseudoephedrine. None of the 5 doctors I saw realized this...either they are in business with the drug manufacturer, or they are just all ignorant of the fact. I just found all this information out and stopped taking the medication this past Friday. You'll never again see mee...on Allegra-D | M | 29 | 3 months | 11/12/2007 | 1 | Head cold | insomnia, nervous, headache, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dry mouth , made blood pressure high, o energy. | After taking this medicine I immediately started having side effects. I thought after I took it for a few days, maybe it would get better . The longer I took it the more symptoms I had. After taking it for 6 days...I thought I was going to die. It was horrible. I had not slept over 2 hours a night all this time. After being off it for 3 days ...I still have no energy,shortness of breath, I cant even go up just a few staires without getting out of breath ,,,and having to sit for a while to get my breath again. Worst medicine I have ever been on...and also very costly.100.00 down the drain and probably has damaged my health. I told my doctor I had trouble sleeping before she prescribed the med ...she said..Allegra d should not effect me in that way. I will never take this horrible medication again. | F | 63 | 6 days | 11/6/2007 | 1 | Stuffy nose/Allergies | Experienced extreme nervousness--jittery. Feel an extreme type of pressure in the head...like a tight helmet. Right hand fingers tremored. Raised blood pressure. Heart palpitations. Upset stomach and loss of appetite. Very odd feeling. | Definitely will discontinue Allegra-D. Cannot tolerate the side effects. | F | 50 | 27 days | 10/30/2007 | 5 | Allergies | None. All you morons who take it before to bed...of course it's going to keep you awake!! Any Decongestant on the market will have the same effect. Zyrtec-D, Claritin-D, Sudafed. The active ingredient is an ephedrine, exactly like caffeine. Don't take it before you go to bed dummies. Think before popping a pill in your mouth. | M | 38 | 8 years | 10/28/2007 | 2 | allergies | Severe anxiety, loss of appetite, depression | Allegra-D worked for my allergies completely. However, I would suffer through my allergies than deal with the severe anxiety/depression that I did because it's just not worth it. I lost 10 pounds in 3 months with virtually no explanation. I thought I was going crazy until I found this site and everything started to make sense about my anxiety. | F | 20 | 3 months | 10/27/2007 | 5 | stuffy nose / sinus | severe foggy head, suicidal thoughts, dry mouth, ringing in ears, constipation, backache, lack of appitite (lost 4 lbs). | This medicine does a great job of clearing out your sinuses!! But be very careful of the SERIOUS side effects. They don't all start at once. One symptom comes on every couple of days, so it took 14 days before I finally figured out what it was. Side effects so debilitating, by the 2nd week, I could hardly function. I would drive to work and try to find something that I could run into that would be sure to kill me, not just damage my car!! Stopped taking them, and in 2 days I am back to normal. Use with caution. | F | 40 | 14 days | 10/23/2007 | 1 | Allergies to dust, pollon, dander | Every possible terrible symptom you could imagine happened to me. I've taken it for a year or so. I have depression and it made it 10 times worse. The anxiety was absolutely terrible and I completely lost my sex drive. I haven't slept well in months and months it seems and my back and legs are ALWAYS in pain. Not to mention the insane levels of irritability. I just discovered this site and I will never take Allegra-D again. | This is the worst medication I have ever been on in my life and I have been on allergy meds for as long as I can remember. | F | 20 | 1 years | 10/10/2007 | 1 | Sinus Drainage | Awake almost all night for two nights in a row. The medicine didn't help that much with my symptoms. I still coughed a lot and had some drainage. | My doctor gave me samples but didn't tell me about side effects. If I had known, I wouldn't have taken it. I wouldn't recommend this medicine. | F | 40 | 2 days | 10/6/2007 | 4 | seasonal sinusitis/allergies | trouble sleeping, lots of energy, loss of appetite | First tried it twice a day and couldn't sleep ... but didn't want to give it up since it cleared up all sinus problems. now I take it just once in the morning and I sleep fine at night. Seems to work 24 hours even though it says 12. For those having trouble sleeping, I recommend trying just one. Worked for me! | F | 50 | 10 days | 9/29/2007 | 5 | congestion + allergies | jitters, upset stomach | I only WISH I lost my appetite taking Allegra - D as others have mentioned. I also had no problems sleeping... of course I can sleep through a freight train. My nerves were somewhat on end and I could not drink coffee otherwise I had the shakes. | F | 38 | 2 years | 9/27/2007 | 5 | Allergies | inital sleeplessness, high energy levels, loss of appetite, weight loss | Initially I had a hard time sleeping through the night. After about 5 days I had adjusted to it. One fun side effect is loss of appetite. I have lost 20 pounds. I heat normally, but have lost the feeling of wanting to snack and over eat all of the time. My allergies are almost non existant now. I can finally take a deep breath through my nose. | F | 34 | 4 months | 9/26/2007 | 2 | 24hr Allegra D. Allergies | heart palpitations, extreme anxiety and depression. | I have been experiencing heart palpitations and unbearable depression/anxiety symptoms for the last 2 weeks. Finally after talking with a counselor, who asked me about new medications I had began. I checked out the side effects of Allera D, which I began about a week before my symptoms arose, and found I have common side effects. | M | 22 | 14 days | 9/22/2007 | 3 | Head cold/congestion | Insomnia!!! Literally up all night as result of making the mistake of taking the last pill around 6 PM. | M | 4 days | 9/17/2007 | 3 | Severe Allergies | Helped my allergies to calm down but where's my sleep?! Totally have trouble sleeping :( | F | 33 | 1 days | 9/6/2007 | 3 | seasonal allergy | insomnia, jitters. Advice: take it only in the morning. | Got as a sample from my doctor. Took some in the morning: it helped. Then one day took a single pill around 8:00 PM. What a mistake! Though sinus was cleared and I was able to breath through the nose, the night was a real nightmare. I couldn't fall asleep - those damn jitters! It never happened to me before and scared the hell out of me. When I was keeping trying to fall asleep, my body went through the repeating jitters and shakes which kept myself and my wife awake all night long. Now I'm sitting in my cubicle, after total of maybe 2 hours of sleep, trying to figure out what happened. That's btw how I came accross this site. | M | 46 | 3 days | 9/4/2007 | 1 | sinusitis | My husband was on this medicine and committed suicide, was not sleeping well prior to this. Has anyone experienced this with a family member. This was totally unexpected. | F | 49 | | 8/30/2007 | 3 | allergies, congestion | Loss of appetite, jitters, drowsy, couldn't concentrate, and worse of all, I felt extremely emotional (similar to PMS symptoms) and depressed. | I took the pill at 9am and by noon, I had no appetite and was experiencing feelings of depression (both very unusual for me). I had a hard time "keeping it together" to keep myself from crying in a lunchroom full of about 15 women. I had no idea these were side effects of Allegra-D until I went home after school and found this website. The Allegra-D website does not even list most of the symptoms discussed on this site. I am discontinuing use today, as my allergies were not significantly reduced, and I developed side effects within a few hours of my very first dosage. | F | 24 | 1 days | 8/24/2007 | 5 | Allergies | Dry mouth. | I can't live without it!! So allergic, I couldn't take allergy shots. | F | 37 | 10 years | 8/23/2007 | 2 | Sinus and Chest Congestion | Increased heart rate (100bpm resting), heart palpitations, dry mouth, insomnia. | Worked great at clearing up my sinuses, but made my heart pound so hard I could look down and see my shirt moving up and down. I'm done with this stuff. | M | 20 | 3 days | 8/20/2007 | 1 | Allergies | Insomnia, mood swings, severe irritability, and erectile disfunction. Did not sleep for two days. It works great, but the side effects are horrible. Not worth it. | M | 35 | 3 days | 8/18/2007 |