CELEXA Reviews (CITALOPRAM HYDROBROMIDE)Average Rating: 3.2 (1105 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CELEXA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CELEXA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | anxiety/panic attacks | in the beginning the side effects weren't pleasant. after about 6 weeks i felt great! | i was started on 20 MG (early january) and about a week and a half ago i was upped to 40 MG and i couldn't feel any better. it has helped me out so much! been extra sleepy after getting upped. but i can deal with it vs. anxiety and panic attacks. | F | 19 | 5 months 40 MG 1X day | 6/2/2011 | 4 | anxiety | It helped a lot with the anxiety, but I noticed that my short term memory is badly affected by this drug. | it's a lot cheaper than Lexapro | F | 53 | 8 months 40mg 1X day | 5/21/2011 | 4 | major depressive disorder | First couple of weeks I was still depressed but it got better with help from therapy. | It has personally helped me. I started taking it in mid. Feb of 2010 and by June I was much better. I am still better, though now i have to be check since I started to hallucinate and my depression is coming back. | F | 18 | 1 years 40 MG 1X day | 4/30/2011 | 3 | social anxiety, generalized anxiety | increased anxiety and inner restlessness | I've only been on it for 3 days but I don't think I can keep taking it for a few more weeks waiting for it to 'kick in'. I went to a restaurant on Day 3 and I felt so much inner agitation and anxiety and I felt like I could climb the walls and I wanted to run out of the restaurant and go home, the only reason I didn't was because someone else was with me and they didn't want to leave. SSRI's don't agree with me, they make me more anxious and tense physically than when I'm not on them. I was on Lexapro before and I also had a lot more anxiety and tension the whole time I was taking it - for 4 years. The constant tension and anxiety didn't go away until I weaned off of the Lexapro. | F | 27 | 3 days 10 mg 1X day | 4/28/2011 | 4 | Depression, Anxiety, Maybe BPD | Sluggishness, vivid nightmares beyond anything I have ever dreamt before, early morning insomnia, i'd wake up at 4 every morning, maybe weight gain? | I'm still taking Celexa, and will continue for a year ish but so far it is good. I'm extremely sluggish and always want to sleep but when I'm on the pill ive had times I felt better than ever. I have intense dreams but that's no big deal, the earl waking is annoying but its not too bad. It will go away i assume. The few days I forgot to take one or i had to cut one in half before my refill i noticed a huge difference though, i got frustrated so easily and got so bad and felt so worthless again. I feel like i am so dependent on them and i dont want to come off them...ill be fine one day though. I'd rate it a 5 but i've only been on them a bit. Pretty good. Definitely take them before bed though you get exhausted. | F | 18 | 2 months 20 MG 1X day | 4/22/2011 | 5 | depression | The initial week I'd wake up at night just totally wired and uncomfortable, grinding teeth and tossing and turning. It felt pretty terrible but I stuck it out. Side effects went away fast but these past few weeks I'm starting to notice I have no sex drive and early-waking insomnia again. | Within a week of starting this drug my boyfriend said I was definitely becoming more cheerful. It's nice to have someone else monitoring my behavior because I usually have troubles recognizing when I'm declining/improving... I might have gone off it and I'm glad I got the first weeks over. Now if I forget to take them for 2 days or so MAN you can tell. It's a good drug for me, when I was on Prozac I felt so "leveled out" that I had no highs and lows but with Celexa I feel like myself... good sense of humor, happy, interested, still capable of experiencing frustration but I can work through it. Unfortunately now I'm having early waking insomnia and I haven't wanted to get it on in weeks. Crud. :/ Hoping those two things are related to something else but I suspect the drug... | F | 23 | 5 months 10 MG 1X day | 4/19/2011 | 2 | Anxiety | Sweat, weight gain, lethargy | I took this for anxiety. I would wake up in sweat..not soaked in it, but enough to be uncomfortable. I would sweat doing simple things like sweeping. In only 6 weeks, I gained weight. I read the reviews on here & told myself I would control my eating habits, which I did. I didn't change what I ate...in fact, I exercised more often and still gained weight. No matter what I ate, I could not lose the weight. It helps with anxiety, but at a cost. I'm going down to 10mg per day to see if that helps. If not, back to Prozac I go. | M | 21 | 6 weeks 20 1X day | 4/15/2011 | 1 | Depression | Celexa has made me very sleepy, I yawn a lot now. Also I find it hard to concentrate on school work. Easily distracted, grades are slipping bad. I laugh way more now, its like im high all the time. I laugh at almost everthing now. Especialy when Im around pretty girls, I will laugh way more. I dont know why. "NEVER TAKE CELEXA" It sucks, my grades are shot to hell now i cant frikking concentrate any more. F- this drug. | Dont take Celexa, ever. | M | 19 | 4 weeks 1X day | 4/12/2011 | 4 | Anxiety/Panic attacks | For the first week side effects included a delusional hell inspired by apathy and not wanting to do ANYthing. I missed like a week of school because of this. The hellish week kind of echoed it's side effects for like 3-5 weeks on n off, but eventually they pretty much disappeared. At this point side effects are probably some short term memory loss but it's hard to tell if that's the citalopram (Celexa) or the alprazolam (Xanax). And decreased libido is definitely true, but for me that's kind of positive, it helps me last longer and I still experience great pleasure. It's not like I'm incapable of orgasm or anything. | Well I guess doctors kinda know what they're talking about when they say that SSRI's are the best modern way to treat anxiety. I also take Xanax or rather Alprazolam and it still feels necessary for me to take, but it was not really having a good enough effect for me when I was only taking it. After over a month on Citalopram(Celexa) I finally felt like I actually did get some relief from anxiety not just a quick fix in which I would soon return to panic. All of you with anxiety know that this condition is not clean cut and predictable but let's just say Celexa has really helped a lot, and has made Xanax more effective. I'm not doing the best right now but that also has to do with life circumstances etc. and I think I might need to up my dose to 20 mg. That seems like it might be the perfect dose for me, and I'm hoping to wean off Xanax because of the devastating stuff I've heard about withdrawals... scares me a lot. But yeah Celexa very helpful for me. And I would like to mention this, most people who go to the doctor and take the medication their doctor prescribes usually end up getting better and will never have any reason to go online and talk about it, I just so happened to be a parranoid anxious freak before I took this stuff So I looked closely at every review I could find before taking it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's important to realize this inevitable truth... Reactions are not consistent in anyway with people, it saves some people's lives, makes some p | M | 24 | 4 months 10 MG 1X day | 3/30/2011 | 2 | Stress relatex anxiety | Almost immediate reduction of libido. At 20mg not so bad, at 40mg I didn't even remember that I liked sex. Lack of sleep at first but just needed to adjust when meds were taken. Getting off of Celexa was the hardest part, extreme fatigue and dizziness. | Overall I could feel and experienced what celexa was designed to do. I was mellow to the point that I did not care. Nothing seemed worth the effort to get worked up about. Even things that I should have cared about just were not that important. I was sort of just 'there', not for better or worse, just taking up my space on this earth. I was numb yet nice, caring and understanding but never truly felt a euphoric happiness that you would expect taking antidepressants. These were the reasons I stopped taking the medication. I missed the passion of life, love and anger; I missed myself. | M | 31 | 5 months 40 1X day | 3/25/2011 | 3 | bipolar and severe depression | yawning-cant sleep well and trouble remembering lol not funny but am somewhat giddy and laughing now-mind says lets go but body says no???? weird feeling and dreaming more now | I am researching and so far I feel better for the most part. I was perscribed lithium also but do not feel comfertable taking that at this time ugh!!! my head is a wee bit foggy and my appatite has increased.Im a very fit 200 pounds and very active person normaly so not to worried about that now. still very early but for me so far so good.going back in morning to see about getting lamictal instead of lithium?? HAD TO DO SOMETHING AND SO GLAD I SEEKED HELP!! THANK YOU GOD AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU!I am just starting my journey and special thanks to KAYLA/she has been so helpful and special thanks to my aunt and uncle for letting me stay with them till I get this sorted out. this and many other web sites have been of great help in learning about my desease and treatment options | M | 38 | 4 days 20 1X day | 3/20/2011 | 2 | Depression/anxiety maybe BPD | Lack of self-respect regarding to what i ate (am usually health conscious, that went out the window), slight increase in comfort level in social situations, brain dead-ish (never could find the words or how to react to ppl), sex drive dwindled | Very weak affects in comparison to my paxil experience..more gradual but definitly noticed slight improvement in anxiety levels. Just was not the drug for me - i could see my behavior becoming destructive again. | F | 21 | 1 months 20 1X day | 3/15/2011 | 3 | Depression | Dizzy, tired, sleeping all the time, weight gain. Felt like a slug. Added 5 mcg's of Cytomel which defeats the tiredness. Good combo. | After trying 25 antidepressants, my doctor put me on 5 mcg's of Cytomel with the Celexa, and later Paxil CR (both sedating and good for anxiety). After 15 years of depression, it went away in one day with Cytomel. It was like someone turned on the life switch. My thyroid tests were and are still normal.'I don't think big pharma has depression quite figured out yet. Try Cytomel!!! Read the testimonials on here, they are the same as mine. Start low and go slow (5 mcg's - 10 mcg's). No more than 10 mcg's per day.'You will feel like a dead plant come back to life! No generics! | M | 40 | 6 months 20 1X day | 3/6/2011 | 5 | Extreme Anxiety And Depression | First two days had very mild and manageable nausea & diarrhea along with very slight headaches. The least amount of fogginess as I titrated doses from 20mg to 40mg to 60mg. Inability to orgasm. | I finally caved in after 15 years of anxiety that has been getting progressively worse. My doc isn't keen on benzos and convinced me to give Celexa a try. I felt much better on day 5. After one week I went to 40mg. Day 8 was a day of a higher plateau of feeling better. Day 15 I went to 60mg and by day 17 I was feeling a few notches better than before! I went yesterday for a visit to the doc and mentioned the sexual side effects and he wants me to try 60mg of Cymbalta for a few weeks instead (which I am not so sure, I am liking the Celexa!) The somnolence and mild emotional blunting is a very acceptable trade off vs. having been consumed with the anxiety. | M | 40 | 21 days 60 1X day | 3/2/2011 | 4 | Anxiety | Dopy brain effect never went away. I sucked at playing board games. Could not concentrate. Also another side effect that never went away was low tolerance to heat. I would get sweaty on not so hot days if i was trying to be active. Did not experience this with Paxil. Trying Prozac now. | Celexa worked. My anxiety was kept at bay. But, two side effects just would not go away. That has caused me to try another medication. | M | 39 | 9 months 20 1X day | 2/24/2011 | 1 | panic attacks and axiety | I took half every night and I still felt sleepy during work hours with headaches when I could go to bed, teeth grinding all the time and painful, tired I could hardly do anything. | F | 31 | 22 days 20MG 1X day | 2/24/2011 | 4 | anxiety | Just like the previous post, I was tired, yawned alot and felt out of it. After a couple of weeks, I still get a bit tired, but I feel much more 'even'. A double edged side effect for me is sometimes I ejaculate and sometimes I do not when having sex. All I can say is I can go a lot longer and this is good that I can more than satisfy my wife. | Give the drug some time to get in your system. For me and others, the side effects lessened after a few weeks. | M | 53 | 45 days 20 mg 1X day | 2/17/2011 | 2 | Depression, Anxiety | Initial euphoria followed by extreme fatigue, dizziness, nausea, jaw tightening, dry mouth. If you want a drug that makes you feel like a patient in a psych ward, this one's for you! | Celexa made me a little tired and dizzy on the first day but my mood was genuinely better. I felt like I could smile for no reason at all (I have a sarcastic personality, so this was weird for me, but obviously no room for complaints). Then day two came along and I was so tired I could barely move. I spent the entire day in bed, feeling too weak to move. I had thoughts of suicide but couldn't have carried out a suicide plan if I wanted to, so instead I just pictured myself logrolling off the edge of a cliff. Not realistic if you have other responsibilities than tripping off celexa. | F | 29 | 2 days 20mg 1X day | 2/16/2011 | 4 | depression | slightly decreased libido. | I maxed out the dosage after 4 years and it stopped working. Had to switch antidepressants. | F | 26 | 4 years 60 1X day | 2/15/2011 | 1 | Neuropathy | Anxiousness, constant jerking and shaking. Unable to think properly or concentrate. Made me feel simply horrible. | It is one of the worse drugs I have ever taken. | F | 38 | 5 days 40mg 1X day | 2/9/2011 |