CELEXA Reviews (CITALOPRAM HYDROBROMIDE)Average Rating: 3.2 (1099 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CELEXA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CELEXA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | OCD, depression. | irritability, muscle pain, little akahisia. | the first two days it seems a godsend. then u recognize that it is a devil drug. anxiety became stronger than before. | M | 24 | 4 weeks 20 mg 1X day | 8/12/2010 | 4 | Depression | F | 43 | 1 months 30mg 1X day | 8/6/2010 | 2 | Dep. Anx. to get off Zoloft | The sexual side effects are not nearly as bad as Zoloft, which was the initial reason for switching to it. I have had some libido come back, but also horrible anxiety, suicidal/homicidal ideation, strange crazed rampages always late at night. Used to take Xanax just a couple times a week at bedtime to help sleep. Now I need it every day and can't leave the house without it. I eat non stop. If I am not completely full to the point of uncomfortable I start to get panicky and binge again (No purging). I also sleep all the time. 10 hrs. at night, then a 3 hour nap at least during the day. It's ridiculous, but I get so tired that I just can't stay awake. | I am afraid I might get in trouble because going out in public makes me completely crazy, irritable and angry. It makes me want to hurt people. I'm not normally like this. Guess it's on to the next one. Hope my doctor will finally give up on SSRI's. | F | 24 | 2 months 40mg 1X day | 8/3/2010 | 4 | anxiety/depression | Makes me hyper like wanting to runn a mile but makes me yawn all day and loss of interest in sex and weird dreams! | so far so good | F | 32 | 1 months 20mg 1X day | 7/29/2010 | 4 | depression/anxiety | Teeth clenching, sleepiness, lower sex drive | I am combining the use of this drug with therapy. Initially it made me tired but that has tapered off. Absolutely no feelings of depression and no panic attacks. It has given me a positive attitude to work on my issues with my therapist. No weight gain, which is great. The teeth clenching was extremely annoying and it took months for it to go away. Overall I feel much better than I did 6 months ago. | F | 46 | 6 months 10 mg 1X day | 7/21/2010 | 1 | anxiety and depression | SEVERE chest pain beginning on day 3, and worsening each day. Went to the ER on day 6 and was diagnosed with chest wall inflammation after an x-ray and exam. Had to stop taking it. | Symptoms improved soon after stopping the Celexa. My doctor had not heard of Celexa causing this type of a reaction, but it definitely seemed to be related. | F | 33 | 6 days 10 1X day | 7/11/2010 | 4 | Depression | Total loss of libido. | I started on this medication a year ago for depression and it worked well. It took a few weeks for me to feel the depression lifting, but once it did then it was gone for good! I didn't rate this medication a "5" because the loss of libido seriously interferes in my life. But for it to conquer my depression, which was bad, it gets a high rating anyway. | M | 40 | 1 years 60 MG 1X day | 7/6/2010 | 5 | Panic Disorder | Weight gain, loss of libido, minor headaches. | In my opinion the help this medication provided clearly outweighed any of the side effects I experienced. I am down to 1-2 panic attacks per week. | F | 38 | 2 years 10 MG 1X day | 6/30/2010 | 5 | OCD, anxiety, MDD. | mild drowsiness. | it's just amazing. a life-changing drug. the only one that has deleted my "chest anxiety" and worries. OCD is really really better, my life is a new one. thanks Celexa. | M | 24 | 2 weeks 60 mg. 2X day | 6/29/2010 | 4 | depression/anxiety | The only side effect I've had since taking this med is sweating. | Stopping the medication is unpleasant | F | 27 | 4 years 40mg 1X day | 6/19/2010 | 1 | Anxiety/Depression | 1 day was enough! Burning head and almost a Seizure!! I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS IF YOU'RE EPILEPTIC! | need I say more! | M | 30 | 1 days 20mg 1X day | 6/12/2010 | 4 | Severe anxiety, bad insomnia | Manic mornings after taking pill that settled down by noon. Weird electrical "zaps" in my head, light-headed feeling, gained 10-15lbs no matter how little I ate, feeling of invincibility. | My anxiety started gradually but eventually I got to the point where I couldn't handle work or social functions with more than a couple people. I had been on Zoloft 10 years before for depression but this wasn't depression so it took me a while to realize what was happening. I also had been suffering with insomnia for almost 4 years sleeping barely four hours a night. I was a wreck. My doctor prescribed Celexa/Citalopram and almost immediately my insomnia ended and so did my anxiety. I was a new person and everyone around me noticed. This drug saved me. But it also caused annoying weight gain that I could not control and certainly I couldn't drink alcohol like I used to. You simply cannot drink booze in any quantity without getting really messed up. I cut back but wouldn't quit entirely. Besides euphoric, manic mornings after taking the pill, I began to feel invincible and nearly screwed up my entire life. I was reckless to the point of endangerment and I nearly ended a very good relationship. Sexual function actually increased which encouraged the desire to stray. I ended up having to quit because even though I was right, I should have demurred to nasty upper management who didn't like my new attitude. I ended up weening myself off of it and had serious depression the following week but felt "normal" again after that. Now, 8 months later, I'm depressed as hell how my life has changed and need to figure out how to stop my suicidal thoughts. I'm sick | M | 45 | 2.5 years 20mg 1X day | 6/5/2010 | 1 | Anxiety? Social Anxiety | TERRIBLE REACTION... Day 1- woke up 2am soaked with sweat, thought it was a normal side effect. Day 2- Went to do my normal run, very stiff had to stop. Day 3- Muscles buldging out of the back of my thighs, limping, felt like fire going thru my veins. Felt like I was in a microwave heating from the inside out. Went off of it and slowly my muscles relaxed, not able to run anymore though my body feels like it has aged 20 years. Dr. didn't believe it could cause this and told me to re try in a week, Took only 2.5 mgs this time, instant fire in my legs.... I believe that it caused Peripheral Neuropathy.... | Start out very slow, see how your body reacts. I was not able to even metabolize 5mg's of this med. Thank god I knew enough not to start at 20mgs. | F | 38 | 3 days 5mg 1X day | 6/5/2010 | 1 | anxiety | just started celexa 20mg by only taking half (10mg. this is my second day and im am absolutly disconnected from everything around me. i feel like nothing,and am hot and foggy. i dont think this medication is right for me. i only suffer from general anxiety. beer does better for me than this crap. wow what a long strange trip its been. | see for yourself. i dont know | M | 29 | 2 days 20mg 1X day | 6/5/2010 | 1 | depression | Euphoria. Lack of concern about consequences of actions. A feeling that nothing that could happen would make me feel bad or sad. Friendliness. | I went off Celexa because I realized (cognitively) that the euphoria I was feeling & acting on was not good for me, that my behavior had become a problem. I did not consult a psychiatrist or even a full-fledged medical doctor, I was going to the Indigent Clinic & out of work. I dropped the drug totally, cold-turkey. Then I started feeling spacey, strange, I had dizziness, a feeling I couldn't describe; I passed out once & fell off a ladder. Then after about 2 weeks I went into the deepest depression I've ever been in. It lasted for over 9 months. At the deepest, I was in bed about 22 hrs of every day, I wanted nothing but to sleep my life away. I would try to watch TV & I would burst into tears. I thought about dying as a release. I finally dragged myself back to the Indigent Clinic, told the resident, he put me on an antipsychotic which made me incredibly ill, I ran a high fever & had abdominal pain. I stopped taking it. He told me never to take another anti-depressant, he said I might be bipolar. After that, I never consulted the Indigent Clinic again for anything mental, or anyone else. I do not trust anyone to prescribe anything for mental problems for me. I know of no one here I would allow to prescribe for me. I have gradually gotten better. I started reading articles about mood-boosting foods & behaviors, I changed my diet gradually, got completely off of caffeine & started eating foods with Omega-3's like | F | 54 | 3 months 1X day | 6/2/2010 | 4 | anxiety and depression | Sleepiness. More anxiety first week, then that tapered off. Some of the generics gave me nausea. | This is a really great drug if you have combined anxiety and depression because it does not make you hyper. It can make you sleepy though so I take it at night before I go to bed. This makes me much less foggy in the morning. I have been taking it for 3 years and I think I will probably take much longer because I couldn't function without it. | F | 55 | 3 years 20 mg 1X day | 5/28/2010 | 1 | Anxiety | Severe agitation, tremors, weight gain, odd electrical sensations, sexual dysfunction(I have been off this drug for two years and this has not resolved) | I would advise you to use this drug only as a last resort (like only if your suicidal). Please talk to your doctor about other forms of treatment. Psychiatric medications can have serious lasting side effects. | M | 21 | 7 months 20 1X day | 5/28/2010 | 1 | Anxiety | every single one imaginable and then some, and made my panic attacks more frequent and WAY worse. I've stopped this HORRIFIC medication about a month ago and have been living a hell on Earth. Barely able to work, headaches, SEVERE skeletal and muscle pain, horrific vivid dreams. For the whole 2 weeks of feeling decent on the medication, this withdrawal which seemingly is NEVER going to end is NOT worth it. If I could sue the makers of this drug I WOULD. I HATE this drug, and would never recommend it to anyone. | Worst medicine on the market. | F | 34 | 3 months 20 1X day | 5/23/2010 | 4 | Major depression, anxiety | First months - like a zombie. But was better than the depression. It took awhile, (i can't remember how long) but I eventually balanced out: I felt like how I should feel, like a happy, healthy human being again. Side effects that persist throughout the years: excessive sweating, clenching teeth. But these are nothing compared to my crippling depression. It is very important that people keep in mind that these drugs are not cures for depression; they just help you manage it. The real work for me that has helped equally, or even more than the drugs, is therapy. Presently, the Celexa is tapering off in its effectiveness in helping me. So, I'm augmenting with a thyroid drug. | No sexual side effects. Not a cure, I still struggle with depression and have to work really hard to be okay. Celexa has helped immeasurably, and I credit my doctor for saving my life ten years ago! I switched a few years ago from the brand name to the generic and noticed no difference. I did develop a mild allergy to ibuprofen but that could have also been just aging; further, I get menstrual migraines and cannot take a migraine medication b/c of the Celexa. So, I do tend to suffer once a month with very bad headaches - again, this is nowhere near as bad as my depression. My best lesson in treating depression: keep talking to your doctor, take your medication as prescribed, and always see a therapist. Best of luck to you all. | F | 33 | 10 years 60 mg 1X day | 5/17/2010 | 4 | slight depression, agitation | I was prescribed 20mgs. The first day of 20mgs I was completely knocked out. I couldn't move off of the couch, not sleepy just unmotivated. Like someone pulled the plug on me. I also was yawning alot and clenching my teeth. I cut the next dose down to 10mgs and it has helped tremendously! | Since I am only 100lbs I thought 20mgs may have been too much for me so I cut it down to 10mgs, since I've done that I've seen great improvement in my mood. I am much more relaxed, not overreacting to minor things. I am a mom of a 3 yr old and work full time, I was beginning to feel overwhelmed by every task. Since taking Celexa I feel motivated, focused and not as uptight as I had become. I hope it keeps working because people close to me notice I am more relaxed as well, I feel alot better on this! | F | 34 | 2 weeks 10mg 1X day | 5/8/2010 |