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 |
| 3 | anxiety | TIRED, FATIGUE, WEIRD FEELINGS IN BODY, DISSINESS, SWEAT, MORE ANXIETY, FOGGY FEELING IN HEAD, LIGHTHEADEDNESS, WEIRD VISION. | I was given 10mg but only take half the pill as I think that's enough for me, I feel calm... but different times of the day get sudden rushes of anxiety... I want to feel calm all day...I was told I have to stick to it for more weeks for it to work... I sometimes feel so horrible and I have to be at work like this. | M | 34 | 10 days 10mg 1X day | 3/31/2016 | 3 | Sickness.fatigue. pins and needles and worsening depression. | Not sure whether to continue with this drug.my doctor has told me to stick with it, things will get better | M | 64 | 6 days 25MG | 3/24/2016 | 4 | Anxiety | 1st 3 weeks: laziness, dizziness, no ambition, fuzzy heavy feeling in head, yawning, tired, no sex drive, dry mouth, no appetite, weight loss, First 1-2 months: no sex drive, dry mouth, foot tapping, teeth clenching | Anxiety is gone, I am more confident and now enjoy running into people I know instead of avoiding them, public speaking is exciting instead of dreadful. I am more comfortable in my own skin and don't feel the need to drink alcohol in social settings. I am now trying to lower my dosage to 10 to see if some of the lingering side affects dissipate. Fuzzy feeling and laziness is back on day 2. | F | 33 | 2 months 20 | 3/17/2016 | 5 | Anxiety and Depression | None | This drug has saved me for the first time with my anxiety after so many years. | F | 45 | 5 months 30mg 1X day | 3/7/2016 | 4 | Depression anxiety | F | 54 | 6 years 40 | 2/7/2016 | 1 | Depression during pregnacy | psychosis, suicidal, doing things and then not remembering doing them, weight gain? | This is on behalf of my friend. She is pregnant and her depression got worse and she was prescribed Celexa. She's been having horrifying side effects. Apparently she sees things and then doesn't remember, has tried to hang herself then doesn't remember, says weird things and doesn't remember... everyone tells her she's done this stuff but she swears she can't remember. She's also put on a decent amount of weight, more than pregnancy weight. Not just her stomach and hips (typical pregnancy weight) but everywhere... and I'm thinking Celexa might be the culprit since it can cause weight gain. She's naturally very tiny so this is a bit odd. She's been very self conscious because of this weight gain. I'm not sure why her doctor put her on this medication but he/she is an idiot. | F | 21 | 1 months 1X day | 12/29/2015 | 1 | Depression | Hair line gone back, hair fell out in bunchs, sweaty, slow, manic, weight, anger, paranoia, psychotic, vision issues, sick feeling, low motivations, immume system shock, lazy, delusions way to many | This rubbish is what made me lose my mind I ended up walking out on a job cause this stuff made me so crazy Dont go near SSRIs rubbish stuff made my scalp sore to total crap led to mw using crap rogaine hair foam utter trash avoid this damages organs I over dosed sometimes also never take it lightly please | M | 25 | 3 months 40MG | 12/22/2015 | 1 | anxiety | Hair loss, vison haze, heart palps, lazy | This was the start of my downfall i lost all my hair from it and lost my life slowly avoid this crap as its led me down a path of destruction | M | 24 | 3 months 40 | 10/2/2015 | 5 | Anxiety and depression | Weight gain, hair loss and breakage, total fatigue , short temper, antisocial and reclusive. | Despite all the side effects of these pills- this drug does its job! I put my behavioural side effects down to my actual illness. As I reduced my dose - the hair started growing. I was able to do thing again and life just got better - I was keen to get off my pills ASAP ... I had to learn to just take the time to get better and enjoy my time out of the rat race!.. Life can be too fast for too long. | F | 39 | 3 years 40mg | 8/24/2015 | 4 | depression | Retching dizziness hot sweats loss of appetite. No energy little motivation and isolating | Some improvements but not there yet | F | 54 | 3 months 20mg | 8/22/2015 | 3 | depression | not sure | This was really helpful at first but after several years I don't think it does anything anymore. I've briefly switched off it and tried other antidepressants but they all had unpleasant side effects. Celexa doesn't really have any side effects but seems pretty useless to me now, I would like to try something else again | F | 26 | 7 years 30mg 1X day | 8/15/2015 | 1 | Depression and anxiety | I had one endless panic attack. I could not sleep. No amount of klonopin could put a dent in it. | It was the worst thing I have ever taken. | M | 31 | 1 months 20mg 1X day | 8/15/2015 | 2 | Depression/anxiety | Anger, weight gain, completely detached, no drive, lost all interest in things I used to love. Lost friends due to some of the behaviors, so unlike myself. | F | 30 | 4 months 10 mg | 8/6/2015 | 5 | Major Depression | I found that stopping Celexa was worse than starting. Some of this might have been because I was so depressed and that the side effects were tolerable in the beginning. However, when I stopped taking Celexa I felt really nauseous for over a month straight and have been having weird electric shock sensations. I think my body must be more sensitive because I had taken over three months to wean off under the supervision of my doctor and still had some bad side effects when stopping. Despite this, I would defiantly consider taking Celexa again if I need to. | I was in the depths of major depression and wanted to kill myself. I have never been so sad and did not see any hope. After talking with my doctor she recommended Celexa. I was hesatant to start taking an antidepressant because I thought it would be a life long thing but she told me that I could take the medication for the short term like 6 to 8 months to see if it would help. It did take some time to kick in but after about two months I was back to my old self and smiling. For me Celexa was a great tool that, along with counseling and lifestyle changes, helped me to live again. I am so glad I got help and did not give up. | F | 31 | 8 months 20 MG 1X day | 7/16/2015 | 5 | anxiety | tired at first and very chilled | I am taking citalopram (generic) I used to be very anxious and had a hard time waiting in lines at the store, driving in traffic, impatience with people, etc. That has improved greatly and I am now pretty patient and have the VERY relaxed feeling most of the day but little motivation. I'm pretty much just in the 'whatever'... mood most of the day. ha. It did make my period late, as I have read about others also. Don't be scared to take this med. It is pretty good stuff and the relaxed feeling from it is nice. | F | 48 | 2 weeks 20 mg 1X day | 6/30/2015 | 5 | Depression | None | Celexa has been very helpful treating my depression. However if I miss a dose or a few doses I will cry uncontrollably about anything and everything. Very small things can set off a crying jag. Otherwise I've been very satisfied with the results of this medication. My dr did switch me to Viibryd because at one point I felt the celexa wasn't working and that pushed me over the edge. I went back onto the celexa after a week and have been on it since. | F | 26 | 4 years 40 mg | 5/21/2015 | 1 | anxiety depression | Severe nausea and vomiting and dizzyness room spining feeling when wakeing up couldnt eat food without feeling sick heartrate rapid and irregular felt very drugged almost high like more depressed almost visited the er | Was prescribed along with bloodwork at doc took only 3 days felt weird and drugged expierenced alot of side effects gunna try something else | M | 23 | 3 days 20mg | 5/21/2015 | 1 | depression | Uncontrollable anger, rage, suicide thoughts | My symptoms of depression intensified after starting Celexa. I have never before experienced such horrible thoughts and been as angry as I was on this medicine. It also took me into a deeper depression when I tried to stop taking it. | F | 33 | 10 days 40mg | 5/16/2015 | 3 | Depression | I ate more than I usually did and gain some weight. Also, the first few weeks, i started taking naps because i got drowsy. | I took for it for 3 months and i saw some change. I felt slightly less negative about life but I was still having days were i was too depressed to get out of bed. I was told I would have to wait a month for the effects to happen but 3 months passed and nothing happened. When I first started taking it, i accidentally took more than i was supposed too and had a bad urge to self harm and felt like i was floating | F | 3 months 10 mg 1X day | 5/15/2015 | 3 | Bipolar | Extreme sleepiness, Lethargy, Sluggishness | I have bipolar, manic only type but my docs all insist I take an anti-depressant too, they say it will help with anxiety and help tame my manic episodes. Ah,ha,ha...no. For bipolar mania it's about as ineffective as a placebo, it may help for depression but I wouldn't know because I don't have depression. It didn't ease my anxiety at all. What it did do was make me sleep non-stop. I would literally sleep for 19 hours, up for 5, back to sleep for 6 hours, up for 3, then back to bed that night for 17 hours. When I was awake I was so tired and sluggish all I could think about was I can't wait to go back to sleep. I would sleep right thru my alarm, started paying my bills late and missing my appointments because I could not wake up. My last doc put me back on it for IBS but I made him lower my dose to only 20mg which is tolerable. It works very well for irritable bowels and constipation but I had to stop taking it because my new ADHD med if taken with Celexa can cause my heart to stop or explode. So now my Adhd is under control but going to the bathroom is painful again. | F | 29 | 2 months 100mg 3X day | 5/6/2015 |