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 |
| 1 | Anxiety | Increased Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression, thoughts of suicide, dilated pupils, blurred vision, dizziness, Nausea, lack of concentration, drowsiness, insomnia | I hate this medication. I only took 3 pills and after the first pill my entire mental outlook changed... for the worse. I've never had severe suicidal thought before but after the first dose I woke up in the middle of the night and had hallucinations of someone telling me to kill myself. I had to take an ativan to get back to sleep b/c I was so upset. The next morning, I felt like crap: My pupils were dilated so much I couldn't see straight and the nausea was so bad I almost had to call in to work. Finally, I started to feel normal again and then it was time to take the next pill! I felt awful- like I was on ecstacy but without any of the good feelings, just the cracked out, dirty drug feeling. I desided the symptoms of my anxiety were better than the side affects of this medication. Even if I did ride it out, whose to say I would even feel any better, and if I ever wanted to stop , I'd have withdrawl symptoms... no thank you. I'll just stick to the ativan- it may be addictive | F | 23 | 3 days | 12/22/2005 | 5 | OCD,GAD,IBS,BED | very unusual dreams | Amazing, OCD so much less severe, amazing | F | 20 | 2 weeks | 12/17/2005 | 1 | postpartum depression | Panic attack (felt like a heart attack), severe dry mouth, severe dizziness, nausea and shaking. | I was a new mom going through the blues, and was put on celexa.7 days after taking, I just woke up one morning very dizzy and then everything happened so fast-could not walk and I thought I was dying of a heart attack.I called an ambulance and thought that would be the last time I would see my baby.Celexa is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.All of that and they just call it side effects!!??Be careful. | F | 24 | 7 days | 12/16/2005 | 5 | Depression/Anxiety | Took a while to work.. maybe 2 months. Lack of sex drive is the only side effect I have noticed. | F | 25 | 2 years | 12/10/2005 | 3 | | 12/7/2005 | 3 | social anxiety | Only side effect is fatigue. Maybe a little anger, less tolerant of people. | Helps with depression well. I'll give it more time for the social anxiety. It may be starting to kick in a little more. I get nervous in meetings for no reason and feel like I'm going to run out of the room or pass out (and that's without contributing in these meetings!). I haven't been calm yet in our large staff meetings (30 people roundtable); no problem in groups of 5 to 8. btw- 20mg | M | 36 | 5 weeks | 12/6/2005 | 1 | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Suicidal thinking, homicidal thinking, tremors, vision problems, and prolonged withdrawal culminating in Hypothyroidism | One of the worst drugs out there. Equally bad as Paxil in my opinion. Highly addictive and nearly impossible to quit. | F | 19 | 5 years | 12/6/2005 | 1 | Depression | Awful dreams every night, and lots of sweating. | After two weeks of taking this medicine, I could not take the dreams I was having on a nightly basis - usually about animals like snakes and other horrible creatures. I was switched over to Wellbutrin and have been happy ever since. | F | 27 | 2 weeks | 11/27/2005 | 5 | binge eating and ocd | loss of appetite; severe insomnia; some night sweats | Prior to starting CELEXA I had a binge eating problem that seemed to be growing increasingly worse. I've been very healthy and thin my entire life so the whole binge eating problem was surprising and seemed to come out of no where. I knew I needed help and was put on Celexa. It's completely curbed any desire to binge eat and has actually supressed my appetite completely. I'm curious to see how long it lasts... | F | 29 | 3 weeks | 11/22/2005 | 2 | Depression | After just 4 days of Celexa (20 mg/day) I noticed my sexual response chnaging. At first I was only able to achieve orgasm by extremely vigorous masturbation - everything else was just too tame. My actual orgasms took as long as 15+ minutes and only if I was careful to maintain mental concentration on the pleasure I was feeling, otherwise the orgasm would stop within seconds and I'd have to start over. Not only was I stroking fast and furiously, my heart was pounding away at racing at 150-170 beats per minute. (I have low blood pressure, and am fit, so am able to sustain this.) When it finally arrived, my orgams were very intense. I was OK with this, but after a week, I was unable to achieve orgasm period. I was trying for up to 2 hours several times a day. All of this was in vain. My groin became extremely uncomfortable (feels like my prostate is going to explode.) The worst case of 'blue balls' ever! This is having a devastating effect on my well-being. I telephoned my doctor | The Rx fact sheet that was stuffed into the box said that "sexual problems" were a side effect. Nothing further. The FDA web site says that this affects only 6% of men - but I learned that the 6% is phony because that was during the drug trials and the doctors were not allowed to solicit information from their patients. In other studies, it seem 70+% of men have this problem with Celexa. This information should be made more readily available to men! | M | 54 | 10 days | 11/17/2005 | 1 | Depression | Extreme Anxiety. Panic attacks | Had been taking Prozac for 6 years. Worked fine for a long time and then started to lose its effectiveness. Switched to Celexa. Caused me MAJOR anxiety. Took me 3 months and a lot of Prozac to get back on track. | M | 45 | 3 days | 11/14/2005 | 4 | Depression | None. | I think Celexa was a wonderful drug that helped me take "the edge off" of stressful issues and events in my life. It helped me to deal with them better and keep my emotions and feelings more stable. I would not call it a cureall but it did definately improve my quality of life. | F | 31 | 5 years | 11/11/2005 | 1 | ocd | Got wound up beyond belief. OCD not any better. Also got more tense | M | 47 | 4 days | 11/1/2005 | 2 | PTSD/DEPRESSION MARINE VIETNAM VET | ALWAYS SLEEPY: PUT ME IN A TRANCE AT TIMES..I SPENT MORE TIME THINKING ABOUT VIETNAM WHEN I WASN'T TRYING TO SLEEP... FELT LIKE I WAS FLOATING AROUND..LOSS APPITITE.. | I TOOK THIS DRUG FOR A FEW DAYS THEN STOPPED... | M | 59 | 3 days | 10/31/2005 | 4 | Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) | Trembling, Teeth-Grinding, Vertigo, Dizziness, Confusion, Short-Term Memory Disturbances, Nausea, Headache, Migraine, Insomnia, Hypersomnia/Somnolence, Muscle Tension/Stiffness, Anxiety (Acute Attacks), Palpitations, Postural Hypotension, Hypertension, Anorexia (Loss of Appetite), Strange Dreams, Reduced Libido, Apathy, Difficulty Concentrating. | Despite the huge number of side effects I've experienced while taking Celexa, I feel that it is a helpful drug and it has certainly had a positive effect on my mood and overall emotional/mental state. | F | 24 | 4 months | 10/21/2005 | 3 | Depression, Anxiety, Possible PTSD | Always tired, alopecia, felt horrible every morning after taking med, sore joints and muscles, teeth are breaking down now, sexual desire was gone completely, weight gain (35pounds). | When I first started taking Celexa it took a while to work. I was also taking it with Wellbutrin and should have come off the celexa and stayed with the Wellbutrin. Within a year of taking it, my hair started coming out in patches, then I lost all the hair on my head and now have Alopecia Universalis. This happened on a small dose of 20mgs daily. My joints and muscles hurt more and more each year. I gave up on sex and just took it as normal that I should feel tired all the time and especially bad in the mornings after taking this med. I finally decided to go off Celexa and try the Wellbutrin and thank God that I did. I am no longer tired everyday, I don't feel awful in the morning anymore, I am starting to enjoy sex again, my joints and muscles don't hurt as much and miracle of miracle, my hair is starting to come back - it is very faint and has come in white but I'll take it any way I can get it. I will never, ever take Celexa again!!!!!!! | F | 42 | 4 days | 10/18/2005 | 1 | Depression, Anxiety, Psychosis NOS | Intense pressure in the top of my head. Suicidal thoughts. Very down mood. Extremely increased sex drive the month after I went off of it, this part could be useful... | I took Celexa for about 6 months and got hauled into the County Mental Hospital for calling a Policeman to complain about harassment from my landlord. I admitted that I was so distraught over the housing situation I was having suicidal thoughts so he handcuffed me and dumped me off at the booby hatch. A remarkably horrifying experience. I was also taking 1 mg. Lorazepam to sleep. The hospital forced me to take Geodon. I took the one pill in order to be released and that made my head jerk a couple of times. A year later, went to a psychiatrist who prescribed Lexapro. After a month on Lexapro she added an anti-psychotic and after a week I almost really did kill myself. I also became very clumsy and my leg was kicking involuntarily. I couldn't sleep and my eyesight went bad. She said I was on a subclinical dose so was hallucinating the symptons. Stopped everything and a week later my therapist said I was glowing, the treatment was really working! When I told her I went off of everything s | F | 46 | 7 days | 10/18/2005 | 1 | Depression, Anxiety, Psychosis NOS | Intense pressure in the top of my head. Suicidal thoughts. Very down mood. Extremely increased sex drive the month after I went off of it, this part could be useful... | I took Celexa for about 6 months and got hauled into the County Mental Hospital for calling a Policeman to complain about harassment from my landlord. I admitted that I was so distraught over the housing situation I was having suicidal thoughts so he handcuffed me and dumped me off at the booby hatch. A remarkably horrifying experience. I was also taking 1 mg. Lorazepam to sleep. The hospital forced me to take Geodon. I took the one pill in order to be released and that made my head jerk a couple of times. A year later, went to a psychiatrist who prescribed Lexapro. After a month on Lexapro she added an anti-psychotic and after a week I almost really did kill myself. I also became very clumsy and my leg was kicking involuntarily. I couldn't sleep and my eyesight went bad. She said I was on a subclinical dose so was hallucinating the symptons. Stopped everything and a week later my therapist said I was glowing, the treatment was really working! When I told her I went off of everything s | F | 46 | 7 days | 10/18/2005 | 1 | Supposed Stress | Major panic attack and suicidal feelings. Loss of any positive/happy emotions and only felt the need to check-out. I tried to focus on my kids to bring me "back" to a need for living, but it didn't help. | I have hypothyroidism, but my doctor (at the time) would't test me properly and said I was just a stressed-out mom and put me on Celexa. After one pill, I fell apart 20-30 minutes later having the ONLY panic attack of my life! I knew it was the Clexa because it hit me like a train just after taking the first pill. I had absolutely NO control over my feelings. I tried to make myself think of reasons to be happier (I wasn't depressed to begin with!), thinking of my adorable children, but that didn't help. All I wanted was to die. I have NEVER felt that way before. Knowing it was the Celexa, I took a benedryl to help me fall asleep so I didn't feel the suffering until it wore off. I did feel better the next day. I called the dr. who told me there was no way it could have been the Celexa because it takes 2 weeks to get into the system & that was just proof that I needed it. I threw them away, fired my doctor and found another who did test me and is treating me for hypothyroid | F | 39 | 1 days | 10/9/2005 | 1 | Depression | I was always tired. Couldn't haul myself out of the bed. Dizzy, light headed, had trouble remembering. Had thoughts of suicide and self hurt...which I acted upon. | F | 33 | 4 months | 10/6/2005 |