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 | 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 | 1 | Dr. Said I was Depressed | Ringing in ears, no emotions. | Warning DONOT TAKE, side effects horrible, withdrawals you want to die,should be under strict Drs care while taking and weaning, Deal with life, meditate don't pop a pill to feel better, should be taken off the market! | F | 59 | 10 months 20 1X day | 4/26/2015 | 1 | anxiety/stress | While I did experience a relieving overall calm, the bad outweighed the good. 30lb weight gain (I'm a distance runner). Extremely lethargic (I started sleeping whenever I had free time). Antisocial (I love a party). Unmotivated (chose sleep over daily runs). Chewing on the inside of my cheeks while asleep (never did this before). Stopped for a week. Lost 3lbs, but became uncontrollably irritable. I started taking it again just to function until I can find an alternative. | I would not recommend this to anyone. I regret starting. | F | 40 | 7 months 10mg | 4/15/2015 | 4 | Depression/Anxiety | I was initially prescribed this med for postpartum depression after my last baby. I can honestly say that I think this medication helped me tremendously. As with any antidepressant, I was worried about weight gain, but I did not have a problem losing weight (at least initially) while I was on it. When I did start gaining weight after being on it for about 5 years, my doctor tried blaming the medication and switched me to wellbutrin (which I hated). I have since realized that the weight I have gained was due to a different health issue and had nothing to do with the Celexa. Although I am trying to refrain from taking any antidepressants, in the future if I ever do need one again, this will be the one I go for. | Worked great for treating depression and anxiety and I personally had no bad side effects whatsoever. | F | 37 | 5 years 20mg 1X day | 4/9/2015 | 4 | Anxiety | I did not experience many side effects that I can attribute to Celexa. The only one I had, and the reason I quit, was erectile dysfunction. Ruined my confidence, and made me concerned that something else was causing it. | Celexa worked great for me and my anxiety. I was on what doctors called a therapeutic dose, so maybe that is when I got far less side effects than some others on here. | M | 29 | 2.5 years 10 MG 1X day | 4/6/2015 | 2 | anxiety | frequent urge to urinate during night | Almost immediately after taking 1st dose noticed could not sleep thru the night. Every 2,3 hrs had the urge to urinate as if I had a full bladder but only very small stream, if any at all. I did not have this effect during the day only at night and I would take my dose at 10AM. Also experienced back ache. I have stopped taking celexa and will see if my symptons stop. | F | 60 | 5 days 10mg 1X day | 3/30/2015 | 2 | anxiety after a hysterectomy | Took it Saturday afternoon and woke up Sunday feeling nauseous wasn't vomiting stopped then started taking it today because my doctor said there wasn't anything else he could offer me so I have tingling sensation in my arms and a headache | I'm scared to take medicine period but are these normal side effects | F | 38 | 1 days 10 | 3/11/2015 | 3 | Fibromyalgia and depression | Weight gain and fatigue not helping with the pain from fibromyalgia | Quit taking feel like there is something that will work better. Having anger issues and uncontrollable outburst. | F | 56 | 4 years 40mg | 3/3/2015 | 3 | Autism, anxiety | increased aggression with higher doses (5mg) | took edge off my son's anxiety but didn't do much else. He was more aggressive when the dose was raised. | M | 9 | 6 months 2mg | 1/13/2015 | 3 | Anxiety | At first, like any antidepressant, it was hard to adjust. It make me a little nauseous, sleeping was effected, no weight gain at all, worked for anxiety, if I took too much I couldn't orgasm. But I am on such a low dose that its not working enough for what I need it to but I dont want to lose sex drive and now after all this time on it I am having memory issues and feeling like I just can't think, like I am straining my brain. I want to try something else. If you're not worried about your sex drive, take it bc it works. Now Lexapro didnt effect my sex drive at all but it made me gain weight and I was tired ALL the time. So I am going to try a new med called Fetzima. I am hopeful. | F | 43 | 2 years 10 1X day | 1/6/2015 | 2 | anxiety and panic | Made me more depressed and so tired and definitely more anxiety | Felt better on zoloft | F | 29 | 1 months 40mg | 1/5/2015 | 4 | Anxiety, depression | Loss of appetite, headache, insomnia, felling numb | Definitely changing my life. I feel like a new person and ready to live every day like I never did. The side effects are not that bad, my body is slowly feeling normal again. Hoping not having any side effects soon! | F | 21 | 2 weeks 10 mg | 1/2/2015 | 1 | for depression | It made me tired, lethargic, un-motivated, numb, agitated, annoyed. | F | 40 | 2 days 20 mg | 12/30/2014 | 1 | Depression, Panic Attack, OSD | Change of personality, anger, loss of feelings at all (even after 2 years off this medication) | This medicine, at the same time you think that it is helping you, It is changing something in your brain that the only thing that can save you after that, is another medicine. Even after 2 years off I was with bad sensations (no feelings at all, no sensations of love, anger, etc.) that this medicine brought to me.. Fluvoxamine brought I my feelings back that citalopram had taken away. I hate citalopram with all my force! | M | 28 | 1 years 20 1X day | 12/5/2014 | 1 | Depressed | Celexa ruined my life, started out on 20 mg, I told the doctor after a few months of taking it that something just wasn't right and doctor said that not to worry that I just need a increase in dose to 40mg, at the time I was depressed as I was dealing with renal cell cancer and lost a kidney, Celexa changed me, it wasn't helping the depression it was making me depressed more and I went away and forgot to take my Celexa with me and that was the best thing that could have ever happened after a little over a week I started to see that this medicine changed me, changed my personality, mood swings and I realized that people with depression don't know why they are depressed, I was depressed because I had a reason. Shame on the doctor and shame on this drug company that makes this medicine as I have heard of similar stories of how this drug ruins lives. | F | 40 | 20 1X day | 12/3/2014 |