CELEXA Reviews (CITALOPRAM HYDROBROMIDE)

Average Rating: 3.2 (1099 Ratings)

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CELEXA  (CITALOPRAM HYDROBROMIDE):  Citalopram is used to treat depression. It may improve your energy level and feelings of well-being. Citalopram is known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). This medication works by helping to restore the balance of a certain natural substance (serotonin) in the brain.   FDA Approval Date: 1998-07-17 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 4  Migraine/Dizziness First two weeks I had headaches, nausea, sweating, alternating with waves of euphoria. These eventually went away. My only continuing side effect is difficulty ejaculating. This medicine has worked wonders for my migraines and dizziness. It has pretty much cured my vertigo. I have not gained any weight, maybe lost a couple of pounds but I was trim anyway. Though I am taking it off label (not for depression), it has put a floor under my bad moods and it has increased my patience. The only problem is that it takes me a long time to ejaculate. My poor wife! M 47 8 months
30 mg 1X day
5/1/2012
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 2  Anxiety and panic attacks Rapid heartbeat, tingling in hands and feet, insomnia, shaking, weakness/restlessness in legs, making anxiety worse, making panic attacks more frequent. F 23 1 months
10mg
4/20/2012
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 3  GAD, Depression, paraesthasia Works well but side effects are bad. Apathy is one of them. Weight gain, sexual disfunctions and other stuff can be tolerable but feeling like a zombie cant so I am going to wean off of it and if will try something else if need to M 32 8 years
40 mg
4/19/2012
 5  Anxiety/Depression Loss of sleep (at times), but this is the best medicine have ever taken. I was looking for side effects in females because I am watching my periods and wanted to know if any one experienced cessation of periods. But I am so happy with it. I was under a lot of stress and worried about a situation that was out of my hands. But I suggest anyone who is battling with depression and or anxiety should at least try it. F 43 3 weeks
10mg 1X day
4/9/2012
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 4  anxiety Night mares, sucidal thoughts, destructive thoughts, excessive tiredness, mood swings Started taking 20 MG about 8 years ago for anxiety and it did help alot, no side effects. Had a heart attack 2 1/2 years ago and it seems if all the side effects are now showing up especially the destructive thoughts. Have tried twice to come off of the mediction cold turkey and it does not work for me. I am now reducing the doseage by 1 tablet per week per month until I can wean myself from it. I plan to be off this stuff by end of 2012. M 59 8 years
20 MG 1X day
4/9/2012
 4  Major Depression Decrease in Libido, Apathy Difficult to have an orgasm. I am satisfied with this medication; it's a great treatment for Depression, and I discovered that it greatly decreases the severity of my O.C.D. Sometimes I feel apathetic, but the Benefit far outweighs the side-effects. I would definitely recommend this medication; it really has stabilized my mood and OCD. M 44 8 years
40 MG 1X day
4/6/2012
 5  Low mood Low mood Mad M 30 24 months
40 mg 1X day
4/5/2012
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 1  bi-polar II disorder I had all the side effects associated with this drug as well as hallucinations. I would hear things and see stuff. I was extremely angry! I wanted to die. The doctor kept insisting I stay on it but I went off of it because the side effects were so horrible. I've been free from all these behavior modifying drugs and have never been happier in my life. I feel free! F 50 3 years
50 mg 1X day
4/5/2012
 4  Depression Weight gain tiredness loss of sex drive This medication helped the depression more than any other medication I have tried. I felt normal, like I could deal with life and the negative thought processes stopped. I stopped taking it though because of the weight gain. Even exercising daily and counting calories I could not lose it. It bothered me enough that I stopped taking the celexa to try something else. If nothing else helps I will come back to the celexa. F 29 1.5 years
20mg 1X day
3/23/2012
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 4  Anxiety, Depression At first, this medication made my anxiety horrible! It also made me really depressed and kinda irrational. I had a hard time ejaculating and I also couldn't sleep at night, I put on a ton of weight in such a short period of time. MUNCHIES! I can't even fit into any of my pants! Not only that but it makes me extremely lazy during the day I have no motivation what so ever! BUTTT I feel like the longer I take it the better all of these side effects are getting. (except for the lazy thing) My anxiety has gotten so much better, and I'm feeling a little happier. I'm going to give it another couple of weeks to see if I get my energy and ambition back, otherwise I'll see if I can try something like Lexapro. These drugs are completely different for each person so don't let the side effects discourage you!!! Chances are you aren't going to find the right one right away. It's all trial and error. My biggest suggestion is to keep track of what you're eating! Count those calories! M 24 32 days
20 MG 1X day
3/20/2012
 4  bipolar/borderline F 29 6 years
30mg
3/20/2012
 5  mild depression, mild anxiety Sexual side effects which abate with a day or two off Technically this drug saved my life during a severe depression in 2001 right before 9/11. Helps with lifelong "morning dread" which can be severe due to a demanding and stressful profession and with rumination on worries. Taking the generic is fine. When life gets really stressful I can go up to 40 mg day with noticeable improvement. When trying other drugs over the years I noticed that stopping was always a bad idea: the drug never worked as well the second time. So I accept I will always be on citalopram to even out my ups and downs. First depressive episode at age 17. Only bad side effect is sexual side effects (nearly impossible to have an orgasm) but I have learned I can skip a day and take the dose late on the second day for a bit of a vacation from this side effect. F 57 11 years
20 mg 1X day
3/19/2012
 5  depression I didn't have much side effects with celexa. It really helps with my depression. I really like this med. F 41 9 years
20mg
3/11/2012
 1  Anxiety Yawning, retardedness- slow you down too much, make you sleep all day and night, affects performance; I was unable to do anything productive, in a day I would only be able to write one page a day where as I used to write one page an hour, makes you careless yet content with life, happy, then the brain pain kicked in, concentration gone out the window (all the while your mind can't recognise these things because your so out of it being happy that it is then too late by then) nose bleeds in the mornings, rise in body temperature and hight tepm head, strange fevers that no amount of paracitamol will cure, pain in the eyes, dry mouth causing you to drink alot of water but that still doesn't help, kills your memory, but clears your mind so you can focus on reading but you probably won't be able to remember it, calms you down if you have social anxiety so you are able to be urself without fear and helps you think before you act if your normally hyper person. F 23 7 weeks
10mg
3/3/2012
 1  Anxiety and migraine Made anxiety worse. Took this initially for anxiety (with some associated depression) but continued on it because it made migraine with aura more stable. During stressful life events I would get anxiety pangs that lasted weeks at a time when taking this. Only when I came off the medicine and those incidents stopped happening (even during stressful times) did I realise that bastard drug had been making it worse for years. Here was me thinking it helps control anxiety! It may do that in some people but certainly not all, thus it may help you or it may not. This family of drugs is far from one size fits all, it will work well in a % of people and poorly in others. Certainly I felt much better when free of this drug and not being a victim of extended anxious sensations, which made it hard to sleep, ruined my appetite and at their worst made me feel like a frightened rabbit. Problem is the pangs would go (making me think the drug had helped) and I would stay on it because of the migraines, but they would always come back. Why I didn't realise it was this drug years before I will never know. M 37 9 years
10mg 1X day
2/21/2012
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 2  Anxiety and mild depression For the first month I had little appetite and fluctuated between feeling quite sick and feeling fine.. But my mood swings definitely lessened. As times gone on I feel it's supporting me less and has done nothing for my anxiety, and although I have no side effects anymore I feel that I need to talk to my doctor about upping my dose or switching to another medication. F 20 3 months
10mg
2/20/2012
 1  anxiety sweating,racing thoughts,detatched,didn't to engage in conversation, low appetite, shaking, i was on this drug for 12 weeks and posted some months ago, after coming off cold turkey, which i now know i shouldn't have, 8 months on still experiencing discontinuation syndrome, although getting weaker it is still annoying. I have found lot of sites with information but i wondered why some people have none or very little withdrawal symptoms and other's have a difficult time. Please read the following it may be because this drug deplete's certain vitamins in the body: Coming off Anti-depressants (SSRI's) needs to be done gradually. Drugs alter body chemistry and it wise to let the body become accustomed to any fall in chemical stimulation. However, if symptoms begin to reassert themselves this is often interpreted as the 'depression' returning. In such cases, most patients continue taking the drugs. They are unaware that depression is a condition requiring time to grow. It creeps up over a period of months, or even longer. It is not instant. The problem with stopping anti-depressants (SSRI's) appears to be a build up of a chemical residue in the body. Components of the anti-depressants lodge themselves in muscles and organs such as the kidney and liver and can take several months to disappear. In the meantime they can still actively enter the bloodstream and mimic the drug's action. As the effect fades any withdrawal symptoms will repeat themselves. But the body is responding to a toxic residue from the drug rather than re-entering a state of clinical depression. F 55 12 weeks
20mg 1X day
2/9/2012
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 3  Anxiety Nausea, whenever I first take it. Yawning alot, and sometimes dizziness. Be having headaches now and even racing annoying thoughts. Not suicide thoughts, but other thoughts about where God came from and keep thinking how the earth started, it was just crazy! And I think celexa got me thinking that, cause it started when I took celexa. If these annoying thoughts don't go away, I'm stopping it. I want my normal state of mind back! F 20 2 weeks
10
1/26/2012
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 3  Anxiety I went on cipramil (celexa) at the advice of my gp, after some side effects like gas, severe sweating and tiredness, i started to experience a lighter more carefree state of mind. Unfortunately over the years i couldnt find a balance, when i took the drug i was manic and when i stopped i would have massive withdrawals, so i changed to a different drug that was more calming, and since gave up on that and am now drug free. My advice is - its very effective, like all ssris, but it WILL change your personality, and you dont know how you will react. It also impaired my memories of an important time in my life. F 25 3 years
20mg/day
1/23/2012
 3  post partum, anxiety tiredness F 26 2 years
40mg 1X day
1/13/2012
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