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 |
| 4 | Anxiety | Slight weight gain, inability to orgasm, don't care about anything, sleep more often, weird taste in mouth. | I've been taking 20mg of Celexa for a year for anxiety. It works very well, but there are side effects. I've gained about five pounds without changing my eating habits. If I go a couple of days without taking Celexa, my stomach looks flatter, so it must be the pill. It also takes forever to orgasm, and when I do, it is not nearly as satisfying. I still get sexually aroused multiple times a day, though. I also take naps more often. It greatly reduces my anxiety, but I now do not care about anything. I sit at home, go to work, go to school, and have no interest in anything. I just go through the motions. I'm not overly happy, so if you take this for depression, I don't know how effective it will be. I also have a weird taste in my mouth which I noticed goes away when I go without it for a few days. Give it a month before you decide if you like or dislike it. | M | 22 | 1 years 20 1X day | 5/13/2012 | 3 | Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks | Within an hour of taking the drug I had a BAD panic attack, for the next few days I continually had more panic attacks, not as bad as the first one though. Dizzyness, sickness, diarrhea, loosing my train of thought easily, loosing balance, apathy and euphoria all at once, and the classic zombie like state. | Took it 4 times over 5 days. On the fifth day doctor called me back said don't take it anymore and come in next week. I hear a lot of good things about this drug, maybe it was the batch I got was weird, maybe it's just my body chemistry. But apparently I'm one of the few who had an adverse reaction to it. | M | 27 | 4 days 20mg 1X day | 5/11/2012 | 5 | Bipolar/Depression | so far none at all | no side effects. been threes days but been good so far | F | 24 | 3 days 5mg 1X day | 5/6/2012 | 4 | Depression, OCD, panic attacks | Dry mouth, lowerd sex drive, hard to orgasm, complete loss of sugar cravings, in fact all my cravings left, even the caffine ones. Loss of appetite because the food doesnt taste as good anymore. I used to be so backed up I would poo every other day if I was lucky. Now I go every morning. I'm regular I think from eating more vegatables and less carbs and sugar. | I was on the verge of killing myself or harming my boyfriend before I tried this. I would explode over every little thing. My boyfriend would tell me thank god that god didn't make me a man. I would break things, I was living in a very dark depressed state. Working 7 days a week trying to raise 3 kids alone. I could no longer feel inside. Nothing but blackness and the costant want to die. Top that off with OCD where I cannt go to sleep if I know the spice cabinent in the kitchen isn't organized. Or the non stop counting things in my head. The day I took this pill it was a miracle. I have not had one panic attack since then. It changed my life. I don't wake up daily thinking of death. I am able to actually enjoy life now and not make a big ordeal over losing my car key. It totally traqulized the deamon inside. My boyfriend has to work really hard in the bedroom now, but losing my libido scared me so bad that I have been having more sex to prove I still got it. I think you have to put your mind in the right place. My friends are more at peace around me too. | F | 34 | 2 weeks 20 1X day | 5/5/2012 | 2 | anxiety, panic attacks | Worst side effect was teeth grinding, which gave me headaches.had vivid dreams at first, very low libido, twitchiness in eyes | Had to wean VERY slowly. Was taking one quarter of a 10 mg pill every other day the final few weeks---that is how gradual it was! Took me probably 3 months for the weaning process. Had very strange sensations during weaning, worse at night. had nausea, more eye twitching than when I started the med, felt low, antsy, restless. Felt much calmer and better after I was fully weaned. | F | 40 | 8 months 10 1X day | 5/3/2012 | 2 | Sleepines | Tiress really tired, mad,super slepining and lack of energy. | F | 37 | 1 weeks 40 | 5/3/2012 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |