CONCERTA Reviews (METHYLPHENIDATE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.3 (772 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CONCERTA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CONCERTA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | ADD | I love this medicine. I have been on it for a long time and have not had any problems! Great for a child in school because it is a time release so the child does not have to go to the nurse at school. I know that was always embarrassing for me! | F | 23 | 10 years 72MG 1X day | 9/28/2010 | 4 | ADHD | Takes away appetite while it's in her system- she is unable to eat lunch in school, or dinner at a regular time. Just had the dose upped last week from 18 mg to 26, and it lasts a lot longer. She constantly says she's hot, her throat hurts, can't sleep, and i allow her a day "off" from taking it on sundays so she can eat normally (because she barely eats when she takes it) and she is HORRIBLE without it, much worse than before she started taking it! she also picks at her skin a lot, is this common? she only does it when she takes her pill. | It has helped her so much- especially in school. she went from not doing well at all to being one of the best behaved children in her class, doing great in every subject! she no longer has to be told to sit still, and refocused/redirected. | F | 8 | 1 weeks 26 mg 1X day | 9/26/2010 | 5 | AH/HD: Inattentive | Sometimes irritability. This was bad eight hours after I took it, but it gradually diminished after a year or so. Probably exacerbates underlying anxiety. Slight and occasional appetite suppression, no weight loss. Insomnia if taken too late in the day. | It can carry deadly cardiac side effects. Seriously, I'm not a prude, but don't take it unless you have a prescription. | M | 20 | 4 years 54 mg 1X day | 9/22/2010 | 4 | ADD/ADHD (Unsure) | Stimulated, hyperactive, happy, interested, feels the need to yell at people, jumpy, pounding and rapid heartbeat, raised temperature, incessant talking, improved memory. | Best and most effective medicine I have ever taken. Crazy, major high! Feels like I'm on speed or something :D I still have trouble reading, however. But sometimes, the side effects are a little over-the-top. I'll get used to it, though, as it has only been 6 days. | F | 15 | 6 days 54 mg 1X day | 9/19/2010 | 4 | adhd | REDUCE NAUSEA: I have found that eating breakfast a little bit before taking the pill reduces my stomach ache and brings back a bit of appeal to eating. Another option is to drink the meal substitute drinks because Im always thirsty and never hungry. This should also keep your nutrient/protein/sugar at a reasonable enough level not to shock your system, and then since you do "eat" relatively consistently your body wont store everything as fat for the next starvation period and there wont be the eventual weight gain. | M | 22 | 27 1X day | 9/16/2010 Patient History | 3 | ADD | only side effect: increasing anxiety starting from the 5th hour in | Concerta is a miracle drug up until about 5 hours in, when high levels of stress and anxiety begin to creep up and suck the joy out of everthing (Except Lady Gaga and pipe cleaners). For the first 5 hours, I find that I am much more alert, quick to answer questions recquiring short term memory, completely awake (no more drowsiness or fighting to stay awake), focused, and very productive with out the disadvantage of any emotional effects. Does anyone know why this is? Or how I can prevent or at least alleviate the problem? Your feedback is highly appreciated!(see my contact info for my email) | F | 16 | 4 days 18 1X day | 9/15/2010 | 2 | ADHD | extreme panic attacks: heart palpitations;nausea;dizziness;fear;weakness;exhaustion. Would not recommend this drug. | M | 35 | 3 months 54MG 1X day | 9/14/2010 | 4 | ADD | Blurry vision, loss of appetite, energy, restlessness, slight irritability, minor tics, extreme focus | Only now have I been able to relate my loss of vision to the medicine, but it's really no big deal. Just a minor loss of clearity in things that are far away. I have experienced fits of anger that I didn't before I took the drug, but then again my fits where appropriate reactions for the things that had happened. The only difference in them is that it took me about 30 minutes before my heart rate calmed back down. I have no appetite taking this. I must have lost weight, but I've always been thin. My left eye lid twitches every now and then, but it really doesn't bother me. My GPA went up dramatically and it's a great drug if you need a burst of energy to get he job done. I mean...The only reason I wish I didn't take it is because if I don't, I stuff my face with food because while I'm on it- my body practically starves itself. I feel like if I stop taking it, I will gain an easy 30 pounds. I wouldn't advise it for young kids....I can't imagine how it would be for them. | F | 18 | 1 years 36mg 1X day | 9/13/2010 | 4 | ADD | Random dizzy spells, believed to have occured since I had a cocktail on my day off. I use to help myself to a cocktain in the late evening every nite, but now I'm not interested. Also, my left eye lid twitches. I don't go for seconds @ dinner. | I started this new drug with 18mg & it worked great for months without side-effects, but suddenly it stopped working & the doc. gave me my current dose & the first hour I noticed a huge "tunnel-vision" focus & attentiveness I have never zeroed in on before. Also I don't "think so much" about anything & everything, & I'm not daydreaming whatsoever, I'm fully open about the current situation & I can control a conversation & keep track of it & therefore stay in-tuned with the subject matter rather than get distracted by insignificant thoughts. I'm very impressed but the twitching & dizzy spells are bothersome because I've never had side-effects before. I have also noticed myself in the mirror & I have slimmed down but I'm not starving, I just don't over-consume & I have no complaints there about losing a few pounds that have lingered around since I had my baby, two years ago. | F | 26 | 14 days 28 1X day | 9/8/2010 | 3 | ADD | Nausea, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Anxiousness. | it certainly helps me focus in class and retain what I study, but whenever I take it I feel sick almost the entire day. There is a slight nausea and I get headaches easier. Due to the nausea I don't eat much because I feel like I'm about to vomit. Also I've noticed that I become more anxious and I can't sit around and do nothing otherwise the anxiousness and nausea get even worse. If I'm occupied it's okay, but otherwise it's terrible. Although I think this drug helps me and I don't have bad drops from it, the nausea makes me not take it when I don't have to. | F | 17 | 1 years 54mg 1X day | 9/7/2010 | 5 | ADD | Got rid of not being able to sit still. Better Listener, much more soft spoken and sincere to people in general. No tics like Strattera Just a very nice calm state that allows me to think about my actions easily and naturally. No more unnecessary thoughts and emotions to get in the way of a productive discussion. Extreme increase in patience, absence of regressed anger surfacing in a emotional outburst. Increased empathy towards others. Much more open about feelings and a better ability to describe them. All and all, nothing bad so far as side effects go for me, and it doesn't turn me into a mindless zombie like citalopram or strattera. No more tics, twitches, mood swings, anxiety, frigidity, Apathy, loss of creativity, practically no sex drive at all, insomnia, general disassociation from surroundings, change in food taste, appetite, severed mind/body connection, and a ton of other things that I have completely not even come close to experiencing using concerta so far. | After experiencing just about every side effect listed in the "Concerta" ratings, while taking Strattera (atomoxetine); coupled with the feeling of having no libido whatsoever, I had to stop. Id rather be dysfunctional than not feel alive. After contacting my wonderful doc, she told me to stop until my next appointment where she went over the options and decided to put me on the lowest dose of concerta (18mg) since she thought I was extremly sensitive to the atomoxetine by the way i described the side effects I was concerned about. I had also been prescribed citalopram and went through hell because it was working on the wrong neurotransmitters. For someone who has always been skeptical about professional behavioral therapy, I was really not hopeful when I had to see the doc again. But due to her amazing listening skills and her willingness to be open to suggestion, she finally put me on a medicine that has I have not had one negative side effect so far. It is so amazing to have my mind slowed down so I can properly digest information, and organize my thought processes to access a good portion of information and memories mixed up in the mess of my scattered mind. A good way to put it for me, is that I feel like my mind processes information like it did before puberty hit and I got completely turned around mentally. Good to be mostly functional again. side note: most things ive read about stopping a "strattera" regimen, claim there are no withdraw sy | M | 26 | 5 days 18mg 1X day | 9/3/2010 | 4 | Attention Deficit Disorder | Increased ability to focus, can concentrate easily, although sometimes I get a feeling of being "hyper focused" (almost obsessive about certain things) Dry mouth, loss of appetite, but overall a good drug. | I was on Ritalin from age 12 thru age 19....ended up abusing it because the come down was so bad. I switched to Concerta after experiencing TOO many problems with short-term medications. Concerta saved my life! Even though my appetite is still supressed, I've simply learned to eat at certain times of the day that work for me (when my appetite is up a little). I'd recommend Concerta to ANYONE who needs help focusing or even getting up in the morning and getting motivated! | F | 27 | 7 years 54 mg 1X day | 8/31/2010 | 3 | ADHD | Dry mouth,trouble sleeping,in the begining loss of appitite(but only for 2 days) | I started Concerta while in my Anatomy and Physiology class,realized I might possibly have ADHD when I could not stay focused throughout this class, and could not retain all of the information given.I was then presribed 18 mg Concerta, and it did help slightly with retaing an imense amount of information I had to study for;however it only helped in the begining and then it was as if I took a sugar pill after a few days.I have now been prescribed 36 mg and will be trying it out tomarrow prior to starting school,I will update how it effects me then. | F | 28 | 4 days 18 mg 1X day | 8/26/2010 | 4 | adult ADD (&depression) | dry mouth, headache, racing heart, loss of appetite, nausea, irritability | I'm in a love-hate relationship with this medicine. It helped me tremendously with my ADD and even depression. I can focus and concentrate hundred times better and I don't feel empty anymore. However, there are so many side effects and they are quite serious. QUESTION: do more people feel the side effects are worst after about four hours? | F | 35 | 6 months 54mg 1X day | 8/25/2010 | 4 | adhd | Hello there. The the main side effect that i could see being a problem for me was the feeling of my heart racing, even togh when my pulse was taking the bpm were normal and really low. THinking about it made it worse,I dont really have alot of the side effects as of now, mainly the rapid heart rate and trouble getting to sleep. | I was diagnosedwth adhd when i was young, acutally very young, W2hen i was in second grade i started taking 5 milligrams of Ritalin every day< But was to young to really feel it was doing anything. I was takin off of the medicatio and never took it again, i went through the rest of elementry school,middle school,and high school, and a couple years after high school without taking any medication. I am 33 now when i was 27 i was put on adderall and that was a life saver for me due to the fact when i was not on any medication my life was a mess everything was wrong with my life and the way i lived. after 3 years on Adderall i was takin off due to not upping dose and i felt like it had stopped being affective for me. i went 4 years with taking anything after that, just recently i was put on Ritalin 5 milligrams and felt like that worked for a week or so then it wore off, maybe it was just me, so i was put on 10 milligrams in the morining and 5 milligrams in the afternoon. I did not like that at all i had major mood swings, aybe due to the act my brother was shipping out to Iraq and that was something i could not handle. I went to my doctor and talked to him about trying a new medication and mentioned concerta, im on 18 milligrams and feel like its working, I feel the same as i did while taking ritalin twice a day. with decreased mood swings and i does make me a ton happier through out the day.Im wondering how long it will take to get used to it. wheni was on adderall i fell li | M | 33 | 2 days 18 1X day | 8/13/2010 | 1 | Adult ADHD | Racing heart ( 100 / min ) and HEADACHE!!! | Today was the first and LAST day of taking concerta! Maybe the doc started me on too high mgs or maybe this is just the wrong med for me, either way I'm done! My heart rate was about 100 all day and I was soo temped to go to the ER for some help. | F | 28 | 1 days 54mg 1X day | 8/12/2010 | 4 | ADD | I got small involuntary ticks, what struck me to be the most strange was the fact that I felt hungry but when i went to go eat something i felt disgusted at the thought of it, ups and downs of hyperness and a productivity feeling, and the inability to sleep until 7 am the next morning, fast heart rate, and it was hard to sit still. | It helped out when it came to school and homework, which is why i got the pill. i started out on the 36 mg dose, but it stopped working so now i am on the 54 mg dose. the effects seem to switch everytime i take the pill, like one day ill be very happy and hyper, and then the next ill be depressed and very anti social and i am a very outgoing person so that stuck out the most to me. i found if i drink a cup of coffee after i take the pill im more likely to get rid of the depressed possibility. it did help with my focus abilty but i wonder if thats worth the side effects i experience, my mom thinks so haha. its your call | F | 17 | 2 months 54 mg 1X day | 8/11/2010 | 3 | adhd | depression,solemnness, jitters, headaches | F | 54 | 3 months 54 mg 1X day | 8/6/2010 | 2 | depression | insomnia, weight loss, worsened acne, anxiety | Tried concerta for a week and a half to combat depression-induced lethargy and over-sleeping. It was great the first week--I cut down from 2.5 lattes/day (one triple, one double) to one per day. Started to experience severe insomnia after about 1.5 weeks so I stopped taking it. Got a lot done in that time period though. It does help you concentrate, definitely, but the side effects were too much for me. I was on a really low dose too. I definitely don't have ADD so might be why I had such a strong reaction. | F | 23 | 10 days 18 mg 1X day | 7/31/2010 | 2 | ADD ADHD | anxiety,General feeling of being late, extreme focus, sudden interest followed by sudden disinterest, Complete inability to deal with people. | I hate my Concerta I hate taking it I hate not taking it. When I first started on it around 12 it helped my ADHD and my grades shot up. I also started to have problems socializing I only had 5 or so friends at an age when most kids are friends with all the kids in there grade. once I reached 8th grade the medicine had pretty much become my way of life. Up until 8th grade I really did not really notice that my medicine made me unhappy, in 8th grade I started to be interested in girls, but since at this point out of my five friends 3 of them I only talked to in school, and the other two where as socially uncomfortable as me. I never had the chance to really hang out with people or go to parties or do anything most kids did. I realized the meds were holding me back but I really did nothing about it. Then when freshmen year came around I started having more pressure then I could handle alone ( at this point I only had one good friend left.) I stopped doing my homework after school and instead would just kill time focusing on one hobby until it no longer interested me and move on with in a month to a new one. Since I was not doing my home work after school and the meds in my head demanded I get it done some time I started taking it before beds o I could not sleep and I would do my home work at around 3 or so in the morning and then to stay awake during the day I would double or triple my dosage. then repeat until the weekend. I remember one week where I had a lot of projects I did | M | 17 | 5 years 108mg 1X day | 7/27/2010 |