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 |
| 1 | attention problems | severe anxiety, nausia (from anxiety), depression, emotional instability | doctors should be much more careful when prescribing this drug - i had attention problems because of anxiety, not ADD, and an anxious person on a speed drug is a terrible mistake. it took me a long time to feel stable after i went off of this drug. i regret ever swallowing it. | F | 21 | 3 months | 12/5/2007 | 4 | ADD | When it kicked in, very happy within 15 minutes after that non-social, focused, motivated, no appetite, inability to sleep,when wearing off, irritable, depressed, | Overall concerta works great! I just moved from 36 to 56 and I think it is too much I may go back to 36. I now mainly depend on it for weight loss beacuse of the two major side effects, loss of appetite, and amount of energy and motivation. I depend on it if I am tired and I am going to busy doing something where I need to be awake. I used to take it to make my mood better but I now am feeling it worsen because of the pill. When it wares off I get depressed. | F | 18 | 3 times | 12/4/2007 | 3 | ADD | dry mouth, esp. at intervals which I'm guessing is related to the time release of the medicine. This has been the most bothersome side effect; some mild jitteryness | I've suspected I had ADD all my life (it's rampant in our extended family), and this summer an adult friend made a strong case for Concerta. The drug has helped me not de-rail so much in conversation, or panic that my mind has gone out to lunch while the other person is talking. It's a bit like a caffeine kick, though, and I can't have any caffeine in addition during the day. Another benefit is that I've always struggled with compulsive overeating, and probably because of the appetite suppressant in this medication, I am now able (after the first three days of not being hungry at all) to stick to a reasonable eating plan and intentionally lose weight. It's the first time I ever felt like a "normal" eater. The dry mouth side effect is annoying enough for me to think about going off it altogether; the fear of regaining weight and getting sluggish mentally keeps me on it. I'm still undecided as to its overall benefit for me and whether I will continue using it. I also read in N | F | 54 | 3 months | 11/29/2007 | 2 | Can't stay awake | First morning I felt like something was pressing against my skin to get out. That went away. Sometimes very spacey, feel drugged. Main problem: SLEEPINESS!! | I am taking 18mg 1x per day. I take it when my husband gets up around 6:30. Most of the 9 days I have been taking it I fell back to sleep for a couple of hours, then dozed off and on a few more hours!! Good thing I'm off from work right now! I had been taking a generic--methylphenid 20mg, extended release--for about a month before this. I got my life back! from sleeping/exhaustion to functioning human being! There didn't seem to be any side effects at all, I just woke up like I used to (before whatever has caused the sleepiness/exhaustion) and finally was accomplishing things again. My doctor thought my insurance might not cover Concerta so he gave me the generic at first, but said the name brands work better than generic. I found out my insurance covered Concerta, so he switched me over. If its not broke... :o How could something like this make someone SLEEP?!? I read lots of the comments here and didn't see anyone that got sleepy in the morning taking it! (tho some were sleep | F | 33 | 9 days | 11/28/2007 | 5 | ADD | I experience headaches and loss of appetite. I also find when the medication wears off is when I get really, really hungry. Some days I get dry mouth. I also smoke a lot more. However, it is working for me. I just started realizing that I was losing weight. It seemed that I started losing weight just after my daughter turned a year. So at first I thought it was my body adjusting back to prepregnacy. However, I now weigh less than I did before I was pregnant. It seems that the weight is just falling off of me. In two weeks I have lost about 5lbs. I also thought I was losing weight because I started college and was more active. As I look back to when I started losing weight is when I started Concerta. Which is around when my daughter turned a year old and started school. I do eat but not as much and I eat before I go to bed. So it is not my body it is the Concerta. Overall, this drug is working for me and is much better than Ritalin. With Ritalin I was experiencing major | F | 33 | 4 months | 11/25/2007 | 1 | ADHD | severe hallucinations, anxiety, weight loss, tremors | Concerta brought my son's grades up and did help him to focus but the hallucinations were debilitating. He was treated with concerta and ritalin. The auditory and visual hallucinations were so bad that he wanted to kill himself. He was six years old. The DR's said that he had childhood schizophrenia and that the hallucinations were not caused by the stimulants. They added Risperdal to his diet of drugs and he developed severe tardive dyskinesia which he still suffers from 7 years later. The hallucinations went away when he went off of the stimulants, the TD remains. Two years ago, the FDA finally came out saying that these stimulants can cause hallucinations. It is a money market, the pharmacy companies have their hands deeply tucked in to the politician's pockets. I had three boys on stimulants. I took all of them off of the drugs after our youngest son became ill. My middle child claims that he was emotionally bland on that drug, just existing on a day to day basis. Once he went off | F | 45 | 3 years | 11/21/2007 | 4 | adult add | loss of weight,and sometimes after the effect of the medicine ended(after 12 hours from taking) I feel low blood presure and nausea.. | ıts a good medication for me..makes me focused and more logical,less distractible... | F | 24 | 2 months | 11/16/2007 | 1 | Learning Difficulties | My son was very irritable and agitated within one hour after taking this medication. | 18mg once a day. He became irrational, he almost seemed possessed! I think there needs to be more monitoring of this medication before it is handed out. He was not himself at all. We switched from Metadate 10mg to Concerta because the Dr. recommended a longer lasting medication. | M | 6.5 | 7 days | 11/14/2007 | 4 | ADD | Anxiety, nausea, loss in appetite, shakes, coughing more than usual | I was diagnosed with ADD around a year ago and was prescribed Concerta. I like the medication. I can sit down and read, balance a checkbook, watch a movie and etc without having the racing thoughts I used to. The only thing is I really hate the first hour after taking the medication. My stomach get's upset ecspecially if I have had coffee, I get a slight headache and some shakes. Once that is over I feel fine. I have noticed that is has caused me some depression though. I don't want to go off of the medication because it has worked for my ADD but I could live without the depression side effect | F | 28 | 1 years | 11/12/2007 | 2 | ADD | Extreme Headaches, Moodiness, Increased sweating, Cloudy mind after a few hours, Lack of appetite, Increased heart rate (in a scary way), anti-social as day progressed | I really don't suggest this medication. I felt like it took control of my mind and lost all sense of emotion. It was impossible to be creative and let my mind flourish, because it forced me to think logically. A while after taking a pill i would become confused, like I knew where i was, but couldn't make my body and mind work together (like it should naturally). I had to tell my mind to tell my limbs to act. Experienced rapid weight gain after stopping medication. | F | 18 | 2 years | 11/6/2007 | 4 | ADHD | Headaches, weight loss due to less appetite, mood swings, irritable | My son started on Concerta with 36 mg and has wonderful results. He is able to stay focused and excel in school. He is currently in 2nd grade and reading on 5th grade level. However, since he has started getting headaches, it's making it harder to concentrate in school. So, I've tried lowering his dosage to 18mg and we'll see how that goes. However, when he is not on his meds (on weekends), he is definitely more social and active and appears happier. I don't like having to give him the meds, but I realize that it's imperative for him to concentrate in school and to stay out of trouble. Would love to talk to other parents with children on concerta. | M | 8 | 1.5 years | 10/30/2007 | 4 | ADD/ADHD | Headaches, body feels achy all the time but I did go to the gym for a combined 9 hrs in 3 days the second week of taking med. I'm a nursing student so i am constantly waking up early (4-6am usually) but I can't go to sleep until 2-4am bc of med. Definite paranoia when i try to go to bed. Drug doesn't kick in for a while which is unfortunate for my 8am class. I won't stop talking...AT ALL...I go on talking to my gf for hours into the night, she is almost asleep and I just continue. I had 2 beers, didn't eat very much since i'm never hungry- or just don't care about eating, and I was fall down drunk. Usually I can have 5-6 before I got to that level w/o eating. | My grades went from C's/D's to A's on wellbutrinxl but the side effects made me a different, angry person. My grades are above 95's now with 3 wks of concerta. I'll continue taking it until college is over but I don't take it on my days off when I don't have to study bc I can't sleep. | F | 21 | 3 weeks | 10/26/2007 | 2 | add | sweating, increased heart beat, no appetite whatsoever, obsession with neatness of handwriting and cleanliness, forces to stay awake for at least 20 hours straight (can wake up and stay awake if i take more) nervousness, easily irritated, anger problems worsen, sensitivty to throaght (feeling nausious), cramping, stomache pains, glassy ad dialated eyes, out of it alot, depression worsens. | i take 72mg dailey and i have add. i have been in trouble at school because people think im high while im on it and dont beleive it is from my medicine. | M | 16 | 3 years | 10/18/2007 | 4 | ADD | Loss of appetite and when I dont eat I feel very weak and unmotivated - once I eat something I feel good again. Headaches occur if I take a day off. Sometimes depression comes on if I'm around someone that is in that type of mind frame - but its usually minimal and goes away. | I wish I had been prescribed this medicine alot sooner. I've been very successful in life despite the many roadblocks that were placed in front of me, but had I had such focus before, I would have gone soooo much further. I can truly say that it has changed my life. My mood is much better, I have a drive to succeed and an unstopable determination, I'm organized, which if you knew me before would make your jaw drop, lol. My claim to fame (excuse really) for everyone in my life was that I had a static mind, that I looked all over a problem to find the solution - now I do that and also work it out step by step, methodically. | M | 27 | 60 days | 10/17/2007 | 4 | Add/ Short Attention span | Increased heart rate, cold and and moist plams and hands, cold feet, weird sensation of pressure in forehead (anybody feel this?) headaches, moody, not tired at alll in that I cant fall asleep even if I am, shortness of breath or irregular breathing,not being hungry what so ever | Other than the somewhat annoying side effects Concerta does really help and kept my more focused and wanting to get my work done in and out of class | M | 17 | 1 months | 10/15/2007 | 5 | ADHD | Heart palpatations, dizziness, weight loss, shortness of breath, extreme sleepiness upon withdrawal, as well as extreme hunger. Most of these symptoms subsided after my body got used to it. | I tried straterra, to do the non-amphetamine treatment, but it tore my stomach to shreds, made me puke all day and made me feel like I wanted to kill myself. I actually hid those pills from my mom to make her believe i'd taken them. Once she found out about all of this stuff, I was put on concerta and have been doing well since then. My extremely low GPA (in high school) came up to a 3.8, I was more social, a little more anxious, made better eye contact and it improved my life overall. | F | 19 | 4 years | 10/8/2007 | 4 | adhd -severe, aspergers-severe | fatigued, moody, loss of appetite, supression of hunger pains which proabobly due to my low calorie intake results in my fatigue.grade increase from a 79 avg to a 97 avg. depression too much focus on a single promblem. | its a good drug im on 27 mg im getting the dosaged up to about 36 or 54 i lost 22 lbs so far and im still losing. im never hungry the though of food makes me puke even if i havent eaten in a day. | M | 16 | 6 months | 10/8/2007 | 2 | Possibly ADHD or OCD | Very very energetic, angry, racey feeling, difficulty sleeping, very negative, extremely obsessive and anxious (symptoms worse) | I have no doubt that this medication might work great for some people but it was not right for me. My doctor wanted to try something new because I cannot stand the side effects of the antidepressants. I have been diagnosed with anxiety/OCD but he thought it might be a misdiagnosis based on what I told him. So we tried this. In the past, effexor and prozac have helped my symptoms. Even wellbutrin helped to some degree. Concerta really made everything much worse for me. | F | 33 | 2 weeks | 10/2/2007 | 4 | ADHD | loss of appetite, anti-social, minor insomnia, sweating more during activity, some headaches, moodiness, hostility, and aggravation when pill wears off | i was diagnosed with ADHD about 2 years ago, just started taking concerta 2 days ago. 36 mg. the side effects are diffinately noticeable and after reading all these reviews, i'm kind of scared to take it now. however, the pill works wonders in school. i find myself able to focus much easier and i'm actually excited about getting my school work done. does anyone know if this medicine will, like, f* up my brain for life if i take it for a long time? cause that would suck.. if anyone feels the same way or would like to share their thoughts, feel free to email me. | F | 16 | 2 days | 9/28/2007 | 3 | Adult ADHD | I began staying awake at work and during my long drive home. Prior to Concerta, I'd nod off frequently at work and always at stop lights. Slight weight loss. I think I have become more focused and somewhat less impulsive. Before Concerta, I did not sleep much AND I could talk a blue streak: none of that has changed. My very stressful life has not helped matters but, I am much more inclined than before Concerta, to reach for a Xanax .5mg. Despite being a marathon runner & fitness instructor, now, during stressful moments, I feel myself unable to inhale a sufficient volume of oxygen. Also, stresses have made me overworked & miserable: as such, suicide ideation seems like a daily thing in recent weeks. | Concerta has helped me to stay awake and focus. I would be reluctant to blame Concerta for much of anything other than, as a stimulant, it could/may contribute to anxious feelings. At the end of the day, I am glad I am taking it and I am wondering if 4 pills (18mg each) is enough. | M | 49 | 5 months | 9/21/2007 |