CONCERTA Reviews (METHYLPHENIDATE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.3 (772 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CONCERTA with similar:
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| 1 | ADHD | My child took his fist dose of concertae hours later began to have twitches to his mouth gets worse while talking. It helped with his focus stayed on task at school and finished homework before coming home. I will not give my child this med anymore. It just breaks my heart to see his mouth twitch. | M | 7 | 1 days 18mg | 10/6/2015 | 5 | Adhd | My only negative is that the doctors don't really tell you how to take the medicine and the insurance companies along with the doctors don't feel the need to require n provide us with nutritionists. I can go on n on about this but after reading everyone's complaints most of them are totally correctable if we were provided with more serious instructions n a nutritionist. For example if I take my concerta 10 minutes past 9:15 I will be up, full functional n productive all day n night long. Or how some of us become extremely sensitive to sugar n that it should be avoided at all costs. All it takes is one experience to realize. Or how extremely important protein is for us n how we need to be having what is at least 10 grams every 3-4 hours. Once you have one bad | Experience I can promise you will never make that mistake again. For me it impairs all of my senses to the point I can't visually or audio recognize my own father if he was standing in front of my talking to me. I am unable to speaker cause my toung curls up n you can forget my ability to comprehend a thing. N it is a very slow recovery. If that happens around 1 or 2 o'clock I am done for the day. I need to go hm n relax for the rest of the day. Normally I don't even want to drive anywhere. The harder I make my concerta wk for me the more I need to monitor my protein intake. If you are pron to depression you should have a pet..a dog, cat, bird, horse, etc. oh n you never take concerta with other medicine, exercise enhancement type stuff, or vitamins n not eat with in absolute max 30 minutes! Excercise n eating healthy can help you decrease your dose a little. Omega 3 n caffeine without sugar enhances your medicine. N when studying if you take a short break..a complete mind break every 5 minutes your ability to retain info is absolutely beyond mind blowing! It will bring tears to your eyes. I even try to carry emergency protein in my purse n car. | F | 41 | 11 years 72 1X day | 9/29/2015 | 4 | Adhd | Extreme weight loss, irrability, weakness, headaches | I have pretty bad adhd and was prescribed Concerta in May. I started with 18mg which didn't help too much. Then went to 36mg and didn't help either and now I'm at 54mg and it helps wiTh concentrating in class. I took it in May and June then stopped over the summer. 4 weeks into taking it I lost my appetite and lost 10 pounds. Over the summer I gained the weight back. Beginning of September (3 weeks ago) I've lost about 10-15 pounds. I barely eat at all. I can't even snack. I get extremely irritated quickly as well. I play hockey and I can't stay on very long because there is no carbs in my body to give me energy. I've also become very anxious 24/7. I DO NOT recommend concerta for anyone. | F | 15 | 3 months 54 mg | 9/24/2015 | 4 | ADHD | Appetite loss, irritability, headache, frailness/weakness, weight loss. | I first began to use Concerta two years ago when I was diagnosed with ADHD. Right away my teachers saw improvement in work, but at what cost? I lost my appetite, sometimes completely, and would not eat lunch. I lost around 8 pounds in the first year from malnutrition until I gained it back over the summer for the fact that I didn't take it during the summer. I was also extremely irritable to everything around me. Every small sound or sound of a pen tapping on a table while I was trying to focus would enrage me and it is extremely hard to control especially around friends. My inability to eat also brought along a slew of new symptoms such as frailness and weakness. My hands would shake as I would write something down or type something on my laptop. Although this medicine did help, its side effects can be a turn off for some people, if you have issues with anger, eating, or weight I would NOT recommend this drug. I countered the appetite loss by eating large dinners and large breakfasts, the irritability is countered by sound canceling headphones while doing work. Headaches are countered with constant water consumption. Frailness and weakness is countered by constant working out and sports activities. Also, sports seems to help with the irritability. Weight loss can be stopped by large meals and sports. | M | 17 | 2 years 54 1X day | 9/21/2015 | 2 | ADD | Used Concerta many years. Became very dependent on it. If I forgot the medicine it was a ruined day in a grey fog. I stopped because of severe dizziness attacks and irregular heartbeat. Very hard to come off it but today I feel like a new person with all side effects gone. | M | 47 | 8 years | 9/14/2015 | 4 | ADHD | If Concerta has intolerable side effects, do not switch over to an amphetamine containing drug (Adderall, Vyvanse, Dexedrine). Amphetamine is a potent neurotoxin that destroys your brains dopamine neurons. Type in "amphetamine and parkinsons disease risk", "amphetamine neurotoxicity in ADHD" and "dopaminergic dysfunction in dextroamphetamine users" for more information. An amphetamine containing drug will not turn you into a mentally retarded person, but it will destroy your brains dopamine neurons (in the range of 40-70%) and therefore when you stop taking it, even after as little as a month, you will have a permanently reduced capacity to experience pleasure. | Concerta has a lot of side effets due to its ridiculous absorption and release system and due to the fact that it contains the left isomer of methylphenidate (L-Methtlphenidate) which is not only useless but actual blocks the benificial effects of D-Methylphenidate. Focalin XR is far more effective and lacks the side effects of Concerta, so I recommend you ask your doctor if you can try it. Neither Concerta, Ritalin or Focalin are neurotoxic (brain damaging) But remember, stay away from amphetamine containing ADHD meds, they will mess you up permanently in the long run! Thats why they aren't available in Europe for ADHD. | M | 28 | 2 months 50 MG | 9/13/2015 | 5 | ADD | Slight loss of appetite, became more talkative when dosage was increased from 54mg to 72mg (this was a good thing as I didn't talk very much before the increase) | My concentration increased within about two days of starting Concerta (originally 36mg). My marks in school aslo went up as I was more attentive in class and the quality of my work improved dramatically. Every time my dosage increased, my grades increased, I became more attentive in class, I also became more observant. I'm not allowed to drive a car unless I have taken my Concerta (or, if its later in the day/evening and it's wearing off, at least 5mg of ritalin). My teachers at school have said that I'm a completely different kid now compared to a couple of months ago - when I was on a lower dose. They've said I'm more confident in class, the quality and quantity of the work I produce in class has increased tenfold. I won't do any assignments or homework if I have forgotten to take the Concerta because I'm no longer hapoy with the work I produce without it. I've also noticed that I'm generally less anxious about everything, I fidget less and when I talk I usually make more sense | M | 17 | 4 years 72 MG | 9/11/2015 | 2 | ADD | Extreme nausea, dizziness, emotionally numb, headache, trouble breathing, insomnia, paranoia, passed out | I took Concerta during different stages of my life. When I was a child, a sophomore in hs, and a junior in college (now). When I was child, it worked miracles. My parents loved it, I felt focused. When I was in high school I was okay on it, minus the occasional head rush. Now I'm kicking off junior year. I wanted to do well so I figured I'd take it again. I now feel that it was a mistake. I hear a constant rushing noise in my ears, I loose interest in things fairly quickly, if I loose interest I don't concentrate. I'm emotionally numb, I had a customer yell at me and I just stared him in the eye the whole time. I couldn't even fake being contrite. When I'm crashing I crash hard. But then I wake up from VERY VIVID NIGHTMARES. I feel like someone is standing over me and laying beside me which freaks me out. I've had small issues with paranoia for awhile. But it has gotten worse while taking this drug. The headaches are almost unbearable. Today takes the cake though. It's hot right now where I live and very humid. I had to walk to to work but I passed out in the middle of the sidewalk. What's weird is when I woke up I just slowly got up and kept going. I was so numb because it was the highest curve of my dosage that having that happened didn't even bother me. I'm thinking about going off of it. | F | 20 | 6 days | 9/3/2015 | 3 | ADHD | I did not experience any side effects of concerta until after my dosage was moved up to 27mg. My third day taking it i had lost my appetite. Then some time after that i started to get sudden headaches and loss my balance and got dizzy. Often i would feel really tired and sometimes i would get a sudden sharp pain in my chest. Now I've only been taking concerta for 2yrs but the side effects are getting worse. Now i sometimes feel depressed and sometimes get anxiety. I begin to feel dizzy and like i want to trow up. I sometimes hear thing for no reason witch is not a very common side effect of concerta but however is a lease common one.And my hands are constantly twitching and/or shaking. | Concerta really helps me to be more calm and focus i am now often aware of my surroundings. | F | 13 | 2 years 27mg | 7/24/2015 | 1 | I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 7 | I was always depressed, lying around the house, lethargic, no appetite what so ever!, Irritable, Flat, Depressed. | I NEVER EVER give this medicine to my children because I know how it effected me and still is. I was very depressed all those years on that drug and no one would listen to me because I was a foster child. It made me feel disconnected with all emotions. Some of the effects are residual and still affect me as an adult. I developed severe OCD, which I am currently trying to control. I also lost 1/3 of my weight. I started high school weighing 170, by the end of my Freshman year I was down to 116 because they kept upping my dosage. The only thing I had an appetite for was chips or sometimes other junk food. | F | 25 | 10 times 36 2X day | 7/20/2015 | 1 | Add | SEVERE DIZZINESS AND HORRIBLE NAUSEA!! | F | 43 | 2 days 36 | 7/19/2015 | 4 | ADHD | Decreased appetite, some insomnia at first, if depression is genetic this can bring it out, increases my ticks (turrettes syndrome) | It honestly has helped me unbelievably, I wouldn't be going off to college without the help of this. I take it everyday, and it helps me function. | M | 18 | 6 years 54mg | 7/6/2015 | 2 | To concertrate durning class | Very bad mooded, headaches, sick feeling, over heated body, drowsy eyes | Everyday I take concerta, it help amazingly and my marks have improve but everyday I take concerta I get a headache and feel that sick feeling, which makes me want to go to bed, so one weekend I took it for studying and I felt that sick feeling and wanted to go to sleep but I couldn't as it felt like I was spinning and spinning until I was gonna hurl | M | 15 | 2 years 10MG | 6/14/2015 | 2 | ADHD | Increased appetite (to the extreme); very emotional first couple of weeks, irritable, hard to reason with, did not control ADHD symptoms; barely took the edge off. | My 9 year old son was taking Ritalin 3x a day, but maxed out on his dosage and stopped working for him. Dr switched him to Concerta (27 mg once a day) and I was excited not to have to schedule his dosages anymore. HOWEVER, since he started taking this, his appetite is out of control, I can NOT seem to fill him up and he has gained so much weight in only a month. He started receiving black marks for bad behavior every day (used to be once a week if that), very irritable, hard to reason with. We go back in one week to consult with the doctor. Hoping to find something else that will work. | M | 9 | 1 months 27 mg 1X day | 5/29/2015 | 3 | ADHD | can't sleep, no apatite, feel numb ( no emotion), lethargic at half way through the day | i cant't concentrate any better and am some days don't eat or sleep and i just fell numb all day as if i am not myself any more. i don't want to be with others and if i drink coffee whilst on it i am just bouncing off every wall and can't control my mouth or brain also i get the occasional head ache now where as before i rarely got them | M | 18 | 1 weeks 36 mg 1X day | 5/27/2015 | 3 | ADHD | extreme hunger but when I eat, I think I'm starving, so I eat a decent amount of food, and my stomach hurts literally every time after I eat because of this. | I've only been taking concerta for a month now, and when I started it, I was fine, not seeing a big difference. My biggest issue is (obviously) focus. I have a problem that I can't control what I focus on and when. I am a full time online student at a university with a full time and a part time job, I have no choice but to have so much going on. For example, When I am at work, I can only think about school and will try to take opportunities to look at my online classes and get things done at work when I have things that I should be doing and vise versa when I am at home at night trying to focus on getting school work done, I can't stop focusing on work. In conversations, I am constantly cutting people off, but I can't help it because if I don't say what I am thinking I will forget but when I do have the chance to talk, I am easily distracted and will lose my train of thought and it not only frustrates me but my family and friends, which is why I sought out a psychiatrist, after speaking to therapists and trying different non stimulants that worked for depression, but not so much for ADHD. My psychiatrist upped my dose because its working, but not really too effectively at this point in my opinion so we are going to try sticking to the same medicine but upping the dose to 36mg. I get this extreme hunger and feel like my stomach is completely empty in the morning before I take the pill at like 8, around 11 and later on around dinner time. Because I don't necessarily "remember | F | 22 | 30 days 27mg 1X day | 5/22/2015 | 1 | My experience with Concerta was TERRIBLE! I highly don't recommend this drug to anyone, ever. After several months of taking this my mind went into a psychotic state. I heard terrible voices in my head. I thought people could read my mind. many strange things happened to me as a direct result of this medication. I became similar to someone with scitchfremia. I would have awful nightmares each night. I would be so scared to go to sleep because of these terrible awful nightmares. Because of that I lost sleep which only made things worse. I thought people were out to get me and wanted to hurt me. I wouldn't wish this experience on anyone, not even my worst enemy. Please whoever reads this, be carful! This is a potent drug. | F | 21 | 4 months 36 mg | 5/16/2015 | 3 | ADHD | Extreme insomnia, Extreme social anxiety, Heart palpitations, No appetite, OCD like symptoms, Zombie State of mind | After taking Ritalin for several years when it became ineffective (I guess I developed a tolerance to it) I took a break for about a year but my parents decided I needed my Adhd meds again because I was in trouble at school all the time and my grades were horrible. They tried me on Concerta. My grades improved at first but then came the bad stuff. Like Ritalin, Concerta made me disgusted by the taste and smell of food, I would only eat once every 3 days, I was 5' 0" and weighed 106 lbs. I went from being a social people person to scared to death to even look someone in the eyes, I thought people could read my mind. I'm not schizophrenic but stimulants bring out side effects that make me think like one. Extreme insonmia, only slept for 6 hours every 3 days. OCD like symptoms, started checking everything 3 times, all labels on products had to be facing a certain way, I felt like a zombie like I was in my body but something else was controlling my movements and thoughts. Also had heart palpitations. My normally healthy heart would suddenly beat like thump-thump-thu-thu-thump and I would gasp for air when it happened. I took from age 15-18 then again from 19-22. I tried taking a break at age 18 but I lost every job I had and had no option but to start back, otherwise I could not function as an adult. But eventually, even though I was a zombie forced to focus, I could only focus on things I enjoyed. I lost all attentiveness for college and my job, I forgot to pay rent. | F | 29 | 8 years 40mg 1X day | 5/6/2015 | 3 | ADHD | Head aches about every day, REALLY hungry but have no appetite and feel like throwing up when I think or smell food, I'm really skinny and tall I'm 5'6 and I weigh about 105lbs and this hunger is gonna kill me, I'm worried I'm gonna lose weight as I really love to eat before this pill and I hated being skinny, also I feel I need to be on a higher dose, but it's been 4 days and I haven't handed in any homework this year (gr 10) I'm pretty smart I believe but i never focus in class or do homework, but I have been doing great with doing my math homework and wanting to keep working and doing stuff, but I'm parinoid if you need to email me do so | F | 15 | 4 days 18 mg | 4/18/2015 | 3 | Not officially diagnosed with add | I experienced changes in my mood. I move from very happy to pensive/sad most times I take it. Decreased appetite (I'm not complaining about that).sleep problems. It helps me focus which is great for studies but I'm beginning to think that the negative symptoms overshadow the positive effects. | Not sure if I want to continue. | F | 21 | 4 months 18 | 4/6/2015 |