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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR STRATTERA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | ADHD without hyperactivity | Helped her focus more but caused extreme lack of energy. Going to try 5mg. | F | 10 | 1 months 10mg | 8/9/2016 | 1 | ADHD | My son was placed on Strattera when he was 10 yrs old, when it was 1st approved by FDA in Jan 2003. After 3 miserable week's with no help with ADHD & him crying, raging, suicidal his Pediatrician put him back on 10 to 15 MG of Adderall per day & he calmed down & was able to focus again. Right after my son's terrible experience with Strattera, my oldest son's Band Teacher confided in me that he also had ADHD & had an appointment with his Dr. to begin treatment with Stattera, I told him about our experience & to be careful. Within 4 week's of starting treatment our H.S.Band teacher had a complete nervous breakdown, was suicidal & hosptilized. He was in therapy for a very long time & was not able to continue as Band Teacher. It took over a year for him to start giving private lessons, it was devastating for him & my son. I don't recommend it unless you are supervised by Dr. constantly. It almost ended my son's life & wrecked my friend's life. He was lucky to have lived & his wife, children, career, finances were all severely jeopardized by Strattera. | I'm suprized to see that Stattera is still being used for ADHD along with depression. I'm stunned to see all of these comment's, I had no idea that it caused impotance, as well as severe depression. I would strongly caution to any parent or adult to be very careful with this medication. It is definitely dependent on each person's own chemical makeup. I read some people had good responses, and I'm grateful they did not have the nightmare experience that my son & my friend, our son's Band Teacher had. That was a horrific year I'll never forget. | M | 10 | 3 weeks 25 mg | 8/9/2015 | 2 | ADHD | Increased appetite!! Weight gain! Extremely moody, easily angered, easily irritated, & acts like he doesn't have a care in this world. Acts very irrational & sometimes psychotic. He doesn't seem to have a grip on reality. | My son was on Concerta for 3 years & done great. He was maxed out with his growth spurts & dosage & it stopped working as well. Adderall made him very violent & now strattera seems to be doing that as well. We were trying to do non-stimulants but it just isn't working. I'm torn & not sure what to do. My son used to be very compassionate & loving. He liked to be funny, he loved to laugh & had a big personality but was unable to focus & finish tasks even in structured environments. Now my son is not himself & no one can handle him the way he currently is. He started on 20mg of straterra & has increased each month by 20 mg. each month the side effects become worse. His dr says we must give it time & refuses to take him off. I'm in search of a new dr. Please beware. I thought the monthly increase was going to help him & he is worse than ever. | M | 12 | 3 months 80mg 1X day | 12/25/2013 | 4 | Weight loss/ appetite loss | My daughter started on Strattera in the second grade. She has ADHD. It has helped her focus in school and in extra curricular activities. We tried Concerta but it made her "weepy" and very sensitive. Strattera has thankfully worked in our case.She takes 25mg because of her weight. She is off for the summer and gains weight right back. | F | 9 | 1 years 25mg 1X day | 12/9/2011 | 1 | AD/HD Anxiety | stomach pain, massive anxiety attacks,insomnia, discomfort, loss of apetite, weight loss | I was actually looking forward to trying a new kind of AD/HD medicine but within the first day of taking of strattera i became very panicky and uncomfortable. On my fifth day of taking strattera i had 2 emotional break downs and i cried for mabye 10 mins each time. I stopped taking it then and I am still waiting for the side effects to wear off that was a day ago. If anyone could send me an email or write a response on how long it took the side effects of strattera to wear off for them, that would be great | M | 13 | 5 days 10 1X day | 7/22/2011 | 1 | ADHD | Drowsiness shortly after taking, then severe headache, dilated pupils, fast heartrate and elevated BP , insomnia | I gave my child his first dose around 7 pm last night as the doctor instructed. About 1 1/2 later the side effects began. His HR was 110 and Bp was 140/90. Last night was the 1st and last dose I will give him. | M | 11 | 1 days 40 MG 1X day | 3/31/2011 | 5 | ADD | Hugely dialeted pupials, Dizzyness, Stomach hurting, Loose about 40 pounds | I love it. | F | 12 | 1 days 80 MG 1X day | 3/27/2011 | 1 | ADHD/Anxiety | Increased heartrate, dizziness when standing up, horrible drowsiness, personality loss, NO HELP CONCENTRATING. | This stuff is terrible! My mom is known to be very persistent and likes to wait things out, but even SHE said that this was the most quiet I've been since I was a baby. I got horrible drowsiness and wanted to sleep all day but forced myself not to because I didn't want to wake up early. Boy, was I wrong! It is 5:11 am the day after I started it and I've been awake for 2 hours . I litteraly can not sleep. I have school today and a meeting about my ADHD at 7:45 today! This medicine S U C K S. | F | 13 | 1 days 1X day | 1/24/2011 | 4 | ADHD | Upset stomach if not taken with plenty of food. | Has helped tremendously with focus and concentration. | F | 8 | 4 months 40mg 1X day | 1/15/2011 | 1 | adhd | My daughter took this for 3 months. She had taken concerta. I wanted to see if we could use a drug that lasted longer. Strattera didn't work as well as concerta for adhd but did last longer. First month was pretty good. Second month she became very moody. By third month she was regularly crying for hours, getting extremely upset over very minor things and acting horribly and often very angry. | Her behavoir and personality changed radically on this drug. I discontinued the drug l month ago and she began getting better within two days. She is no longer having any of the aforementioned symptoms. Now on Focalin XR. Works well for 10 hrs. she has a better appetite than on concerta | F | 12 | 3 months 40 mg 1X day | 1/12/2011 | 2 | add | extreme exhaustion; lethargy, moodiness and anxiety, decreased appetite and restless sleep patterns | Taken my son off the medication due to side effects and absolutely no positive benefits; his change in demeanour and loss of his natural spark and sense of humour was extremely hard to watch; he has never been an anxious child and started to pick at his nails and toenails for the first time ever on the medication. I would never try it again. | M | 10 | 4 weeks 60 1X day | 1/11/2011 | 1 | Trouble Concentrating/ ADHD | WARNING TO ALL PARENTS: Inability to Tell Reality from dreams! | My son started taking Strattera after a switch from Adderal(due to aggression.) At first things were going ok, better reports from the school, very little side effects, and just mild headaches that were easily dismissed with Tylenol. Then we started noticeing him forgetting things. Then asking us if something really happened or if he dreamed it. Then one day he went to my parents house (they live on the same property)and then came home two minutes later. I asked if "paw paw" was not home and he said he couldn't rememeber. I said well did you see him, he said I don't know, I said ok did you see him or not when you drove the four wheeler down there. He said I don't remember if I drove down there or not! He was STILL SITTING ON THE FOUR WHEELER! This was my last straw after several of similar episodes. Please be careful with the medication. If I had not of stopped him from taking it there is no telling what could have happened! | M | 9 | 60 days 40MG 1X day | 11/5/2010 | 1 | ADD | My daughter had stomach aches and excessive sleepiness but she was focusing more in school. the last 2 months she slowly morphed into a totally different person. She started being snotty to people and having melt downs over every litte thing. At the very end she was jsut a horrible person to be around rude and critical of everyone and thing. I asked her why she was being so mean and she said she didn't know why her brain was just telling her to be mean. She never took another one after that. | It has been almost a month and she is still rude and moody to a lesser degree. I am just going to have to work extra hard to keep her focused. | F | 6 | 5 months 18mg 1X day | 9/30/2010 | 1 | ADHD | Hallucinations, extreme anger, manic episodes, thoughts of suicide. He thinks he's killed people and many other things which are not true. He can't tell reality from non-reality. He says his tummy talks to him and tells him to do bad stuff. | My 9 year old son has been on this drug for 3 months. His entire personality has changed. He has horrible hallucinations and extreme anger and mania. We have been to the ER and his Doctor many times. This drug is absolute poison!! | M | 9 | 3 months 40 MG 1X day | 6/14/2010 | 1 | ADHS | My son also takes focalin and strattera. I am taking him off the strattera immediately. He is showing signs of anger, outbursts, swearing and he just can't get his emotions under control. There is no question that he is having a bad reaction to this medication. | M | 13 | 10 days 40 1X day | 2/21/2010 | 3 | Daughters ADHD | She is taking it with another medication (Focolain?) and until taking this medication she didn't have these side effects: Constant dilated pupils, moody, verbally agressive, unable to stay asleep through the night, emotionally unbalanced... | My daughter has been diagnoised with ADHD for just over a year now. We have come a long way with her behavior until strattera was added for consentration purposes. YES, it has improved with that, HOWEVER, it is not worth the side effects that our little girl is feeling. Her personality is NOTHING like our daughter. She is constantly getting in trouble for being verbally agressive and for doing things she knows isn't right. This has only been going on for about a month, or so....she has only been on the medicine for about 2 months...thus making me think that a lot of this is the combination of the medicines. I am going to call the doctor on Monday to see what we can do...it breaks my heart to see our daughter cry with bags under her eyes because part of her knows she isn't acting like our daughter, but she can't help herself...it is heartbreaking as a mother to see this! | F | 7 | 8 weeks | 1/29/2010 | 1 | My 11 year old is BI-POLOR AND ODD | SEVEAR NOSE BLEEDS AND RACING HEART WITH PAINS IN CHEST WITHIN ONE HOUR OF TAKING 40mg FIRST DOSE. cold sweets,vomiting,weakness in jionts,scared the hell out of my child | Do to the nose bleeds my child missed 2 days of school I took her off the medication then | F | 11 | 2 days | 3/11/2009 | 2 | PDD-NOS, ADD, Anxiety | My five year old son started this medication 3 days ago. An hour after taking it (in the AM), he becomes very irritable, then after a few hours he looks extremely tired and out of it (even took a nap one day!!), he has obvious dry mouth, seems a bit more panicky, complains of his feet falling asleep, lacks emotion at times and overreacts at others. Also has extreme loss of appetite (very unlike him). | After witnessing what my son is going through on the lowest dose of 10mg/day and reading others comments, my husband and I have decided to stop this medication immediately. The side effects that I have listed were the ones that we identified and I'm sure there was more discomfort beyond what we were able to see. My son has a high tolerance for pain and discomfort (as is common for people with autism disorders) and is unable to express how he is feeling physically. So, I can just imagine what else might be going on for the poor kid on this medication! I realize that in some cases, side effects subsided a bit for some people, but I am simply not comfortable with continuing with this medication for my son. | M | 5 | 3 days | 3/2/2009 | 1 | 10 year old son taking it | We put him on it as soon as he was diagnosed with ADD and within 6 hours of taking the pill he was very drowsy, his pupils were very dialated and he felt very ill. he was like that for a few days, the sickness went away, but in its place anger set in, and our son is not an angry person, he is quite the opposite, he was physically going after his 12 year old sister. and the drowsiness and dialated pupils were still there.we discontinued his treatment, I fear to try another medication, but we are still looking for treatment, but it wont be strattera. | I DO NOT RECOMMEND STRATTERA | M | 10 | 14 days | 12/31/2008 | 1 | ADHD | Aggressive, Mania, horrible tantrums | My daughter was put on Strattera during an inpatient hospitalization. She has also been diagnosed with a mood disorder and was taking Seroquel as well. Horrible results. Rages lasting an hour or more. Days that were really bad ALL day long. DID help with hyperactivity, but made her obsess over small, minor things (maybe too focused). She was on 18 mg daily. | F | 5 | 2 months | 11/19/2008 |
STRATTERA (ATOMOXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE): Atomoxetine is used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as part of a total treatment plan, including psychological, social, and other treatments. It may help to increase the ability to pay attention, concentrate, stay focused, and stop fidgeting. It is thought to work by restoring the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain. FDA Approval Date: 2005-02-14 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)