STRATTERA Reviews (ATOMOXETINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.6 (443 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare STRATTERA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR STRATTERA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | ADD | I experienced dry mouth and eyes, upset stomach, sweating, dizziness, loss of sex drive, and weird thoughts. Eventually I had suicidal ideation and had to be hospitalized this October. The first thing the doctors did was get me off that drug ASAP. | I had asked the prescribing psych doctor if the strattera would interact with cymbalta, which I was also taking, and he said no. Now I have found out it can have negative interactions with certain other drugs. | F | 61 | 5 months 80 1X day | 11/12/2010 | 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 | 4 | ADD | nausea, upset stomach, loss of appetite, weight loss because of not having an appetite | Strattera has helped me but I am getting tired of the side effects. I try eating before I take my med, but even that doesn't seem to help. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to comment back. I am sure it will be helpful. | M | 16 | 9 years 100 mg 1X day | 11/3/2010 | 4 | ADD | At first there is alot of nausea but after the 2nd week id dies down but never realy left. Seem to have sleeping porblems but not major, same as ritalin. Also seem to be very sleepy around the afternoon often. lately been feeling sick and abnormaly bad stmoache aches but not sure if it could be mounting pressure and stress so not blaming the drug. in first 1 or so peeing did sting a bit. appitite is fine compared to what ritalin did but sometime occiasionaly dont eat lunch. coffe seems to upset my stomach if i drink it just after i take it. | started of with 40mg for 3 days then 60mg for 4 then jumped to 100 for a week and then went back down to 80mg for a week the back up to 100mg. what seems to help with nausea is ginger lemon tea or eating some fruit before and after taking the dosage. just a suggestion for beginners to stick it out first 2 weeks are the worst, after than you'll see the advantages and side affects will die down. Also unlike ritalin this doesnt supress my personality as much or cause depression, i find it is much easier to socialize and talk to my friends. also my confidence has boosted and i feel much more relaxed. | M | 17 | 2 months 100mg 1X day | 10/31/2010 | 3 | Adult ADD & OCD | Only been using it 6 days. Immediate, noticeable symptoms include: dry/cotton mouth, feeling drunk, severe fatigue during day no matter how much rest I get, waking up at 3-4AM every night taking 1-2 hours to force myself to sleep (i'm a very deep sleeper and never have been known to get up in the middle of the night), significant loss of appetite (i literally have NO hunger and forget to eat). No significant change in mood or concentration. I'm just as spacey as before the meds. :\ | Luckily, my hubby and mom notice my lack of appetite, so i get good, healthy food in me. I have to take a 1-2 hour nap after work, force myself to wake up and try to get to bed a little early since I wake (completely alert) around 4 every night. My mind is racing and I feel like i'd rather run a mile then sleep. Takes me a good 1-2 hours of just laying in bed to force myself back into sleep. My Dr. warned me of some side affects and is determined to watch me closely - I plan to give it a chance since this is the the only drug in my system and I feel it can be controlled and fine tuned with good observation and finding the right time of day to take it. I read that sometimes the side affects pass after the 1st week of stacking the drug into your system. I'll give it a full 2 months before determining to get off of it or not. Unless, the side affects are worse then what it's treating. | F | 31 | 6 days 10 MG 1X day | 10/29/2010 | 2 | adhd | dry mouth, irritibility, increased dreams, some trouble sleeping, light-headed | drug did improve focus, but overall feeling on medication was not great. after reading other testimonials I think lower dose saved me from more serious side-effects. Began having feelings of indifference and depression. Have decided to stop taking it. | M | 56 | 1 months 20mg 2X day | 10/27/2010 | 1 | ADD | Sweating, nausea, vomiting | I have been on ritalin and a low dose of zoloft for years and hoped that Strattera would be an alternative that wouldn't have the highs and lows that ritalin sometimes gives me. This is TERRIBLE. The first day I took it I started sweating profusely, got very nauseous and finally threw up. I continued to feel sick for most of the day, sweating and chills, like the flu. This is day two and it's just as horrible. I can't imagine that I can handle these side effects much longer and will contact my doctor this afternoon. This is the very first time I've had such an immediate adverse reaction to a medication. Wow. | F | 30 | 2 days 60mg 1X day | 10/27/2010 | 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 | 4 | ADD; Anxiety | Taking 100 mg. Difficult urination; some ED (Cialis makes this a nonissue); some ejaculation difficulty (frustrating); This is SO MUCH better for me than Effexor. I began slowly titrating off of 225mg of Effexor 10 months ago, and am nearly off of it (down to < 40 mg), and instead am taking Wellbutrin (started @ 150mg, and now am up to 300 mg) (which overlaps with Strattera, and helps me keep the positive effects from Strattera going while reducing Effexor, which includes a norepinephine effect like Strattera). I wish I could continue getting the initial boost I found with Strattera. | Its good for me. I finally beleive that my problem all along has been ADD, which when I was under great stress manifested itself with the sypmtoms of depression | M | 52 | 6 months 1X day | 9/27/2010 | 4 | ADHD/Anxiety | Constipation | After years on ritalin and then concerta, I got sick of having to take a second medication to deal with the anxiety I had when on stimulants. My doctor eased me slowly onto strattera, and I'm grateful that she did. I had no side effects at all, except for noticeable decreases in my anxiety and depression as I was weaned off the concerta. Now, 6 years later, I'm still a huge fan. I do find that strattera makes me constipated, but I've found that if I wait to take it until after I've had a bowel movement I'm fine. | F | 34 | 6 years 80 mg 1X day | 9/27/2010 | 1 | ADD-inattentive, anxiety | More side effects than I have ever experienced from any other anti-depresants or add meds (only other add drug I have been on is aderall though), I also wil note that I am taking adderall as well right now and the plan was to eventually go off adderall. Side effects I got incude:chills on my body and sometimes what feels like chills in my head and neck, hot flashes, confusion, loss of motor skills (clumsy, bumping into things, dropping things), brain fog where I can't think of even simple things, zombie-like feeling, extremely bad aches and pains, extreme fatigue, weird sensation in my head (tingles), some constipation on my first day of taking it, headache, worst heartburn/indigestion I have ever had. Made my focus problem from bad to worse! | I was told to give the medication a week to get used to my body etc but all of these symptoms together made me miserable and also scares me because common sense tells me this cannot be good, and not worth it even if it will start helping me focus in the future.I know everyone responds differently and I have been told my the doctor I am quite sensitive to medication, but never have I suffered so much from a medication. | F | 26 | 4 days 25 mg 1X day | 9/23/2010 | 1 | Adult ADHD | Increased sexual desire. Suicidal thoughts and extreme depression. Severe anxiety. Heart palpitations. Decreased blood pressure. Night sweats. Disturbing nightmares/dreams. Pimples. | This drug is evil, but I had a bad feeling about it before i started and knew it wouldnt work. My insane psychiatrist forced me to take it as he wouldnt provide me with Dexamphetamines any more, as I'd already been taking for some months, after he got me hooked on them. I feel like crap on Strattera - Life is not worth living this way. The other reviews say it all. Avoid the stuff. There must be a better way. Seek it out for God's sake, if you can. Pharmaceutical companies are pure evil. All drugs are poison. Even Dexys. The doctors don't know what to do with us ADHD people. Instead of talking to us and helping, they slam us with dreadful and horrendous drugs that they know will kill us. We are highly intelligent people. Lets harnass that to help ourselves some other way. | F | 45 | 3 weeks 75mg 1X day | 9/16/2010 | 2 | ADHD & TS | In response to S's question (your email address doesn't work): My son is definitely more stable now than he was when he was taking Strattera. We have not made any other changes, so I truly believe that Strattera was the culprit to his extreme unreasonableness, irritability, anger, etc. My son is still fairly irritable and difficult to deal with, but on Strattera there seemed to be an additional layer of this that was not "him." It was like he had no control over some of his reactions. He was also entirely unaware of how he came across. When we discussed this with his psychiatrist, she did say that this is a known but rare reaction to Strattera. She urged us to give the med some more time, and we did. But since there were really no positive effects in terms of increased focus and the amped up unreasonableness and anger continued, we discontinued Strattera. So my son is again taking no medication. He is 16 year old and is displaying a lot of teenage behavior - pushes limits, argues, is moody and irritable, etc. But off Strattera he isn't ALWAYS this way - he can also be insightful, caring, responsible, etc. He still has his ADHD issues with impulsivity, forgetfulness, disorganization...It is my opinion that Strattera enhanced my son's irritability and anger and even made him "unreachable" when he had gotten himself worked up enough. Off Strattera, he is back to a normal level that is managable. He can still be angry and irritable, but he again has control ov | M | 16 | 4 months 25 2X day | 9/7/2010 Patient History | 4 | Adult ADD | Lost weight,increased heart rate,increased perspiration in response to physical exertion | F | 51 | 8 months 60mg 1X day | 8/30/2010 | 4 | ADD | Nausea at first, this improved after about a month. Also had burning in urination, occasional feeling of passing hot lava when I ejaculated, itchy scalp, trouble sleeping, sexual dysfunction. | This drug really worked for me. I was much more able to focus at work, much more effective in relationships, more patient, more able to concentrate on difficult tasks, much less of a procrastinator, and I saw my depression abate as I felt more successful and effectual in all aspects of my life. For the first time I could read complex or technical text without spacing out or getting sleepy. I also finally lost some weight I'd been trying to get off of me. It has been truly wonderful. However, around the time I started realizing the full benefit (about 10 weeks into it) the side effects became bothersome. I experimented with the time of day I took it, and that helped some, but when I tried taking it just before bed, the equipment down below stopped working. I talked to my doctor about adjusting the dosage, and she talked me into trying another drug. If it doesn't work, I'll try a lower dosage of Strattera. | M | 40 | 4 months 80 mg 1X day | 8/19/2010 | 2 | ADD & Anxiety | Angry, agitated, sweating, had to take at night to keep from being sick. | My daughter started taking at 12 for anxiety and ADD. It did help some with anxiety. We thought the anger issues were just the teen years starting. We didn't realize until we took her off of the medicine after 14 months to find a more effective ADD medicine that we felt like we got our child back. She was almost immediately like another child and easy to get along with and pleasant to be around. Her counselor came out of her session and said she was amazed at the difference. I just wish we had done it earlier. | F | 14 | 14 months 40mg 1X day | 8/12/2010 | 2 | ADD from Bipolar Mania | I took this medicine December 2009. In addition to bipolar type II, I have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) which I think is a product of the manic state or medication induced (probably abilify). Since stimulants sometimes induce mania the Nurse Practitioner prescribed Strattera (Atomoxetine). Before I could ramp it up to the recommended therapeutic strength (100 mg), the side effects got in the way. I had a starter pack and had gone up in dosage to 80 mg in four weeks. At 80 mg the medication made me manic; that mania crossed over into mixed state within hours. I felt angrier and more irritated on it, then extremely depressed. Very unwanted side effects. At this point 400 mg of Lamictal, 5 mg of Abilify and 300 mg of Seroquel XR tether me to normalcy(whatever that is) and this drug definitely doesn't go well with that mix. You can read my blog where I write about my struggle with my mind and medications... | M | 35 | 2 months 80 mg 1X day | 7/30/2010 | 4 | Focus, control binge disorder | Only experiences negative side effects when I first began taking this drug---headaches, trouble sleeping, restlessness, dry mouth. Now it's been a while (years), and I do not experience any of these side effects. This medication has eliminated my binging urges & helps me focus on tasks. | Originally, my psych prescribed 25 mg. My highest dose was 80 mg at which time the medication stopped working for me. My dose was decreased to 40mg & I was also prescribed Adderall. In combination of my other medications (Wellbutren & Adderall), I do not binge. However, if I miss one day, it is almost a guaranteed binge. At the 80 mg dosage, I was kind of snappy, not mean or enraged but overly assertive and extremely passive aggressive. | F | 28 | 4 years 40 mg 1X day | 7/10/2010 | 2 | ADD (misdiagnosed) | Was placed on this drug years ago while I was in high school for treatment of ADD (which I was actually misdiagnosed with). Each time I took it, I would notice a strange sensation, similar to heaviness and weak drowsiness. The worst part (and why treatment was ended) was sudden vomiting. Soon after the medication kicked in, I would get intense nausea and explosively vomit. Each and every time. Wasn't great. I was on this drug when I was 14, but I just wanted to put in my experience with it from back then. | M | 22 | 7 days 40mg 1X day | 6/27/2010 | 4 | add | Sick stomach first two days. | My sister said I was calmer then usual, we painted a room and I kept with it as much as I could. I did feel I had to sleep but it was only heavy eyes and no real nap. Heavy eyes seemed weird but got better these last few days. I am hopeful. I have been on stimulants but want a more easy life. The test will be in doing math. I want to finish school because I love it. Very hopeful. | F | 54 | 6 days 10 MG 1X day | 6/17/2010 |