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 |
| 2 | ADD | Random times of the day where i'd just fall asleep in school, then when its bed time not being able to sleep and when i do sleep horrible nighmares. Dizzyness, Hearing things that arn't there. Off ballance. Horrible stomach aches and then not being hungry. | I dislike like this medicine, i don't think its working. My doc started me on the 18 for 5 days, 25 for 5 days then an 18 and a 25 for 5 days and curently i am on the 60 and its day 10 or 11. I am never tired, so i don't sleep. At school I will be awake and alert one minute and then fighting to stay awake the next. When I do fall asleep, I have these horrible nightmares,and wake up drenched in sweat and normally not in bed anymore. I see and hear things that arn't there. I run track and its not a good thing when u are so dizzy you sit down durring a race, because you are so dizzy. My ballance is so off to. People have asked me if i was high bc i am walking so weirdly and talking about things that weren't said or there. I am never hungry anymore *unless i forget about my meds for a bit*. Once I do take my meds I have these horrible stomach aches that last for hours. Overall, I havn't seen an improvement in my grades or in anything that i am doing, i still can't stay focused long enough to finish my homework. Even writting this took forever because I had to get up and do something else.. Back on topic, I have had more sucidial thoughts then I was having on this drug. To all of my friends I have just withdrawn from them, I can tell they are worried but I can't seem to stand being around them everything about them annoyes me now,when before I started the medicine nothing bothered me.Its also made my period cramps worse then they already are,so now I medicating for that now to. | F | 15 | 26 days | 11/28/2009 | 2 | add | impotence...no way! | 25-50 mg...helped a little...couldn't get it up...no dice...back to the stimulants and the benzos and the HYPNOTICS...word | M | 24 | 1 weeks | 11/27/2009 | 3 | ADD | Extreme fatigue for the first 4-5 days after a dosage increase. Dreams/nightmares every night and I would wake up between 3-4 a.m. and have trouble going back to sleep so I never felt rested. Nausea if not taken with food. | I was recently diagnosed with Adult ADD after researching adhd for my son. My doctor started me on Strattera 25mg/day for the first week. Then 50mg/day for week, then 75mg/day for 2 weeks, with a target dosage of 100mg. I only made it up to the 75mg dosage before discontinuing use. When I first started Strattera I was very sleepy this lasted for the first 4-5 days after a dose increase. The sleepiness got much better after that. I was able to actually lie down and go to sleep at night, something I have never been able to do. I always had too many thoughts bouncing around in my head that I couldn't turn off that would keep me awake sometimes for hours before I could fall asleep. I did notice that during the day my focus was much better and I felt less irritable. Overall I liked the effects I was receiving from the drug, but the major down side I experience were dreams/nightmares. Before taking Strattera I very seldom had a dream much less a nightmare. When I began taking Strattera I began dreaming every night. I only had a few nightmares but I wasn't sleeping well because of the dreams. I would wake up almost every night between 3-4 a.m. because of my dreams, then I would have some problems going back to sleep. I never felt rested while on Strattera. This was very disappointing to me because I liked the other results that I was getting from Strattera. When I went back to my doctor for my 30 day check up I told him about my results and about the dreams. He took me off Strattera | M | 38 | 30 days | 11/23/2009 | 3 | Adult ADHD | Bad taste in my mouth if I don't constantly drink water; constipation; my eyes sometimes lose focus when I'm talking up close with someone, as if I feel cross-eyed; I yawn a LOT, all day; sweat profusely at night. COMMENTS: I don't know how to feel about Strattera. I was diagnosed with Adult ADHD in Fall 2007 and started taking Adderall. Life was fantastic! I was extremely focused AND I was losing weight with no effort. But after about 9 months I didn't feel like I was benefiting from Adderall and I just felt like I was taking a stimulant. I also started to abuse it. My doctor wasn't trying to treat me, she was writing an Rx (for me and other patients, as read on her reviews.) I started seeing another doctor. He asked if I was happy with Adderall and I said I guess. He sensed my hesitation and we talked about my other options. We started me on Strattera but I was hesitant. I started at the lowest dose because of my personal hesitation. | CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS COLUMN: The results were okay but they've never been better than okay. My doctor and I have altered my dosage but unfortunately, unlike Adderall, if you up the dosage it doesn't mean your results will improve. I don't know how else to describe how I feel with Strattera. It's just okay. I felt like the 40mg was too much at once so now I'm on 25mg 3-4 times a day. I used to take 2 in the AM and 2 at lunch, then 3 in the AM and 1 at lunch, and now I take 4 in the AM. It doesn't give me that jump start that I need. I've tried taking them at night before but I had horrible nightmares/night tremors. I haven't taken any at night since. It takes me a long time to get going during my day. I usually "wake up" and get productive in the late afternoon. I am extremely frustrated and questioning my diagnosis and current therapy. In the past month I moved to a new city and am acting more reclusive and extremely unmotivated to do anything besides sleep, eat, pick at my acne and watch tv. Therefore, I am not looking forward to screening doctors and finding a new good fit here. I feel lost. Sometimes I wonder if it would be okay to go back to Adderall, especially because I loved the decreased appetite and losing weight without effort. Sometimes I feel like doing that would just be half-assing it. And most of the time I just want to be "normal," whatever that is. | F | 29 | 12 months | 11/13/2009 | 2 | ADHD | extreme fatigue, dizziness | I was recommended to try Strattera as an alternative to Vyvanse When I was taking Vyvanse I was able to focus for long periods of time but when the first portion of the time release but the hour or two that it took for the second portion to take effect was brutal. During that period of time i became manically depressed and could not handle it. Now that I am on Strattera I can not focus I am constantly tired no matter how long I sleep. I have no desire to attempt anything. compared to the vyvanse it is like putting a grain of salt in water and calling it saline | F | 24 | 14 days | 10/28/2009 | 1 | Adult ADD | For four years I thought that this was like heaven on earth. Recently, though, I have had a lot of mrdical issues. Every single one is a listed side-effect of Strattera. Needless to say I'll never take another one. | You would think that with all the problems this drug causes that maybe it should not be on the market. | M | 52 | 4 years | 10/25/2009 | 3 | ADHD | moody and sleepy the first day or two, nausea if I don't take it with a lot of (non-dairy) food | I've been much less anxious and less irritable since I started taking Strattera. I'm not sure that it helps with my concentration much though. I'm only on 50 mg though so I may need a higher dose. | F | 28 | 9 months | 10/9/2009 | 1 | possible ADHD/concentration issues | nausea, weight loss,fatigue, could not stay awake, physically, weak, did not help with focusing problems either, once I got to 100mg I started getting depressed again, and I begged to get off of it | the first 3 days I took it I felt great and it gave me energy but it did not help me focus and with each increase the side effects worsened until I couldn't tolerate it any more; I got up to 100mg, then quit cold turkey per my pdoc's advice, this is actually an anti-depressant that just happens to help SOME people with ADD not all | F | 31 | 2 months | 9/16/2009 | 3 | teen age Asperger Syndrome | excess sleepiness | Enabled him to concentrate and be more motivated in school | M | 17 | 2 years | 8/29/2009 | 1 | ADHD | Depressed, stomach pain, nausea, sleepy and careless | The stomach aches were unbearable. I had to keep paper towels at my side from the constant depression spells and tears from yawning. Went to bed as soon as I got home. My concentration worsened. My family doctor told me he likes to prescribe Strattera because it's non habit forming. I think he's right, Strattera makes it's consumers feel worse than before, so why would anyone want to continue using it? | F | 23 | 1 months | 8/28/2009 | 1 | ADHD | Weak, too sleepy, crying, very depressed | Horrible experience | F | 14 | 4 days | 8/20/2009 | 5 | ADHD | I lost 37 pounds in 3 months. Some moddiness not sure if it just me or the meds. | F | 33 | 3 months | 8/3/2009 | 1 | ADHD | Nausea, which went away with time. If I skipped a day because I forgot (go figure), then a symptom of my ADD would be horribly worse the following day. Severe fits of obsessive compulsive behavior and horrible mood swings, or a total inability to pay attention to anything for any reasonable length of time. Like walking around in a distracted daze all day. | I hated this stuff. I refuse to try another pharmaceutical because of it. I was a different person on this stuff, and not a pleasant one, either. I was already an unhappy person before I started on it. I never could manage to take it on a regular basis to get it working, and had a general hatred toward the world around me. I thought I was losing my mind, and it was not until I dropped the meds that I realized they must have been the cause of my problems. Otherwise, when asked about them during that time period, I would tell people I was fine, or tired, or that there was something wrong and I didn't know what. Don't give an ADHD person who can't remember things a drug that they have to remember in order to get it working properly. I cringe when I hear people talk about it. Awful, just awful. | F | 23 | 7 months | 7/31/2009 | 3 | anxiety and depression | bad taste in mouth | My mental health provider prescribed strattera to boost the effects of cymbalta which wasn't cutting it on the depression and anxiety It seems to be working but I have a nasty chemical taste in my mouth | F | 52 | 9 days | 7/13/2009 | 1 | ADD, OCD, Depression | It barely affected me for at least a month. Since then I've been irritable, tired, and have been experiencing heart burn/headaches. | I hate this medicine. | M | 16 | 3 months | 7/12/2009 | 2 | Attention and hyperactivity | I started on 40mg four days ago and I experience intense tiredness a few hours after taking the pill, to the point that I fall asleep for three hours, even though I sleep through the night as well. I've also noticed mild, infrequent, hot flashes, lightheadedness when standing up, and decreased appetite. I was supposed to double the dose today but after speaking with the pharmacist, instead, I've called my doctor and left a message asking to be placed on the 18mg pill instead of the 40 mg one. I think the dose is way too high for me since I've generally sensitive to medicine, and since I already take 75mg of Effexor XR for the past two years. | M | 4 days | 7/7/2009 | 5 | Adult ADHD | Mild difficulty eating, constipation, difficulty sleeping | Within 3 days of taking Strattera I began to see results. I begin taking 80mg tomorrow but so far I have seen dramatic results. Although there had been only a slight increase in my attention span, my other symptoms have improved significantly. I am less prone to irritation and impulsivity and there has also been a profound increase in the the way I feel in general. For once in my life I feel contentment. I no longer feel as though I am crawling under my skin, and the decrease in my stress / anxiety has been nothing less than miraculous. I have suffered from the effects of ADHD for as long as I remember and this medication is the first that has given me any sort of relief. I cannot begin to describe how thankful I am. | M | 32 | 7 days | 6/26/2009 | 3 | ADD | Constipation, sexual side effects-impotence. | The taste of the pills makes me sick, that alone makes me forget to take it. | M | 24 | 4 years | 6/25/2009 | 1 | Adult ADD | Severe depression, suicidal thoughts, inability to communicate. | I began this medication for ADD, I had never experienced any type of depression other than situational. This sent me into full blown crisis. I stopped taking it and within three days I was absolutely fine. I now take Concerta and have seen excellent results in my concentration. | F | 36 | 30 days | 6/22/2009 | 3 | ADD | None so far, but I'm sure I will. | If you are comparing this to Adderall, just forget it. It will not have the same effects. You will not get euphoric, but if you have an addictive nature to you, I can tell you Adderall will destroy you. For me, once I started taking it, I could not stop. I would stay up for days and not eat. It was the best/worst drug I ever took. After a year of this cycle, I was so depressed without it, the only thing that cured my depression was more Adderall. I am still debating whether to allow my doctor to keep it it at the pharmacy as my brain chemistry is so out of whack without it, I can't function. When it wears off, I feel intense craving. This means you really can't take it. I have been depressed/unfocused/anxious all my life. When I took it for the first time and felt the effects I thought I had found the cure to all my problems. I was wrong. Like I said, it was too good to be true. Now, I am in the depths of the horrid Adderall depression that almost hospitalized me today. Every hospital was full, so I ended up coming home. Somehow I found a dropped 20 mg pill in the room and instantly the depression lifted. So there was no guessing what was causing it. I swear to God, I never in my life had depression that deep and lasting. My doctor gave me Strattera months back (different doctor) and I starting taking it today in addition to upping my Prozac to 40 mg. (Yes, on my own.) I heard Strattera can boost anti-depressants. I felt the crash from the little orange pill, but I am not nea | F | 36 | 10 days | 6/7/2009 |