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 |
| 4 | Depression / attention problems | Dozens in first few months - nausea, constipation, tingling in hands, stomach ache, impotence, anorgasmia, great anxiety, nightmares, bizarre thoughts, loss of apetite, etc. | I almost discontinued in first week, then several more weeks were barely tolerable. I've taken many psychotropic meds over many years, and this was by far the most difficult initially. Additionally, I can't tolerate the constipation without Zelnorm (Tegaserod) which I must buy from India. But eventually it made a huge difference in my life. I could focus, work without anxiety or distraction, finish tasks I never could before, work very long hours. And moreover, most symptoms of depression (dysthymia) which occured most of my life almost completely vanished. True, I feel a little less excited about things, slightly a 'don't care' attitude, but overall my life has vastly improved - in family, work, attitude. Advice: try to get through the initial severe side-effects by taking a low dose, work with your doctor and websites to find work-arounds for the side-effects if you can until they abate. | M | 54 | 4 years | 5/31/2009 | 2 | Anxiety, lack of focus, adult ADD | Constant nausea, some dizzyness, anxious, insomnia, | Started with 25 mg for dinner and was unable to sleep more than 20 minutes at a time. After 2 nights of this I changed to morning and this helped with the insomnia. I was slightly nauseous for the first week. Day 8 I went up to 25 mg breakfast and 25 mg lunch. I was very nauseous and felt like I had a never ending hangover. The more food I ate before the dose the less the nausea, however, there was always some. Still having some insomnia, waking every 2 hrs. One night I couldn't go to sleep for hours because I had the feeling I wouldn't wake up. I have never felt like that before. I was supposed to go up to 75 mg after 2 weeks, however, didn't do it because I wasn't tolerating even the 50 mg. I didn't take any today and felt great. I will not resume and am asking my doctor to let me try Vyvance. I experienced no changes in my ADD habits so it wasn't worth continuing and feeling sick all day. By the way, I also take brand name Wellbutrin XL and love it. | F | 52 | 16 days | 5/21/2009 | 1 | ADD/ADHD | I had extreme nausea for the 3 weeks that I was taking it. I had to be picked up from school almost every day ( i'm a sophmore in high school. ) I was extremely moody, mostly towards my boyfriend. While constantly spacing out, I was having weird thoughts about my relationship with my boyfriend, ( such as wanting to acuse him of cheating with no evidence or suspisions. ) My doctor told me it would help with my ansomnia, but it made it alot worse. It got to the point where I barely slept, so after school i'd come come and sleep until dinner time. I lost contact with all of my friends, and I just wanted to be alone. I have depression, and this made it worse. I never was suicidal, but I was irritable and hated everything. I barely went to the bathroom, maybe once or twice a day. The thought of eating made me sick. I also have epilepsy and my seizures got worse. On my way to school i'd pass out in the car and fall asleep in class. I needed to be checked for drugs constantly in school because I couldn't keep my head up, and my pupils would be dialated. I've tried Aderall and a few other drugs for my ADD/ADHD, and I seem to get almsot the same side effects each time. At about my third week, I realized that my grades were getting really bad in school. I had an F in every class, even my favorite one. Mostly because I'd sleep all class, and I never wanted to answer questions ( part of my irritability. ) It started to hurt while I was having sex, and I'd get random joint aches all over | F | 15 | 3 weeks | 5/20/2009 | 5 | ADHD | I have taken this medecine for ADHD for a little over 4 years now, and I have to say to anyone that is just starting to take it, that it was VERY intense for me when I first started. I experienced unexplainably horrible nightmares, stomach pains, vomiting, and random sweats and flu like symptoms. It was really bad. After talking to my doctor about it, we experimented with what times of the day I took it, the dosage ammount, and different variables to come up with a solution for the horrible side effects. I finally found that I have to take it right before I am going to fall asleep. The drug last 24 hours so you will still get the benefits it provides during the day. You have to make sure you take it right before you fall asleep though, not too much before because that will start the stomach/heartburn thing up, and intensify the nightmares sometimes. | Before taking strattera I took adderall and ritalin. Both of these medications gave me terrible mood swings and made me a bitch that no one could tolerate to be around, so when I experienced strattera, and was able to concentrate and do well in school, with out being bitch/nervous wreck, I had to take it regardless of the side effects. But as I mentioned, after experimenting and finding out what regimend worked for me I rarely ever experience the side effects, UNLESS I forget to take it at night and take it in the day. | F | 24 | 4 years | 5/19/2009 | 2 | adult add | extreme nausea, dizziness | Ive been taking 80mg a day for about 6 weeks and the nausea hasn't gotten any better. So far I have not noticed any changes in ability to focus. | M | 27 | 6 weeks | 5/15/2009 | 3 | Adult ADD | The stomach discomfort is the worst. However, eating when I take the medicine in the AM and adding a couple crackers every two hours thereafter helps a bit. I'm also tired and get the worst sweats/chills. The constipation is also annoying. I've been on the medicine for one week. I'm planning on throwing away the bottle if the symptoms don't subside within the next week. | It's hard to tell if it is working because I'm so used to Concerta, which I couldn't stand due to the anxiety. | F | 32 | 7 days | 5/14/2009 | 2 | adult add and anxiety | my doctor took me of celexa and told me to take strattera 18mg for 7 days and double the dose after I am on my fifth day and I feel detached from the world I have more anxiety, the worst headaches in the world. | So far I feel like crap I could not concentrate on celexa and clonazepam that well but I am afraid to even go out and walk my dog I have the worst headaches and feel detached from the world, I feel like I am high on drugs. Hopefully this will change soon but for now I feel like shit | F | 27 | 5 days | 5/10/2009 | 1 | chills and sweating, impotence... nuff said | I was sent by a therapist to a psychiatrist to be given stress leave from work and after a twenty minute conversation walked out with a 30 day sample pack of this poison. I debated taking it then figured ahh what the hell and popped a pill and went to work, got off and went to my girlfriends house and after a couple hours realized something isn't working! No matter what I tried to do its like I'm an 80 year old man. I can't get an erection. I refuse to steralize myself for the sake of an attention span. | M | 28 | 1 days | 5/3/2009 | 3 | Lack of concentration at work | Trouble urinating, even ejaculated while urinating, this freaked me out. Also chills. | dont know if i will continue this drug or not. It does help me concentrate better. | M | 39 | 21 days | 5/1/2009 | 1 | racing thoughts/poor focus | extreme drowsiness all through out the day,vivid nightmares,i'm a recovering alcoholic and am getting cravings i havent had in years,irritability,mood swings. | i was put on this because it isnt habit forming and i had a lack of energy and poor focus with racing thoughts.i was on a different more habit forming med for the same thing and did fine on it.but was taken off because my dr. felt it wasnt healthy for a recovering alcoholic.well after these side effects i beg to differ.not only has it made my urges stronger than they have been in years.its made my anxiety and focus even worse.and has caused nightmares since the day i started and im on a low dose.i would rather be on a pill that can have habit forming traits and have it in the dr.'s hands then be on one that will increase my chances of relapse on booze.i never had a problem abusing pills.anyone in recovery i STRONGLY suggest not using this med.cravings come back immediatly.not only that but the nightmares are enough to make a sober person want to drink or use drugs.anyone with anxiety i urge to stay away as well.raised mine a lot and im on a med to control it.so unless you love to sleep all day or wish to become an addict of anykind STAY AWAY.please let me know if anyone else with a history of alcoholism has had any of these problems as well.i'd like to klnow if its just me or not.i think i read another one or two here that were similar. | M | 31 | 10 days | 5/1/2009 | 1 | A.D.D | Nausea, Mood swings, thoughts of suicide, disturbing thoughts, extreme lack of sleep. | I started taking it in the beginning of the school year, and my grades shot up, but, i started to act strange, and not want to be around anyone. My behavior was unlike me. I started to get thoughts that disturbed me, and i had thoughts of suicide. I barley got any sleep, and it sucked. | F | 16 | 8 months | 4/16/2009 | 4 | ADHD | Dry mouth, extreme lack of appetite, and prominent nausea when starting the regimen (e.g., after withdrawal), throat swelling | I take 80mg a day. It fulfills its job. It really only sucks during the initial stages due to the nausea, and occasional throat swelling. | M | 20 | 4 years | 4/11/2009 | 3 | ADD | Super cotton mouth, anxious pit in stomach and feels like i have trouble swallowing, like i may choke. anerexia | working well for concentration purposes. almost unbearable anxiety. i have lost 8lbs so far. i will give it another week adjustment time if i can last that long. | F | 28 | 7 days | 4/2/2009 | 3 | ADD | Dry mouth, occasional headaches, increased sex drive yet difficulty reaching orgasm (very frustrating), chills, tingling in hands and feet, loss of appetite which leads to dramatic weight loss | this drug takes days if not weeks to build up in the system. I started in a low dose and increased to 80mg after three days. I have lost 15 pounds in two months without even trying. It has taken the joy out of eating, which isn't all bad. Sexual frustration due to inability to reach orgasm most of the time. Am thinking of lowering the dose to 60mg to see if some of this changes. Definitely works for ADD symptoms. More focused. Spend less time looking for misplaced items and retracing my steps. Can follow conversations and find myself being a better listener and parent. For the first time ever my brain is not racing, which has lowered my anxiety and stress levels. Have always suffered from familial tremors, and although not completely gone, the tremors are much less intense. | F | 37 | 1.5 months | 3/20/2009 | 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 | 3 | Adult ADD | As you see by reading the other comments here, everyone's body chemistry is unique, hence the variety of side effects. For me, the down sides have been an unpleasant, bone-chilling cold feeling when exercising/sweating (flu-like symptoms), some stomach/heartburn/indigestion & constipation issues, & the worst one - a weird, unpleasant sexual side effect (ejaculation before orgasm but then no real orgasm follows). Have also occasionally noticed my breathing is unnaturally shallow & a bit rapid. Also, a bit of a funny body odour that -I- can detect at times, but I've asked friends - but no one else seems to smell what I do, so maybe it could be a side effect to the olfactory nerves?? But no difficulty w/ sleeping, no anxiety, no spacing-out, no irritability so far. Very expensive medication though, so VERY painful on the wallet! | I've had the "day-dreamy" variety of ADHD all my life, & have always had difficulty w/ procrastination in starting tasks & w/ focusing on them to completion. Have been on Wellbutrin for 5+ yrs to combat depression over lack of achievement resultant from ADHD. It has helped. Recently prescribed 40mg per day of Strattera to help w/ focus. So far, (at 2+ weeks and counting) this drug has had some benefits to my concentration, focus, task completion. Also, I feel more patient & tolerant w/ others than usual. But only time will tell if these benefits last &/or will outweigh side- effects in the long term. Everyone is going to react uniquely to medication, so what you read in all comments here, both good AND bad, may or may not occur in quite the same way for you if you are prescribed Strattera. Am thinking to ask my MD for a slightly lower dosage to see if I can get some of the good with less of the bad. Will comment again here later if side effects don't lessen or | M | 45 | 2 weeks | 3/9/2009 | 3 | ADHD.. focus on school work | increased heart beats, increased body temperture, increased swollowing, emotional break downs. If i was sad I could not stop crying. Stragiht A's in school. I thought about my actions and what I said around other people. I would have to force myself to take it. Not addictive at all! What ever you do you do to the fullest. If you read you read the whole book.. if you relax for a while.. you pass out and stay asleep. Loss of hunger. Hurts my heart to excercise a lot. I have to take sleeping pills to sleep at night. Really expensive almost $300 for a bottle of 30 with out insurance. I would trade them at school for adderol. Adderol was so much better. Not as many sideeffects just pure enjoyment. One time I had a shot of hard liqour and almost no food that day. I blacked out and puked all over the place. I woke up on my bathroom floor. Misrible the next day. I started to take it to get skinny, and it made me weak with really bad heart burn. I get heart burn just thinking about it. I woul | I hated school. C student all my life until I tried adderol. I loved it. I felt impowered and smart. I went to the doctor for a rx and was denied. They subsituted straterra and it sort of did the same thing. I took it in the morning before school.. when it kicked in i would get really hot and uncomfortable. If i sat down for any reson I would get blurred vision and my eyes would start to close. If I was paying attention to something fun or challenging I would work work work work until I found something else to work on. By the end of the day when it wore of I would be starving . I would gorge myself with food and then take a nap after school. I would wake up early morning around 2 or3 am and take a peice of a sleeping pill to get a few more hours of shut eye. I had a abusive boyfriend and he toyed with my emotions. He would make me cry every day. I it was so intense I could not stop. I would have to skip school. I got positive feed back from teachers and peers. I looked really prett | F | 20 | 4 years | 3/5/2009 | 5 | Adult ADHD | After 50 years of being a jerk(nice word)and having severe undiagnosed ADHD, it took only 3 days of usage to clear my mind and allow me to see what a....I had been. On the fifth day I felt so ashamed of my former actions that I took the day to call many people that I had hurt over the years and ask for forgiveness. It has been a life saver. Side effects: Orgasms at first were weird, I would have two at a time the first with the sperm and then in a couple of minutes a dry intense one. I liked it but that went away in about 6 months. My penis in the soft stage has decreased in size but not during an erection. I can concentrate, relationships are better, its great. | After 5 years of taking 120mg a day along with 40mg of Prozac I am finding that some of the old ADHD symptoms are coming back. I need to talk to my Dr. about increasing the dosage. | M | 55 | 5 years | 3/2/2009 | 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 | 2 | ADD | I have currently been taking 60mg of this drug. Started on 25mg in October. I suffered a bad reaction after taking it on empty stomach, within 5min, Severe sweating, Hot from head to toe, severe nausea, dizziness, weakness, felt like passing out. Heart pounding increased to 140bpm. BP>180/120 Ate some yogurt, then drank a glass of milk. The Sx began to go away after around 15min. My BP remained elevated, and still is, MD increased dose of my BP medication, and did a EKG which he said was normal. I had a milder form of this reaction on a lower dose before, I was sure I took that on an empty stomach also. It only lasted 10min, I never had the heart pounding, and didn't take my BP it passed, after I ate yogurt. Has anyone had a similar reaction to this medication. I stopped it. | F | 53 | 90 days | 2/21/2009 |