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 | ADHD/ANXIETY/NON STIMULANT | FOCUSED ALL DAY AND ALSO FOLLOW A PERSON THROUGH CONVERSATION. I UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND ME...NOW ALL THE CONS BAD THINGS ABOUT DRUG: GAVE ME CHILLS, CONSTIPATION, HEADACHES, DRY MOUTH, LOSS OF APETITE, EXTREMELY EXTREMELY TIRED, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, AND WHAT SUCKS IS EXTREMELY BAD SEX DRIVE, SHRUNK PENIS, RETROGRADE EJACULATION...ITS A GOOD NON STIMULANT DRUG AND NON ADDICTIVE BUT PAINFUL SIDE AFFECTS RUINS INIDIVIDUALS LIVES. I RECOMMEND IT BUT BE CAREFUL, SOME RETROGRADE IS PERMANENT, CANT HAVE BABIES 8( UNLESS PAY THOUSANDS FOR INVITRO...TRY MODIFINIL...ITS NON STIMULANT NON NARCOTIC...AND HELPS I HEARD...I WILL EXPERIMENT WITH THAT DRUG | M | 22 | 8 months | 2/13/2009 | 3 | adhd (focus and concentration) | Nausea, fatigue, loss of appetite | My son took 40mg to start the first week then was upped to 60mg with no side affects. Was more focused at school I was so releaved then I called his doctor to give him an update and he raised his dosage to 80mg now today he came home sick. very dissapointing. Will continue for a bit more to see if side affects subside. Don't understand the reasoning for the raised dosage. | M | 16 | 2 weeks | 2/12/2009 | 4 | ADHD | Brain fog, irritable during the 1st week or 2. A little tired. | Had to leave Concerta due to other problems. This is very different than a stim-drug. Focus was noticably better within 2 weeks. No other issues yet. | M | 50 | 7 days | 2/11/2009 | 4 | Adult ADHD | Dry mouth, slight sexual dysfunction | I slowly upped my dosage. 25mg-40mg-60mg and am feeling alot better. I am able to concentrate on one task at a time as opposed to hopping around from thing to thing. I am also on Cymbalta and Lyrica. I have Reynauds Disease and am paying close attention to my extremities... no problems seem to be arising so far. I personally feel that Strattera is a good fit for me, since I am anxious and don't need to be "cracked out" by some of the alternatives. | F | 24 | 3 weeks | 2/9/2009 | 3 | add | I am the 42 yr old male who posted on 1/3/09. I wanted to note that I have been on Strattera for 6 months and not 6 days. | M | 42 | 6 months | 2/3/2009 | 1 | ADD | This stuff helped kill my marrage, I was on the drug for 6 months. Dry mouth, the sweating was awefull.The fatigue was out of this world.Felt spaced out. Just had a baby boy in Aug. when I got home from work I was shot just wanted to sleep. I had no energy to help with the daily routine with my son. My sex drive sucked.Painfull orgasms, I thought it was all related to a compressed disk. Switched to Vyvance been on it for 3 days. Night and day differance. have energy and much better focus. | Hind site is 20/20 This drug was evil for me | M | 40 | 6 months | 1/28/2009 | 5 | Moderate to Mild ADHD | Constipation, night sweats, but went away after a week of taking. Decreased appetite and would not recommend mixing this drug with any over the counter cold medications without checking the side effects, I took Zyrtec-D which has psuedoephedrine in it and it made me feel quite uncomfortable and then I found out that there is a moderate side effect warning for most cold medicines. | I seem more organized and less forgetful and more content with daily activities, I could not take the stimulant drugs due to the increase in anxiety so this is my last hope and it seems to be having a very positive effect on my life just in one week. I am able to focus at work and not multi-task and focus on one task at a time. I do not get distracted so easily, I finish what I am doing and I noticed I pay attention more closely to details and I am more efficient in daily life. I would recommend this drug especially for those of you who suffer from anxiety symptoms or have a stressful life, drugs like ritalin only intensify anxiety and have a very negative effect for most I believe. Also I seem to be in a better mood and I think it is because ritalin made me feel high and to me that is not a good feeling! I would rather feel normal and balanced and healthy and this drug so far is doing what the doctor told me it was going to do and that is make more organized and together. I don't bel | F | 25 | 7 days | 1/25/2009 | 3 | add | it lowered my sex drive a litttle,mild headachs and fevers,loss of appitite during the day(usually it would where off later in the day if taken in the morning)restless sleep | i was on 40mg strattera once a day for 1 month and felt know drastic change in my day to day life, now my doc wants to try me on 60mg, but i found it ultered my personality and i felt like i always want to be by my self, i might just try the 60mg for one more month and see maybe i didn't give it enough time..but i know its better then adderal xr because i took that drug before and felt like i was on cocaine. | 26 | 30 days | 1/22/2009 | 4 | depression and fatigue | impotence, anxiety at first, dry mouth, painful urination | it has helped my depression and fatigue tremendously. i take a very very low dose. SAW PALMETTO reverses the sexual side effects completely and immediately. i've not seen other reports of this, but it worked brilliantly for me. | M | 32 | 40 days | 1/20/2009 | 1 | ADHD + Bipolar | Chills, goosebumps, feels like little "bugs" are craling all over my skin. I can't focus very well- even worse than without the drug. I feel very nervous. Worst of all, I am very angry all the time, like I want to throw something and I am never angry. I feel drowsy and sleepy and yet restless at the same time. | This is miserable. It is close to unbearable. I am sticking with it in the hope that this will change. I am on 40mg and I feel awful 24 hours a day. I will continue to note my progress or any changes here and on my journal http://bipolarprogress.livejournal.com/ | F | 31 | 4 days | 1/9/2009 | 3 | F | 14 | | 1/8/2009 | 3 | ADD | cold feeling; cold sweats; headache occasionally. There seems to be a 1-2 week "ramping up" period for Strattera before it starts to work and some of the side-effects dissipate. There is also a withdrawl period of a couple of days when I've gone off. The problem is I now have high BP 120/90 and occasional irregular heartbeat. This may or may not be due to the Straterra | Straterra helped with my concentration (I read many books this year) and seemed to make me "emotionally neutral" and ambitious. Now, faced with high BP, I need to decide if I should go off Straterra and try to deal with my ADD in other ways. | M | 45 | 1 years | 1/6/2009 | 3 | Poor concentration, brain fog | dizziness; constipation, clammy hands and face, excessive sweating after working out, daytime fatigue, difficulty falling and staying asleep | I am on strattera now for 6 days and today is the first day I feel somewhat "normal". For the past 5 days I've had multiple negative side effects and wondered if this medication was right for me. However, today for ther first time I feel like my head is steady. no fatigue today... yet. (knock on wood) The only reason I have endured the last few difficult days is because I know it is supposed to get better. Today is a good day (I am feeling no major side effects) If this is an indication of what is to come, then I am extremely hopeful!!! | F | 36 | 6 days | 1/6/2009 | 3 | add | Dry mouth, nausea akin to motion sickness, and a sort of detached feeling. | Doc started me on 40mg. Experienced dry mouth, chills and felt kind of stoned. It did improve my concentration and ability to finish tasks. I reduced the dose to 25 and finally 18. I can't imagine being on over 60mg of this med. I find it helpful at this dosage with only occasional dry mouth. | M | 42 | 6 days | 1/3/2009 | 3 | ADHD, anxiety, and depression | Word recall problems, irritation, libido loss, loss of mental sharpness. | M | 44 | 35 days | 1/3/2009 | 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 | 5 | adhd | sick to stomach. loss of appetite, trouble sleeping, moody | This medicine works great you will never know it unless you get past the first month. No medicine is going to work the first few days of trying it out. I have been on it for many years, it has changed my whole life. As a child my mother kept telling the school something was wrong with me, the school never listend i failed every class as a young adult i lost many jobs for not be able to stay on task. I am in my middle 30's and Am able to function much better at work and even relationships. | F | 35 | 7 years | 12/16/2008 | 4 | Adult ADHD/Anxiety | Dry mouth, very slight constipation. A little nausea (eat before taking it). A little sweaty and tingly at times. All this has reduced as I've upped my dosage weekly. Now at 80 mg which is where my Doc wants me to stay for a while. | Has increased my ability to focus. Big reduction in anxiety level. Better follow through on tasks. Where I used to leave a lot of things half done. I can now get all the way through a task. My wife says overall I'm calmer. I'm less easily agitated while driving, waiting in lines, etc. I get distracted from tasks a lot less often. I can catch myself slipping away now before I get completely gone. I wonder if some of the bad press this stuff gets is Lilly's (the manufacturers) competitors pumping bad info onto the internet to reduce Lilly's sales. I'm delighted with my results. With what I'd read on the internet I was hesitant to put this into my body but now I'm glad I did. The benefit for the few minor side effects is well worth it. | M | 48 | 30 days | 12/16/2008 | 4 | Anxiety/Lack of Focus | Side effects I used to have, but shrugged off in a few days: Trouble urinating, sleep disorder, dry mouth, loss of appetite, mild nausea. Side effects that I still have: What feels like a little circulation problem in my hands and feet, decreased sex drive (probably also a circulation problem), mild constipation. Side effects that I have while running: A little more energetic than usual during a warm-up, but fatigue starts to set in later, either forcing me to run through what feels like a prolonged sprint, or forcing me to slow down, probably because of the aforementioned circulation problem. Also, I get cold too easily because my body pumps out too much sweat. | Doctor plans on taking me up to 60mg... Very helpful despite side effects | M | 17 | 5 days | 12/14/2008 | 1 | ADHD | My 15 year old son was put on Strattera for ADHD. Almost immediatly after starting the drug he began experiencing severe day time fatigue--to the point where he would fall asleep as soon as he got home from school, wake up for dinner, then sit on the couch and nod off all night. When he was awake it was like he was a zombie. However, at night he would wake up frequently and was unable to fall back asleep. He also suffered from decreased appetite, which is very unusal for him. I took him back to his Dr. who recommended monitoring him and continuing the meds for 3 more weeks. During the following week the symptoms continued to get worse, I called the Dr. several times and got no response. The ultimate side effect came last week when we got a call from his school saying he was suicial. He was so miserable while taking this medication that I would NEVER recommend it to anyone. | The more research I do on this medication the more I find out about the link between teenagers taking it and the side effect of suicide. | M | 15 | | 12/8/2008 |