I had some kind of weird reaction to vistaril. It was like lucid dreaming but I was awake. I think it made me so drowsy, I dissociated.

I'd take it and be ravenous for days afterwards. The hunger started about an hour after taking it.

It made my anxiety worse. One of the neighbors closed their gate and it scared me in an odd way. Like I didn't jump, or scream, I just got this awful feeling in my stomach. I think if I had been 15 years older, I would have had a heart attack. That night I was lying in bed feeling like I was going to die. I had all these involuntary muscle twitches. I was drowsy the next day and I could not function.

That was the last time I took it.

I'm not sure if I was allergic to it or just had a bad reaction. It was not good though.

I got on Ativan a couple of weeks later. It works great. I take one and it gets rid of my anxiety in 15 minutes and my anxiety stays gone for several days. I have no side effects. It doesn't make me hungry, it doesn't make me drowsy. It just works.