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| 1 | Bipolar | Loss of muscle control and loss of memory | This shit is dangerous!! After taking my bedtime dose, I could not control my muscles. I was unable to lift my legs and arms to get into bed. All I could do was pull a pillow to the floor and then sleep next to my bed until a few hours later when it wore off. Also, I would wake up in the morning and walk into my kitchen to discover that I had been up during the night cooking/frying food, which I had no memory of whatsoever. I was shocked when I saw the mess, not to mention that I could have burned my house down! I gained 15 pounds and haven't been able to lose it since. Worst of all, I went out of town to visit an old friend. I took my pill and have no memory after that. In the morning, my friend told me she had to carry me to bed because I couldn't walk. She thought I was on some kind of illegal drug (I don't do drugs), or I was drunk (I don't drink). I tried to explain the side effects I was having with Seroquel, but apparently she didn't believe me because she hasn't talked to me ever since. Very sad. My doctor said he had never heard of this reaction from his other patients. Seroquel was my worst nightmare. | F | 63 | 12 months
? 1X D | | 9/1/2010
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1 | Insomnia | Went from about 130 to 200 pounds in about.. 4 months. Worst medication possible for sleeping, it helped me sleep sure. I had realistic dreams of killing people, nightmares, I'd eat 3 meals a day which several servings, I stopped dreaming after I stopped taking it for almost a year, I don't care for life anymore, anti-social, feeling as if you can't relate to anyone. Zombie/sluggish to the point where you're an observer of life as it passes by each day. | This shit's horrible, I strongly suggest you stop taking it, or any other medication. There's a reason most of them CAUSE suicidal thoughts, help sleeping or whatever they intend to help, but in the end come back to bite you in the ass with their side effects, some short and others long that cripple your life, socially/personally/ and mentally. I use to love life, now I can't get motivated to do anything. You could put a gun to my head and threaten me, I'd take the bullet. | M | 18 | 8 months
250 1X D | | 8/30/2010
| 4 | Major depression - psychotic | Very heavy sedation for first few days, not many side effects after that. | I found Seroquel to be very helpful. It greatly improved my mood, and also made me feel calm and less agitated - stable. I did find it increadibly sedating for the first few days, to the point where I almost slept non-stop for several days. This quickly wore off, and I found myself able to function normally (though I was always reluctant to drive as I did feel that my spatial awareness was still affected even though I did not feel drowsy).
I didn't have any sexual side effects, though soon after taking a tablet the sedative affect would probably mean your libido would be lower for a few hours.
I did find that when I was first put on a high dose that it can have a temporary paralysing effect, in that for the first time at a high dose you may find yourself paralysed and unable to move, walk etc. This only occured on my first night at high dosage, and didn't recur again.
Overall, I have found this drug to be very effective, and with very few side effects, and it does also help with getting a good night sleep as many have said. | M | 35 | 4 months
100 2X D | | 8/29/2010
| 2 | Bipolar - paranoia/anxiety | No motivation, lack of concentration/focus, feeling stupid, occasional seroquel hangover/difficulty getting out of bed in the morning | I have had an on again off again relationship with this med over a number of years I have previously taken daily doses as high as 200mg but that turned me into a zombie. I don't think seroquel agrees with me even on 25mg a day I still get the side effects I listed. No where near as severe as when I was taking 200mg but it still messes with my cognitive functioning.
That having been said given my previous experiences with other anti psychotics seroquel's side effects are mild. I'm going to stop taking it though I can't keep up with my peers seroquel is making me look an idiot. | M | 32 | 3 months
25 1X D | | 8/27/2010
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| 4 | depression | none | I have been takeing seroquel 50mg and cymbalta 60mg. About 3 mo. ago i started feeling like i was in a black hole,sad crying felt hopeless. They up my cym. and seroquel. 90 mg cym. and seroquel xr 150mg. I started feeling better in a week.Still have a way to go. Going back to dr. today. I wouldnt wish this on nobody. | F | 60 | 8 months
xr 150mg 1X D | | 8/23/2010
| 1 | Anxiety/ Sleeplessness | sensitivity to heat, especially in the sun, easily fatigued after doing small work, lightheaded, dizziness, loss of focus/concentration... | I work in an office 8-5 mon-fri, then go to work as a logsplitter for a fire wood business on nights and weekends. It's a strenuous job but I've been doing it for years, and never had fatigue problems like this. I started Seroquel for sleep and anxiety when it was still cold and overcast outside. Around mid-April, when it started to get hot, my muscles would fatigue seemingly out of nowhere when I was outside, muscles I wasn't even using. My body temp spikes out of nowhere. The rest of the time I cant concentrate, and it's a strain to do anything. I've taken it, fallen asleep, then bolted upright in bed like someone had shocked me. There are other effects, but I'll stop there. Bottom line, I wouldn't recommend this med to anyone. Yikes. | M | 28 | 8 months
100 1X D | | 8/22/2010
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| 3 | hypomania, OCD. | extreme fatigue, sexual arousal increased, huge weight gain. | i used this med only to sleep or to fight the activating action of some antidepressant drugs (e.g. Wellbutrin XL). Very important lethargy and massive weight gain were too annoying side effects to continue to take it. | M | 24 | 1 months
25 mg. 1X D | | 8/13/2010
| 2 | depression, PTSD, insomnia | intestinal pain, body aches, restless leg, extreme exhaution, weight gain, joint pain, dopey feeling all day, concentration (attention span about 30 minutes at best) | I started taking 25 each night to sleep, but had to move up to 50 night. I did sleep and have very vivid dreams (terror dreams) but did not touch the depression. eating like crazy at night, restless legs start 20 minutes after taking. Yes I can sleep but unable to work due to concentration issues and extreme fatigue. Would not recommend for insomnia. I understand it works very well for mania. | F | 44 | 3 months
50 1X D | | 8/13/2010
| 1 | insomnia | possible seizure, involuntary movements | This drug scared the crap out of me. I took it last night for the first time and went to lay down a few minutes later. All of a sudden, I felt a strong, electric-shock like sensation, like I was being tased or something and my trunk area of my body began to convulse. I have never experienced anything like this ever before. Then, as I was falling asleep I had a few extreme, random movements of my limbs; including my arm shooting into the air, jerking my upper body violently. I'm not exaggerating any of this. It was terrifying. Flushing them. | F | 25 | 1 days
100mg 1X D | | 8/12/2010
| 3 | depression,bioplor,anixety, panic | I have no side effects at all my body has a high tolerance to prescription drugs. | | F | 43 | 4 years
100 mg 1X D | | 8/10/2010
| 1 | Bi-polar | I now have diabetes, with high blood sugar, no family history. | I was not told of the increase BS issues and the questions surrounding this med, otherwise I would have never taken it.
That said, It did a good job getting me to sleep at night. Don't know if it's helped anything else though. | M | 33 | 2 years
50 1X D | | 8/9/2010
| 1 | Sleep/mania | If I take more than 200 mg, I will fall a sleep fast, but will wake up an hour later with a racing heart. Sometimes, I have to get dressed and run around the block a couple of times. In six years my weight has gone from 145lbs to 206lbs. Currently, I weigh 188. I work in a laboratory. I have noticed that my fasting blood sugars have been creeping up a little higher than I like. For the last several months, I have been very manic, and filled with anxiety. I am taking myself off this drug. | In the beginning, Seroquel mad me sleep like a baby.The first night I took it, I fell a sleep on my dinner plate. I have been thinking of quitting seroquel for the last couple of years. I have not been sleeping for the last two years, so the medication is no longer working for the reason it was prescribed. Tonight, I'm going to cut my dose from 200mg to 150mg. I will do this for a week. Then, I will cut my dose to 100mg for a week, and so on until I am off the med in four weeks.
| M | 44 | 6 years
200 mg 1X D | | 8/8/2010
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| 5 | Severe mental disturbances | I am a little more hungry, but I can control that sort of thing so I know it will not be an issue. | This saved my life. After my brother was brutally murdered in a home robbery I basically went nuts. I lost it completely, could not hang on, yelled and cried, cut myself, grinder my fists into concrete, bad shit. Seroquel stopped it. It stopped the visions of my dead brother, it stopped the auditory hallucinations of the phone call from my mom telling me that my brother had been shot dead. I am so grateful for this medicine, without it I would be institutionalized or dead. | F | 23 | 4 days
200 1X D | | 8/5/2010
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| 3 | Bipolar NOS | I was first prescribed 100 mg seroquel to lift the depressive part of the bipolar. It had the opposite effect, my depression became far worse, I was drousy all the time and in a fog. Later when the dose was changed to 300 mg XR I noticed the mood lifted. However this was shortlived and the depression returned within 2 months. Now since I'm taking so many drugs I don't know which one is doing what, except I think the seroquel is perhaps responsible for treating the insomnia. I'm on 400 mg of Lamictal, 20 mg of abilify, 30 mg Buspar, and 300 mg of Seroquel XR. You can read my blog where I update my experience with drugs and manic depression.. | http://anambivalentlife.blogspot.com/ | M | 35 | 15 months
300 mg XR 1X D | | 7/29/2010
| 5 | Schizoaffective/Schizophrenia | Increased Appetite, fixed by adding Topamax, so now I have no side effects. | This medicine helps me so much. I am also on Risperdal Consta Injections and taking this medicine helps keep me from noticing when the Injections wear off. I feel great all the time. The increased appetite was helped by the doctor adding Topamax to my medications (also helps with my mood). Seroquel helps me sleep at night and doesn't make me tired the next day. I haven't felt this good since I was 5 years old. | F | 22 | 2 months
700 MG 1X D | | 7/26/2010
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| 3 | Schizoaffective Disorder | Drowsiness, midnight sweet cravings | | M | 46 | 4 years
100 1X D | | 7/22/2010
| 4 | Bipolar I | on seroquel immediate release : weight gain --My body never let me know I was full and so I'd eat massive amounts of food. dry mouth, after taking it I would be so sedated that I would "wake up" and turn my alarm off, even after I put it on the other side of the room and didn't know I was doing it until after my bf say me. Seroquel ex: on 50mg I get manic on 100mg I cycle low. It takes a good 4-5 hours for it to kick in. If I take it too late i'm screwed the next day cause I will be drowsy until like mid day | I love the immediate release. I slept great, felt fantastic, and didn't really cycle. The only problem was the weight gain. The ex seroquel isn't great. I have to time it perfectly to get a good nights sleep and its still not the deep sleep that I enjoyed before. I've had to play with my dosage because it's had quite a different effect on how I cycle. If I take 100mg then I get depressed, if I take 50mg then I get hardcore manic. I've been taking 50 one day and 100 the next to see if that helps. The only reason why I take this is because I have had any weight gain, I pretty much lost all of my weight, I'm nt hungry like I was before. That makes it worth it | F | 26 | 18 months
50-100 mg 1X D | | 7/19/2010
| 1 | anxiety, stress, some insomnia | No many side-effects during use. After withdrawal I CANNOT sleep and this causes major mental health problems. Seroquel had either changed my sleep architecture or permanently damaged my serotonin receptors/systems. | Using doses (<200mg/day) seem to cause brain damage/insomnia as well as using only a high single dose per day (instant release).
Taking BCAA supplements before bedtime (after discontinuation) seem to help with insomnia symptoms (BCAA reduces dopamine and serotonin). | M | 29 | 3 years
400 1X D | | 7/19/2010
| 3 | Bipolar Disorder for Mania | Weight gain, sleeping too much, bad dreams | I have been prescribed Seroquel for about two years. The plus of this medication is that it is the only anti-psychotic I have taken that doesn't give me a serious physical reaction. Another good thing about this medication is that it made it possible for me to quit taking anti-anxiety medication. It is a sleepy enough medication to take care of any anxiety as well. It can actually take care of mania too. But, I want to quit because the dreams I have on this medication are pretty bad. They are extremely vivid. At first, I got kind of a kick out of how real the dreams were but now they become bad nightmares at times. My psychiatrist has suggested that maybe it is becoming a little to concentrated in my system, so I break the pill into a smaller piece and that seems to help. My problem is that if I try to stop taking it, even after staggering it into smaller doses for awhile, I can't quit it. I can't sleep if I try to make it through the night without it. I hate it now, because sometimes I can't wake up on time, and my other doctors keep warning me that it could cause diabetes and I have a bad family history of diabetes. But, I can't quit, it keeps me from Mania and my doctor is against me quitting. Think twice if you can stay away from this medication. | F | 41 | 2 years
150 mg. 1X D | | 7/14/2010
| 2 | depression/anxiety and sleep | While taking I was like a zombie. Hard to get anything done. Loss of appetite. I was pretty much out of it for the entire day.
Withdrawal horrific muscle fatigue mainly mid back and arms were tired and limp, stomach cramps memory loss can not remember a thing as of 3 days off of it. | For me I did not like this medication did not help me with what it was prescribed for.
I fear long term damage of my muscles and my eyes. | M | 39 | 4 weeks
150-50xr 1X D | | 7/8/2010
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| 3 | Bipolar Disorder | Massive weight gain, possibly addictive? Far too sedating too quickly. | I am currently being weaned off Seroquel. My dose over five years has ranged from 50mg twice daily to 500mg a day. It hasn't really worked for my mania or anxiety, but I do now get a decent night's sleep for the first time in my life. However, as my Psych Doc pointed out, sleeping tablets would do the same thing so I'm being taken off it. I gained five stone (70 lbs) on this stuff, but have gotten that off now and am being placed on Lamictal. What pains me is that I knew it wasn't working for me for five years and told the doctors this and they argued with me until last year, when suddenly the reports about Seroquel started to filter through and they realised that we, the patients, were right. I accept that for some people it's wonderful and like all meds, it's a lottery as to which works for each of us, but the doctors need to listen when we say something isn't doing the job. We inhabit our skulls, and we know when something is amiss. | F | 36 | 5 years
250mg 1X D | | 7/4/2010
| 5 | Bipolar Depression/Sleep | It causes my nose and sinuses to close up tighter than a drum, sometimes creating an alarming sensation of choking or suffocating. I think it also causes swelling of the prostate, making it difficult to pee when you want to. | I generally have been pleased with SEROQUEL.
Starting in my middle-age, I have been plagued with insomnia... racing thoughts very much a part of that. I had tried "baby" sleep aids like RESTORIL and AMBIEN, but they were just pi$$-in-the-ocean: Basically I am like an elephant in the wild who needs to be brought down with a dart of elephant tranquilizer! So I needed a more "heavy duty" sleep aid like SEROQUEL.
A relative of mine takes about 700mg daily for schizo-affective disorder... There is no way in hell I could take a dosage like that, because 100mg alone is enough to knock me out cold for hours, swell up my nasal passages completely and dry up my mouth.
SEROQUEL does indeed allow me to sleep like a baby for about 8--12 hours, and get plenty of refreshing REM sleep, too. In fact, it is the first good sleep I have had in all my adult years. I am just naturally "wired" by nature, and SEROQUEL eases that.
Interestingly, once you awaken, you are not groggy at all... 10 minutes, say, for the fog to lift... and you're good.
I have in fact, gained much weight since I've been on psych meds (ten years now) and have developed Type 2 Diabetes as well... but I attribute these developments more to DEPAKOTE... which I'll "diss" on a different page...
As a diabetic, I probably should not be taking a drug which metabolizes in the liver (as SEROQUEL does)... It would be prefe | M | 47 | 5 years
100mg 1X D | | 6/29/2010
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| 5 | bi polar | | it is wonderful to experience deep sleep. | F | 46 |
300 1X D | | 6/29/2010
| 4 | Bipolar, OCD, BDD, Insomnia | Drowsiness, Increased Appetite | I think that this drug has helped me greatly in overcoming my BDD, and it totally levels out my moods, but I never really feel any intense emotions... It's not helping with the OCD part, if anything it's made it worse. But I no longer freak out in situations I can't control. I'm just more organized if anything. It helps with my lack of sleep, it's easy for me to get 8+ hours a night when before I started taking Seroquel I slept maybe three hours a night if that. It does take me awhile to actually get up and function in the morning when usually I'd be up and fully alert within a minute. No weight gain as I'm good at managing my weight, but I do feel hungry ALL THE TIME. But self control helps, lol. | F | 16 | 6 weeks
100mg 1X D | | 6/29/2010
| 2 | Bipolar type II | Nightmares, anxiety, short term memory loss, decrease in appetite, stuttering, passive-aggressive behavior, uncontrollable eye movements, trouble concentrating, | From taking this drug I got nothing but waking up in the middle of the night sweating from nightmares. I also lost my ability to communicate and express how I felt which made things worse with the friendships I had with people, which eventually destroyed those relationships and made me more depressed. I now know how people feel when they say these drugs turn you into zombies. I have vowed to never again take this drug ever again to let big pharma get a hold of my life. I have never been more lonely than I have been after taking this drug, I started to develop mild schizophrenia during and after it; not to mention severe withdrawal and "brain zaps". Do yourself a favor and stay away from this drug, oh by the way I use to like smoking bud from time to time but I can't even do that now because it worsens my anxiety and panic attacks. I think the worst part was not being able to just be myself, I felt as if I was desperate most of the time when at social functions and the uncontrollable eye movement only made things worse with the opposite sex. Fuck Seroquel. | M | 23 | 1 months
25mg 2X D | | 6/23/2010
| 4 | bipolar - episode of mania | Drowsiness, difficulty focusing, no motivation, can't stop eating | It does seem to work it brought me back to earth. That having been said I'm going to stop taking it the side effects are too much especially the lack of motivation and drowsiness. It's a real effort to accomplish anything significant which is a bit of a problem.
| M | 32 | 45 days
100 1X D | | 6/17/2010
| 5 | Bi-Polar II w/Pyschotic Tendencies | A little twitchy- But only noticeable to myself.
No weight gain, no increased appetite, no high cholesterol, no TD, no headaches, no insomnia, no bad side-effects at all. | Seroquel has greatly improved my existence. I no longer have hallucinations, delusions, depression, insomnia, nightmares, or suicidal thoughts. Since Seroquel came into my life I have been free and easy to live life to it's fullest. I believe Seroquel, combined with my morning dose of Paxil 20mg has saved my life. As someone said before, Seroquel puts my demons to sleep. <3 | F | 20 | 2 years
25 MG 1X D | | 6/16/2010
| 1 | Bipolar Disorder, Insomnia | Overeating, fatigue, no sex drive, feeling foggy, depression | After stopping this medication, I have been UNABLE to sleep! I have taken several medications (including Ambien) and I still cannot sleep through the night. Seroquel gave me terrible withdrawls and killed my ability to SLEEP!! | F | 24 | 5 years
400 1X O | | 6/11/2010
| 5 | bipolar disorder/insomnia/anxiety | slightly more sleep, and heartburn | this drug has been my savior for me atleast( i know different people handle drugs differently) gets me to sleep good i'll take and extra hour or so of sleep a day over no more than 1~3 hours per day ^.^ and as for the heartburn well it didnt start till i started taking it would probably go away if i stopped drinking mt. dew so much, has completely eliminated my insomnia, my moods are much more stable now and my life has become very carefree and happy since i started seroquel. also taken along with 150mg a day of effexor xr that i take for depression. | M | 28 | 5 months
200mg 2X D | | 6/10/2010
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| 4 | Insomnia | wt gain 60 lbs, hi cholesterol | | F | 59 | 3 years
400 mg 1X D | | 6/10/2010
| 3 | Bipolar, OCD | Loss of Libido, Munchies, Weight Gain, Agitation, Anxiety, Depression, Learning Disorder. | I was put on this when I was 14, I constantly had to rearrange my class schedules in high school because this medication made me feel sedated the entire day, I was eventually put in home school because I had absolutely no credits by the end of my first year. Seroquel for me did have a huge therapeutic tendency when I took it at the right time but the day after was a completely different story. I would constantly be agitated and fatigued and had a lot of difficulties functioning in the real world. But once I got used to juggling my social life with the side effects things somehow worked out especially when I was taking an anti-convulsant with the seroquel. About a year ago I was taken off of this drug because I had gone from 120 pounds to 160 and was severely anxious and depressed, I then got a balance disorder shortly afterwards and was put back on it and eventually taken off of it again when I noticed that It was making me really moody and depressed. | M | 21 | 7 years
25 MG 1X D | | 6/9/2010
| 2 | Major depressive disorder | Tiredness, dry mouth, stomach problems, urinary frequency, urinary incontinence, constant sinus, low white cell counts. | The tiredness near killed me, have found it very difficult to function - just need sleep. I found that abour 15-20mins after taking Seroquel my legs would become restless - I told my psychiatrist, who gave me Valium for that. Constantly fighting off hunger. Terrible wind and stomach pains, and possibly the worst side effect, which I had no idea was a side effect until I weaned myself off them - urinary leakage/incontinence. Gross. I am only 47, and that really killed my confidence. Have only been off it for 3 weeks, and I no longer stink of pee, and have dry duds !
I'll have to try and cope with my mind running amok, because I won't have my body doing it ! Also had low white cell counts and kept getting boils. | F | 47 | 8 months
100mg 1X D | | 6/8/2010
| 1 | Insomnia | Extreme fatigue, clumziness, cannot focus, blurred vision | My doctor gave me 10 Seroquel pills to see if it would help put me to sleep at night-I've only ever been able to sleep during the day and I hate it. I have 4 left in the bottle b/c I refuse to take them. I only took 1 tiny pill at a time-cannot remember the dosage but I think it was 25? This pill knocked me on my ass. It would put me out for 12 hours at a time-wake up-stumble to the bathroom, attempt to shower or get dressed, and would end up collapsing back onto the bed for another 4 hours. After I'd finally be able to wake up (which was HARD) I was in a fog for the rest of the day. No drug has ever gripped me the way this one has, it is completely overpowering and I have not a small woman. I understand that meds affect people in different ways, but based on my experiences with it, I would never recommend anyone going anywhere near this stuff. | F | 30 | 6 days
1X AN | | 6/8/2010
| 1 | Bipolar Rapid cycle | Hair Loss, Rash, Canker Sores, Joint Pain, High Blood Pressure, Vivid Dark Dream, Stupor, Weight Gain, and the List goes on. | I started with 25 mgs. of Seroquel and worked fine. As with others I too would wake up in the morning to find empty cereal boxes, jars of jam GONE! But my Dr. loved my progess so much he upped the dose again and again. Now that I am on 150mg XR I am $%^$%^$^ @#&* (Swear Words) The last 6 months I have complained of extreme hair loss, a rapidly spreading rash (3 different Doctors couldn't explain it, not even my Psych) joint pain so severe when I get up I have to hold on to furniture and can't sit for more then 15 minutes without being sooo stiff it at times seems unbearable. My legs ache continually, when I am at church I have to leave because of the sweating. I now can add high blood pressure, anemia, canker sores and again the list goes on. What really upsets me is I have been compaining of these side effects for 6 months without anyone helping me. My Dr. is soo pleased with my progress, I am actually stable for the first time in years that he is not listening to me. At what expense is it worth it???? Yeah, having my moods stable is great but so what. I have no life. I look life crap and feel like crap. So what to do now?? Just wanted to let someone else know if they are suffering with the same issues as me, get a second opinion regarding the side effects since my Dr. wasn't aware of all of them are just played mute at my expense. | F | 50 | 1 years
150 xr 1X D | | 6/7/2010
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| 4 | insomnia, bipolar II | I woke up daily with food wrappers in my bed and only vaguely remember eating, difficulty waking up for the first week or so. | It worked really well but there are some crazy long-term side effects. | F | 20 | 2.5 months
150 1X D | | 6/3/2010
| 4 | bi polar OCD pain | Weight gain from 148 lbs(size 12-14) to 183 lbs(size 16). Memory issues both long and short term.Confusion,can't seem to keep linear thought processes, eyesight worsening, have to reason with myself not to eat, no willpower to resist! Very sensitive to sun and heat.Muscle cramps, chest pains, high cholesterol. | Having listed the side effects, I am willing to live with them, because seroquel has helped me tremendously.I take 200 of the plain each night, along with 2@ 37.5 effexor xr for depression and fibromyalgia-like pains.Within 1 hour, I sleep serenely, and wake refreshed. Sleep, a precious commodity for bipolar people!I must stick to a rigid schedule or the side effects worsen rapidly.I experienced the rapid weight gain when I was put on seroquel XR- I gained 20 lbs in 3 months, and could not sleep.Back to plain seroquel and lost 5 lbs only.I take this med because it has quieted down the psychosis, allows me to order my thoughts, keeps me more even when combined with a rigid schedule.I can do some sustained work without going off the deep end, drive places without panicking, leave my house to do basic stuff, am able to live a more normal life within very confined parameters, have more empathy for others as my own condition is not the only thing in my brain... But, I have yet to complete any major projects, have less ability to concentrate, there is weight gain, it's a trade off because it is a novelty to feel 'sane' for extended periods although somewhat confused, less giving in to whatever crazy urges that have ruined my life, and more happiness, less psychic/emotional pain!I combine meds with a very quiet life. | F | 57 | 5 years
200 1X D | | 6/2/2010
| 3 | bpd anxiety | stunned, extremely irritable, hungry all the time | I feel that my anxiety has lessened. But I doubt I will stay on it because of the irritability factor. I scare myself. | F | 58 | 6 days
25 1X D | | 6/2/2010
| 5 | insomnia, OCD, anxiety. | dry mouth, nothin' else. | it is a wonderful antipsychotic to calm your mind, allow u to sleep like a baby and to reduce symptoms of anxiety. be warning to take it before driving, having sex, having exams or excessive work.
for the first time, i do not shit an antipsychotic for akathisia or weight gain. | M | 24 | 7 days
50 mg 2X D | | 6/1/2010
| 3 | Insomnia / depression | Rapid weight gain, feeling sleepy all day long, | It sure helps me a lot for insomnia, but I'm still waiting for effect on depression... | F | 28 | 2 months
25 mg 4X D | | 5/31/2010
| 3 | Psychotic disorder | Always tired,always hungry which is really good cause I'm a 00 in jeans so I'm happy crave tons of sweets dry mouth hopefully that's it!! | | F | 25 | 2 days
50mg 1X D | | 5/28/2010
| 5 | for anxiety, depression | Increased breast size, heart palpitations, some times I get very angry,but it is short lived, problems with spelling | I feel as if I am normal for the first time in about 20 years, my crazy confused thoughts have slowed down and I am able to focus on one topic at a time, I do not have problems with memory loss as I used to. I have had more control of my eating and spending, I can control my impulses. I am keen to start new hobbies, to travel and to spend time with people, and make new friends, before this drug I avoided people and was unable to be in a relationship, I now feel as if I may be able to get back out there and start dating again. | F | 35 | 1 months
75MG 1X D | | 5/27/2010
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| 5 | Skitzo Effective Bipolar 1 | weight gain....I gained about a hundred pounds over the years but that was not all seroquels fault. Seroquel has helped me live a normal life. I was on 11 psychiatric medications at one point, trying to stop hallucinations, voices, mania and depression as well as mixed episodes and paranoia.... as soon as I started taking seroquel... I started evening out. Its been 7 years since I was in the mental hospital. I now own my own small business and have been doing very well. It did not cure me... but it sure came damn close... especially when it was added with trileptal. The combination was a miracle for me.....but the minute Im off of them all hell breaks loose. 1 down side.... seroquel messes with my blood sugar levels... makes me crave starch very badly, and also messes with my vision. I think it may also screw with my cognition sometimes If I dont get a full 8 hours sleep i can wake up confused. I suggest taking the XR because its much more easily tolerated (for me it was) and it will | Good medication. Helped me a great great deal. Not perfect but it sure turned my life around. | F | 29 | 7 years
150 1X D | | 5/27/2010
| 5 | insomnia, bipolar,anxiety, depressi | restless legs,
back pain, neck pain, joint stiffness, weight gain, dry mouth, loss of sex drive, forget what i am saying, trouble concentrating, nasal congestion,
constipation, heart burn, red eyes, | this has been a wonder drug for me although all the side effects can make you not wabt to take it. it's risk vs. benefit and i will take this drug for the rest of my life reguardless of the side effects because i cannot function or sleep without it. oh! if you are going to have sex, do it before you take your seroque.
| M | 19 | 3 years
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| 1 | to help me sleep | i was taking serequel 50 mg and the 200 at night that is until my insurance stop paying for it, and now i was forced to start taking the xr, at the time i asked my doctor to wean me off, but she just lowered my dose and hasn't lowered it again since. my problem with it is the tiredness, the stomach problems, and the weight i'm always very hungry after taking it, i wake up in the middle of the night looking for food. so i'm going to talk to my doctor and see if they can wean me off and put me on ambien temporarily, the stomach pain is bad. and not getting any sleep without it is not an option | | M | 34 | 5 years
150 1X D | | 5/21/2010
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| 4 | Bipolar II/Depression | Weight gain, hungover feeling, dizziness, MEMORY LOSS, appetite only increases if I take it at night and do not immediately fall asleep. VERY TIRED THROUGH OUT THE DAY. | Seroquel has greatly helped my bipolar disorder and I have had great results with it. However, after a year and a half of being on it I'm still very tired during the day and need to be in bed for a total of 9-10 hours. Still a struggle to get up after that, but if I don't I feel very hungover all day long. I do not experience in increase in hunger if I take the meds when I'm in bed and about to fall asleep. It takes a bit for the meds to kick in, but if I'm already trying to go to sleep, then I don't have the urge to eat something. I would like to find something that doesn't make me as sleepy and will help with my memory loss, not make it worse. But for now, this will have to do. | F | 25 | 1.5 years
400 mg 1X D | | 5/1/2010
| 5 | depression/anxiety | | Seroquel has been great for me. I take 50mg at night, it helps me sleep and stops daytime tremors. | F | 58 | 4 years
50mg 1X D | | 4/29/2010
| 5 | Anxiety, depression | None | This medication has not given me any side effects that I have read and heard of. I have neen on Seroquel for about 2 weeks and change. This medication (seroquel 50mg) has helped a whole lot. I take it right after work and it does take a while before kicking in but I am able to function and go to sleep at night. I am glad that I dont have bad side effects I wake up the next day ready to work with out any complications. I have been trying to find some kind of help for years now. I have taken Zoloft and Xanax but nothing. Just recently my doctor gave me Ambien to sleep at night but my anxiety was still the same and my depression. I am currently on pristig and Seroquel and I love it. | F | 29 | 2 weeks
50mg 1X D | | 4/27/2010
| 4 | bi-polar,OCD,anxiety,depression | When I haven't had enough sleep I feel grogy for the first part of the day. Dry mouth.Recently(in the last year) I have gained 18lbs. I find that I am hungry ALOT, and I never ate alot.I have a few muscles spasms,mainly in my hands.Constipation. The first 6 to 7 months I was unable to achieve an orgasm. OMG! But it corrected itself, or I wouldn't be on it. | Though there are side effects, seroquel has helped me like no other pill has before. I went through so many pills trying to find one to "fix" me. Seroquel has done that. It controls my racing thoughts at night so I can sleep, and controls my mood swings. Though there are major withdraw symptoms if my perscription is late, it dosen't take but two days and things are normal. I keep a regular check on my sugar because diabetes are in my family. But have had no problems yet. The only problem Is the weight gain. If it levels out and dosen't get to drastic, then I don't care. I would recomend seroquel to anyone needing help with depression,bi-polar,anxiety,OCD. It effects everyone differently, and I think it's worth a try. I can honestly say, if I had not found my doctor and been perscribed Seroquel, Then I wouldn't be here today. Hope this helps. | M | 25 | 3 years
450mg 1X D | | 4/26/2010
| 2 | Bipolar 2/OCD/Anxiety | Life revolves around sleep (either knocked out cold or awake all night), groggy and sedated, rapid extreme weight gain, increased appetite, diffuculty finding words, slurred speech | I've been on this med for 2 years (started on 12.5mg, now at 200mg SL) At the dose I am at now, I sleep better for the most part, I have not have a manic episode for the whole time I have been on it, and recently my anxiety has been a lot better. I have tried to tolerate it because it seems to work, but I can't tolerate the weight gain and very concerned about the slurred speech. | F | 29 | 2 years
200mg 1X D | | 4/15/2010
| 4 | anxiety, deppression, insomnia | Seroquel helps me sleep at night, and helps stabalize my moods, and i am currently still taking it. . . The only problem i see with this drug is that my life revolves around my sleeping schedule, i won't wake up without a minimum of 9 hours of sleep. i have tried going off but mentally i can't handle it. . . i have read about long term effects of taking seroquel, some have muscle twitching problems for life. . . Seroquel really does help me, But sometimes i fear that it makes me someone who i really am not. | | F | 22 | 1 years
100 1X D | | 4/9/2010
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| 5 | OCD/High Anxiety | none | I took this drug off label (its meant for bipolar/major depression) at the recommendation of my prescribing psychiatrist. The first few days I had trouble waking up and felt groggy all day, but once I got used to it I felt great. It is the only thing that has been able to calm the racing thoughts that were keeping me up all night. I only stopped taking it because I'm trying to get pregnant, and when I did stop I had no withdrawal symptoms (though I did have to ween off instead of stopping cold). | M | 28 | 1 years
50 mg 1X D | | 4/6/2010
| 3 | Sleep / Bipolar Depression | I'm groggy in the morning and fight off sleep all day. I've tried caffeine (2 to 3 cups of coffee), but that only helps somewhat. I have not noticed any other side effects and have not experienced any weight gain. When reading someone else's experience with ANY drug, ALWAYS remember that your experience may be different. Try something until it's clear that it's not right for you. The drug you refuse might be the one that'll save your life! | I've been taking Seroquel for sleep/bipolar depression. I have taken 50 mg, 25 mg, and 12.5 mg (split the pill) about an hour before bed and get the same sedative affect at each dose. I absolutely LOVE how it puts me out in about an hour and helps me sleep through the night and HATE that I am constantly fighting off sleep the next day. I'm really not sure which is worse, fighting off depression or the urge to sleep. I may keep looking for something to counteract the negative effects in the morning, because it works so well at putting me out. At these doses, I have not noticed any improvement in my depression. | M | 50 | 4 months
25 mg 1X D | | 4/3/2010
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| 1 | Bi Polar | Gained well over 100 lbs on Seroquel, as it made me extremely hungry. Also, it made my mouth so dry that it caused my teeth to rot and I had to get dentures. I used to have beautiful teeth too! If I couldnt get my prescription filled in time, I went into withdrawal symptoms like cold sweats, shakes, irratibility,feeling like I was crawling out of my skin. Then when I started back on it, I was so loopy that I couldn't even stand up. Made me feel like I was intoxicated!!I won't recommend this med to anyone. Had I known this beforehand, I would have asked for something else. Glad Im off of it now, and am starting to lose the weight. I also hear that it has caused others to get diabetes, and pancreatitus, and the maker of this medicine is in a lawsuit on that, as these harmful side effects were hidden before it went on the market. I cant even sue over the weight gain and teeth, as attorneys are only taking cases of drug induced diabetes and pancreatitus! | | F | 43 | 7 years
900 mg 1X D | | 3/31/2010
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| 5 | PTSD, Depression, Anxiety | Minor weight loss, some imbalance, odd vision effects, vivid dreams, very sleepy, occasional tics | This drug has made me feel like I am myself for the first time in years. I experienced minor weight loss, like 3 pounds, maybe I will gain weight I don't know, I don't really mind. It gives me the most vivid dreams which I enjoy, though they are strange. I usually remember them very clearly. It leaves me very sleepy, though. | F | 17 | 2 weeks
150 1X D | | 3/28/2010
| 5 | Severe anxiety | I ended up fat and diabetic, and there's good reason to believe Seroquel had something to do with it. | This drug saved my life. It has some horrible side effects, but thanks to Seroquel I can sleep and I can engage in reasonable conversation. I wouldn't recommend this for everyone. According to my doctor the biochemical basis for my anxiety is a bit unusual so I don't respond at all to the antidepressants that usually help with anxiety. But if you're having no luck at all with conventional anti anxiety medication give this a shot. | M | 44 | 4 years
400 1X D | | 3/28/2010
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| 5 | Bi Polar Depression | Only that it makes me tired | I was on put on seroquel because I was so depressed that I could not sleep at all..I started out at 25mg nightly and slowly increased to 100mg nightly..after about a year I went off of it because my symptoms were not as severe..Then a year and a half ago I fell into a really really dark place...I cried for 2 months, hardly ever stoping..and not sleeping at all...maybe an hour at a time..At that time I was diagnosed with bi-polar depression and started on 400mg nightly and honestly it saved my life..I of course got a good nights sleep the first night I took it and very quickly I started to feel more like myself..I stopped crying and started to have a somewhat normal life..My sister-in-law who suffers from depression also said to me "welcome back to the land of the living" the changes were apparent to everyone around me..
I don't think this medication is for everyone, I think it should be evaluated by anyone taking it weighing the good with the bad..Just because it works for some does not mean it will not be the worst medication others have ever taken.. | F | 47 | 3 years
400mg 1X D | | 3/26/2010
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| 1 | bipoar | RAPID WEIGHT GAIN, hungry all the time, zombie like, dulled personality, lackidasical, exhausted | I am taking myself off of this drug and will never take this medication again. It feels like more of a punishment for bipolar than a treatment. Horrible medication. | F | 28 | 1 months
100 mg 1X D | | 3/16/2010
| 1 | For sleep and to calm behavior | Trembling, shaking, rigid arms, muscles constantly moving in calves, weakness in muscles, difficulty walking, body jerks | My husband was being treated by dr. for dementia, unable to sleep, wandering at night, so was given Seroquel to help him sleep and calm his behavior. He immediately began sleeping at least 10 hours, wetting the bed because he didn't wake up. Then he was in a zombie-like daze most of the time, stopped knowing or being aware of what was going on. Staring spells. After 6 months, he began having "body jerks" where he would be sitting holding a cup of coffee and involuntarily threw the coffee everywhere. I spoke to the dr. who asked if I wanted him to sleep or have these jerking spells, he seemed to get angry that I was questioning the use of Seroquel. 3 months later, my husband began taking little bitty steps, having to be assisted, 3 months ago, he began shaking as if he were shivering, he would shake the whole bed. Two weeks ago his neurologist (who prescribed Seroquel) saw him for a routine visit and was shocked at how he had deteriorated and said IT WAS THE SEROQUEL! DUH! He said it could cause rigidity and trembling. He advised me to cut back the dosage to 25 mg once every other day. Guess what! I stopped it. After 3 days the shaking stopped, but he still has the muscle movement in his legs and difficulty walking, not quite as bad, but it's still there. My advice: Don't take this crap, it can affect you in ways you never dreamed of, maybe long term, I will have to wait and see. This stuff is as lethal as rat poison.
| M | 67 | 1 years
50 mg 1X D | | 3/14/2010
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| 1 | Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia | MASSIVE WEIGHT GAIN, RUINED MY EYESIGHT, MEMORY LOSS, LOW WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNT | Seroquel should be avoided at all costs. It causes horrible and sometimes irreparable damage to people. I have gained 56 pounds in less than three years. It's not supposed to be prescribed to people without auditory/visual hallucinations or severe delusions, yet it is given to people like me suffering from anxiety. This drug causes diabetes and myriad other conditions. There is a class action lawsuit with over 15,000 plantiffs so far. Horrible! | F | 27 | 3 years
300mg 1X D | | 3/14/2010
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| 3 | Insomnia | High as a kite felt like I was in lala land, couldn't for the life of me get out of bed and stayed in there for 48 hours. Short term memory loss where I'd forget what I was doing or what I had did. I'd stand there at times and stare in to space for a while for the life of me I didn't know what I was doing. Hangover felt like I'd been drinking copious amounts of alcohol and with that came nausea. Becoming a bit to slow in my movements like when I was driving. | I refuse to take this drug,fortunately the drug I'm taking hasn't given me insomnia again, yet. I already have some side effects from other drugs I'm taking and don't need anymore. I was wondering how I'm going to function in a job, the medication I'm taking now isn't that great for long term memory and to make things worse seroquel is bad for my short term memory. I was saying to myself that I'd get fired in the state I was in. Took 1 50 mg tablet first then went down to 25 mg because I felt like I was high on drugs, nice feeling but I can't live like that forever and 25 mg didn't put me to sleep. Not going back on it either going to tell the doctor that when I see her, there's got to be a better option. | F | 33 | 1 weeks
50mg 1X D | | 3/12/2010
| 3 | Gen. Anxiety and PTSD | Zoned out episodes, memory loss, not able to think complex thoughts right after starting higher dose from original 12mg, then 25mg then last amount, twitchy fingers, toes, eyes, irritable, nightmares, crazy dreams, feeling of dread upon waking, could only sleep 3-4 hrs. but felt sleepy dopey all the time, nasal congestion at night very severe, more depressed, weight gain, can't hold conversations within first 2 hours after dosing nor talk about feelings unless it's anger or rage, freaking out more not less, talking in sleep, lack of personality, disoriented, difficult swallowing mainly at night, restlessness in limbs and generally, odd muscle movements, very grumpy in mornings, can't get out of bed easily, bad tempered more, horny but no drive to do anything about it | | F | 52 | 3 months
50 1X D | | 3/10/2010
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| 3 | | Some of the side effects that have occured for me while taking this drug caused me to lose mu focus most of the time. I was on it for treating Bi-polor 1 and then was placed in the XR form of the drug. It seemed that my memory was suffering the most, throughout my treatment over the years. I found myself to lack the ablilty to focus on my studies as a Quantum Physics Major in school. I would have to get up early in the morning for school but found myself hungover from the side effects of taking the drug rather early. I have been on the drug as high as 600MG but found myself hearing voices and seeing things that were not there so I had to taken off the high amount and placed on several other drugs including depression meds and other stablizers. It does cause stomach pains sometimes when I take it at night so I have to watch what I eat. It was also a rumor according to the main website that the drug could cause eye issues and other means of physical side effects such as kidney or blood i | | M | 23 | 4 years
200MG 1X D | | 3/8/2010
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| 2 | depression/ sleep problems | I seem to be constantly tired/exhauseted during the day with great difficulty getting out of bed in morning (which i HAVE to do to make sure son gets breakfast & off to school) & often go back to bed during day, sometimes for most of day. Have increasingly found it difficult to get to sleep at night & think i am now dependent on this drug to get to sleep. I need to take it ~7pm & if take it later i get major hangover - grogginess/headaches etc in morning & if I don't go back to bed during day will end up with migraines. If i don't take it, it takes me hours to get to sleep, I get wierd vivid dreams & wake every few hours (sometimes wide awake after 3-4 hrs sleep - feel tired, but can't get back to sleep). Have not been able to hold down a job & seem to just get more & more depressed. | I initially was prescribed seroquel when i experienced problems sleeping (after being prescribed venlafaxine for depression). I did not feel well on venlafaxine (up to 400 mg daily), nor lots of other meds, mainly due to constantly feeling tired & unable to cope. Nothing has helped me to get my life back together after initially being diagnosed with Post Natal Depression over 8 years ago. Have recently tried bipolar meds - lithium (Priadel 800 mg) with & without venlafaxine, then Lamotrigine (Mogine 50mg twice daily +37.5 mg venlafaxine) but felt that these meds just dulled my senses & made my really apathetic (not happy or sad, just kinda zombified).
I have lots of sinus problems (dust mite allergy + food intolerances (salicylates & dairy)) which got worse post-natal / worse with depression. I take sinus meds (loratidine 10mg twice daily + butacort 100 aqueous nasal spray 2 puffs twice daily).
I have just (after reading comments on this website) convinced Dr (4th psychiatrist I've been to) to prescribing an alternate = zopliclone, even thou I have experienced similar 'hangover' effects with it in past, now she says to just try taking 1/2 x 7.5 mg tablet.
Has anyone found anything better to take? Any advice/comments would be appreciated, please feel encouraged to email me since I'm feeling very disallusioned & disappointed with Dr's so far. | F | 44 | 4 years
25-200mg 1X D | | 3/4/2010
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| 3 | Bi-Polar w/severe anxiety and panic | Fatigue, extreme sleepiness,weight gain , heart problems , heart attack, hypothyroid.An inability to stabilize my moods or make clear decisions after taking a dose. | I believe though this is one of the only meds that I have tried and I have tried many that stops the racing thoughts it is extremely hazardous to your health and the side effect are not all clearly listed.It has helped me with 1 thing but caused me so many other problems it doesn't equal out. | F | 39 | 7 years
550mg 1X D | | 2/24/2010
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| 2 | Depression | Made me terribly anxious and at times suicidal | Was suppose to help with depression taken along with Zoloft | F | 72 | 40 days
25 mg. 4X D | | 2/24/2010
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| 1 | insomnia, severe depression | memory loss, rage, uncontrollable anger | First of all, my system is not typical. When I took this drug it was to get a good night sleep. I passed out for about 4 hours during which my 6 week old was screaming right next to me. According to my husband I did not even stir. When I awoke after a few hours on my own I continued to become aggressive and extreme anger set in. This is all according to my husband as I do not remember anything that happened that night or the next 24 hours. I said cruel and horrible things to my husband to the extent that he was going to have me committed and file for a divorce. I was appalled to hear everything I said to him that night. I would never, never, never take this drug again as it almost ruined my marriage after one dose. It took about 24 hours to fully get out of my system during which I gave my newborn a bath and did not even remember doing it. It was almost like I missed an entire day. Very, very, very bad drug!!! I would rather not sleep and be depressed than hear about the horror I put my husband through and not remember the next day. | F | 39 | 1 days
50 MG 1X D | | 2/22/2010
| 5 | Bi Polar / Sleep | Minor weight gain, | This medication has really worked well, it allows me to sleep through the night and keep my mind from racing allowing me to better focus on what I am doing. I would highly recommend that you at least try this medication. | M | 43 | 2 years
400mg 1X D | | 2/14/2010
| 3 | bi polar 2 | calmed me but tired all the time | | F | 47 | 3 weeks
300mg 2X D | | 2/12/2010
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| 5 | I couldn't stay asleep all night. | I don't have any that I know of.
| Seroquel doesn't make me sleep. It lets me sleep. It quiets my brain so I can sleep. I don't wake up during the night any more. Before using it, I hadn't had a good night's sleep for years. | F | 59 | 4 years
75mg 1X D | | 2/9/2010
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| 1 | bipolar | Extreme hallucinations, lethargy, drowsiness, increased appetite | I spent all of my days on the drug lethargic without any energy. My appetite dramatically increased causing me to gain unwanted weight. I had to sleep an extra 2 hours per day. The hallucinations were so extreme, I had to stop taking the drug immediately. | M | 18 | 30 days
1X D | | 2/5/2010
| 4 | BPD II, depression, insomnia, mood | Some restlessness during the night. First night woke up several times and had some trouble getting back to sleep. Second night woke up less times during the night and fell back asleep easier. Did have some night sweats. Was very groggy in the morning after the first night and somewhat out of it. Second night I made sure to sleep longer (10 hrs) and felt much better, less groggy. After half a can of red bull felt great! Did have severe headache on first day. Feel less hungry in general. Some dry mouth, I just drink more water :) | Recently diagnosed with Bipolar II w/manic episode and rapid cycling, depression, mood disorder, anxiety. Had insomnia, anxiety, and BPD for years undiagnosed and managed them with other substances. Been on lamictal 100mg for 2 mos, and just started titrating up to 200mg. Right now on 150mg lamictal, flexiril 5 mg and vicodin 5/500mg for back and hip injury in car accident. Since taking seroquel I take flexiril and vicodin only as needed. This drug was prescribed as a sleep aid after being on Ambien 10mg for about 1yr and was no longer effective. Even thought I have taken this drug for only 2 days I feel great! I feel so happy again and feel like my old self, the person my husband fell in love with. I am joking and happy-go-lucky again. I feel much less anxiety, agitation, and irritability throughout the day. I would get so angry and anxious and have serious mood swings that the lamictal alone couldn't control. If prescribed this drug, try it and perhaps keep a journal of your symptoms. It seems this medication is right for only a small population of people w/our problems. So far the benefits outweigh the side effects for me, but i will monitor my feelings and symptoms closely. All I know is I am excited and happy for what may come :) | F | 25 | 2 days
25mg 1X D | | 2/4/2010
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| 5 | Bipolar I | Sleepy, hangover, foggy feeling. | I was prescribed Seroquel years ago to help stabilize my mood, but I ended up taking it PRN for sleep when I didn't have to work the next day (hangover effect was wicked). A couple years ago I added it to my mood stabilizer during a particularly nasty manic episode & I LOVE it. It works wonders. I sleep like a baby every night. After the hangover side effect wore off, I know I'll get 7 hours of sleep every night (important for stability). I haven't had a bipolar episode in over a year & I think it has a great deal to do with seroquel(plus my tegretol & intermittant prozac...and staying med complaint for once in my life). Depending on where my mood is going, I take between 200-400mg nightly. I do have to stop using it for 1 & 1/2 months a year due to being on call for work b/c I will not wake up if I have taken it. I have a constant headache for that time & I can't sleep well. Otherwise, I love it. | F | 27 | 4 years
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| 1 | insomnia (due to fibromyalgia etc) | Terrifying nightmares while stuck in groggy half-sleep for 12 hrs - did take other stuff as well | Ok... I'm at the end of my rope because my insomnia is so severe that nothing helps... I'm taking loads of benzos. I was taking seroquel for a long time as well, and it helped make me feeling sleepy but I always felt that it was not inducing deep sleep so I felt more and more worn out while very groggy in the morning. I was scared about taking an anti-psychotic. I wonder if my impaired cognitive abilities has something do with it, etc. So I didn't take it for two weeks. Last night I was desperate and took 25 mg along with some other anti-psychotic (melperone hydrochloride). I had the worst night ever: really terrifying dreams and had to sleep very long into the day in order to calm down and get some proper rest. I admit, I did take benzos at the same time, so maybe it was all too much... however this makes me seriously doubt that seroquel is good for you. | F | 43 | 1 days
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| 5 | Panic Disorder/Anxiety | Dry Mouth, Sleepiness, memory is effected badly, I burned my hand because of it, don't do anything dangerous on the drug, even driving until you get used to it. | This is pretty much an excellent drug. I've never gone passed 50mgs, I don't know how some people can go that high as it knocks me flat on my ass. Even 10 mgs will put me to sleep. I had problems with panic attacks and obsessive thinking, this drug will shut down invasive thoughts and allow me to enjoy life around me. I've been off and on the drug. Worst part about leaving the drug is you're guaranteed insomnia and it'll be hard to find anything to replace it. | M | 27 | 3 years
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| 1 | Anxiety/Misdiagnosed bipolar | This drug sucked the life out of me - there is no other way to say it. I couldn't function; I couldn't remember if I had eaten a meal. I was a zombie. Waking me each morning was a task for friends. It did long term cognitive damage. Please, please don't take this | The bipolar was misdiagnosed - actually anxiety disorder | F | 23 | 6 months
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| 5 | Bipolar 2 - fibromyalgia | Weight gain, sleepiness | I was on this medication before, during another med induced mania. It was a life saver, but long term, I was not pleased with the rapid weight gain. This time, however, my doctor is having me take pepcid ac with it to control the weight gain which seems to work.
I ended up in a med induced mania while trying cymbalta for fibromyalgia. I had the worst pain and wanted to try anything to get out. The cymbalta did not work and put me in a mania. Immediately, I went on seroquel to combat this, as we knew it worked. Within days, the pain was gone. I stopped taking it for a few days, the pain came back. Started taking it again, pain is gone. I am now experimenting with lower doses to try to get what works best for pain management with the lest side effects. I feel I stumbled into a life saver, and it's something I'd like to share for others who may be having issues controlling fibro pain that nothing is working for. Worth talking to your doc about giving it a try. | F | 33 | 1 months
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| 4 | Bipolar and sleep issues | Weight gain | Seems the longer I've been on it, the less it helps me sleep. When I was on 25 mg the first 5 years, I slept great and didn't have any weight gain.
I'm on 300-600mg at night now, and have put on 50 pounds. | F | 53 | 12 years
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| 5 | PTSD | drowsiness, loss of appetite. | I am satisfied with Seroquel, I think it great. I've been on it for almost a year, although it killed my appetite and I lost around 4 stone.
Anyways its the best drug I tried so far. | M | 27 | 1 years
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| 5 | psychosis | Mood swings, irritability, weight gain about 5 pounds in 2 months. | This medication helped me with hallucinations mildly, but helped me a lot with my OCD now that I think about it. It is a very sedating drug. I started off on a low dose then went to an extremely high dose than after a while the sedating affect went away and symptoms begun to return. | M | 20 | 4 months
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| 3 | OCD, anxiety | nightmares, worsening of depression, sleepiness, difficulty to concentrate, impaired memory | | F | 35 | 2 years
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| 5 | Insomnia | None at all. | This is a miracle drug! I had been taking Ambien (the Devil's drug) but switched to Seroquel and take 200mg at night. There are no side effects and I have finally been sleeping like a baby for over two years :) | M | 50 | 2 years
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| 4 | I am Bipolar who does not sleep | I was perfectly happy with taking seroquel until my eye dr. told me that I now have cararacts | I like so many others I do not sleep. I can't go to sleep. I lay there for hours on end. I have been known to stay awake and alert for 2 weeks at a time. My Psyc. put me on seroquel. we played with dosage, tweaked and added trazodone. I sleep better but still have nights where I only reach lala land. Yet I feel rested when I get up. Now I find out that I have caratacts caused by seroquel. I will have surgery to replace the lenses in my eyes. But what other drugs are out there to cause me to go to sleep? I've used lunesta and ambien with no effect. Has anyone tried some thing that even got close? | F | 50 | 4.5 years
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| 1 | Insomnia, anxiety. | Immediate weight gain, food cravings, crazy dreams, daytime grogginess, loss of concentration. | Do not take this drug unless you have a serious medical condition. I was prescribed this medication for insomnia. It did not put me to sleep but caused very wierd, vivid dreams. I gained 20 pounds in 4 weeks! Craved food-mainly sugars and carbs. Felt lazy, groggy, and couldn't concentrate on anything during the day. Have taken myself off of it and have already lost 5 pounds in 1 week! No more grogginess, and can go back to reading and other activities I used to enjoy. It never did help me sleep either!! | F | 43 | 8 weeks
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| 1 | Skitzo Affective Disorder | TIRED ALWAYS wanted sleep even though i would have over 15 hrs!! LOST my personality was a ZOMBIE, VERY OVER WEIGHT, , DRY MOUTH , SLURRED SPEECH, couldnt have a conversation. Self medicated n nearly over dosed. | When i first starting taking seroquel, i became very paranoid thinking i was goin to die. Eventually started taking way to much over 900mg a day n had to quit my job coz i was too tired n too hungrey to work . One thing i remember about seroquel was my life revolved around food and sleep. i would take the tablet , eat but still be starving even though i ate heaps, fall asleep for way to long , then do it all again . I had no life SEROQUEL took over my life.... stopped COLD TURKEY , was sick in bed for over two weeks, never forgot how much pain n effort it was but was well worth it , SEROQUEL is addictive you crave that feeling it gives u even after you stop taking it.I have no idea y doctors prescribe this medicine when it only creates another problem. | F | 23 | 9 months
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| 1 | Insomnia | Severe depression, thoughts of suicide, extreme fatigue, tiredness all throughout the day | Would not recommend using this as a sleep aid; it's not safe. | M | 19 | 10 times
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| 5 | Sever Panic Disorder & Bipolar 1 | Lots and lots of sleeping. Hangover affect but that's my own fault for taking it so late. Take it past 9pm and you're definitely going to be groggy the next day. | 6 months ago I couldn't go out. I would go to a restaurant or out shopping and have to leave because of how strong my panic attacks were. I also have a history of syncopy episodes related to severe attacks. But with seroquel, along with effexor and topamax I feel like I got a huge chunk of my life back. I can drive, go out, I'm actually a semi-normal human being. My body does react badly to any change in doseage, esp. lowering, but it's beyond worth it to me. My new psychiatrist just lowered my dose and it made my anxiety regress so I have to call him in the AM to tell him to give me my old seroquel dose back...it truly was a life saver. | F | 19 | 5 months
| | 1/12/2010
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| 4 | Bipolar 1/Gen. Anxiety Disorder | excessive sleeping, could sleep 12+ hours. withdrawl symptoms are terrible! | This drug has been amazing. I also suffer from insomnia; and Seroquel, along with the Depakote puts me into a nice REM sleep. I'm easily affected by even the slightest change in dose though, which can throw off my sleeping pattern. Just make sure you don't take it too late or are taking too high of a mg at night time because it will knock you out. | F | 19 | 4 months
| | 1/9/2010
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| 5 | Bipolar, anxiety, depression, insom | After taking this medication my heart always races. Makes me sleep for 12+ hrs. Also I have noticed that in my hand at the side, the muscle twitched there for about a week. Also now I have noticed my eyelid twitched. So people be careful, as this drug is known to cause tardive dyskinesia. | For the past 8 years, I have been dealing with my mental illness by myself, through whatever ways I could fill up "the hole".Drugs, cutting, sex , jumped from relationship to relationship. Now being 21 and on this medication ( 100 mg a night ) Also now drug free and have turned my life around, This medication definitely hels me sleep at night and has balanced out my moods, just have to be careful with drinking and what not. There's still a lot of stuff that brings me down, just like ur avergae person, but Seroquel has controlled the episodes as much as it could. The rest is up to me.
It puts my deamons to sleep<3 :)
| F | 21 | 3 weeks
| | 1/6/2010
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| 5 | Bipolar | Drowsiness the next day for the first month, this subsided the longer I was on the medication. Constipation. Weight gain (20 plus pounds)My doctor has just prescribed Topiramate 25mg to help with weight gain | Dose: 325mg Before taking this medication I went through about 4 manic and depressive cycles per year sometimes winding up hospitalized. I also had mixed episodes and alot of anxiety and racing thoughts. I also had trouble falling and staying asleep. Serequel ended all these symptoms. I was VERY afraid to try this medication. I was unresponsive to lithium. Before being diagnosed as bipolar I was diagnosed as having post partum depression (on effexor 225 mg). Previous to post partum I was diagnosed as depressive with parnoid characteristics (prescribed paxil, prozac). None of these medications worked. Serequel has been a gift from God. I feel like a whole person that can deal with the world as a normal person. Judging from the feedback on the forum this medication seems effective for those who are truly disabled by bipolar otherwise it is not worth taking. | F | 39 | 1 years
| | 1/6/2010
| 5 | Bipolar | Drowsiness the next day for the first month, this subsided the longer I was on the medication. Constipation. Weight gain (20 plus pounds)My doctor has just prescribed Topiramate 25mg to help with weight gain | Dose: 325mg Before taking this medication I went through about 4 manic and depressive cycles per year sometimes winding up hospitalized. I also had mixed episodes and alot of anxiety and racing thoughts. I also had trouble falling and staying asleep. Serequel ended all these symptoms. I was VERY afraid to try this medication. I was unresponsive to lithium. Before being diagnosed as bipolar I was diagnosed as having post partum depression (on effexor 225 mg). Previous to post partum I was diagnosed as depressive with parnoid characteristics (prescribed paxil, prozac). None of these medications worked. Serequel has been a gift from God. I feel like a whole person that can deal with the world as a normal person. Judging from the feedback on the forum this medication seems effective for those who are truly disabled by bipolar otherwise it is not worth taking. | F | 39 | 1 years
| | 1/6/2010
| 4 | Bipolar and maybe something else?? | Well, I've only been on Seroquel for a few weeks. I'm taking 100mg a night. At first it made my heart beat really fast as soon as I took it, annd it knocked me out for 12 hrs, still does it I take the full thing. I have noticed though that parts of my body twitch?? And this drug also can cause tardive dyskinesia( so guys be carefull ) My hand and fingers twitch, and I have noticed that my eye lid at one point.. So maybe they have to lower my dose? Anyways other then that it balances out my moods but just have to be careful with taking it regularly and drinking etc. | Puts my deamons to sleep <3 :) lol | F | 21 | 3 weeks
| | 1/6/2010
| 5 | bipolar disorder with psychosis | slept for fifteen hours straight when i started it. my memory is shot to hell. put on maybe 14lbs over the course of three years
which probably wasnt to do with the medication but thought i'd mention it. racing heartbeat, cotton mouth, weird falling sensation about an hour after i take it. | im taking 600mg a night and have been for the past three years.
i came off it by myself for about three months last summer which sparked a horrific manic episode which landed me in hospital for the next two months.
i also suffer from psychotic episodes and its been great for that side of things.
i tend to get visual hallucinations and delusions that relate to them
and what i've found is that it doesnt stop me seeing these things. it just sort of makes it so i can live with it.
left to my own devices i dont sleep at all so taking a drug that knocks you out for about twelve hours has been wonderful.
its not addictive, its just that the problems come back if you stop taking it.
i've tried a pretty vast selection of medications and i've found that seroquel plus paroxetine works the best for me. | F | 24 | 3 years
| | 1/5/2010
| 5 | Insomnia | None | I have been taking Seroquel to treat my insomnia for 3 years already nothing else worked. Im 26 years old and I have had insomnia since I was 8 years old. Since I started taking Seroquel my Sleepless nights are over. | F | 26 | 3 years
| | 1/1/2010
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| 4 | Sleep, Depression | Zombie, Very compliant attitude, increased sex drive but no initiative to execute on this benefit. Some disorientation. Zone out at times. Some minor memory problems. About one hour after taking can have difficulty finding words or thinking complex thoughts. | 50mg dose but have taken up to 300mg as needed. Only medicine I have ever taken that can give me some peace help me relax. | M | 58 | 2 years
| | 12/20/2009
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| 5 | Bipolar Disorder I | weight gain, fatigue or dizziness if I increase the dose too fast, revved up right after I take it, constipation | I get every side effect from drugs and seroquel has been (relatively) side effect free for me. I feel more normal than I have in YEARS when taking this drug. It has been a godsend- I have been through so many drugs that gave me incredible problems so severe I was disabled from the side effects. Seroquel has helped my anxiety, my insomnia, my mania and mixed state episodes and also my depression. I was on Risperdal and became so anxious I had constant long lasting panic attacks I was rehospitalized. It also made me very very fidgety. They gave me Seroquel to counteract it and it worked like a dream and I have been on it ever since. I know the risks of weight gain and diabetes. But my weight gain hasn't been as bad as most people's on it, my blood sugar has been normal so far but I keep an eye on it and even though some of the side effects are annoying, it is much better than the hell I went through before I found this drug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | F | 32 | 3 years
| | 12/19/2009
| 3 | Bipolar Disorder, Insomnia | weight gain (25 lbs over 12 months), drowsiness, lackadaisical, very grumpy in the mornings, significant increased appetite and always for sweets or salts! | My Doctor restricted me from using another sleeping aid until recently, as he liked that seroquel first an anti-psychotic and second a sleep aid. I will admit that I DEFINITELY slept while taking Seroquel. I originally started this drug at 25 mg, and have taken as much as 300 mg. For the last six months I have taken 100 mg (less than this is not effective for me for sleep) combined with a cocktail of other drugs for bipolar disorder. Taking this drug, but after a year the hangover and oversleeping had to stop. I gained a significant amount of weight (I exercise about 4 to 5 times a week in hopes to off-set the weight gain from increase from the icreased appetitie- not successful). I just recently switched to Lunesta (and take 600 mg lithium for bipolar). So far so good! And it's so nice not to crave sweets right before bed. | M | 25 | 13 months
| | 12/14/2009
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| 4 | insomnia, anxiety, depression | a 'hungover' feeling the next day if i take it after 9.15pm the night before | on 25mg and can fall asleep very easily with it so really great cure for insomnia | F | 23 | 2 months
| | 12/9/2009
| 5 | Depression, anxiety, sleeplessness | Slight dry mouth, increased appetite, wonderful REM sleep. Was a little spaced the first week but that quickly subsided. Horny. | I take 150mg at bedtime along with 200mg Trazadone. I absolutely love it. I has done wonders for my mood, outlook on life and general anxiety in public. I feel better than I have in years. Please don't let all the negatives you might read frighten you away from trying it. Start out on low dose (maybe a sample pack from your doc) and give it a week or so. If it doesn't work for you after a few weeks trial, just quit. No harm no foul. | M | 51 | 3 months
| | 12/8/2009
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| 3 | bipolar disorder | nightmares, hangover in the morning which eases in 5 minutes with a cup of coffee. cognitive obtunding, i have no interest in the acedemic writing and reading i'd usually be enthusiastic about, no libido, completely uninterested in romance. i did have slight restless leg, weird uncomfortable feeling in hip joint but splitting the dose -300mg taken as 150mg .b.d. stopped that. | i was regularly getting incarcerated in a horrible public psych ward with cruel staff against my will and was under threat of eviction due to manic behaviour, seroquel totally controls my symptoms which gives me security, i don't have to live in fear of the psych staff ringing the doorbell. previous regimens included several drugs, valproate + lamotrogine +rispiridone, horrible discomfort and side effects, life wasn't worth living. seroquel works for me on its own, i'm not on any other drug and since it doesn't physically hurt me like rispiridone did i'm willing to pay the price of the side effects i have in order to keep psych detention and eviction at bay. | F | 50 | 2 years
| | 11/30/2009
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| 3 | Depression | Restless legs | | M | 32 | 6 months
| | 11/28/2009
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