SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)

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SEROQUEL  (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE):  This medication is used to treat certain mental/mood conditions (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, sudden episodes of mania or depression associated with bipolar disorder). Quetiapine is known as an anti-psychotic drug (atypical type). It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain. This medication can decrease hallucinations and improve your concentration. It helps you to think more clearly and positively about yourself, feel less nervous, and take a more active part in everyday life. It may also improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level. Quetiapine can help prevent severe mood swings or decrease how often mood swings occur.   FDA Approval Date: 2005-10-04 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 1  Insomnia Memory loss, drugged feeling, muscle weakness,confusion,rapid eye movements,temors,feelings of numbness. I am writing this from from a hosptial bed...I started Seroquel 1 week ago, on the 7 day I became, confused, weakness of muscles unable to stand temors of the legs and arms, rapid eye movements, I could not tell anyone my date of birth, was running fever, and shaking uncontrolable. I was rushed to the ER by ambulance and admitted to the hosptial to began my "detoxic" of the horible medication. My second day in the hosptial I have delevloped pneumonia and the withdrawls from this medicine has been awful....I am having muscle temors still my whole body is stiff and I am barely able to walk. Seroquel should be taken off the market I can see where this medication could be deadly. F 41 7 days
300 1X day
11/22/2010
 5  Sleep Disorder Loss of Appetite. Loss of sex drive. I am overall happy with Seoquel. My sleep has improved. Before Seroquel I had nightime Myoclonus that would wake me up, sleep walking, night time eating, sleep paralysis and I did not dream. I have been on several different types of Atipical Antipsychotice and sleep medicine. I found this to be the best. I no longer have Myoclonus, Sleep walking, night eating or sleep paralysis. And now I actually dream...and love it...I never knew how awsome it was to wake up in the morning and remember in vivid detail, what I dreamt during the night... THANK GOD and Thank You Seoquel! F 31 3 months
100 MG 1X day
11/21/2010
 1  to help me sleep when i was on seroquel i would have extrem eating binge. I would not care about anything as long as i had the drug to take. It was determined that i was Bipolar and this would be one of the best meds for me to take and i have not felt the same since. I now have a difficulty communicating with people to be honest i just dont care about anything i used to care about. I have taken several drugs in the past but thiswas the worst addiction i have ever had with anything. i have not taken it in about three months and i still feel like i am going through a withdraw every morning when i get out of bed. I was fortunate enough to talk my Dr down from 600 mg a day to only 100 mg a day over a course of several months. I still feel the withdraw symptoms. i even lost a job over the over all not giving a crap and not being able to wake up. I use to define myself with my job no matter how i felt and now i just dont give a damn even after i quit taking it. M 28 3 years
600mg 1X day
11/17/2010
 1  Bi-Polar This was a horrid experience for me.At the time prescribed it had only been clinically tested up to 800 mg a day!! I was a zombie and had also been misdiagnosed. Praise God it didn't kill me. I kept telling the Dr. something was wrong but they would not listen to me and I wound up in a very draconian "stress unit" that took me off of it without bringing it down,cold turkey so to speak. Awful,awful medication! They said it would help me gain weight when in fact I wound up losing 20lbs. Apparently it does help some people but why is there a class action suit against it then if it's such a "miracle" drug? There are other safer drugs out there. I personally feel it should be taken off the market. F 45 6 months
300mg 3X day
11/15/2010
 1  Sleep, anxiety, bipolar 2 BAD NEWS! APATHY, COMPLACANCY. MASSIVE weight gain of 70 lbs in 18 months! Hard to wake up; could sleep for 10 plus hours, awoke groggy. Complacent, no drive. EX: Knew weight gain was due to effects of Serequel, but too complacent/strung out to stop taking it. AWFUL DRUG...TOOK OVER MY BEING & I DIDN'T CARE OR REALIZE THE SEVERITY. I WAS NUMB; SLEEPWALKING IN MANY WAYS. Please STOP taking if you are having bad side effects like mine ~ there are better medications for your condition. Have been completely off drug for 6 weeks, and I am SO much better; back to my old self; it's so refreshing! Have lost weight, no more consuming urge to gorge at night. Coming out of mental fog and apathy. Want to do things again, to live, enjoy life... "get rollin.'" Details of my side effects: Voracious appetite after taking med. at night. Ate ravenously after taking medication before falling asleep...the gourging urge would take over..I'd continue eating although I could hardly keep my eyes open! Would awaken groggy, strung out (like a drug addict) no matter how long I slept. My mind was in a fog; would want to take 2 hours to get out of bed. Complacent about my life; became slothful: poor personal care, neglectful of home & family. Mental clarity dimmed.. I became "slow". Diminished or no initiative. (Used to be a go getter.) Hated my enormous weight gain, knew problem was Seroquel; DID NOT stop taking medication or request to switch to another medication. Until I came off of Serequel, didn't realize how much it was ruining my life..while on the drug ~ I WAS SO NUMB, DIDN'T REALLY CARE ENOUGH TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! APALLING. I encourage anyone on Serequel to consider serious side effects. There ARE alt F 51 18 months
50-600 mg 1X day
11/7/2010
 1  mood stabilzer tired all the time. Had trouble swallowing food. Heart palpatations. Shortness of breath. Extreme fatigue after minimal activity. Extreme weight gain. Could not get my body to regulate temperature. Sweating all the time and in the heat to long I would start to black out. Memory lose. The side effects go on and on. I do not reccomend this medication to anyone. I have been off this medicine for over a year and still do not feel like my old self. I had horrible panic attacks and had numberous hospital visits because of them. Also had to have a heart cath done because I am now sensitive to adreniline and get frequent attacks of rapid heart rate. The panic attacks have calmed down somewhat but not without the help of other medication and completely stopping the consumption of any caffiene, alcohol, dark soda, or chocolate. It scares me everyday to think of what this medicine has actually done to me. F 35 4 days
300 1X day
10/25/2010
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 1  anxiety/major depression The seroquel certainly decreased my anxiety, however, it made me so depressed that I think I was suicidal I was just too tired and my brain was too foggy to bother acting on my suicidal urges. I felt very flat and like I couldn't care less about even the most alarming things. I also had an increased appetite and intense hunger in the morning. I am glad to be off of this medication! F 24 7 days
100 2X day
10/20/2010
 4  Bi-polar 100 plus pounds weigh gain, never feeling awake, hypersomina, constant feeling of fog, loss of concentration I want to stop taking this so bad. But, when I have I can not sleep. Question to everyone who has successfully stopped how long did it take for the side effects to go away? How long should I plan to be out of sync before it is completely out of my system? F 45 6 years
75 1X day
10/14/2010
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 1  anxiety/sleep 100 pound weight gain, tired all the time,oversleeping, overeating, overheating during exersising, easy sunburn, high cholesterol, abnormal liver tests. I was told by phychiatrists for 10 years that 100 mg serequel would never cause tardive dyscanetia and I should not worry about it. "Only happens to people who take high doses" Well, I'm walking around smacking my lips, puckering my lips like a fish and repetatively licking my lower lip. If that's not crappy enough, right about the time I started waking up grimmicing I found out I had sleep apnea. Had I know that and got on CPAP sooner I could have gotten off Serequel. Now I'm seriously thinking about killing myself. I'm not a severely mentally ill person who does nothing in society, just a hard working person like everybody else who was given serequel as a sleep aid and anti-anxiety agent and told it was safe. PSYCHIATRISTS LIE AND RUIN LIVES !!! Now i face living life in shame and humiliation or shooting myself in the mouth...Tough choice !! M 36 10 years
50-100 1X day
10/10/2010
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 3  possible schitzophrenia Very pliable and feel way to easy going to stand up for myself or anything. muscle weakness. Trouble concentrating on complex tasks, slurred speach. I initially wanted it for sleep, so i take it about 5:00pm and it has greatly helped. However, I have very vivid dreams and hope I don't one night dream about something horrible. In other words, it doesn't put me in a deep enough sleep. Feel like i lead a double life in sleep. M 26 5 days
50MG 1X day
10/8/2010
 4  Sleep Apnea compliance to CPAP I was first taking Seroquel XR at 150mg and I felt like I could not get enough sleep and stayed kind of blah all day. My doctor switched me to quick release Seroquel and I am much happier with that. The idea behind prescribing this to me was to help me sleep better so that I do not take my CPAP mask off. To date, it has done the trick. I wake up feeling rested, clear minded, etc. I wish I had started taking it long ago and then maybe I would have been more compliant with my CPAP mask. I would be happy to share my experiences with this medication if you wish to email me. Good luck to all of you. M 50 21 days
200mg 1X day
10/7/2010
 3  Social Phobia &Sleepiness problems Note: the following effects last for about 4 - 6 hours after waking up. It seems that I didn't have enough sleep even if I sleep 12 hours, I even oversleep and can't hear my alarm except maybe the last one (I set 4 alarms) but this can also be due to me like to stay up late. Comprehension decreases, Blurred Vision, Feels like my Brain is floating over water and Surrounded by Fog. I'm having Effexor XR 150MG per day for Social Phobia. It wasn't working well by itself so my doctor added Serequel 100MG to stabilize my mood as he said. The outcome was that I became really calm and confident (or maybe this is what I like to think). However, the side effects started appearing. However, if I sleep early (10 pm), I'll experience the effects with lesser degree and will not last longer. After 6 months of using Seroquel daily, I stopped it (for 4 months now) and am currently using Effexor only. However, because I stay up late at night I wanted to force my self to sleep early. Therefore, I took Seroquel again. This made me notice that I have been experiencing a little degree of anxiety related to social phobia since I stopped Seroquel. Now I don't know what I should do? Should I take seroquel again to eliminate the anxiety issue or stop it to avoid the side effects!? M 34 6 months
100 MG 1X day
10/2/2010
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 3  Diagnosed schizophrenic - voices vision, poor cognition, disconesia - uncontrollable facial muscle spasms and tounge balling up, can become permanent. sleep my life away. after i take it its like ive smoked some hydro skunk bud from indonesia. my friends ask for it to sell on the street. its street name is ''serable palsy'' they snort it. enough said. this drug sucks, all anti psychotics suck. ive had them all. the drug companys are making tons of money on these things. a 3 cent pill can go for $300 bucks. its greed baby. also your beautiful and amazing and you may be psychic, i mena psychotic but its ok because you can make it as an artist or a rocker. just kidding. im in mental health as a job. thats mental health./ f--- illness M 27 5 years
1X day
9/29/2010
 4  Depression - Sleep Problems In a fog when waking up. Memory problems, forgetting important things. Sometimes zombie like, zone out. Increased libido with no drive to act upon this increase. Days sometimes blur together, forget the day of the week. Very complacent. Someone said here that a gun could be put to their head and they would not care. I can relate as when I am taking, nothing phases me. Fear seems to melt away. Eat more, slight weight gain, three - five pounds. Very effective for sleep. I have taken on and off for three years. I take when needed and will stop when I am getting lost. Hard to describe but this medicine is very strong for me and seems to change my personality. When I feel like I am going past the point of no return I stop the medicine. It takes a month or more for the real me to return. I would sum it up like this. I am normaly a very intuitive fast learner who is interested in all aspects of life and living. After a few days on Seroquel I become very complacent and pliable. I remember the movie the Stepford Wives and I guess you could say that I am the Stepford Husband when taking this medicine. I see why they give it for Bi-Polar as it certainly removes the highs and levels me out. Also it is the only medicine that I have ever taken that gives me a sense of peace and calm. The only problem with that is it does not stop at that point, wish it would. After giving the sense of calm continues to numb mind and thinking ability. I have not taken for two months and I am having difficulty sleeping again so will start tonight again. Wanted to write this before as I will not have initiative to write this after I take it. Wish I could find something else as I am concerned about what the long term effects of this medicine could be. M 58 3 years
50 1X day
9/27/2010
 5  Sleep / Bipolar Depression If I don't sleep at least 8 hours, I'm a little groggy in the morning. On those occasions, a 12 oz. can of Mountain Dew (which contains about 1/3 the caffeine of a regular cup of brewed coffee) generally does the trick. Otherwise, I have not noticed any other side effects and have not experienced any weight gain at doses of 12.5 to 50 mg. 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 have been taking 12.5 mg of Seroquel predominantly for sleep. I absolutely LOVE how it puts me out/down in about an hour and helps me sleep through the night. At higher doses (25 or 50 mg), I am too groggy the next day. When I'm hypomanic, its ability to keep me down through the night is reduced. On those rare occasions, I increase my dose to 25 mg and that helps. M 50 9 months
12.5 mg 1X day
9/26/2010
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 2  Bipolar I was on extended release. My doc said to take 3 hours before bed and he was right. Exactly 3 hours later I was so drunk I couldn't do anything but lay there. I could move, I just didn't want to! Then I got restless leg and it frustrated me. Advil strangely got rid of the RL... So for three months I took seroquel then 3 or 4 hours later took an advil. I slept entirely too much. 12 hours was the minimum or I couldn't function. Then when I was awake I would suddenly feel extremely dizzy or extremely sleepy, to the point where I actually sat down in the floor in a store once because I thought I was gonna fall! It only lasted 10 minutes or so but it happened often enough that I was scared to drive. I NEVER felt full when I was eating. I ate and ate and ate. My husband loved it because he said I was anorexic before but I hated it. I only weigh 140 now (105 before) but had to replace the wardrobe which I wasn't expecting financially. VERY vivid dreams. I enjoyed those as I don't think I d I think my doc started me out on too high of a dose and I believe I shouldn't have taken extended release because it continued to affect me all day the next day. EVERYONE I told the dosage I was given became really worried and said that was too high to start on (300 mg). Even the pharmacist was concerned. I don't even think I have bipolar disorder and was diagnosed with it within a 20 minute intake interview before the doc even knew anything about me. (Pill pusher). I quit taking it on my own and stopped seeing the doc too. I had horrible headaches when I stopped taking it but I was determined not to take it anymore so I dealth with those. No more restless leg now that I'm off the medication either... F 31 3 months
300 mg 1X day
9/17/2010
 4  sleep/anxiety/panic sleepiness, hunger, could eat a horse. Slowed thoughts down tho I like seroquel. I'm currently on zyprexa and I want to switch back. Seroquel always made me feel chill and relaxed without a lot of side effects. You'll probably feel groggy into the next day tho. M 27 5 years
25-75mg 1X day
9/15/2010
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 5  Bipolar disorder and sleep disorder Sometimes i get panic attacks and restless leg syndrome. Comes and goes. I would only take for bipolar or other mental problems. Cause its a mood stablizer. Its a good drug when u get passed the occasional side affects. F 21 4 years
200 mg 1X day
9/13/2010
 3  bi polar disorder bad short term memory problems, increase of depression, feeling worthless, weight fluctuation, tardive dyskinesia, increased heart rate when standing up in the morning, running out of breath too quickly. I am 23 years old and still on this medication. I don't know how to talk to my doctor to get it switched to a different anti-psychotic. I have heard that all medicine in this class of drugs have virtually the same side effects. F 23 2 years
150 XR 1X day
9/12/2010
 1  PTSD/Anxiety Gained 60 pounds, continue to have issues with PTSD, vivid dreams, flashbacks, anxiety, short attention span. General decline in an already poor health. I am trying to ween myself off of it as I lost my job/insurance and it is to expensive to buy. The side effects are increased anxiety, insomnia, feelings of impending doom. F 48
100 2X day
9/8/2010

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