SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1505 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SEROQUEL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | biplor 2 disorder | The dreams were too horrific to tolerate. I gained 10 pounds in 3 months. All I wanted to eat were sweets and this is not normal for me. People found me calmer but it was because I was depressed. I'll just go back to being bipolar. I have a job that I've had for 23 years; my children are happy and well-adjusted; and I've been married for 28 years. I think I'll just have to be happy with that. | F | 47 | 90 days 100 mg 1X day | 9/4/2010 | 1 | major depression | recently prescribed Seroquel XR 150mg @ bedtime( I should say ONE TIME ONLY!!!!!) WHY?????YOU MAY ASK?, this drug left me incapacitated for nearly two days after the initial dose of only 150mg!!!!one time only!!!,this drug is dangerous, be careful, I am still achey and very tired 3 days later............ | F THIS MEDICATION!!!!! WAS PRESCRIBED FOR DEPRESSION, MY DOC THOUGHT THIS MIGHT HELP W/ANXIETY ASSOCIATED...IT DID I FEEL LIKE A ZOMBIE..PEOPLE THINK TWICE ABOUT THIS ONE, SERIOUSLY!!! | M | 50 | 1 days 150 MG 1X day | 9/4/2010 | 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 day | 9/1/2010 | 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 day | 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 day | 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 day | 8/27/2010 | 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 day | 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 day | 8/22/2010 | 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 day | 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 day | 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 day | 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 day | 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 day | 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 day | 8/8/2010 | 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 day | 8/5/2010 | 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.. | M | 35 | 15 months 300 mg XR 1X day | 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 day | 7/26/2010 | 3 | Schizoaffective Disorder | Drowsiness, midnight sweet cravings | M | 46 | 4 years 100 1X day | 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 day | 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 day | 7/19/2010 |