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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Depression | Restless legs | M | 32 | 6 months | 11/28/2009 | 5 | bipolar I | Sugar cravings, require 10 hrs sleep, mild restless leg syndrome, slight weight gain, involuntary finger/toe movements. Grogginess for about 30 minutes in the morning which goes away. | As bad as the side effects sound, bipolar I is scary and debilitating, and this drug has turned my life around. I take a fairly low dose, 100 mg, unless becoming manic, when I increase it to 200 for a few days. With consistent exercise and careful eating I can keep my weight under control, and blood sugar is good. I refrain from eating at night after I take the drug - just go straight to bed. Also I take lamictal and lexapro. Have been stable five years. Seroquel helps with anxiety, too. I feel very good. | F | 47 | 5 years | 11/23/2009 | 4 | Bipolar Depression / insomnia | difficult to lose weight even while dieting, vivid dreams, and increased joint and muscle pain, even in my feet! | I like Seroquel, because I can now sleep through the night at 50 mg Seroquel XR. Yes, I have vivid wierd dreams, but generally dont remember having them until I am trying to wake up the next a.m. For 6 years, I used to use a Tylenol PM for my insomnia. Tylenol PM can permanently hurt your liver, I think. I think using Seroquel is healthier than Tylenol PM. | F | 51 | 8 months | 11/23/2009 | 1 | bi-polar/ aniexty.insomnia | Hard to wake up in morning, gained about 45lbs, spaced out ETC | My doc put me on this took 600mg nightly before bedtime, took for about 3 1/2 years um stopped on my own he said no not good thing to stop by yourself....he said I would have bad side effects blah blah blah I stopped myself took ocntrol yes I did have side effects / withdrawls from not takeing it HOWEVER I am now back down to a normal wieght lost all the weight I gained and sleep just fine also. I am not saying for everyone it will be this easy but PLEASE DONT GET ME WRONG IT TOOK A GOOD MONTH FOR ME TO BE BACK TO "NORMAL , MYSELF " It took awhile for it to get out of my system and WOW what a diff/I feel great and look great I control my mood swings ...HECK MAYBE HE THOUGHT I WAS SOMETHING I WASNT ... I JUST KNOW NOW THAT I STOPPED TAKING IT I AM BETTER INSIDE AND OUT | F | 32 | 3 years | 11/13/2009 | 4 | Insomnia/Racing Thoughts/OCD | I take this because my mind cannot stop the chatter at night. I have taken 100 mg one hour before bed and it has worked well for four years without having to increase the dose. I do take Restoril 30 mg when needed, which is rare and usually due to occasional back pain. The sedation wears off by the time I wake up. | F | 45 | 4 years | 11/11/2009 | 4 | BPD (bi polar) | Crazy dreams, I wake up groggy, however the feeling passes with a few cups of coffee. Besides that all side effects are good ones so far. I feel happy able to play with my kids, laugh and work with a clear mind. Used to want to drink alchol every day most often apon first waking up in the morning, now I couldn't be bothered to. | Will update as I continue taking this medication,so far it has been a wonder.. | F | 25 | 2 months | 11/8/2009 | 2 | schizoaffective disorder | surprised to learn on this site and from experience that it is addictive - like i didn't take my usual 100 mg last night and i couldn't sleep at all, although the body and mind was needing to - but the more i take it, the less sedative effect it has - meaning, it takes longer for it to knock me out, and i don't sleep for the 12-14 hours anymore that it got me doing when i first started taking it - the psychiatrist told me that it was not at all addictive, no dependency - but it hasn't panned out that way, and it looks from this site like that's the general experience - in any case, sleeping wasn't a focus of my issues before at all, it's only become so with taking this drug | have been taking 100 mg of seroquel at night with 80 mg of lovan/fluoxetine in the morning, for almost 2 years. apparently this cocktail is a neat fix for schizoaffective stuff, but i haven't seen anyone else on this site stating that they've been prescribed this mix. anyway, i have to agree with others that, at first, it seemed like the way to go. i'd had lovan before; it was an invitation to apathy, while it did clear the mind and let some work get going; the seroquel seemed to add some eagerness and some loss of worry to the mix; actually found myself going to the local markets. but that spirit's long gone. dread, angst, is only stronger day by day. like others have noted here, i've also started drinking heavily - not a drop for at least a year before going on this cocktail; now going for the vino-destructo like it was fruit juice - to blank out the ambient dread, the obsessive angst; to feel something more than desperation. there is no gift-of-life with these "happy-beans" - they just make us care some less that we've hit dead-end and that the fact is that this is it - or sleep or munch our way through it - somehow have to find another way of being self-effective (but then again, as if one hasn't tried all the scripts) - after much juggling, i reject the implicit idea, on this site, that "this or that drug is this or that bad" - we're all just going along in our little row-boat | M | 43 | 2 years | 11/1/2009 | 5 | Bipolar Manic Insomnia | Had to take naps in the afternoon. Eliminated day time sleepiness by reducing dosage from 300 mg. to 200 mg. per night. | Highly recommend this for bipolar usage. Never felt more alive and productive, like I am 25 not 55 years old. I get between eight and ten hours of sleep every night and wake up feeling great and jump out of bed and hit the ground running. | F | 55 | 1 years | 10/30/2009 | 5 | bipolar disorder - rapid cycling | nasal congestion every night at bedtime, hair loss, weight gain | I can not believe how many people are taking this for insomnia! It has been the one medication that has been effective for the longest time (have been on more meds over the past 16 years than I can remember - most work for a short while then become ineffective). However, it is extremely powerful and I only take it as a last resort before lithium. To see people taking this for sleeplessness seems like using a sledge hammer to swat a fly - no wonder they are unhappy with the side effects. | F | 39 | 6 years | 10/24/2009 | 4 | Bi-polar disorder | Slight weight gain, taken in conjunction with lithium. Intense grogginess and some unknown feelings of dread upon awakening. This passes as I arise and move about. I usually sleep at least 12 hours a night. Have been trying to awaken earlier, between 9&10AM by taking the drug at 7PM. Have some excessive muscle movements, and difficulty swallowing at night, which my doctor tells me could be a pre-cursor to Tardive Dyskenesia. I fear that, but am not ready to experiment with any of the newer classes of drugs for this disorder. I have Hyper-lipidemia have decided to take Niaspan (RX Niacin)in liew of statins. Not presently diagnosed with Diabetes, thankfully. | I am a 62 year old female who has suffered with the symptoms of Bipolar Disorder for 40 years. I have a very strong family history of this disorder. The initial manifestation was about 4 months after the birth of my first child. It was in 1970 and was treated as Post Partum Depression. After moving about the country for the first 8 years of the onset of this disorder, I was formally diagnosed as having Bipolar Disorder. I was originally treated with major tranqualizors and was started on lithium in combo with antipsychotics and deseryl. In 2005 I moved to another state and my new doctor and I experimented with most of the usual antipsychotic drugs, all with disheartening side effects. About two years ago I was put on Seroquel and have taken as much as 600 mg in combo with smaller doses of lithium. I have recently decreased the dose of Seroquel to 450 mg and 300 mg of lithium. This combination seems to be working well for me and I am grateful for living in a time when these meds are so helpful. Hopefully, one day there will be a cure. | F | 62 | 2 years | 10/23/2009 | 5 | cyclthymia, ptsd, borderling | Dry mouth, calming, no weight gain | PLEASE WHEN YOU POST FOR THIS DRUG OR ANY OTHER DRUG INCLUDE THE DOSAGE, HOW LONG YOU HAVE BEEN USING THIS DOSAGE, ANY OTHER DRUGS WHICH MIGHT INTERACT AND GIVE IT ONE MONTH BEFORE CALLING IT OR ANY OTHER DRUG "THE DRUG FROM HELL, SATAN, ETC". Also it might help to list other drugs you have tried. There are people like me who have found Seroquel to be an answer to a prayer and after many years of suffering, battling demons and thoughts of suicide Seroquel has helped us. I started at 12.5 for 2 weeks, 50 mg. for two weeks, and now have found the perfect dose of 100mg. at bedtime and I sleep like a baby. Thank you. | F | 55 | 2 months | 10/19/2009 | 5 | Sleep Disorder Mood Swings | Mild Weight gain, drowse during the day. | This medication has been a life saver, I used it to detox from Klonopin and Xanax after 20 years of use. Seroquel also has worked great for my sleep disorder allowing me quality sleep for the first time in years. | M | 43 | 3 years | 10/19/2009 | 5 | bipolar II | No side effects that were bothersome except maybe a little lethargic the next day. This could be handled with one cup of coffee in the morning. This medication has been a blessing from the good Lord. Almost all symptoms gone at 300mg. At first I refused to take this medication because of many posts that I read on here and other places on the web. Then my symptoms got so bad and I knew I had to do something. None of the things that people wrote about on here happened to me. None of them! I am just going to put my trust in the Lord and I hope that other people who are in the same boat that I am in, people who are in need of help, but live in fear of the side effects of the medications, will go ahead and get help. | F | 42 | 2 years | 10/16/2009 | 1 | Bipolar/insomnia | 50 weight gain | I had been on it since May 2002. Decided to wean off because I started having alot of side effects. I was having problems with my sight, now my sight is back to normal. Developed galstones, had my galbladder removed. Because of the weight gain, I now need two knee replacements. Since I was on Seroquel for over 6 years, it took over 4 months to wean off, and 5 visits to the ER because of withdrawls. I started out at 25mg...and somehow ended up taking 600mg, because 25mg wasn't enough anymore, so then it was 50mg, then 100mg....etc. It is a very addictive drug, though they didn't say anything back in 2002....shame on these drug companies. | F | 53 | 6.5 years | 10/8/2009 | 4 | Bi-polar | constantly lethargic, sleeping upto 12 hours a day | Has helped my mania tremendously. Just not sure how to stop sleeping so much. | F | 27 | 2 months | 10/5/2009 | 3 | depression/OCD/insomnia/anxiety | extreme tiredness, depersonalization, feeling really not like myself, extreme hunger, feelings of being detached from some of my previous worries, not caring or being as empathetic | helped me sleep, but way too much. kind of just dulls my perceptions and ability to think so much that i can just sleep and sit somewhere and not really care about anything at all. which is sometimes a nice thing if you are a really anxious worried person...helps for sleep, and maybe helped with the depression a a little bit for some weird reason, which i didn't expect | M | 18 | 3 days | 10/5/2009 | 1 | recurrent depression | took 50 mg before going to sleep, slept for about 30 hours, no kidding, just went out of bed for going to the toilet, but was so tired, I just had to go to bed and sleep... | F | 33 | 2 days | 9/30/2009 | 4 | Anxiety/depr./borderline dissociati | Unfortunately, after about a year and a half of nearly miraculous help, I will need to stop this med because of uncontrollable weight gain, and concerns about diabetes, unless I can find a way to counteract the side effect. I understand that it changes the way the body metabolizes glucose. Diet change and exercise have not helped. | After several years of uncontrollable anxiety and borderline dissociative episodes ( I felt like I was being possessed by a child-like part of myself, completely debilitating anxiety), and trying several different meds, having to detox off of addiction to benzos, which didnt completely cure me. then I was offered Seroquel, and I have felt better than I ever have in entire life. Have suffered low grade and sometimes more severe depression since a teen. This problem is genetic, at least 4 generations now. Unfortunately, it appears that the side effects are seriously dangerous to my health, with the possiblity of diabetes. I hope that I can find some alternative that works as well. I still recommend this medicine to anyone suffering severe uncontrollable anxiety and depression. It works different than other anti-depressants. Since I know how it works in the brain (what neurochemicals it affects) I can now go about finding a similar non-pharamceutical solution. | F | 48 | 1.5 years | 9/26/2009 | 3 | bipolar | Dry mouth, tired a.k.a zombie-like,higher sex drive although I am almost unable to ejaculate which is very frustrating, gain in appetite... | M | 22 | 3 months | 9/26/2009 | 4 | Severe depression/Anxiety/insomnia | Drowsiness. Increased my appetite ten fold - always "starving". | Best help for the insomnia I have ever had. Helps slightly with the anxiety - probably because of the drowsiness making me less aware - did not help the depression - must constantly fight an overwhelming urge to eat - all the time - or will blow up like a balloon. | M | 49 | 7 months | 9/24/2009 |