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 |
| 4 | Bipolar | I’ve had no side effects . | M | 59 | 8 years 100 MG | 11/18/2018 | 5 | Anxiety & Insomnia | Food cravings (manageable!) and initial morning grogginess. | I've found Seroquel to be the best drug so far to treat my anxiety and insomnia. I've tried 10+ antidepressants and have not been able to tolerate their side effects. I've also been able to stop benzos since commencing Seroquel and very rarely have the urge to have a Valium, and I somehow manage to beat the urge! Apart from food cravings on Seroquel (manageable!) and some initial morning grogginess, there's nothing much else to report. I'm very happy with the results! | M | 33 | 2 months 100 MG 1X day | 10/17/2018 | 1 | Depression | Neurological problems. Pain areas of FMS became severe. Lost feeling in hands and feet. A1C way in. | I'd never take another atypical antipsychotic again. | M | 57 | 3 months 30mg | 6/7/2018 | 1 | To help with sleep but I regret it | Constantly feel in a fog and now it's impossible to sleep without it. | I have tried to stop it and gabapentin but withdrawals are horrendous. Taking both for 12 yrs. | M | 61 | 12 days 400 mg | 4/7/2018 | 5 | Very severe insomnia | I have had no side effects at all | F | 68 | 11 years 50 mg | 3/31/2018 | 1 | Scizoaffective disorder | Weight gain, tremors, nightmares, trouble sleeping, paranoia, | They say this drug is good for lots of things but the things that I was put on it for are the very things that are bothering me the most now. I’m trying to get the doctors to get me off this medication | F | 44 | 3 years 300 mg | 3/31/2018 | 2 | To amplify the effects of sleep pil | Shortness of Breath Drastic weight gain, dizziness, blurred vision, possibly contributes to my high blood preasure. On its own, it has no effect on me whasoever, I could take panado and get more response. Combined with strong sleep medication, it works well. WEIGHT GAIN is dramatic | At 200MG I suffered dry mouth, little saliva, always thirsty, and rapid and unexpected weight gain within just 3 months. I want to stop using this but my mind convinces me that without it, my sleep medication will not work and my sleep pattern will be disturbed up to 5 times a night. I hope to increase my sleep medication the stop Seroquel just for a while to make sure I sleep through. How crazy is that - increase Dormicum 15mg x 2 per night to 45mg at night just to get off Seroquel. Whatever you do, consult a highly skilled and experienced psychiatrist in this drug and ask them to explain these effect before ever thinking it an option. I suffer for bi-polar, anxiety and depression and the best lesson in life is routines, schedules, work hard and sleep well. With good sleep and rest, I can manage my depression, anxiety is a devil on it's own and not so easy to manage. But I'm managing to remain in the main stream, be productive and soon will be off this drug. I should never have taken it to begin with. | M | 43 | 18 months 100 1X day | 3/30/2018 | 5 | Bipolar II Disorder | for the first week, I would have crying spells at night for no apparent reason | Seroquel was the first medication that allowed me to feel HAPPY. I had struggled with depression (now diagnosed Bipolar II) for four years before taking it and honestly didn't know what being happy felt like. I usually respond to medications quickly if they are effective for me and within three days I could function like I normal human being. | F | 20 | 7 months 50 1X day | 3/7/2018 | 3 | insomnia | Habituation, lost effectiveness | used to work wonders but quickly lost effectiveness after a few months. Then it would only make me feel weird or confused but not help sleeping or have its initial calming effects. | F | 28 | 3 months 25mg 1X day | 1/19/2018 | 1 | depression | horrible. wrecked my life. ruined my looks my physical health robbed me of family and friends....starting to ruin marrage. people treat me like I weirdo drug addict. i use to be beautuful successful and fun. Now ugly hiding out no emotions. Don't touch this drug. | F | 59 | 9 months | 1/13/2018 | 5 | PTSD/MDD/GAD/insomnia/panicdisorder | Very calming and sleep-inducing when taken at night. No real adverse effects for me. Sometimes I feel my emotions are a little stunted, but I was highly emotional before so it’s not necessarily bad. My anxiety is under control for the first time in years since my trauma, and it has allowed me to use less benzos as well. I use Seroquel in conjunction with Zoloft, Klonopin and Xanax (which I now use rarely because panic attacks are scarce thanks to Seroquel). I never thought I could live a semi-normal life again after my trauma but this drug brings me back down to earth. I do not feel sluggish or terrible during the day, just calm and not worrying about every little thing anymore. I can do my job more efficiently and have no problems thinking or feeling slow as others have reported. Please note that people are more likely to report bad results than good in anything (yelp, Glassdoor, etc.), and I think that’s the case for drugs as well. I don’t think the average score really reflects how people feel in a wider scale, because most people aren’t on here telling you the positives. | Seroquel saved my life... it was prescribed to me as an off-label insomnia treatment since no other sleep meds would work. I would often go a week without even a wink of sleep, be shaking uncontrollably throughout the day and night, have panic attacks constantly, would start my morning vomiting from stress, and couldn’t think straight. I finally feel normal again. | F | 28 | 8 months 100mg | 12/16/2017 | 1 | insomnia | severe dizziness upon waking, trouble thinking. muscle weakness | i have been having horrible issues with poor sleep after stopping zoloft and zyprexa in 2014 after 14 years on the drugs. Decided to try Seroquel 75 mg for sleep. i slept 6 hours and woke up feeling as if i had been laid out cold and had a severe concussion. I was stumbling into walls walking down the hall and it took me several minutes of staring at the stove to figure out how to make coffee. my eyes were rolling around like a cartoon character who takes a blow to the head and it took a half hour until i could see straight/ i felt physically weak the entire next day. pills found their way into the trash. i need sleep, but i also need my brains. | M | 45 | 1 days 1X day | 12/16/2017 | 1 | depression severe anxiety insomnia | grogy lithagic, gained 30lbs, couldn't remember name,s words etc zombie like the next day, would catch myself not inhaling or exhaling (too relaxed), I still have blurry eyesight occasionally, had hard time reading other peoples experiences with this deadly drug. | I started to feel like my organs were shutting down and I was swelling up. Developed a mass on my adrenal gland luckily my cortisol and hormone levels were normal. They thought I had hypothyroidism and developed nodules on my thyroid luckily no cancer and no hypothyroidim.. I now have to have both checked every 6mos to a year to make sure mass and nodules don't get to 4cc or they will have to operate. I was so knocked out at night didn't realize I was having acid reflux developed 8ccm hiatal hernia with a rare Cameron bleeding ulcer. Lost half my red blood cells 5 count (11 is normal)) had three blood transfusions and was in the hospital for a week I was acute critical and was severly anemic had to take large dosage of iron got my red blood cell count to 10. I am having sergury Monday for hiatal hernia repair and hopefully the Cameron ulcer will get better. I quit taking seroquel cold turkey the first night off of it my mind was racing and couldn't sleep at all sounded like hundreds of voices were talking at once it was horrible. Eventually after 3days I could sleep waking up about every 2 or 3 hrs. My doctor said that I was not suppose to go off it cold turkey and I was lucky I didn't have seizures. Besides side effects listed above I feel much better since I quit that deadly drug. My pysch was angry I went off Seroquel and told me that this will not end well????? Well she was wrong it has ended well , she prescribed me ambien 10mg and I sleep at night and wake up ref | F | 61 | 2 years 300 mg 1X day | 12/6/2017 | 5 | bi-polar (manic/depressive) | not much of an appetite | I seem to be a lot more stable when I take it as I am supposed to. I can think clearly.and not as gittery and angry ..I sleep well. I AM on other meds as well but they seem to be working well together. | F | 67 | 1 years 200mg 2X day | 10/28/2017 | 1 | biploar | killing me. cant get off taken my spirit health life family...cant work..cant hardly think. use to be smart and happy. now ruined. Don’t touch this stuff. | F | 58 | 4 days | 10/6/2017 | 3 | schitzoaffective | Apathy, no motivation. Not remembering recent events fully. Thinking of doing something then walking and forgeting what I was going to do. Everyone has this but for me it is almost 100%. Emotionaly blunted, no emotions and I don't care If I ever have again. That is a strange feeling but in some was is good. Can not follow plots in movies, gave up watching. Find myself at times lost in my thoughts, going in circles. Sitting just looking into space. Falling asleep early in the evening, can't keep my eyes open | I have read that Seroquel is like a chemical lobotomy. I would not go that far but it does definitely slow your thinking and memory. I feel like I am much slower thinking and sometimes if trying to thing about something loose my thoughts and can't remember what I was trying to think about. | M | 65 | 3 years 800 1X day | 9/13/2017 | 1 | Bipolar disorder/Scizophrenia | Lethargy, loss of interest, over sleeping, memory problems, permanent stutter, permanent shaking, permanent muscle spasms/rigidity, permanent twitching, equilibrium issues, eye titching, occasional black-outs( permanent), constant daily itching. | Started taking it around 12y/o and got off it when I was 16 1/2 y/o. It caused problems at school and in my social/home life(and still does) due to the side effects. My muscle spasms/rigidity are often so bad my legs lock up if I stand/sit for too long and I can't move them AT ALL(they're literally as hard as rocks). Oftentimes my stutter is so bad I have to stop talking because I get so frustrated or people start laughing at me. The twitching is often so bad it wakes me up when I'm sleeping and I tend to unintentionally throw things. The doctors think my "black-outs" are a rare form of epilepsy that was brought on by neurological damage due to being on such a high dose of seroquel for so long. I can't keep a steady job due to the permanent side effects and have trouble in social situations. My advice? If you're taking it, get off it as soon as possible. And if you're not on it? Don't start. Many of the issues I have now due to seroquel are rare or uncommon, but i know if I had another chance I wouldn't even risk it. | M | 19 | 4 years 450 mg | 9/7/2017 | 5 | Bipolar w/ manic episodes | Finally able to sleep well through the night. For me gaining weight has always been a problem and I've gained about 12 lbs since taking this medication. Some people see the weight gain as a negative while this is a positive for me. I have also experienced what finally feels like a "balance" in my life. I'm able to get my words out. I don't hold my feelings back anymore and I love it. I have not experienced anything negative while taking this medication. | What works for some may not work for others. | F | 28 | 4 months 200mg | 8/31/2017 | 1 | This drug was devastating for me.I slept a lot, was sluggish, breathless, felt no emotions and felt like the iron man. I have not lived for the past seven months and have progressively got worst. Gained 2 stone in 7 months. I've been off it for 1 month and I am starting to feel a bit human. This drug messed with my brain. I am so glad to be off it | F | 54 | 7 months 100 | 3/10/2017 | 5 | Bipolar, severe depression | Zombie effect, but needed my brain to slow down. Helped me stop shaking. But...weight gain is out of control. I've always been slim and athletic, now I'm plump. Ugh...makes me sick. I'm slowly going down on my dosage and trying to get some life back. I really hope my racing thoughts and my trembling don't come back. | F | 56 | 2 years 600 mg | 3/6/2017 |