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 |
| 5 | bipolar depression | Seroquel has given me a sense of well being that no other med has done. I take 300 mg at night. I'm willing to put up with the side effects such as sleeping 12 hrs each night, some muscle cramping, and digest. issues. I have to be careful of my diet but some of that has come with age. I'm 72 and have dealt with bi-polar disease since 1990's when rapid cycling became worse and I was finally diagnosed in 1994. I am trying to come off Pristiq because even with med. insurance, I was paying almost $400/month for this med. Down to 1 pill/day and still cost $165/month.Highway robbery by another name! Am having stomach issues withdrawing from Pristiq but I will continue Seroquel. I am fortunate that due to my age I can schedule my life around Seroquel side effects. I'm certain this would be difficult to do as a young person with job and/or family to raise. After I'm finished with Pristiq, I want to try a lower dose of Seroquel - down to 200 mg/night but I'm in no hurry. Coming off Pristiq I ha | F | 72 | 7 years 300 mg 3X day | 2/23/2017 | 3 | Early onset bipolar and psychosis | I had been diagnosed with bipolar at the age of 14 after having episodes of mania in which I was delirious, in a state of delusional thinking with a dramatic depression relapse lasting 2 weeks after. Part of the reason I started taking this drug after the pyschiatrist telling me to was I had been doing strange unusually risky behaviours withou conscious awareness such as sending weird letters to boys and wearing weird clothes to school and breaking rules. Started on 50mg went up to 100mg and was drowsy for weeks after causing me health problems with my energy levels. When anything stressful came into play I would still lose control of my emotions and had to go see the psyhcitrist again to have another "up the dose" session. Before I knew it I was on 500mg such a strong dose, only benefit was I didn't go into paranoia and psychosis but still had high moods and low mood swings. This drug will affects your brain! I had noticed feeling of lethargy, emptiness in my thinking, eye strain, confusion and headaches when trying to retain information. I felt like it had made me dumb! I felt like I was floating though life as a weight gained tired and lifeless ghost not realising what was going on living for the moment but only because I could remember hardly anything! Apart from this awful feeling as though I was masking out on other young people's non drug experience like they were feeling better than me (and I know I'm not the only one). Being a very creative person I felt my | Apart from feeling so called "normal" and "not manic or depressive" this drug is so powerful it's like a tranquilliser! Get off of you can! You almost lose all passion and interest if everything! It's got a prominent dark side. | F | 19 | 4 years 400mg | 2/6/2017 | 1 | Ptsd | Couldn't swallow ended up in the er | Bad drug very scary | M | 52 | 7 days 200 | 1/31/2017 | 3 | bipolar | I woke up this morning not knowing where I was right away but I came too, then I realized I had no underwear on. I asked the man I was with why and he told me we had sex, now this was just a friend someone I wouldn't have sex with. After he said that I remember in my dream someone was giving me oral sex and the orgasm felt so real... It was real. This really freaked me out,apparently I was the one who started everything. He got up to use the restroom and I guess I woke up when he got in the bed, I was told that I was very energetic during the whole thing but I can't remember anything. Is there some kind of meditation or something that can make the memories come back? | F | 31 | 8 years 200 | 1/27/2017 | 1 | Because the psychiatrist said | I experienced seizure of the mouth and jaw. Struggled to breathe and swallow and almost died. Was met with nurses laughing their asses off. | It is painful to take. I would rather live in the Santee jail. | F | 31 | 10 years | 12/22/2016 | 1 | Bipolar-psychosis | Highly addictive do not take antipsychotic unless absolutely necessary for schizophrenia. Weight gain, sedated, lack of empathy, feeling of nothingness, not being able to express sympathy, agitation, no sex drive, tired all the time. Sad. | As you taper off do it very very slowly, months at a time. I should have only been on this drug a couple of months and now it's 6.5 years, highly addictive, I'm on 6.5 mg now but can't cut tablet anymore as it's tiny. So scared of insomnia and how it will affect me at work. Coming down makes you very agitated, impatient and itchy hands. Horrible. Never take this drug ever! | F | 53 | 6.5 years 200 1X day | 12/4/2016 | 1 | Bipolar, insomnia | Weight gain, fatigue, reasoning impairment, increased appetite | This drug is dangerous and you must watch drug interactions. Do not take it with Ambien. Ambien causes sleep walking in many patients and Seroquel creates a binge eating type appetite, taken together you may not realize you are raiding the fridge or doing other strange things in the middle of the night. Not only did I raid the refrigerator, I threw small things away, found things moved around, things like that. As far as I know I didn't go outside. Watch the drug interactions with Seroquel. | F | 64 | 5 years 100 mg 1X day | 11/17/2016 | 4 | Mood Swings | For years I've taken the genetic brand at 200mg. For the past two years I was losing control of my mood swings. I'd dwell on things for a long time. I'd make myself sick with anxiety. All this became my normal. I'd watch others and think how can they just enjoy the moment without freaking out about tomorrow? My new doctor told me that 200mg was like a maintenance dosage for me so she upped it 400mg XR name brand. I now feel numb almost to things. It's like I don't care much anymore about anything. It's kind of scary to sit at work, driving in my car, being at a restaurant or even at home and not stressing out about anything anymore. I mean this may be normal to a normal person but to me it's all new. I asked my doctor if this what was supposed to happen. She said that the higher dosage extended release and Adderal is allowing my mind to function without being manic. She asked if I still have empathy. Not a question I've ever been asked but I really don't know. I mean if something happens around me and catches me off guard emotionally I'll react but not to the extreme and it'll subside very quickly. It's just concerning to me because I've never been this calm about anything and now everything doesn't bother me...much. Not sure if I'm asking a question or just putting it out there to see maybe others have the same confusing thoughts. | Does this make you lose empathy? | M | 43 | 1 months 400mg XR | 11/15/2016 | 3 | depression anxiety insomnia etc | I experience only at night paranoid like somebody watching over you and like you cant breathe it keeps me up mostly at night from being paranoid and it gives me anxiety but i do work other night with sleep i feel refreshed in the morning i dont feel anxetiy in the morning and im very active in the morning it just at night that will kinda mess with and sometimes i gives you horrible night mare that keeps you awoke but if works different for many people i keep taking and it works for sleep when i dont take it im up if im up all night if i take it i least get 6 hours of sleep if very difficult to explain but if your going through it to your not alone but this will make you very addicted to the medicine so be careful | Seroquel does make you sleep dosage over 200 makes you sleep well at night under 200 works for anxetiy be careful with the doseage it can become very addictive | F | 21 | 6 years 600 mg | 11/2/2016 | 5 | BiPolar type 2, 1 manic episode | None that weren't to be expected. It's sedating by nature so kinda expected that given I take it for sleep. | Works great for my sleep. Take 600mg per script however there's days I'm tired enough that I can just take 300. No grogginess as long as I sleep 8hrs. No weight gain but I watch my weight anyways because my other meds. Very happy with it! | F | 36 | 3 years 600mg | 10/13/2016 | 3 | Bi-PolarII,Anxiety/racing thoughts | Amongst those people I've met and spoken with in my doctor's waiting room who are also prescribed Seroquel, we call it: "COMA IN A BOTTLE". | Seroquel puts me in a stupor type sleep that lasts for up to 36 hours! IT DOES HOWEVER STOP THE RACING THOUGHTS. Therefore, I only take it as a "rescue" medication when I can no longer deal with the anxiety and racing thoughts. | M | 33 | 11 months 200mg 1X day | 8/31/2016 | 1 | Insomnia | Groggy, foggy brain, felt like the medicine didn't wear off | My doctor prescribed this for slight insomnia I was having. Wish I never took it! Two prior attempts to get off medication completely failed (hallucinations, hearing voices, can't sleep, headaches). I was worried I would never be able to stop taking this medication. I've spent the last two 1/2 years weaning down 100 six months, 50 six months, 25 six months, 12.5 six months, 6.25 six months. I can't cut the pill any smaller so my doctor suggested taking the 6.25 and crushing it then taking 1/2 of that powder on my tongue. I've made progress but it's taken years. This is a powerful drug and highly addictive. | F | 44 | 6 years 100 7X W | 8/25/2016 | 5 | Insomnia | This is the only medication that has ever truly helped me sleep. Best for me when combined with Celexa 20mg at hours of sleep. I don't know what I would've done the past 5 years without Seroquel. | F | 42 | 5 years 25 1X day | 8/3/2016 | 1 | Bipolar disorder | I became a zombie, extremely suicidal, irritability, headaches, severe depression, increased anxiety, increased paranoia | I wish my doctor would take me off of it, I hate the drug. It's not worth taking, it will screw you up more than it will help you. | F | 15 | 9 months 500mg | 8/1/2016 | 1 | Depression | It's blocking my receptors. I am like a zombie, meaning that I am emotionally blunt. | I need to know if there are any medications that could reverse the side effects of Seroquel. | M | 31 | 8 years 100 mg | 7/15/2016 | 1 | Misdiagnosed BP and HM | Horrible Drug: To anyone taking this drug read the Black Box Warning and there are YouTube videos and read all the ratings of 1 on this site page and all the symptoms will become evident | WICKED DRUG, DO NOT TAKE FOR THE SIDE EFFECTS AND WITHDRAWAL ARE HELL ON EARTH. RESEARCH AS MUCH AS YOU CAN FOR IT WILL MESS UP YOUR NUEROTRANMITTERS AND YOUR LIFE. IT IS A NASTY WICKED DRUG .BEWARE,BEWARE,BEWARE | M | 60 | 4 days 300mg 1X day | 6/29/2016 | 3 | Misdiagnosed bipolar | Gained thirty pounds | It's good short term (3-6 months) until a proper longer term plan is developed. It's been described as a 'dirty drug' because it affects so many neurotransmitters. Should only be used with psychosis. The benefits of this drug would only outweigh the most extreme cases of mental illness, I believe. | F | 39 | 1 years 150 | 6/25/2016 | 1 | What my doctor calls "hypomania." | I HATE the way this stuff makes me feel. It's terrible. It makes me feel groggy and drowsy, but it doesn't help me sleep. It makes my restless leg syndrome worse, just like antihistamines do. I also feel sick, kind of like a bad hangover. There's also kind of a jitteriness in the way I feel. It's like my muscles have been sedated but my nervous system hasn't. There's just as much anxiety as before taking the drug, but you feel so groggy and letharic that you can't do anything to ease the jitters. This is a terrible drug. My doctor prescribed it for a condition she calls hypomania, but after taking just half of a 50 mg pill I can tell that this is not what I need. The grogginess and lethargy might be okay if the drug actually helped me sleep, but it doesn't. It's like it both sedates and excites my nervous system at the same time, so my body and my mind are confused as hell. I couldn't wait for the effects of that 1/2 pill to wear off. | My doctor said that she has had patients who take a 600 mg dose of this drug. I think 600 mg would kill me, seriously. The effect from just 25 mgs was almost too much for me to bear. If you decide to try this drug, be very careful. Better yet, don't take it. | M | 48 | 1 days 25 mg | 6/24/2016 | 1 | Filed complaint against police offi | Addictive, passing out if you stand up, mental and I motion al impairment, weight gain, unable to defend yourself, difficulty walking and standing, racing heart 180 bpm, read the time/cnn so many PTFE trooped dying within one year of taking it they called it a plague. SEROKILL | New assassination drug but I was warned to get off medicine by two plain clothed women when in hospital. I went from being one of the most capable people on earth to a cripple. Was experimented on with military weapons, Microwave MEDUSA Weaponn, V2K, Heat attack, mock execution, forced suicide using voice cloning and MEDUSA. These are sick people and there are huge kick backs for prescribing this drug. Addiction, weight gain, loosing use of legs, passing out....off for 10 years and still struggling. I own a robotic company for 9 years before this built two homes and now I'm crippled. | M | 57 | 6 days 1,400 1X day | 6/20/2016 | 1 | Filed complaint against police offi | Addictive, passing out if you stand up, mental and I motion al impairment, weight gain, unable to defend yourself, difficulty walking and standing, racing heart 180 bpm, read the time/cnn so many PTFE trooped dying within one year of taking it they called it a plague. SEROKILL | New assassination drug but I was warned to get off medicine by two plain clothed women when in hospital. I went from being one of the most capable people on earth to a cripple. Was experimented on with military weapons, Microwave MEDUSA Weaponn, V2K, Heat attack, mock execution, forced suicide using voice cloning and MEDUSA. These are sick people and there are huge kick backs for prescribing this drug. Addiction, weight gain, loosing use of legs, passing out....off for 10 years and still struggling. I own a robotic company for 9 years before this built two homes and now I'm crippled. | M | 57 | 6 days 1,400 1X day | 6/20/2016 |