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 |
| 1 | Anxiety | Felt extremely suicidal. Wanted to hurt others. | Tried Seroquel 300 mg. a day again. By the 3rd day, I wanted to kill myself. I even got a hose for my car exhaust, and a roll of duct tape to seal the window. I emailed my friend and said I was going to kill someone. I knew these thoughts were "not the real me", and realized it was indeed the Seroquel making me think like that. Stopped Seroquel immediately, and within a week, I was my happy self again. Will never take this drug again. | M | 53 | 3 days 300 MG 1X day | 6/9/2016 Patient History | 1 | Depression and Anxiety | Lethargy, apathy, fatigue, weight gain, I just didnt care much about anything. I couldnt. | This drug along with other anti psychotics shouldnt be taken as a first option. Although it seemed to mask/dull the anxiety and depression, it made me a zombie. I wanted to sleep all of the time.. I gained 50+ lbs over the 12 years I was on seroquel. I was told that I could never get off of this stuff, but 16 months ago, I quit cold turkey. Weening off was not an option for me, as it made me feel more anxiety, and more 'crazy'. I went through 3 months of withdrawal from taking seroquel. I would never recommend that anyone take it..ever. I now have permanent damage done to me mentally..I have tremors and small 'tics' but it was worth getting off, for sure. I can FEEL again! | F | 44 | 12 years 100 1X day | 6/4/2016 | 5 | Insomnia and anxiety | Deep sleep 7-8 hours per night. Less anxiety. No negative side effects at all. | F | 47 | 3 months 12,5mg | 6/3/2016 | 4 | Depression, anxiety, suicidal ideat | Extremely drowsy in the morning it I don't get 8-10 hrs of sleep. Dry mouth. I'm 34 but feel like I'm 90 after taking this med for 3 weeks. Doesn't matter if I do anything strenuous or sit around all day. My whole body hurts. | My depression, anxiety has toned down alot since taking it. | F | 34 | 1 months 150 | 6/1/2016 | 5 | Bipolar | Weight gain,lethargy | Started on 300mg per day then gradually reduced to 25 mg taken at night.Can increase dosage when needed which gives almost immediate relief from symptoms.I do find I have less energy than I used to but that is better than a mind and body on overdrive.Seroquel has made me calmer but you have to compliment it with life style changes.No drinking alcohol,caffeine,late nights and try to avoid any trigger situations.My kids call it my magic pills and I will continue to take them for life. | F | 46 | 4 years 25mg | 5/18/2016 | 4 | borderline PD, psychosis, anxiety | appetite increase, weight gain, infrequent blurred vision, lethargy/fatigue | started taking for unstable moods and psychotic episodes. helped stabilise my moods somewhat and vastly reduced frequency of psychosis. also made me feel much calmer and reduced how often i have panic attacks. improved my quality of sleep, helps me get to sleep much faster than without it. the weight gain is very hard to deal with as this medicine makes me more lethargic | M | 20 | 2 months 150mg | 5/13/2016 | 1 | Added to ssri for major depressive | Weight gain,35 lbs, 286 cholesterol, and type two diabetes. | Successfully tapered off seroquel one month ago. W/d symptoms were, anxiety attacks, mood swings, suddenly depression out of nowhere. These symptoms weren't constant thank god. Itched myself till I had bruises. And Some BLURRED vision. Symptoms almost gone after one month. Clarita works to cease itching. Doc gave me halcion for sleep temporarily and tranxene for anxiety. Never had any GI symptoms, thankfully. I feel great! Lost ten pounds already. My appetite is back to normal. This can be done, if weaned off slowly. I will never take a antipsychotics again, really should read about all drugs before taking them, don't just take docs advice. Never experienced W/D before, ad hope to never again. Seroquel messes with your brain chemistry and not in a good way! | M | 50 | 1 months 100 | 5/12/2016 | 2 | PTSD | When the effects first started, i was drowsy, almost like i was drunk. I was woozy and falling over my own feet to lie down and i couldnt keep my eyes open. I woke 3 hours later with EXTREME rage ready to take on the world and I'm normally very withdrawn. Im sensing bad things will happen if i continue taking this drug thats making me so enraged. I began taking it January of 2015, stopped in July 2015 and was on 25mg x 5 daily (125mg total). I was in a unit when i first started this drug so I can't really remember much about it i was that zoned out. After taking just one, i think i'll pass this time. | Never again. | F | 22 | 1 days 25mg | 5/8/2016 | 1 | anxiety and insomnia | gained 60 lbs within 3 months, high blood pressure which i now am taking meds also for, slept great while on it but not worth the side effects stay away from this med | withdrawal is hell | F | 31 | 6 months 50 mg 1X day | 5/1/2016 | 1 | Insomnia, Schizotypal Personality D | Increased appetite. Massive weight gain of 100+ pounds. Development of type 2 diabetes. Development of sleep apnea. Fatigue, lethargy & apathy. | I have been on this medication for around 15 years now. I have tried going off it many, many times. I even slowly tapered it down to 6.5 mg, but always ended up back on it because without it - I wouldn't sleep at all for days, until I would usually start hallucinating and feeling like I was coming apart at the seams. Nothing else seems to work for my insomnia. I am fed up with constantly feeling tired all day and am sick of being so overweight. I went cold turkey 7 nights ago & have only managed 8 hours of sleep TOTAL since. I'm exhausted, but OK mentally, in part thanks to being on Prozac & in part to being so determined to get off of it for once and for all. While it guaranteed sleep for me, it simply wasn't worth the side effects. | F | 48 | 15 years 6.25-500mg 1X day | 4/12/2016 | 5 | Anxiété généralisée et dépression | Au départ somnolence constipation troubles de la mémoire prise de poids augmentation de l'appétit et grosse fatigue. | Ça fait 3 ans que je prends ce médicament qui m'a changé la vie. Je dors mieux je suis stable et beaucoup moins anxieuse. Je suis passée de 300 à 200 mg récemment et je n'ai quasiment plus d'effets secondaires. | F | 39 | 1 days 200 | 4/4/2016 | 1 | bipolar | Very little quality sleep, weight gain, tiredness and diabetes. Now I'm trying to get off it but can't sleep at all. | It's hell. Don't take it. | F | 3 months 300 | 3/30/2016 | 1 | Bipolar 1 | Sever Itchiness over whole body | All drugs work differently for everyone when it comes to side effects. My whole body would itch for hours. | M | 21 | 300 1X day | 3/4/2016 | 1 | Insomnia | severe weight gain; blurred vision; Tardive dyskinesia; urinary frequency; lowered blood pressure; lucid dreaming | Horrible drug. I gained 25 pounds on it. And while on it supposedly for sleep, I had severe urinary frequency which meant I was up various times in the night - so much for an undisturbed sleep. The blurred vision was really scary and what made me ultimately demand to go off Seroquel. A horror of a drug. | F | 42 | 6 months 75 1X day | 2/29/2016 | 2 | Depression anxiety disorders | Trouble breathing rhinitis sinusitis possible onset of asthma weight gain somnolence anxiety Breathing is my issue with this, add in all the side effects that people typically say too. I'm not glossing over on purpose or making light on purpose. It's just the breathing after 3 years never improved especially on its own. | Inability to breathe after taking it the first forty five minutes are hell it feels like airway collapse but they kept insisting "your alive to make Otto your PSYC appointment, so let's work through the side effect" "if you stopped breathing in the middle of the night, you would not be here for this appointment " I'm not sure what to say to that! | F | 31 | 3 years 250 | 2/26/2016 | 4 | Sleep | It's helped me sleep. Sometimes I wake up and take a Benadryl to kick it back in. I think I am somewhat overall calmer with it 24/7. I don't need as many Xanax etc. | Hope it remains helpful. | F | 56 | 3 weeks 100 mg. | 2/19/2016 | 3 | Insomnia | First few days I slept extremely well. But I went through a long weekend (3 days) unaware of time or place and avoiding social contact unconsciously. The effect was very strong, a zombie like effect. Forgot to exercise, ate a lot of ice cream, both bad for me. Especially bad since I have high TG anyway and should stay away from carbs. Somehow it seemed not to matter if I ate a tub of ice cream a day. Nothing mattered. I tried to take it only some days, but then couldn't sleep. In the end I went back to just not sleeping at night. I sleep during the day, have an evening job which is "morning" for my body. Hey whatever, I learned to adjust. | Lots of people are saying headache. I think I understand why. I have migraines and they are affected most by my blood pressure which needs to stay low. Somehow this was pushing my blood pressure up, giving me a constant headache and tinnitus. It did have some great side effects like, my gut calmed down and stopped constipating by being uptight. My heavy periods became perfectly normal. It was almost worth it to stay on it just for that, except for the headache which was a deal breaker. | F | 46 | 2 weeks 25mg 1X day | 1/20/2016 | 5 | schizoaffective disorder/bipolar | First few months, very tired; but that passed, and now I feel very well with minimal side effects. | I have been prescribed many different antipsychotics, and I feel that Seroquel is the best and safest so far. | M | 66 | 800mg 2X day | 1/9/2016 | 4 | Bipolar | Make me a little drowsy when I first take it | Iits fine for me! | M | 56 | 6 years 100 | 1/6/2016 | 1 | Bipolar | Fast & uncontrollable weight gain, endless hunger | I took Seroquel 10 years ago when I was a lab rat for Astra Zeneca. I was young & naive and thought they knew what they were doing. I was 105 lbs when I started taking this and was up to 120lbs in just 3 months. My hunger would not cease. Round the clock I was so hungry. It was terrible. I'm not sure if it worked for my bipolar as I only took it for 3 months, but it wasn't worth it. The withdrawal symptoms were hell. Not as hellish as Effexor withdrawal but really bad. I was sick for 2 weeks after Astra Zeneca took me completely off this horrible drug. | F | 38 | 3 months 300 | 12/30/2015 |