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 |
| 3 | depression, schizotypal PD | shortness of breath, arrhthymias, restlessness, cognitive slowing. | Restlessness wasn't as bad as abilify. Best antipsychotic out there in terms of affecting flat affect. Caused shortness of breath and an allergic reaction when combined with artane and albuterol. Some muscle spasms, but not as bad as other antipsych drugs. Would have taken it longer if not for side effects. | M | 26 | 11 months 25mg-50mg 1X day | 10/20/2011 | 3 | sleep disorder | most concerned with the day after grogginess | F | 26 | 5 years 100 mg 1X day | 8/2/2011 | 3 | bi polar disorder | Restless legs, falling asleep with food in my mouth horrible horrible weight gain. While it helps with my mania and insomnia I cant help thinking how much better I felt when I was skinny. I stopped taking it for a week and I lost alot of weight quickly but I developed an intense fear of food. Unfortunately due to the stress that is my mother in law I had to go back on it. Im a good person and dont want to hurt anybody. Im also dissapointed in myself cuz i had almost no wirhdrawl symptoms. Now the fat zombie is back. | F | 26 | 2 years 250mg | 2/26/2013 | 3 | BI POLAR | WEIGHT GAIN INCREASED HUNGER EATING EVERYTHING INCREASED AGITATION | ITS A GOOD DRUG IF U WANT SLEEP BESIDES THAT NO GOOD | M | 26 | 2 months | 1/13/2007 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder, Depression, PTSD | Leg tremors after taking it at bed time, constant groggy feeling during the day that makes it impossible to function or want to do anything other than sleep. Weight gain, LOTS of irritability and crankiness, almost worse than without the medication. | It does help stabilize my mood swings, although it takes away all good feelings and leaves me feeling void of emotions and energy. It definitely decreased the pitfalls of Bipolar Disorder, but it made it almost impossible to feel up or happy or excited about anything, and most certainly made me very cranky. | F | 26 | 3 weeks | 2/28/2006 | 3 | Schizophrenia | Hair loss (very concerning) moderate weight gain, though less than when using other antipsychotics like Zyprexa. Dry mouth is horrible, at night/morning especially. Muscle spasms at night, which used to be intense and almost intolerable. Taking magnesium supplements helped contain those. Motor skills coordination problems, some days worse than others. Intense hungover feeling every day, takes several hours for this effect to leave each day, which means I sleep for 10 hours +, and am hungover for 4 or 5. Most of each day wasted. Very hard to get up for work, etc. | Contains positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia quite well, but I am getting so distressed by the side effects, I am looking for an alternative to this medication. | M | 26 | 4 years | 11/26/2005 | 3 | Severe Insomnia | Fainting, over sedation, hang over the next day, unable to wake up in the morning | I was glad to come off of it, but when my friend died, I took it to help me sleep all day, and it worked. I only took 50mg. I used to take 400. That was WAY too much! | F | 26 | 1 years | 6/7/2007 | 3 | Anxiety | Horrible-Evil-Death-Kill-Nightmares-*EVERYNIGHT* and *EVERY NAP*. Just started taking Seroquel, and I am morbidly obese to begin with. After reading how much weight peeps gained, I'm puttin the Seroquel DOWN!!! | F | 26 | 2 weeks | 5/7/2007 | 3 | Bipolar & Insomnia | restless legs & weight gain | This medications works like a charm. I sleep great and it stabilizes my mood well. However, the weight gain is terrible and it won't come off no matter how much I watch what I eat & exercise. Also, it gives me wicked restless legs shortly after taking it. Its like a surge of adrenalin rushing through my legs until I konk out. Its also tough to wake up. Im going to ask my doctor to take me off of it. Too bad since it works so well. | M | 26 | 6 months | 1/5/2005 | 3 | Sleep | Drowsiness, emotionless, not caring about anything, anger/agitation. | At first I started at 100 mg at night, but couldnt wake up in the morning for work. Then went to 50mg, still had trouble waking up. Now am taking 25 mg, and am ok with getting up, however, I am very stolid and emotionless throughout the day. I don't care about much and at night before I take my dose, I feel really pissed off...? The anger/agitation I feel is annoying, but I hope that it will wear off, as I have only been taking it a week or so. | M | 26 | 1 weeks | 6/8/2005 | 3 | Bpd and insomnia | Extreme drowsiness at first persisted next day eventually a wonder drug that knock me out tho be warned you could be sleeping a good 12 hrs other than that didnt do much to regulate my mood but calms me down when agitated takes effect quite quickly I will continue to take increasing dosage soon to therapietic dosage for my bpd | F | 26 | 1 years 100mg | 9/17/2013 | 3 | Bipolar 2 | Worked good for controlling rapid cycle bipolar 2. But gives me SEVERE restless legs, ankles and elbows!!! For a good 12 hours after taking it. So so so so horrible! | F | 26 | 18 months 125mg | 12/2/2020 | 2 | BIPOLAR/PTSD | SWEATING, STANDING IN FRONT OF FRIDGE AT 5AM FORCING CARBS INTO MY MOUTH UNCONTROLLABLY, ALMOST BLACKED OUT TWICE AND FAINTED AFTER A SWEATING SPELL, LETHARGY, ADDICTION, HORRIBLE WITHDRAWLS, HEAD ACHES, BODY TREMORS, MESSED UP JUMBLED SPEECH | THIS MEDICATION IS WORSE THEN HEROIN. NOT ONLY DO DOCTORS TRY TO FORCE IT ON PATIENTS KNOWING HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS BUT THEY ALSO DO NOT TELL YOU IF YOU TAKE IT FOR OVER 2 YEARS YOU MAY HAVE TO TAKE IT FOREVER!!! THEY ALSO DO NOT TELL YOU IT CAUSES SLURRED SPEECH EVENTUALLY...I HAD TO FIND OUT ON MY OWN. AFTER MY WORDS WERE DIFFERENT THEN MY THOUGHTS. IT ALSO HAS A HORRIBLE WITHDRAWL THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE SWEATING ONE WOULD EXPIERENCE WHEN THEY COME OFF OF HEROIN. THIS IS TERRIBLE. I WOULD NOT RECCOMEND TAKING THIS EVER!!!! IT WILL ALSO MAKE YOU GAIN WEIGHT LIKE NO OTHER DRUG AROUND. I WOULD RECCOMEND THIS FOR ANOREXIC PATIENTS. BUT ANYONE WHO IS THINKING ABOUT TAKING THIS MIGHT AS WELL SMOKE A JOINT FOR YOUR DEPRESSION/MANIA, IT WORKS BETTER. | F | 26 | 3 years | 6/21/2007 | 2 | Bipolar/Anxiety/Psych Labels | Huge weight gain, around 40 lbs. Remember that seroquel is a salt (fumerate). Raises heart level to the point that your thinking that your having a heart attack. My heart rate was 120/60 when I was rushed to the hospital, im 26 too young for a heart attack. When i mentioned it to the the psychiatrist who prescribed it he defended it like he was an executive of Astra Zeneca . It was the Seroquel, I lowered the dosage and drank a lot of water to lessen that risk. I know that diabetes is a cause of this medication , dont have it and dont want it! | I find it amazing that so many people are mis-diagnosed and as long as you have a problem your psychiatrist profits from the over rides they make from your visit/and from the starter packs that are pushed to them from the pharmaceutical companies . I feel like I can do less on this medication , lower concentration, and drowsy in the morning (totally out of it, sleep 13 hours more...forget having a job on this!). This cant be good in the long run, and often wonder that these sedative effects are impairing my brain in the long run. Sometimes you have to weigh risk vs reward and this stuff is risky. Where there is an action there is a reaction. A drug impairs period, and this is definatly impairing me when I am so sedated in the morning , that is my clinical trial and this stuff fails. I came to my senses when I started to read a book by the name of "Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications " . I am tapering off and learning that th | M | 26 | 2 days | 5/25/2007 | 2 | Bipolar/Anxiety/Psych Labels | Huge weight gain, around 40 lbs. Remember that seroquel is a salt (fumerate). Raises heart level to the point that your thinking that your having a heart attack. My heart rate was 120/60 when I was rushed to the hospital, im 26 too young for a heart attack. When i mentioned it to the the psychiatrist who prescribed it he defended it like he was an executive of Astra Zeneca . It was the Seroquel, I lowered the dosage and drank a lot of water to lessen that risk. I know that diabetes is a cause of this medication , dont have it and dont want it! | I find it amazing that so many people are mis-diagnosed and as long as you have a problem your psychiatrist profits from the prescriptions and "starter packs" they hand you. I feel like I can do less on this medication, lower concentration, and drowsy in the morning (totally out of it, sleep 13 hours more...forget having a job on this!). This cant be good in the long run, and often wonder that these sedative effects are impairing my brain in the long run. Sometimes you have to weigh risk vs reward and this stuff is risky. Where there is an action there is a reaction. A drug impairs period, and this is definatly impairing me when I am so sedated in the morning , that is my clinical trial and this stuff fails. I came to my senses when I started to read a book by the name of "Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications " . I am tapering off and learning that this drug plays tricks, if you dont taper off properly (10%) , than y | M | 26 | 3 years | 5/25/2007 | 2 | Biupolar, Insomnia, Schizophrenia | Major hair loss, major weight gain, excessive sleep, groggy, short term memory problems | I have been on 600mg of Seroquel for about 4 years. At first it was wonderful, it helped me sleep helped with my mood swings and somewhat with my delusions. After about 6 months on the medicine I started noticing that I was losing and and have now lost atleast halr of my hair, going from very thick hair to very thin. I also sleep for atleast 12 hours a day unless woken up, and when I am woken I feel like crap for the rest of the day. I have gained in excess of 60 lbs asnd my weight fluxuates quite a bit. I would not suggest using in this medicine in high doses. I am currently trying to find someone to change my medication. | F | 26 | 4 years | 1/14/2009 | 2 | bipolar disorder | I feel like my brain has turned to mush. My short term memory is majorly messed up, and I have trouble thinking clearly. I also had some extremely vivid violent dreams and a lot of breast pain. Oh, and menstrual problems. | I have wayyyy too much to say about Seroquel, so I wrote a long review of it on Epinions today: http://www99.epinions.com/review/Seroquel_25mg/content_457985199748 If that link doesn't work, go to www.epinions.com and look under username Sunnyglitter. | F | 26 | 2 months | 1/16/2009 | 2 | Bipolar | 600mg/day. Extreme fatigue; anxiety. Sometimes unable to function, drive a car, or walk up stairs, which led to the anxiety. Slept 10-12 hrs. a night. Very hard to wake-up on time in the morning. | Not a very good medication unless you want to sleep all day and be extremely fatigued/drowsy for the relatively short time you are awake. | M | 26 | 5 months | 5/23/2006 | 1 | sleeping aid | lethargy all through the day. | M | 26 | 4 months | 4/24/2006 | 1 | depression, severe insomnia | I gained over 15kg in 3 weeks, couldn't stop eating and could not focus on anything for more than 5 minutes. Constipation, urinary retention and loss of motivation to exercise or be active in any way. | I took it initially to help me sleep and stop my self-harm, but it stopped neither. I was unable to study for my uni exams as a direct result of this awful drug and the weight gain only increased the severity of my depression. I would never take it again. | F | 26 | 2.5 months | 11/15/2006 |