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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | bipolar disorder | Gained 25 pounds in 4 months. - Slept great - leg pains - rls | F | 42 | 3 months | 11/28/2007 | 3 | schizoaffective, ptsd, bpd | Sleep which is okay cause I take most of it at night. I used to love this drug at 150mg, cause it calmed me right down and gave me that sleep, but since an increase in dosage to 450mg, I notice an effect on my sex. Not that I lost interest, but I just couldn't cum. That made me angry and sad. Cure or cause... | I have just read that it can increase my risk of having an epileptic seizure, which I also suffer (taking tegretol). I like taking it at night, after any passion has been fulfilled, but now have to take more in the morning to stop me going off. This is a real grief for good daytime loving, and like I'm saying, can easily offset any benefit. I can still get excited, no problems there, just can't lose the load. I get so close and then, nothing. Why don't these quacks want us to have sex? Don't they understand that is enough to make you depressed and angry? Sheesh. At least I've stopped taking risperdal and all those other misery drugs | M | 42 | 1 years | 5/11/2007 | 3 | The range of effectiveness of this drug is VERY wide and depends on the individual. Some can sleep with 25 mg. I started out at 600 and am now weaning off it because of weight gain. Have gained at least 25 pounds over the last year. | Experienced the stuffy nose at (300-600 mg. No longer experience it at 25-50 mg. Physical energy has been low and I have had little motivation to exercise. DEFinite increase in appetite. Otherwise, the drug has been effective in terms of lowering anxiety levels and tempering mood swings and I can understand choosing to take it. | F | 42 | 1 years | 6/18/2007 | 3 | Bi-Polar I | The major side-effect was the drowsiness, which continued during the day. It was hard to get up in the mornings. A secondary side-effect was the hair loss. Each day in the shower, hair would fall out, clogging the drain before I got out. | I started on 25mg and built up to 100mg per night. It helped my anxiety and insomnia immensely. It had negligible effect on my hypo-mania. | F | 42 | 3 months | 3/31/2005 | 2 | Biopolar I Disorder | Major weight gain, no energy, lost two jobs because it affected my concentration. | This medication does work, but was making me a zombie. Prescribed 800mg then doc decreased to 300mg. I discontued and no side affects so far. Decided to stick with taking Albilify which has minimal side effects and no weight gain yet! | M | 42 | 6 months | 11/28/2007 | 2 | bipolar rapid cycling/mixed episode | I didn't ascribe the weight gain (10 lbs) to seroquel until I read this board. Dizziness, physical imbalance, crankiness, sleep too much or wake up groggy and can't go back to sleep. Searching/struggling for words on a consistent basis (I have a very high IQ and teach as well as work in customer service) and this makes me feel like a DOPE. Pdoc says, "oh, that happens to EVERYONE when they get older." OK, I am FORTY two, not NINETY two... Brain moves slowly. Motor movement is affected, I am sometimes klutzy. I have had two car accidents (not my fault) and several close calls, ALL on the RIGHT side. Coincidence?? My vision is sometimes blurred. I used to be 20/10, now 20/20. Some days I'm fine, probably about 60% of the time I feel functional and able to perform my job and interact with others at optimal level. Currently taking 3 20 mg tabs of seroquel at night (used to sleep with 2, but now even 3 doesn't do it). Now I can't fall asleep at night, wake up during night, | I was prescribed seroquel for insomnia by a doctor who would nod, say "mm hm", and write the same prescriptions without regard for my comments. I wanted a happy sleepy pill, he gives me an anti-psychotic. Went a new office, GREAT therapist, new pdoc. More attentive than the "mm hm" guy, makes you think he is listening, then prescribes how he wants to anyway. I asked to be taken off seroquel, explain side effects. So pdoc decides seroquel will be the BASE of my treatment! Sick of being treated like a child, bringing my fiance next time. Pdoc says it hasn't been proven that seroquel causes diabetes. Then says, "if you take good care of yourself, you will have to take some pills (FOR DIABETES)in your 60s. If you don't,you will be taking pills in your 40s & 50s" So he says it doesn't cause diabetes, then tells me it WILL, no matter WHAT I do? Also, on last seroquel scrip pdoc wrote 2 a day, have been on 3 for almost a year. Had to call pharmacy, have him w | F | 42 | 2 years | 3/20/2006 | 1 | Bipolar depression-manic episode | After taking 25mg., I went to walk my dog and had to stop moving from fatigue, muscle pain and what seemed to be blurred vision. As I increased the dosage to 150MG everything went worse: appettite increase, problems standing up, slurred speech & and phrases that meant nothing, zombie-like feelings, numbness, increase in urination, severe memory and concentration problems, lethargic. | After a pretty bad manic episode I was prescribed Seroquel as an addition to the medications mix I have been taken for my disorder during the past 3 years. Seroquel should not be taken unless you suffer drom severe insomnia and/or anxiety disorders. Forget it. | M | 42 | 9 days | 3/26/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | Weight gain! | A new psychiatrist prescribed this for me 1 year ago to replace Ambien; I had admitted that on Ambien I was half-conciously eating and almost falling down several times in my kitchen. Positives: Seroquel made me very sleepy in a nice, cozy way. It also left me calmer by day and enhanced the effect of my antidepressant (Effexor) adding another "layer of protection" against depression and anxiety. I was on the lowest dosage (25 mg) but even so, 2 or 3 months in I begain to gain weight. I had lost 31 lbs over the past year (on purpose) and was very pleased about that. And then WHAM! A delayed but very pronounced gain of about 5 lbs per month until I had regained ALL of that weight and more. Had I known wt.gain was such a big risk I NEVER would have touched the stuff. This is NOT an innocent med to be casually prescribed off label. Certainly not as a sleep aid! And especially if you have ever struggled with weight issues before. | F | 42 | 4 months | 3/26/2007 | 1 | Sleep problems | Weight gain, vision problems!! | Seroquel has been extensively linked to the same severe visual side effects as the older typical antipsychotics (such as Thorazine.) It is not safer than those older drugs were. All you have to do is go to www.pubmed.gov and look up "quetiapine AND visual side effects" to find out some of the terrifying facts. This is a VERY dangerous drug and there are safer ones!!! | F | 42 | 3 years 25-200 mg. 1X day | 3/29/2012 | 1 | Bipolar | I becam a cookie monster, gain 30 pounds, still struggling to loose the weight after switching to lamictal a year and change ago. I was a real zombie after the pill kicked in, Horrible!!!!!!!! | M | 42 | 2 years | 7/22/2007 | 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 | 5 | Bipolar | I am on XR and 25 mg 3x a day of regular seroquel. Since October, I have had excruciating, non stop pain in both hands and feet. Has anyone had pain with this med.? | This was the only medication my doctor has increased/decreased in the past year. Doctors can't figure out my pain. Please let me know if you have had pain on this medication. | F | 43 | 2 years 150 | 5/15/2015 | 5 | ptsd and neuro transmitter problems. | At first for about 2 months a tightening in my lower jaw and some lip numbness.after the effects went away I can't say I will ever live without this medication. Everything I can say is good in my life has come after 39 years of living without this medication. | M | 43 | 1 years 50xr | 3/30/2014 | 5 | Bipolar (both phases) insomnia | One has to weigh the benefits vs. side effects and risks. Seroquel has contributed to significant weight gain and produces a significant "spacy" feeling which is unsettling if I try to "fight" this side effect. Of course, that's not a problem if I go to bed within 20 minutes of taking it. Should I wake up in the middle of the nite, I'm disoriented and have walked into walls, etc. Also if I get up too quickly upon waking, I sometimes feel dizzy and have some breathing problems. I sometimes have problems climaxing if I wait to long after I take my dose. On the positive side, Seroquel has been very effective in drastically reducing my depressive phases and, on the manic side, slows my racing thoughts & brings clarity when my thoughts start to deteriorate into mild paranoia & delusions. Seroquel dramatically CALMS me down both mentally & physically. Sure this drug has a lot of side effects (and can contribute to metabolic syndrome & cataracts) but it keeps me out of the hospital and the morgue for that matter! I'm also more med. compliant and work with my therapist instead of against him! God bless! | F | 43 | 3 years 25-500 | 12/2/2013 | 5 | Cyclothymia/ Anxiety | Mild weight gain / hard to wake up at higher dose | Works great for me. The only problems are....take it when you are ready to go to sleep.....if not you will find it hard to function. Had to back off from higher dose 600mg having problems waking up in the morning. Went back down to 300mg...everything fine with the side effects....and have started to once again increase dose. I have tried 10 to 15 different meds....including lithium......and nothing has worked this well for me, with minimal side effects. It's been a great med for me. | M | 43 | 1 years | 9/9/2008 | 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 | Anxiety/depression/sleep | Weight gain and lack of sexual desire | Very vivid dreams which I actually enjoy and look forward to each night. This medication has helped my anxiety and depression INCREDIBLY plus it puts me right to sleep. I have tried numerous medications, and this is the one that has finally worked for me. It has been life changing in the most positive of ways. The only downside is some weight gain and lack of sexual desire - almost nonexistent. But the benefits FAR outweigh the negatives. I no longer have panic attacks nor feel like I am just "existing". | F | 43 | 6 months 200mg 1X day | 2/27/2021 | 5 | Obssessive Thoughts/Extreme Anxiety | My side effect is sleepiness about 1 - 2 hours after taking. | I love this medication, it has changed my life. I am now able to live life more and go out and do things without the extreme anxiety and panic from my agoraphobia! I also take Celexa (antidepressant). | F | 43 | 2 years | 4/26/2007 | 5 | Explosive anger outbursts | None so far, it does help sleep. | I am only taking 25mg at night and on weekends 25mg in the am. It has helped me remain calm when I might normally have an angry temper tantrum. It does not knock me out all night like some people say but it does help me sleep and I usually fall back to sleep if I wake up. I am not tired in the morning - maybe only a day or 2 when I first started it. So far, I love it! I hope it continues to work at the low dose because I am afraid of the weight gain aspect. | F | 43 | 3 weeks | 3/4/2008 | 5 | bipolar2 w/depression | small amount of weight loss but nothing else. maybe? some grogginess in the morning but 1 cup of coffee fixes this. | highly recommend a small dose. One 24 mg dose for sleep saved me from a winter bout w/ depression, anxiety and mania. Currently on effexor and lamictal then had troubles sleeping and depression mixed w/ a manic anxiety. Took 24 mg for sleep and felt like a new person in the morning. More positive and relaxed. Currently taking only 12 mg ( I split the pill) and I can fall asleep in about 15 minutes. Reminds me of Zyprexa--but without the weight gain. It makes me more aware so I don't eat as much and eat healthier. Seems to have curbed my cravings, esp for sweets. Maybe because I am on such a small dose? | F | 43 | 60 days 24mg 1X day | 1/10/2013 |