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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | For Bipolar disorder | Triedness, and alittle weight gain. | Overall Seroquel isn't a bad drug. Although I am worried about the long term side effects. I have switch my medication from Abilify to Seroquel because I was having tremors from the Abilify. | F | 24 | 2 days | 6/20/2006 | 1 | MISDIAGNOSED bipolar mania | Most side effects were adverse and felt at minimal dosage. I felt extreme drowsiness, an almost out-of-it, loopy, stoned feeling (without any of the positives). Occassional dizziness, substantial unwanted increase in appetite, as well as memory loss, and an obnoxious heavy feeling in my eyes and forehead. | I never took more than 25 mg of this medication. That is essentially a baby dose for seroquel. At one point, I tried 50 mg, and that level was absolutely intolerable. All of the aforementioned side effects were greatly increased to the point where I felt like I was walking in a fog. Even at the 25 mg, I never felt like myself, the supposed "manic symptoms," if anything, were WORSENED, by anxiety/agitation caused by the myriad unpleasant side effects. If one wants to feel absolutely disorganized, unfocused, quite frankly, stupid, then I would recommend this medication. Otherwise, for anxiety or ADHD (my true primary issues), this medication is just asking for trouble. I cannot imagine taking more than 50 mg of this drug (and I have an extremely high tolerance for most medications), but for some whose symptoms truly warrant seroquel, I can appreciate that. But for those of us with severe anxiety as opposed to a serious form of bipolar disorder, faced with an overly enth | M | 22 | 6 months | 6/23/2006 | 1 | Schizophrenia | Seroquel (Generic: quetiapine fumarate) used by millions of Americans to Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder has been linked to linked to, high blood sugar and Diabetes, Hyperglycemia, Ketoacidosis, Pancreatitis, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS), Tardive Dyskinesia (TD), Diabetic Comas and death. | M | 29 | | 6/30/2006 | 5 | insomnia | Very difficult to get out of bed in the morning because I keep falling back to sleep. Sometimes I feel a little spacey. | I take only one-fourth to one-half of a 25mg. tablet. I get to sleep easily and, if I wake up during the night, I get back to sleep. A side benefit has been a big decrease in hot flashes. This drug has been a life-saver; the lack of sleep was making me forgetful, anxious and depressed. | F | 52 | 6 months | 7/6/2006 | 5 | bipolar-me and my children | The only bad thing is that latley we keep having to up his dosage every few months. Also, he has trouble concentrating and completing tasks the next day and has a hard time waking up in the morning. He pigs out at night about 1 hour after taking it and then falls completely asleep and will not wake up for anything. He is very hungry in the morning too for sugary-type things. The 9 year old is not affected at all by the over eating side effect. Overall, I think it is a great drug. | My sons take it, one is 9 years old and is usually hyperactive/manic all day -1/2 of a 25 mg 2X a day calms him down to where is is not climbing the walls and seems to be able to think a little straighter and seems much happier and more at peace. He actually seems to concentrate a little better with small doses spread out throught the day. Sometimes the 1/2 in the day makes him to sleepy though, so we have even cut it into 1/4 2x a day and that seems to really do the trick. He also takes 250 mg of depakote at night and another 50 mg of seroquel at bedtime. He is not groggy in the morning. He is so much more loving and kind when he takes it. You can tell when he did not take it. It is very obvious. I also give them both vitamins and fish oil. My other son is 11 and takes 100 mg seroquel at night, he has taken it for 2 years and it has been a miracle drug for him. He actually sleeps well at night since beginning it. He says he feels better when he takes the whole dose and ha | F | 33 | 2 years | 7/6/2006 | 4 | schizophenia | dry mouth, nice tiredness | I take 600+ | M | 36 | 1 years | 7/13/2006 | 1 | schizophrenia | I was put on seroquel about four years ago. I was at first on 1,200 mg the thereputic dose. I have kidney, liver problems, authritis, neuropathy, obesity. | Seroquel made me look like I was heroin not madication from a profesional.Seroquel is supposed to help concentration but has been shown to worsen concentration. | F | 27 | 4 days | 7/16/2006 | 2 | Depression, Bi Polar, Anxiety, ADHD | It only took 2 days to know that i would not be taking this med any longer. It made me very tired all of the time, like a zombie. No way i could work taking this drug! | As with any drug, people respond diffently, so there is only one way to find out if this is the drug for you. | M | 43 | 2 days | 7/21/2006 | 3 | insomnia | extremely drowsy the morning after, need more than 8 hours of sleep | i take it farly infrequently because i rarely have more than 8 hours to sleep but it really helps when i can take it. | F | 20 | 30 times | 7/23/2006 | 5 | PTSD paranoid personality insomnia | some nightmares long sleep times | I slept around 2 hrs a night before seroquel and was extremely paranoid After seroquel 10 hrs a night sleep and gradual lowering but not completely of paranoia | M | 39 | | 7/26/2006 | 1 | insomnia | I received tardive dyskinisia after taking seroquel for a month at 250 mg. I have muscle twitching and cheeks blowing out. I am quitting this drug | Don't take it.It is hard to wean yourself off without experiencing bad side effects like insomnia. | F | 52 | 2 months | 8/1/2006 | 2 | Insomnia and bipolar | Dry Mouth, clumsiness,grogginess. | I couldnt get out of bed in the morning and getting up with my kids at night was almost impossible. I couldnt hear them because I was so knocked out. | F | 31 | 14 days | 8/8/2006 | 4 | Anxiety & OCD | Dry mouth, twitching, muscle spasms, gained 30 lbs, excessive sweating. Coming off of it I have experienced muscle aches, headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness and flu like symptoms... it's been 1 week since I have been off... and for the most part I am not experiencing the dizziness etc. I haven't lost weight yet. | I have never gained so much weight in my life except through pregnancies! | F | 28 | 2.5 years | 8/9/2006 | 5 | augmenting an SSRI (OCD) | Experienced a whole-body slight burning/buzzing sensation upon taking first dose. Felt unpleasantly forced into sleep, and woke up at 4am in an oddly subdued panic-- as though my brain had split and one side was freaking while the other was too groggy to care. Currently: slight involuntary muscle movements before sleep. | I take 20mg Celexa in the morning and 12.5 mg Seroquel before bed. Seroquel helps enormously with Celexa-induced insomnia, and allows me to keep normal hours. I no longer wake up fearing consciousness: instead I'm clear-headed, calm and functional. Five stars! | F | 25 | 2 months | 8/12/2006 | 5 | bipolar 1 | primarily fatigue. I take a large dose (700 mg) at night and I go nite-nite very soon afterward! Then I take a smaller dose (150mg) in the morning. About 30 minutes after taking it I feel fatigued but that passes with the hour. The weight gain with Seroquel is generally less severe then with other anti-psychotics. I have experienced some weight gain but nothing that I havent been able to control with nutrition and exercise. i weigh a bit more but my mood is a whole lot more stable and life is much better than it was years ago!! | I take seroquel along with Lamictal (lamotrigine) to aid in stabilizing my mood. Seroquel has been able to keep me from becoming fully manic and aids me in sleeping when I become hypomanic. It has been a life-saver for me! | F | 39 | 2 years | 8/14/2006 | 3 | Bipolar/Anxiety/Paranoia | Extreme lethargy if I take during the day so I made it only for night time, makes me sleep right quick. Took my full dose once (300mg), but it caused racing heartbeat (200 BPM+) which fluctuated. Inability to ejaculate a few hours after taking and drymouth. Abnormal vivid dreams, agitation/irritation towards others. Trouble with memory and some incoherence. Slight hallucination (Bug flying around where the was none) and at times increased Paranoia, slight arthritis. Increased appetite after I take, but haven't seen weight gain as of yet. | So far Seroquel has been helping my mood but at some expense. My fuse is alot shorter now, and I tend to be snippy and easily annoyed by almost everything around me, alot of the time in the daytime. When I first took it while using Marijuana, It skyrocketed my paranoia to a level where I could no longer function in society. I was scared for my life from some unseen threat for 3 months until I calmed down, and I had only taken the Seroquel for a week before I crashed. I still haven't recovered from that 6 months after taking, but It's almost there. Taking it again to help my mood. And it does, but nothing can help my cognitive process. | M | 21 | 2 weeks | 8/18/2006 | 5 | toxic psychosis | i experience alot of side effects when i first started taking it right away i noticed a difference talking alot which was good butt weight gain its horrible i couldnt control it i had stopped taking seroquel when i started again it was the intake f food i couldnt control but it was my moods i was screaming at everyone wanted to fight with everyone and then i would start crying and then i`d be happy basically i also tried risperdal but seroquel for me worked | even though the side effects might be strong it all becomes worth it in the end i now stopped this drug but this drug works well and after you stop this drug the weight gain goes away but you might have trouble sleeping but now i dont feel paranoid anymore and i have more self esteem and is less withdrawn | F | 17 | 8 months | 8/20/2006 | 5 | toxic psychosis | also on thing i forgot to say about this i had no concentration so i failed my school year i couldnt stay focused | again it works great! but your always tired and dont seem to wana move and eat as if ur always high off marijuana | F | 17 | 8 months | 8/20/2006 | 3 | Depression, DID, Bipolar | 200mg per night and 50mg 3 times a day: It took forever for me to get up in the morning, and an hour after taking the night time dosage, I'd start hallucinating such as monsters growing from the walls. Hard time with eating disorder problems while on medication. | Went from having thoughts of self-injury on a scale of 1-10 at a 10 to having a 1 or 2. Personalities from the DID don't take over anymore, but still pose somewhat of a problem. | F | 18 | 4 months | 8/26/2006 | 2 | Sleep & Mood | Seroquel is very addictive. You’ll need lots of sleeping pills when coming off this med because what it does for dependency for sleep (replacing brain chemicals). If you know the history of drugs used for epilepsy (BP patients have a chance of having an epileptic episode while people with epilepsy may have BP symptoms with sudden discontinuation) never go on and of this kind of drug suddenly. Concentration is another issue when on this drug. | If you need a drug because you’re just too antsy it will definitely chill you out (maybe too chilled because you’ll feel tired all day). This drug will affect how you feel in the morning (drowsy) and how long you sleep. I would not recommend this drug. Avoid it if you’re just taking it for sleep since it will give you side effects that you have never dealt with before, particularly during discontinuation. | M | 28 | 5 years | 9/4/2006 |