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 |
| 2 | mood stabilizer | muscle twitching in head and neck, extreme fatique, short term memory loss and inability to concentrate. Also extreme symptoms with late or missed dose such as dialted pupils, rapid heart beat, dizziness, fainting, weakness, anxiety, hyperactivity and restlessness. | I have been taking this drug for over 2 years and am still not sure that it has done anything positive. I've been on a combination of drugs however so it is hard to be sure. I've been expieriencing muscle twitiching for the last couple months, which is a symptom of tartive dyskenisia so I am currently tapering off. | F | 18 | 2 days | 4/12/2004 | 3 | Depression with anxiety/worry | lightheadedness, drowsiness | I take 25mg in the am, 25mg in the afternoon and 100mg at bedtime- the drowsiness it causes is great at night but sometimes I don't take it during the day for the same reason. I believe it does help to calm me as I don't eat out of anxiety as much as I did before. | F | 28 | 4 weeks | 4/20/2004 | 2 | Bipolar disorder | Swelling of hands and feet | This medication did nothing for me. | F | 51 | 3 months | 5/19/2004 | 5 | insomnia mainly, also for anxiety | Somnolence is virtually the only serious side effect I had. But since I use it as a sleeping aid, its not really a side effect for me. It works great on anxiety during the day too - take it at bedtime. I feel rested in the morning. | No shakes, no spacey feelings, no major libido problems with it at 150mg/day. This is good given its an antipsychotic. Other ones I tried had way more side effects. | M | 25 | 2 years | 5/25/2004 | 2 | schizoaffective bipolar | dry mouth, constipation, nasal inflammation, increased heart rate, weight gain, elevated serum cholesterol, livid dreams. | I didn't know about the heart rate and cholesterol connection until my doctor commented that they had both dropped to normal levels shortly after discontinuing seroquel. I'm on gedon now, just have to take it a good six hours before bedtime, or it's up all night. | M | 52 | 1 years | 6/22/2004 | 4 | Augment excitability from Lexapro | Very minimal at 75mg per day. | Great augment with an ssri. Works best as an augment. Good med. | M | 32 | 1 years | 6/28/2004 | 3 | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | I have taken seroquel for almost a year and have gained over 20 lbs. I hate it because I cannot lose any weight as long as I'm on it. At night, my legs, feet, hands, etc. are swollen. | Seroquel worked great in the beginning. It stopped my vivid nightmares and my night time paranoia. I was able to sleep soundly and wake up very refreshed. I don't know if it has helped my anxiety because of other meds I take for that but I am getting off it. I cannot lose the weight no matter how little I eat. | F | 55 | 15 months | 7/1/2004 | 4 | Bipolar | Sleepiness | Great drug, I will start tapering off of it after being on it for a year. Take 200mg at bedtime, now taking 100mg for a month or two and going from there! | M | 25 | 1 years | 7/7/2004 | 3 | Bi-polar 1, insomnia | Great for insomnia. Causes weight gain and hand and feet swelling. | F | 30 | 1 years | 7/9/2004 | 4 | bipolar 2 | very drowsy, dizzy. slight hangover effect in the morning, but went away with time. | I had a brief worsening of mania symptoms for 2 days. Mania gradually disappeared altogether. Great for my sleep issues! | F | 32 | 30 days | 7/15/2004 | 3 | bipolar | dry mouth, weight gain, swelling | feeling better | F | 50 | 1 years | 7/29/2004 | 4 | schizo affective depressive disorde | weight gain (nearly 40lbs), increased appetite, hung-over effect at first, sleepiness, vivid dreams, jerking body, swelling and numbness in my hands and feet, now I am experiencing mental confusion, lack of clarity, difficult concentrating, loss of memory | I liked it at first b/c it solved my emotional rollacoaster and I would suggest it for extreme cases but mine is mild and I want to get off of it because of the mental confusion and weight gain but will have a hard time because you have to gradually go off of it. | M | 24 | 2 years | 8/18/2004 | 3 | schizophrenia | weight gain, sleepiness | im less anxious and i no longer have any night-time fears. I can sleep all night without being woken up by an disturbances! | F | 15 | 7 days | 8/23/2004 | 1 | bi-polar 2 | Extremely unpleasant background anxiety. Unable to sleep. | Slept a lot at first. Began to feel great. Drug lost its efficacy over the weeks. Now gives me anxiety, won't let me sleep. Racing heartbeat. Without the anxiety, I'd be feeling just fine, so this drug is a great disappointment. By the way, this is my experience, not my opinion. My opinion is that drug companies should stop wasting time experimenting on lab rats. A lab rat can't tell you how it feels, so you don't know whether the drug you're trying to develop is on the right track or not. When dealing with a non-verbal situation, you're attempting to extrapolate data from appearances only. I think we all remember the joke about the researcher who pulled off the grasshopper's/cricket's legs one by one. | M | 48 | 2 months | 9/3/2004 | 1 | bipolar | Extreme sleepiness and a need to eat immediately in the morning. I am hung over in the morning. Weight gain of about 10lbs per year. I have developed seizures and I jerk sometimes for no reason. | This medication has slowly caused me to fall apart over time. First it was the spontaneous muscle spasms then trouble with speech.All of these are side affects.I am going to have a new doctor take me off as I have developed Tardive dyskinesia. | F | 31 | 6 years | 9/13/2004 | 2 | multiple personality disorder (DID) | leg tremors that are horrible, sleepiness, higher blood sugar to the point that my diabetes meds quit working, causing me to go on insulin, missed for two days get very nausiated with racing thoughts and waves of anxiety. Fatique, swollen ankles and feet, weight gain (40) pounds, unable to lose, very expensive! | Seroquel started out working good. The symptoms and side effects seemed to go away if taken in just the right way. I'm on 50mg morning and noon, and 200mg at night. I was unaware of the other side effects connected with seroquel until last night when I went on the internet looking for help. that is when I found out that the weight gain, out of control blood sugar and swelling were connected with seroquel. Also, I recently took myself off it gradually and then after about 2 month had a severe break down and had to go back on it and that is when the blood sugar went out of control again even on insulin when my blood sugar was incontrol when I was off the seroquel, also I was loosing weight until I went back on seroquel. My feet a swelling again and my blood pressure has always been normal is high now. I'm a professional and need to get off this in a safe way so that i can continue to support my disabled daughter. really sad! | F | 38 | 2 years | 9/19/2004 | 3 | insomnia, anxiety, PTSD | Weight Gain was the most serious side effect. I gained almost 25lbs., confusion, Sleepiness but I was taking it to help me sleep so that was okay for me. | The only positive impact that seroquel has had on my life is that I can now fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night. I have tried just about every other sleeping aide that there is and this is the only one that actually works without leaving me feeling | F | 20 | 7 months | 9/20/2004 | 3 | insomnia, anxiety, PTSD | Weight Gain was the most serious side effect. I gained almost 25lbs., confusion, Sleepiness but I was taking it to help me sleep so that was okay for me. | The only positive impact that seroquel has had on my life is that I can now fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night. I have tried just about every other sleeping aide that there is and this is the only one that actually works without leaving me feeling hungover in the morning. However...the weight gain alone is enough to make me want to go off of it. I have also struggled with an eating disorder for four years now and gaining all this weight has made me more depressed and anxious than ever. I have resorted back to my bulimic habits because I can't control my eating, the drug increased my appetite. Also, it didn't help me with my nightmares or flashbacks. In fact I have more strange and vivid dreams now that I'm on the medication. I would not suggest this medication to anyone who has suffered or is suffering from an eating disorder. | F | 20 | 7 months | 9/20/2004 | 5 | depression | I cant seem to get off it. I cant sleep. The good thing is since I stopped taking it im losing weight | F | 52 | 3 days | 9/21/2004 | 4 | anxiety,ocd | sleepiness, and VERY VERY addictive. | if u miss a dose sometimes it could leave u with a pounding headache, trouble sleeping, naucious and jsut feeling terrible | F | 23 | 2 years | 9/21/2004 |