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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | insomnia/bipolar | When i first started taking this drug, i was about 15, and i am now 18. I passed out withing ten minutes of taking seroquel, and i had a hard time waking up in the morning for school. i hated being on medication, especially because there was nothing really visible wrong with me, but my parents forced me to take it. i also felt numb a lot of the time, and there were several nights in which i didnt take my medication and experienced terrible symptoms: fatigue, dizziness, nausea, frequent vomitting, massive headaches, and i constantly slept the next day. it was like a terrible hangover, and i couldnt eat anything. i never had trouble with weight gain, though. granted, it worked for my moods, but i chose to start weening myself off of seroquel about a month a month ago. i went down 25 mg every week, and was okay. i sleep decently still, but i stopped taking it 2 days ago, and i keep getting dizzy and have headrushes. | F | 18 | 3 years 100 mg 1X day | 4/18/2012 | 3 | Anxiety, Panic and Depression | Sleepy like no tomorrow. Little energy. | M | 50 | 3 months 450 mg per | 5/3/2012 | 2 | Sleep problems | Heart palpitations/racing, tired the next day. | It would take up to 5 hours for it to kick in sometimes. | F | 21 | 3 months 50mg 1X day | 5/13/2012 | 1 | Bi polar / insomnia | Weight gain, extreme tiredness, heart racing and palpitations, withdraw symptoms do horrible that my doctor thought it was more safe to take the drug then to stop it, no sex drive, back pain, no drive in life, overall felt very unhealthy. Sleeping issues. | F | 28 | 10 years 300 mg | 5/14/2012 | 1 | for a low dose mood stableizer | I ended up in the e.r. after taking for 2 days. I developed sever allergic reactions and had to be injected with a steroid and Benedryl | My worse complaint is my tongue is red swollen and my whole mouth and throat are covers in bright red rash, I cannot taste food of drink. I am weak, shaky and totally agitated, as I can barely function I was unable to reach the Dr. who Rx them and so went to e.r with anafalaxis type shock. I feel way sicker than I ever have and I have had 2 recent total hip replacements, which was a walk in the park compared to this. I am not getting better and am afraid of convulsion and if I can't get the swelling sharp pain of neck, lips mouth and throat. I feel so bad that I reviewed "Final Exit" and if you don't know what that is about, lease do not look into it. It gets etched in your brain and seems like a logical solution. I am taking benedryl and have no relief. I would encourage anyone to do extensive research on any pharmacy drugs before jumping off that cliff. I will never take another Rx. I will be surprised if I even live through the night.I have never felt such severe pain. I suppose this is what it feels like for someone who is allergic to seafood feels after a seafood cocktail. Speaking of cocktails....I am going to have one because the Spurs lost last night and they are my team. Blessings on anyone having health issues. I also would suggest before making appoints with any doctor...to go online and be sure she/he is boarded by the state (geographically) in, and I hope everyone has a better state of mind. Feel better soon and make the best of what is left. Cheers < | F | 58 | 2 days 25 mg 1X O | 6/3/2012 | 3 | Anxiety & insomnia. Cope tragedy | I took one at night. Slept 36 hrs. Woke up sick. Then a day later started with half. Slept a day. Couldn't go to work. Then cut the half in half. Days I don't take it I CAN'T sleep. So I try every other day . It's made me a different person . I don't feel love or connection, I don't care about my husband. Or my future. It's really reset my brain. Bow I crave alcohol more & illegal drugs. My life is screwed. I don't care to try another doctor they've all been unhelpful judgemental shrinks. | F | 29 | 2 months 25 | 6/14/2012 | 3 | Bipolar, Anxiety, PTS | F | 29 | 6 months 400 mg | 6/16/2012 | 1 | Depression, Bipolar | Tired, very stuffy nose shortly after taking, possible weight gain. | Was prescribed to help stabilize my mood and lift me out of depression. Did not help. Started at 50 or 100 then increased to 200. Made it uncomfortable to sleep as it made my nose so stuffy I couldn't breathe out of it. Felt tired on it. Started eating more and eating unhealthy foods and gained 10 lbs while on this drug. | F | 22 | 1 months 200 1X day | 6/20/2012 | 2 | bi polar | dry mouth , stuffy nose, woke up and had pounding heart and sweats, felt weird in my head, can't explain it. gained about 15#, with barely eating any more food. Take it 2 hrs. before bed and still can't sleep , sometimes wake up with palpatations, sweating, panic feeling and terrible pains in my feet and legs. I take meds for RLS. I feel scared and alone and don't know what to do when this happens because everyone else is asleep. Sometimes I go outside or stand over ac vent place a wash cloth on my head and try to wait for the feeling to subside. sometimes its over 15 minutes. 2 days ago got 45minutes of sleep and was miserable. At first the med didn't do this to me, with the exception of dry mouth. I went on generic from Canada of SR and don't remember the palpatations and sweats. Some nights I spend half the night placing and replacing the sheet and blanket. I can't get my body temp. right no matter what I do, I go from freezing cold to sweating. The Seroquel did help the moods thou | I would take with caution and be aware of the Side Effects and don't wait to report them to Dr. I waited almost 4 weeks mostly because I thought they would go away, instead they got worse along with the foot and leg and back pain and the regulation of the body temperature. I thought the XR was for me because took the regular stuff before and the leg pain was so unbearable I had to discontue it. | F | 58 | 6 months 300mg XR 1X day | 6/23/2012 | 5 | Bipolar 1 w/anxiety, BPD | Dry mouth, slight weight gain, some brain fog | This med works well for me. Keeps my mood even, and is definitely worth the side effects. I used to dissociate and become "my evil twin" - she has cost me a job and countless relationships. It is a horrible feeling to know you can't trust yourself. But - things are much better now since my last hospitalation (where I was put on it). Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils. It's different for everyone..I just happen to find it helpful at this time in my up and down kind of life. Hang in there… | F | 44 | 2 months 800 1X day | 7/15/2012 | 4 | bipolar mania | None so far apart from a stuffed up nose. | I am taking this drug for mania and psychosis. I've been sleepless for 8 days and am now beginning to get some rest. This episode has been catastrophic financially, and I have had auditory and visual hallucinations. Quetiapine has sedated me a bit( I add in a sleeping tablet) and taken the edge off the mania. I still have the hallucinations, but they are not as intrusive as they were. I also take abilify and venlafaxine, so at the moment I'm on two anti psychotics, which is not recommended in the long term. I'll come off the quetiapine when I'm a bit better, but having read the posts, I'll do it slowly. The drug has been a life saver in that it makes me drowsy, but I wouldn't take it unless I was manic. | F | 56 | 10 days 1X day | 7/23/2012 | 5 | situational stress and bad sleeping | sleepiness | seroquel is best of the worst. at least it works well for me, thought it was clear overmedication and it sucked me into a life-long psychiatric patient. you cannot withdraw this drug easily/safely unlike some other meds (relora?/nmda antagonist? + beta agonist etc). | M | 32 | 4 years 400 1X day | 7/25/2012 | 2 | originally for sleep deprivation | Without Seroquel, I would have survived. But I would have been hospitalized without a doubt. Now, 6 years later, I have lost my career, lost nearly all my friends and moved to an isolated area to get away from people. And the doctor keeps prescribing higher and higher doses! | Don't take this longer than you have to! | F | 57 | 6 years 400 1X day | 8/13/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Horrible nightmares. I wake up feeling like I am coming out of a terrifying situation every morning but have no real memories of what the situation is. It's just the worst experience I've ever been through. Except for not sleeping for nights at a time. Also I have no memory and am drugged feeling all day. After I take it at night it makes me higher than a kite. I am sure some people would pay for such a high. I can't stress how horrific I feel waking up after this drug. Also I sweat and the smell is awful. And my muscles are so tight in my neck all the way down my back that I can't move my head.b | Before this drug I was complaining that I never ever dreamed. I would love to never dream again after this experience. I was on about a year ago and went off of it because of the horrible dreams and terrors upon waking. They never went away after quitting for at least a year. So I decided to try it again for sleep. Biggest mistake. 25 mgs were pretty hard to get off of. I don't know how I'll get off of 50 mgs. It seems certain that the drug has already affected my brain chemistry and the effects are permanent. That is disturbing to me. Seroquel has totally changed my life for the worse. I don't mean to seem dramatic but sometimes I'd rather die than go to sleep knowing the way I'm going to feel when I wake up in the morning. I'm so doped at all times that it's even hard for me to write this. I keep losing my thoughts. I have a business to run and this state of mind is not ok. I know that everybody is different but I can't imagine what it must be like to be taking a high dose of the stuff. Also, my body has built a tolerance to it fast. I started on 25 mg a month ago and am already up to 50 mg. I wish that when I went off the 25 mg a year ago I would have never touched the stuff again. It was pretty hard coming off 25 mg. another concern I have is that doctors are pushing this drug like crazy. I know a lot of people who have taken it or are taking it for various, mostly off label reasons. In my opinion seroquel is a nightmare. Literally. | F | 43 | 4 weeks 50mg 1X day | 8/15/2012 | 5 | Bad reaction to Paxil | This medicine saved my life! I was diagnosed with major depression and panic disorder back in 1999 at age 16 and was placed on Paxil by my psychiatrist. I experienced SEVERE mood swings (euphoria and rage), hallucinations, night terrors, and blackout periods. The final straw was suicidal thoughts. My mom called the doctor and he immediately took me off the Paxil "cold turkey" and put me on Seroquel for 2 weeks while the Paxil got out of my system. It calmed my mood swings and made me tolerable to be around again. I also stopped experiencing suicidal thoughts. I am not bipolar, but this saved me when I experienced a chemical reaction very similar to bipolar disorder. | F | 16 | 14 days 60mg 1X day | 8/17/2012 | 5 | Insomnia | No side effects. | The doctor prescribed this medication for me to help me sleep after other methods and drugs failed. I don't have a problem falling asleep but I have a problem staying asleep because I have a very active mind. I started out with 25 MG taken at bedtime but the doctor had to increase the dose every few weeks as my body got used to the medication. My maintenance dose finally came out to 300 MG and I have been taking this for 7 years now. I do feel groggy in the morning especially when I don't get my 8 hours of sleep but it's a small price to pay for restful sleep. I did find that taking the medication on a full stomach lessens the sedating effect of the drug. I am a bit worried about getting tardive dyskinesia in the future though the chances are slim as this is an atypical antipsychotic. Nevertheless, the risk is worth it. | M | 47 | 7 years 300 MG 1X day | 8/18/2012 | 1 | Bipolar II NOS | Where to start.... Side effects did not start instantly, they took time (weeks) to build up, and when I stopped it took time (weeks) to abate. 1. Sweated like a race horse when I slept. Woke up with sudden gasps and heart racing 2.Had a very difficult time urinating, low flow, and couldn't shut off the tap, just kept dripping 3. I could not orgasm!!! .... that alone would make a sane person crazy | Was prescribed this for Sleeping & Bipolar II NOS. HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS - In my case, it didn't particular effect my mood or my sleep. Even if it did, the side effects more than negated any positive change. | M | 32 | 8 months Unsure 1X day | 8/26/2012 | 5 | Bipolar | I also take 25 mg of Seroquel during the day up to 4 times per day for severe anxiety and dangerous intrusive thoughts. | This has been a miracle drug for me. No hallucinations, visual, auditory or olfactory. Much more stable in moods. When I have had issues with my bipolar gradual increases in dosage have helped. | M | 48 | 15 months 300mg 1X day | 8/29/2012 | 1 | depression major | im getting high sugar my mom has diabetes type 2 | F | 13 years 50mg at ni 1X day | 8/30/2012 | 1 | suppossed bipolar manic | caused QT prolongation, severe arrythmia, had to have heart defibrullated. Doctors don't care prescribed to me again in emergency room, of course I didn't fill it. Caused me to have weight gain problems, had to take more blood pressure meds because of it, memory problems permanently from it. | I was told by another pissed off psychiatric abuse survivor, it's the elephant tranquilzer. I've had nothing but side effects from 4 different kinds of bipolar, I refuse all psychiatric meds, they can fly men to the moon, do heart surgery by robots, but, they can't make drugs without horrible side effects. I am now a member of mindfreedom.org. I told the psychiatric to practice medicine on himself, and when he almost dies, see how he feels about taking more psychiatric drugs. I am not popular in the mental health field, and I don't care! | F | 60 | 3 months 200 1X day | 9/6/2012 |