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 | Schizophrenia | Drowsiness, Sexual side effects, Weight gain, Dystonia, Memory problems, Chronic Constipation | This medicine helped a lot for the paranoia and the delusions and completely stopped any hallucinations I once had but the side effects got to a point where I had to switch medications. This medicine works great for some people; I'm not one of those people. | M | 18 | 7 months | 9/13/2009 | 3 | bipolar | Dry mouth, tired a.k.a zombie-like,higher sex drive although I am almost unable to ejaculate which is very frustrating, gain in appetite... | M | 22 | 3 months | 9/26/2009 | 3 | heroin withdrawal | blessed sleep, unconsciousness during withdrawals. | I've cold turkey detoxed off heroin and oxycodone many times. This time I had a large heroin IV habit. I was prescribed soroquel 25 mg. twice a day for relief from withdrawal effects. It allowed me to sleep for most of the first three days (the worst of the withdrawals). The only problem is, luckily I had family attending me 24/7 because I was so out of it, I vomited while lying on my back and unconscious. I would have choked to death without their help. Not to mention falling while trying to make it to bathroom. | M | 55 | 15 days | 9/23/2009 | 3 | depression/OCD/insomnia/anxiety | extreme tiredness, depersonalization, feeling really not like myself, extreme hunger, feelings of being detached from some of my previous worries, not caring or being as empathetic | helped me sleep, but way too much. kind of just dulls my perceptions and ability to think so much that i can just sleep and sit somewhere and not really care about anything at all. which is sometimes a nice thing if you are a really anxious worried person...helps for sleep, and maybe helped with the depression a a little bit for some weird reason, which i didn't expect | M | 18 | 3 days | 10/5/2009 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder, Insomnia | weight gain (25 lbs over 12 months), drowsiness, lackadaisical, very grumpy in the mornings, significant increased appetite and always for sweets or salts! | My Doctor restricted me from using another sleeping aid until recently, as he liked that seroquel first an anti-psychotic and second a sleep aid. I will admit that I DEFINITELY slept while taking Seroquel. I originally started this drug at 25 mg, and have taken as much as 300 mg. For the last six months I have taken 100 mg (less than this is not effective for me for sleep) combined with a cocktail of other drugs for bipolar disorder. Taking this drug, but after a year the hangover and oversleeping had to stop. I gained a significant amount of weight (I exercise about 4 to 5 times a week in hopes to off-set the weight gain from increase from the icreased appetitie- not successful). I just recently switched to Lunesta (and take 600 mg lithium for bipolar). So far so good! And it's so nice not to crave sweets right before bed. | M | 25 | 13 months | 12/14/2009 | 3 | Depression | Restless legs | M | 32 | 6 months | 11/28/2009 | 3 | Insomnia | Disorientation, dry mouth, rapid heartbeat | I was prescribed Seroquel for my insomnia that required medical attention. My problem was falling asleep. Well, the first night I took it, it knocked my butt out like a light. But whenever I'd wake up briefly during the night, I'd notice my heart was beating extremely fast and heavy and my mouth felt so parched that it was actually painful to swallow. These side effects happened every time I took a dose, which was as-needed. Sometimes the rapid heartbeat would scare me and I would just try to ignore it and fall asleep, which I always would. The dry mouth I learned to just deal with. If I didn't go to bed within two hours of taking it, I would walk around the house very disoriented. I am grateful it put me to sleep, but eventually the side effects were just too much of a hassle and I quit using it. I still have some, but now I'd only take it in an emergency. Knocks me out, but too many worrisome side effects. | M | 28 | 1 years 200 1X AN | 3/16/2013 | 3 | Groggy, grumpy, cranky. | I took it for anxiety and sleep problems. It help's a tiny bit, but then after a couple days I was too cranky and moody to continue medication. Felt like I drank cheap wine the next day, kinda like Trazadone. | M | 47 | 14 days 50 MG 2X day | 2/2/2015 | 3 | schizophrenia | lingering grogginess, memory lapses, word retrieval slowness, depression, apathy. | it's a great stabilizer over time, but I believe the tradeoff of blunting mental and emotional range, can make it tempting to go off it for a while, just to see if it would make life more interesting. | M | 44 | 7 years 50 1X day | 11/15/2014 | 3 | Bipolar 2 manic depression suicidal | Insomnia, racing thoughts, blackout anger moods, Seroquel Madness, If I fall asleep in an angry mood, I will not deep sleep but will be in a blacked out state get to what the reason i am mad and commence to do what I went there for. | I think it is one of the worst things that could be prescribed to me | M | 50 | 9 years 1200mg 2X day | 12/18/2014 | 3 | schitzoaffective | Apathy, no motivation. Not remembering recent events fully. Thinking of doing something then walking and forgeting what I was going to do. Everyone has this but for me it is almost 100%. Emotionaly blunted, no emotions and I don't care If I ever have again. That is a strange feeling but in some was is good. Can not follow plots in movies, gave up watching. Find myself at times lost in my thoughts, going in circles. Sitting just looking into space. Falling asleep early in the evening, can't keep my eyes open | I have read that Seroquel is like a chemical lobotomy. I would not go that far but it does definitely slow your thinking and memory. I feel like I am much slower thinking and sometimes if trying to thing about something loose my thoughts and can't remember what I was trying to think about. | M | 65 | 3 years 800 1X day | 9/13/2017 | 3 | Bi-PolarII,Anxiety/racing thoughts | Amongst those people I've met and spoken with in my doctor's waiting room who are also prescribed Seroquel, we call it: "COMA IN A BOTTLE". | Seroquel puts me in a stupor type sleep that lasts for up to 36 hours! IT DOES HOWEVER STOP THE RACING THOUGHTS. Therefore, I only take it as a "rescue" medication when I can no longer deal with the anxiety and racing thoughts. | M | 33 | 11 months 200mg 1X day | 8/31/2016 | 3 | Sleep Disorder | Weight gain, Cholesterol issues. The worst was Restless Leg Syndrome. | Tapering is easy, knock 25-50mg off at a time for a few days. I went from 350 to 300 pretty easily, next step is 300 to 250 and I'll keep pushing to take more off because there's just too many side effects. | M | 38 | 5 years 350 1X day | 1/14/2020 | 3 | Sleep .Effects lingered all day. | I'm no longer taking this medication. Fogginess and not so effusive in my emotion make me realized it affected my family life. 1/4 of 50mg before to sleep created those problems. I imagined the effects that creates to patients that take higher dosis. Some people may need it I am sure. Nowadays I take supplements which are costly. Tryptophan, theanine, ashwagandha, magnesium glycinate, glycine, gaba, melatonin. The milligrams of all those are important. All that throughout the day. | I stopped taking seroquel . I miss the fact that helped me to sleep 8 hours straight . 1/4 of the 50mg tablet was enough to sleep.I didn't like the fogginess and numbness in my brain and the future effects of the drug itself. I help my sleep nowadays with tryptophan, theanine, ashwagandha,glycine, gaba , magnesium glycinate ,melatonin,not at the same time but throughout the day. Mentally I feel more alert.; I'll be 70 yrs old this year so that is important. | M | 68 | 0 days 1/4 of 50m 1X day | 3/21/2024 Patient History | 3 | Anxiety | Extreme weight gain, 60 lbs in first year. Went off because went into pre-diabetes. Hair loss. Stomach pains, lots of belching, constipation. Drowsiness. | Positive was that he was not as fearful and more social. | M | 38 | 10 years 1X day | 11/15/2020 | 2 | To amplify the effects of sleep pil | Shortness of Breath Drastic weight gain, dizziness, blurred vision, possibly contributes to my high blood preasure. On its own, it has no effect on me whasoever, I could take panado and get more response. Combined with strong sleep medication, it works well. WEIGHT GAIN is dramatic | At 200MG I suffered dry mouth, little saliva, always thirsty, and rapid and unexpected weight gain within just 3 months. I want to stop using this but my mind convinces me that without it, my sleep medication will not work and my sleep pattern will be disturbed up to 5 times a night. I hope to increase my sleep medication the stop Seroquel just for a while to make sure I sleep through. How crazy is that - increase Dormicum 15mg x 2 per night to 45mg at night just to get off Seroquel. Whatever you do, consult a highly skilled and experienced psychiatrist in this drug and ask them to explain these effect before ever thinking it an option. I suffer for bi-polar, anxiety and depression and the best lesson in life is routines, schedules, work hard and sleep well. With good sleep and rest, I can manage my depression, anxiety is a devil on it's own and not so easy to manage. But I'm managing to remain in the main stream, be productive and soon will be off this drug. I should never have taken it to begin with. | M | 43 | 18 months 100 1X day | 3/30/2018 | 2 | For sleep | Only worked for a couple nights in a row. Got anxious in daytime. Zyprexa works better. | M | 63 | 30 days 50 MG 1X day | 9/27/2015 | 2 | schizoaffective disorder | surprised to learn on this site and from experience that it is addictive - like i didn't take my usual 100 mg last night and i couldn't sleep at all, although the body and mind was needing to - but the more i take it, the less sedative effect it has - meaning, it takes longer for it to knock me out, and i don't sleep for the 12-14 hours anymore that it got me doing when i first started taking it - the psychiatrist told me that it was not at all addictive, no dependency - but it hasn't panned out that way, and it looks from this site like that's the general experience - in any case, sleeping wasn't a focus of my issues before at all, it's only become so with taking this drug | have been taking 100 mg of seroquel at night with 80 mg of lovan/fluoxetine in the morning, for almost 2 years. apparently this cocktail is a neat fix for schizoaffective stuff, but i haven't seen anyone else on this site stating that they've been prescribed this mix. anyway, i have to agree with others that, at first, it seemed like the way to go. i'd had lovan before; it was an invitation to apathy, while it did clear the mind and let some work get going; the seroquel seemed to add some eagerness and some loss of worry to the mix; actually found myself going to the local markets. but that spirit's long gone. dread, angst, is only stronger day by day. like others have noted here, i've also started drinking heavily - not a drop for at least a year before going on this cocktail; now going for the vino-destructo like it was fruit juice - to blank out the ambient dread, the obsessive angst; to feel something more than desperation. there is no gift-of-life with these "happy-beans" - they just make us care some less that we've hit dead-end and that the fact is that this is it - or sleep or munch our way through it - somehow have to find another way of being self-effective (but then again, as if one hasn't tried all the scripts) - after much juggling, i reject the implicit idea, on this site, that "this or that drug is this or that bad" - we're all just going along in our little row-boat | M | 43 | 2 years | 11/1/2009 | 2 | Anxiety Attacks, Obsessive Thinking | Increased panic attacks to the point of 911 calls because I felt as if I was dying, Increased OCD, Total Change in my "normal" personality, no motivation what-so-ever, Lack of Energy, Lack of excitement, times with lack of all emotion, burts of anger, confusion, constant battles with my mind and mental stability, decreased vision, No short term memory, weird head sensations, dizziness, feeling of detatchment from body, could go on forever | Long time seroquel user. In the beginning for me the side effects were minimal and typical. Always tired and sleepy, which was good and bad because it was slowing the activity in my mind. But also bad because it wasnt really living life. Over the years I have concluded within myself that the best way is education over medication, Learn about it, Try to control it and if you cant alone use natural remedys. Live with and love yourself. You are who you are. Some of the toughest battles are worth the fight in the end you can be surprised. Im slowly going off of this drug at my own pace. The Hardest road is often the best road traveled. Seroquel is barbaric like almost any drug of its kind. of course there is more hype over it because it has been around longer so more people are able to comment and sue the company because it has got around more over the years then the newer drugs. Just say no to ALL drugs... Educate yourself. | M | 27 | 7 years | 8/28/2009 | 2 | Bipolar 2 manic depression suicidal | I hate it.. but it calms me down quickly. I will either fall asleep quickly and for a long period of time. Or I will stay awake in an insomnia state. lost and not knopwing what to do or go. The worst thing aboput Seroquel and me. I have an anger problem that I have had all my life. If I fall asleep in an angry mood, I will not deep sleep but will be in a blacked out state and either walk, drive, however possible, get to what the reason i am mad and commence to do what I went there for. And when I would awaken, I was in the hospital cuffed to the bed. And I can say that I have woken up that way many times in the past 5 years.. | I think it is one of thje worst things that could be prescribed to me | M | 45 | 5 years | 9/7/2009 |