SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)

Average Rating: 2.9 (1505 Ratings)

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SEROQUEL  (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE):  This medication is used to treat certain mental/mood conditions (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, sudden episodes of mania or depression associated with bipolar disorder). Quetiapine is known as an anti-psychotic drug (atypical type). It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain. This medication can decrease hallucinations and improve your concentration. It helps you to think more clearly and positively about yourself, feel less nervous, and take a more active part in everyday life. It may also improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level. Quetiapine can help prevent severe mood swings or decrease how often mood swings occur.   FDA Approval Date: 2005-10-04 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 2  depression, headaches, ocd, some bp the shankiness in the legs ruin everything. weight good wich is good for me. drowsy alot. i duno if its working yet. i switched from resperidol to seroquel. im feeling terrible. can you get bad withdrawls even though from switching drugs. im also for depakote for headaches n irritation with neruontin and cogentin wich doesnt help with gettin rid of the restless leg. i havent felt good in 3 years. whut shoulod i do. these meds dont do nything. im tired of bein patient M 21 3 days
4/22/2009
 2  Insomnia Tachycardia, Tolerance, Occassional Nightmares, Zombie-like feeling, change in body chemestry. I am also fatigued all the time due to getting less and less sleep. I am never get that good drowsy feeling...just fatigue. I have been on this drug for almost a year now. My psyche prescribed it to wean me off of Temazepan which caused me to "crash" after I had built up an incredible tolerance for due to overmedication by my family doctor. I originally took 250mg but successfully weaned down to 150mg within two months. However, efforts to go below 150mg have been largely a failure. In fact, after relatively good sleep in January-March (averaging about 125mg) I have been experiencing some of my worst sleep since crashing in June, 2008. I cannot sleep without taking this drug. I have not had natural sleep in over 15 months now. Even when I am taking the drug, I no longer feel drowsy and it is taking longer for me to get to sleep. Worst of all, I have been slowly been inching up the dosage past 150mg again just to get even minimal sleep. I do not want to go above 150mg again because of the zombie-like affect it has on me (which is bad enough below 150mg) I only average about five hours sleep even with taking the drug. It has been almost three months since I have had a night of 7 hours of sleep or more. My worst fear is that the longer I take this expensive drug, the harder it will be to ever get natural sleep again. Cleary, taking this drug is clearly not sustainable. Anyone with advice on an inexpensive, relatively safe drug that helped them get off Seroquel? M 44 11 months
5/4/2009
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 2  depression, ocd, ptsd, crying spell no motivation, hopelessness. These symtoms intensified with seroquel. My doctor says to double the dose. I want to stop it completely. Zombie -like on 50 mgs. M 53 3 weeks
5/27/2009
 2  bipolar extremely tired, take at night, sleep 10-12 hours, short term memory loss M 57 2 years
5/24/2008
 2  Insomnia Took 12.5 mg only. Felt zombie like throughout the day. Stiff arms. Sleepy all day. Increased heart rate most of the next day. Awesome sleeping pill, but comes with quite a price in the beginning. M 41 1 days
2/14/2009
 2  depression, anxiety, and sleep Helped sleep but harmed my cognative processes. I thake this, Transodone and Klonopin when I go to bed. I also have sleep apnea and on a CPAP. I have difficulty waking and getting out of bed before 9AM. MY doctors have started me on Provigil to try and wake up more quickly. They still haven't sorted out dosages of this and the other meds. It makes me feel very tired through the day. M 61 1 years
2/28/2009
 2  Bipolar disorder mixed/psychosis Weird waking nightmares before sleep, twitchy legs, vivid, horrible dreams, fuzzy thinking, big hangover, diarrhoea, sense of being like a robot, apathy, low energy, feeling 'out of it' I hardly take any - was prescribed 25mg but that hit me so hard I could hardly see straight, so I reduced it to 12.5mg. Every night I go through the same carnival of horrors before getting to sleep, and though I get 7-8 hours in the day I feel like a motiveless zombie. And if I stop it I feel worse. I feel poisoned. M 38 4 months
3/28/2008
 2  Borderline Personality Disorder Wierd feeling in my left leg like it's cold but it's not, A long unquenchable thirst. I have IBS and this caused constipation. A constant dull headache and really dry eyes. Friends reported I was slurring my speach and was like in a daze. But I suppose that was a positive with my usual being the opposit and on extreme highs. It is causing me to be more paranoid hence im looking this up here and spending hours looking for things that are not their ! Appears to me that after reading the side effects some of which are irreversable and lethal I will take my chances off of this drug. I feel I should quit it before the effects get worse. M 22 3 days
4/19/2008
 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/Anxiety/Psych Labels Huge weight gain, around 40 lbs. Remember that seroquel is a salt (fumerate). Raises heart level to the point that your thinking that your having a heart attack. My heart rate was 120/60 when I was rushed to the hospital, im 26 too young for a heart attack. When i mentioned it to the the psychiatrist who prescribed it he defended it like he was an executive of Astra Zeneca . It was the Seroquel, I lowered the dosage and drank a lot of water to lessen that risk. I know that diabetes is a cause of this medication , dont have it and dont want it! I find it amazing that so many people are mis-diagnosed and as long as you have a problem your psychiatrist profits from the over rides they make from your visit/and from the starter packs that are pushed to them from the pharmaceutical companies . I feel like I can do less on this medication , lower concentration, and drowsy in the morning (totally out of it, sleep 13 hours more...forget having a job on this!). This cant be good in the long run, and often wonder that these sedative effects are impairing my brain in the long run. Sometimes you have to weigh risk vs reward and this stuff is risky. Where there is an action there is a reaction. A drug impairs period, and this is definatly impairing me when I am so sedated in the morning , that is my clinical trial and this stuff fails. I came to my senses when I started to read a book by the name of "Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications " . I am tapering off and learning that th M 26 2 days
5/25/2007
 2  Bipolar/Anxiety/Psych Labels Huge weight gain, around 40 lbs. Remember that seroquel is a salt (fumerate). Raises heart level to the point that your thinking that your having a heart attack. My heart rate was 120/60 when I was rushed to the hospital, im 26 too young for a heart attack. When i mentioned it to the the psychiatrist who prescribed it he defended it like he was an executive of Astra Zeneca . It was the Seroquel, I lowered the dosage and drank a lot of water to lessen that risk. I know that diabetes is a cause of this medication , dont have it and dont want it! I find it amazing that so many people are mis-diagnosed and as long as you have a problem your psychiatrist profits from the prescriptions and "starter packs" they hand you. I feel like I can do less on this medication, lower concentration, and drowsy in the morning (totally out of it, sleep 13 hours more...forget having a job on this!). This cant be good in the long run, and often wonder that these sedative effects are impairing my brain in the long run. Sometimes you have to weigh risk vs reward and this stuff is risky. Where there is an action there is a reaction. A drug impairs period, and this is definatly impairing me when I am so sedated in the morning , that is my clinical trial and this stuff fails. I came to my senses when I started to read a book by the name of "Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications " . I am tapering off and learning that this drug plays tricks, if you dont taper off properly (10%) , than y M 26 3 years
5/25/2007
 2  depression/insomnia Increased fasting blood sugar levels/prediabetes. Weight gain (25 pounds) Anyone else experience increased blood sugar levels? M 32 1 days
7/26/2007
 2  insomnia, major depression Feel sleepy for at least 18 hours after taking 100 mg at bedtime. That is, if I go to bed at midnight, I have to drag myself up at 10 am, then sleep on the couch until 4 pm, then finally start feeling awake at about 8 pm. That means that I'm only reasonaly awake and feeling normal for about 4 hours a day! It's great for sleep. Nothing else seemed to have worked: Not ambien or lunesta. But, it adds to my severe depression. I've only been taking it for 5 days, but am seriously considering to either substitute trazodone or crush the 100 mg seroquel pill, and take just half of it tonight. I'm more concerned about my 5 month bout with depression. I'm taking an SSRI, Lexapro, and wonder if the seroquel is offsetting the effects of the Lexapro. M 65 5 days
7/16/2007
 2  insomnia/bipolar/severe depression i feel a little light headed also my mind wants to go to sleep but my legs and feet won't ..hard to explain the feeling..it's like rushes going through my legs down to my feet ..which keeps me awake.. if anyone is having the same symptoms..feel free to e-mail me ..my psych said that i have a sleeping disorder ...she has never heard of the side effects that i have .....so if someone out there has the same effects e me ..then i can show this woman i ain't the only one M 45 3 days
2/27/2005
 2  Sleep disorder, anxiety Agitation, Anxiety, Zombie like feeling the next day, insomnia. M 40 4 weeks
4/4/2003
 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
 2  Bi Polar disorder Weight gain 30 pounds, swelling hands and feet, vivid dreams and terrible munchies im at 600 mg, At the begining i was doing great but im cycling again going on depession mode and the med doesnt seem to be working, I hate the weight gain is actually afecting my life, Terrible weightr gain side effect plus abnormal cholesterol and triglicerides reading, my dr put on me on lipitor despite the explanation i gave her on seroquel. M 39 6 months
10/7/2004
 2  anxiety increased general anger and lowered threshold for lashing out at people. I'm sure this drug is wonderful for many people but for me it made me quite angry and quick to lash out at people. Although my dr. thinks my prob. is anxiety I suspect it is depression and I suppose the seroquel just made me less anxious about expressing my bad mood. lol. M 32 1 months
12/11/2004
 2  Depression weight gain (15 pounds so far)Dry mouth, always tired I have had no changes in my mood since starting seroquel, the only thing it does is make me sleep alot. I take 250 mg once a day before i go to bed. M 16 23 days
11/29/2006
 2  psychosis, depersonalization extreme drowsiness, listlessness, apathy, poor memory functioning, feelings of lifelessness and vacancy Not too keen on this med. Started on it two and a half weeks ago, after stopping Risperdal. First "day" on it, slept for 36 hours straight (a small break for breakfast aside). Initially, helped me get rest. I had been waking up five to six times a night with anxiety and feelings of desperation. Now, feels like prison bars on my mind. Trapped, no escape. Listless, listless, listless. I pace a lot. I get bored with pacing. I lay down. I get bored with laying down. I pace some more. I get tired of pacing. I lay down again. Get bored with laying down again. Try to sleep, but am bored with sleeping. No, actually afraid to sleep, for no particular reason. Perhaps afraid of never waking up. Trapped feelings. More pacing. Get bored with pacing. Basically, bored with being bored. Bored with feeling like a lifeless husk. This is mostly the med. When I don't take it (skip dose), life starts returning, mind and focus and personality and alertness start return M 32 3 weeks
1/21/2007

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