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 | 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 | 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 | 2 | Depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia | Drowsiness, strange dreams, obtrusive thoughts, incapacitation during the night. | Have been taking 25mg nightly for about a month, and was previously on Dothiepin/Prothiadin. Seroquel has helped with the anxiety, but hasn't treated the depression and lack of sex drive. As far as side effects go (both short and long term), I think the tricyclic antidepressants are better. | M | 25 | 30 days | 3/10/2006 | 2 | Insomnia | None that I know of | A psychiatrist specializing in sleep studies prescribed 50mg of Seroquel before bed. It doesn't even come close to making me sleepy. I lay awake all night, and if it wasn't for a hot tub and several glasses of wine I would never sleep. Maybe I need a stronger dose. I am 6'4" and weigh about 230 lbs. | M | 55 | 3 weeks | 12/28/2006 | 2 | bi polar insomnia | intense agitation and anger. cloudy head all day. increased appetite.bloating. the worst was the irritability. not worth it! | makes you sleep | M | 39 | 2 days | 4/22/2007 | 2 | Bipolar Disorder II | Extreme sedation, dizziness | I started on 100mg and had to cut it to 50. Still, the fatigue lasted all day long. It was aweful getting out of bed....Did it help? I dont have any idea.... | M | 38 | 1 years | 11/13/2006 | 2 | BI-POLAR SCHIZOAFFECTIVE | Loss of coordination. Losing center of gravity and falling down on occassion. Extreme blurred vision. Slurred speech on some mornings as I only take it at bed time. I am on 300Mg currently | M | 32 | 3 months | 2/13/2006 | 2 | bi-polar depression paranoia | terrible withdrawal feeling when not using the drug hangover feeling in the morning, zombie like feeling during the day. | just like what the others said dont take it, it makes you lose your will to live. awful medication. | M | 19 | 16 months | 12/18/2005 | 2 | depession | dont really know if its doing any thing for my depession but i get this very spaced out feeling since i have being taking it,so much so i am thinking of giving it up ,as for weight no problem just drink plenty of coffee,works for me!!!car | M | 34 | 2 months | 3/4/2007 | 2 | schizoaffective bipolar OCD | I enjoyed the tiredness at night, but then I would wake a few hours later and throw up. I got terrible heartburn. | Just not for me. I've usually heard that people gain weight and that it is otherwise a wonderful drug. | M | 33 | 2 days | 2/7/2007 | 2 | Anxiety/depression | Dry mouth (not a big deal), Zombification (not a huge deal), Anger/rage/ lashing out (very big deal) | This medication put me in a very dangerous state of mind though not at its peak in my blood, rather in the morning after having taken it multiple times through the prior day. I assess my rage side effect as being some type of withdrawal from Seroquel as opposed to a direct effect of the drug. This happened only this morning and I have yet to speak with my DR. Fortunately, I am writing this from home and not from a prison cell. I would recommend people pay close attention to their moods and self control while getting used to this medication. | M | 40 | 1 weeks | 10/11/2005 | 2 | Bipolar II | Hypertension, racing heart, dizziness, inability to stand-up, weight gain | This medicine was not meant for me. It is trial and error when it comes to finding the right medication. With the several different medicines in this class, Geodon has proven most effective for me. | M | 21 | 1 weeks | 10/19/2006 | 2 | Bipolar | 600mg/day. Extreme fatigue; anxiety. Sometimes unable to function, drive a car, or walk up stairs, which led to the anxiety. Slept 10-12 hrs. a night. Very hard to wake-up on time in the morning. | Not a very good medication unless you want to sleep all day and be extremely fatigued/drowsy for the relatively short time you are awake. | M | 26 | 5 months | 5/23/2006 | 2 | Racing thoughts | Confused, depressed, strange thoughts after just the very minimal dosage at night, but the day time was great. At night I layed in bed and obsessively thought about my mortality and death in general...not fun. | The first night I took the reccommended 25 mg starting dosage and took a shower and began to have weird thoughts like I have never had before. Memories of a long time ago, mixed with thoughts, mixed with an eerie depression. The next couple nights I increased the dosage and the thoughts increased, including thinking about death every night. I have thought about death every night since being on the medicine, not about suicide, but about mortality. Racing heartbeat evertime I took it at night, trying to fall asleep, I would also not be able to breath out of my nose, but that is becuase of the Depakote I'm also on...the doc said it's the combo of the two causing that. I felt great during the day, but at night, every time I took Seroquel, I would lay in bed trying to fall asleep and not be able to breath through my nose and think about my mortality until I nodded off. Not fun, let me tell you. Now, i'm trying to get off it, and I have never had insomnia before, until now. I couldn' | M | 24 | 3 months | 2/2/2006 | 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 | 2 | ADHD/ anxiety acute Bipolar | well first i started to take seroquel and i loved it all my sleeping problems went away. until this pattern formed, right before id go to sleep and it would be all quiet i began to hear things and see things and i would have rapid nightmares. last week i woke up screaming god no's why? and because i had these thoughts i became paranoyed to sleep. the dellusions came and they would go away... but ive gained weight and i just want to tell people what happended. | great for insomnia. but not for me.... go see help if u have these side effects that happen to you.. | M | 15 | 6 months | 1/27/2006 | 2 | anxiety, sleep | Hallucinations - sounds and visuals, very zombie like, nausea | M | 15 | 1 days 200 MG | 2/8/2012 | 2 | Schizophrenia | tiredness, fatigue, loss of sex drive, weight gain, increased appetite | M | 21 | 4 weeks 600 mg 1X day | 4/4/2012 | 2 | Manic like symptoms | Helped me sleep for one night, then it induced euphoria, wild hallucinations and complete insomnia. Started on 100mgs and was upped to 800mg over a few weeks, by the end I was in a state of perpetual withdrawal even when I took it, combined with lsd like hallucinations which I really enjoyed too much. The last night I took it I had eaten powdered laundry detergent and passed out on the floor, I don't remember doing that but the evidence was encrusted on my face and in my nose. | Withdrawal was a 6 week ordeal it was not fun, but nothing in comparison with SSRI withdrawal. 2 years earlier Paxil kicked off my psychotic symptoms about 30 minutes after the first pill and it has been permanent ever since, for something that was just suppose to take the edge off with no risk of side effects it has cost me everything. | M | 35 | 75 days 800mg 1X day | 6/11/2013 | 2 | Situational anxiety | Dying | Seroquel can cause breathing problems which can be serious. One should really avoid starting to take medicines like seroquel as they reduce life-expectancy and people can get serious (deadly) side-effects from them, especially if medications are withdrawn. Monitor your blood glucose (+ cortisol). Some of these sites might be useful. seroquelwithdrawal.blogspot.fi/ nonpsychiatry.wordpress.com/ | M | 27 | 5 years 400 1X day | 12/3/2012 |