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 |
| 1 | insomnia | Nothing. I'm now dying to withdrawal. Seroquel is garbage drug used to treat "mental health" problems. Constantly monitor your blood glucose and cortisol levels. Seroquel can elevate these (adrenergic blockade). | YOU CAN DIE TO WITHDRAWAL! INFO: Do not just stop if. AFAIK You should withdraw to long-acting alpha1 blocker (alpha2?) and carefully monitor you blood glucose and cortisol levels as they can kill you (=> diabetes). YOU CANNOT SAFELY WITHDRAW FROM HIGH > 400MG/NIGHT DOSES (DOPAMINE BLOCKADE) DO NOT CHANGE DOSAGE WITHOUT HELP. YOU CAN DIE. GO TO EXPENSIVE AND REAL PRIVATE DRUG REHAB CLINIC (COSTS LOTS OF $$$) BUT THATS THE ONLY WAY I THINK. BE VERY CAREFUL THOUGHT BECAUSE "HELPFUL" DOCTORS CAN JUST KILL YOU. YOU NEED *REAL* PROFESSIONAL HELP. DO NOT USE SSRIs. | M | 30 | 3 years 400MG 1X day | 1/30/2011 | 1 | M | 39 | 1X day | 11/27/2010 | 1 | Depression | Seroquel caused severe restlessness to the point it felt like my skin was being torn off, emotional liability, unusual behavior, nightmares and horridly painful muscle spasms. I had to put rolled up wash clothes in my hands at night so my fingers wouldn't curl up into my palm.I jerked so badly I slept in an upright recliner. It make me so sedated I was unaware of what was happening. One night I ended up in the Emergency Room with Seroquel-induced Pancreatitis/Diabetes (this is a documented side effect). I spent 3 months in the hospital with a tube down my nose.A physician diagnosed me with the worse case of drug toxicity he'd ever seen so I went off the Seroquel. | Make sure someone who really knows you can monitor your behavior when on Seroquel. A doctor who only prescribes this may NOT notice how it has caused you to became erratic (Iatrogenic Illness).Seroquel is a major anti-psychotic and very very powerful.Consider NOT taking this drug at all. | M | 52 | 2 years 300mg 1X day | 3/18/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | Bad side effects | M | 60 | 200 1X day | 1/30/2011 Patient History | 1 | mild insomnia+wierd dreams (voices) | Used it for MILD insomnia (I could sleep without anything). Used it like a fool for 2 years. The initial reason was MILD GABAergic damage and proper therapy would have been: 1) use antihistamine to help with sleep (seldomly) 2) wait for one year for brain to heal 3) use neurologist and use something that could help GABA heal I was able to work all the time and worked as scientist before seroquel (and bad doc and didn't know anthing about meds) ruined my life. | Seroquel is neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drug. Neuroleptic drugs slowly kill you and it is harder and harder to withdraw (sleep): 1) never start antipsychotics or antidepressants 2) people typically die in 10 years or so 3) brain damage and its harder and harder to sleep without quetiapine 4) if you have used seroquel for longer periods DO NOT ABRUPTLY STOP If you have recently started and you are using it for mild symptoms (insomnia?) => go to neurologist specialized for sleep ASAP Use benzos for sleep or maybe certain antidepressants but use a GOOD doctor you can trust because there are pitfalls in many medications used for sleep. (in general you cannot use anything for longer periods for sleep without serious side-effects.) Use natural methods for sleep: aerobic exercise, glycine 3-5g, tryptophan, magnesium, l-arginine, beetroot, colostrum, good bed and sleeping place etc. | M | 30 | 999 years 400 MG 1X day | 1/10/2011 | 1 | to help me sleep | when i was on seroquel i would have extrem eating binge. I would not care about anything as long as i had the drug to take. It was determined that i was Bipolar and this would be one of the best meds for me to take and i have not felt the same since. I now have a difficulty communicating with people to be honest i just dont care about anything i used to care about. I have taken several drugs in the past but thiswas the worst addiction i have ever had with anything. i have not taken it in about three months and i still feel like i am going through a withdraw every morning when i get out of bed. I was fortunate enough to talk my Dr down from 600 mg a day to only 100 mg a day over a course of several months. I still feel the withdraw symptoms. i even lost a job over the over all not giving a crap and not being able to wake up. I use to define myself with my job no matter how i felt and now i just dont give a damn even after i quit taking it. | M | 28 | 3 years 600mg 1X day | 11/17/2010 | 1 | wierd dreamlike states and insomnia | For 2 years mostly nothing. After discontinuation from 400mg/night gradually to 0 mg/night and back up to 400mg/night and then difficulty following exact dosages: tinnitus, memory and thinking problems. NOT A SLEEP MEDICATION USE VERY LOW DOSE OF DOXEPIN FOR SLEEP (<5mg). | I was given Seroquel after I took oxamin+alcohol (accident/panic) and had wierd dreamlike state and voices when trying to get sleep and MILD insomnia (Nothing during to day). I took it like a fool. Because I could sleep (it was just a difficult) I should have went to a neurologist specialized in sleep or just wait for GABA receptors to slowly heal. (Maybe using antihistamine for a month or something to get better sleep). | M | 30 | 2 years 400 1X day | 1/3/2011 | 1 | depression | This is a dangerous medication. It is very addictive. I stopped taking it with my doctors consent and developed severe side effects of headaches and nausea. My appetite was beyond anything reasonable. I gained substantial weight, however as soon as one day upon quitting, my appetite was gone. However, I find that I am ADDICTED to it and don't know what to do, because upon quitting it, the side effects from quitting it were far worse then the excessive weight gain. Moreover, as soon as I started back up, my muscle cramps commenced and my arthritis problems, which seemed to disappear when I stopped it, returned almost immediately. I'm damned if I take it and damned in trying to quit it. My doctor tried another medication when he took me off it, but it's addiction properties kicked in and I couldn't get out of bed, having severe headaches and nausea. It should never have been prescribed, but I'm boxed into a corner now and don't know what to do? | I know that this medication may indeed work for others, but I would try anything else, before taking it. | M | 64 | 365 days 300mg 1X day | 1/1/2011 | 1 | major depression | recently prescribed Seroquel XR 150mg @ bedtime( I should say ONE TIME ONLY!!!!!) WHY?????YOU MAY ASK?, this drug left me incapacitated for nearly two days after the initial dose of only 150mg!!!!one time only!!!,this drug is dangerous, be careful, I am still achey and very tired 3 days later............ | F THIS MEDICATION!!!!! WAS PRESCRIBED FOR DEPRESSION, MY DOC THOUGHT THIS MIGHT HELP W/ANXIETY ASSOCIATED...IT DID I FEEL LIKE A ZOMBIE..PEOPLE THINK TWICE ABOUT THIS ONE, SERIOUSLY!!! | M | 50 | 1 days 150 MG 1X day | 9/4/2010 | 1 | anxiety/sleep | 100 pound weight gain, tired all the time,oversleeping, overeating, overheating during exersising, easy sunburn, high cholesterol, abnormal liver tests. | I was told by phychiatrists for 10 years that 100 mg serequel would never cause tardive dyscanetia and I should not worry about it. "Only happens to people who take high doses" Well, I'm walking around smacking my lips, puckering my lips like a fish and repetatively licking my lower lip. If that's not crappy enough, right about the time I started waking up grimmicing I found out I had sleep apnea. Had I know that and got on CPAP sooner I could have gotten off Serequel. Now I'm seriously thinking about killing myself. I'm not a severely mentally ill person who does nothing in society, just a hard working person like everybody else who was given serequel as a sleep aid and anti-anxiety agent and told it was safe. PSYCHIATRISTS LIE AND RUIN LIVES !!! Now i face living life in shame and humiliation or shooting myself in the mouth...Tough choice !! | M | 36 | 10 years 50-100 1X day | 10/10/2010 | 1 | Anxiety & Depression | Major weight gain...100+ pounds 60% increase in weight! Memory Loss forgetful & black out phases Nausea major Kidney damage | This is the worst drug ever!!!! Spend three months in bed trying to get off this toxic drug. 10 months later at the doctor again for major kidney pain...Gotta love this poison! I'll post later my kidney results in the next two weeks! | M | 37 | 20 months 900 1X day | 10/27/2011 | 1 | BIPOLAR | WEIGHT GAIN 60 LBS, HUNGER CRAVINGS, MAKES YOU SLEEPY, KNOCKS YOU OUT AT BEDTIME, THE DOSING IS COMPLICATED, CAN GIVE YOU SEIZURES, FEELING OF TIREDNESS AND HUNGER IN THE MORNING TILL AFTERNOON. CAN GIVE YOU DIABETES. | WEIGHT GAIN FOOD CRAVINGS AND BINGING JUST LIKE ZYPREXA. I CALL THIS STUFF A BOTTLE OF FAT AND TIREDNESS. The pdoc will never test you for high glucose and diabetes. They just don't care. | M | 29 | 2 months 200MG 1X day | 8/18/2011 | 1 | Stupidity | Starting antipsychotics like seroquel is a death sentence, withdrawal after too long use is often not an option (too much brain damage, it is even worse than benzos [except that initial cognitive side-effects are not that worse]). My life was totally ruined by seroquel. Seroquel is a new "benzo", 10 years from now it is told how it ruined/killed/destroyed so many lifes. | seroquelwithdrawal.blogspot.com | M | 30 | 1X day | 7/6/2011 | 1 | bipolar | weight gain 90 lbs, sleepy, puts you asleep at night. | does not work, massive sleepy and hunger weight gain. | M | 31 | 3 months 200mg 1X day | 7/9/2011 | 1 | Bipolar, depression, anxiety | TERRIFYING VISUAL/AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS. Only took it 2 nights and I feel like I'm developing schizophrenia from taking this drug. Will never touch it again. | Poisonous | M | 25 | 2 days 200mg 1X day | 11/5/2011 | 1 | depression | This is a continuation of previous rating (2/19/2011); couldn't remember password. Abdominal bloating not as bad for now. Can eat more foods. Also I believe it was my duodenum that was affected. Gastroscopy revealed nothing, though my gastroenterologist said it likely was the drug which hurt me, "rewired" me, as he put it. Am going for a CAT scan (of gut) soon. Also, severe insomnia every night is, I'm certain, Seroquel-related, as I've never experienced it so badly & it began when the weight loss & (severe) depression started. Going for a sleep study, as well. Also, since last writing, found that I can no longer tolerate the only two antidepressants out of maybe 20 I've tried over the years. Now, Prozac & Cymbalta make my mood or gut much, much worse. Can't find a new one now, to alleviate the sadness. My doctor is talking about ECT, but I don't know. There is a real chance that I will simply get sick of being sick all the time & will do something despera | I believe someone should have to pay for this, as it's completely turned things inside-out. My life has been derailed. The side-effects from every other psychotropic I've tried WENT AWAY when I ceased using. Not so with Seroquel, so how the hell was I to know? I don't believe I will ever be well again. | M | 47 | 50 mg 1X day | 10/16/2011 | 1 | Mania depression and anxiety | Memory loss, massive weight gain, exhausted from the moment I wake up, rapid heart beat. Pressure pain on chest ,permanent pain inside left arm joint. Sluggish thyroid. SWELLING AND PAIN and Bloating in STOMACH. | M | 56 | 3 months 300 | 9/10/2012 | 1 | Aggitation | Zombie land, bad dreams, aggression weird drug in general. | Didn't like it felt weird , lights are on nobody home | M | 44 | 5 days 30mg 1X day | 10/6/2012 | 1 | insomnia | see entry for June 28, 2011. | i first wrote about seroquel on this site on June 28,2011. since then i would add to those comments the fact that it shredded my memory. it was as if my memory was a series of overlapping gauzy sheets with subtle paintings on them, and seroquel just ripped huge pieces at random out of one sheet after another. i could never even remember what day of the week it was. it took several months of being off seroquel to begin to get my "self" back. this is a soul-stealing drug. | M | 65 | 3 months 25-75mg 1X day | 11/2/2012 | 1 | Bipolar nos | Side effects were weight gain rapid heart beat ,pressure pain on my chest , tired from the time I woke up; bloating and swelling of the stomach and problems with my Bowles.also developed a peptic ulcer and type 2 diabetes. just came off seroquel last week doing much better, this medication is horrible ruined my life for 2 yrs doctor would not change my medication so I changed doctors to someone who saw what the side effects were doing to me and now I am able to live my life again. | M | 48 | 2 years 300mg | 12/15/2012 |