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 | THIS IS A BAD, BAD DRUG!! Severe ringing in the ears, raised cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate, and sugar levels. Serious memory loss. | In the last 2 weeks I have weened of 50 mg of the drug at 25 mg reduction every 3 days. In 2 more weeks will be free and off. No withdrawal or discomfort so far.I don't give a damn what reason your doctor has you on Seroquel.....GET OFF IT!!!! You can do it. Recipe for success is: From a credible holistic web site 1200 mg Omega 3 taken in morning and again in afternoon. B Complex Zinc Iron Vitamin E Keep Pepto for upset stomach Preferred pain med for headaches Imodium for diarrhea This will set you back around $60.00 but well worth it as I feel I am proof with NO withdrawal symptoms. | M | 58 | 4 months 200 mg 1X day | 1/4/2013 | 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 | 1 | insomnia | severe dizziness upon waking, trouble thinking. muscle weakness | i have been having horrible issues with poor sleep after stopping zoloft and zyprexa in 2014 after 14 years on the drugs. Decided to try Seroquel 75 mg for sleep. i slept 6 hours and woke up feeling as if i had been laid out cold and had a severe concussion. I was stumbling into walls walking down the hall and it took me several minutes of staring at the stove to figure out how to make coffee. my eyes were rolling around like a cartoon character who takes a blow to the head and it took a half hour until i could see straight/ i felt physically weak the entire next day. pills found their way into the trash. i need sleep, but i also need my brains. | M | 45 | 1 days 1X day | 12/16/2017 | 1 | Bipolar II / Depression | Violent fainting attacks, bloated/very uncomfortable stomach, nausea, tremor, hot and cold flushes, burning sensation under the skin, headache and a feeling of pressure in the head, excessive sweating or shivering, tachycardia, heart palpitations, insomnia, neck pain. | Last in the line of attempted treatments for my bipolar II / depression. Stopped it after only one week at the lowest dose due to nasty fainting attacks combined with random selections of the other side effects I listed. I have never felt so physically ill before in my life, and was hospitalized one night due to it. Now, almost three weeks after stopping, I feel significantly better, but still far from good. Still have occasional attacks of low to medium severity and constant insomnia. | M | 26 | 7 days 25 1X day | 2/23/2012 | 1 | schizophrenia | Somatic hallucinations and visual hallucinations panic attacks and paranoia | M | 24 | 1 days 100mg | 3/5/2012 | 1 | depression | restless cannot sit still feel on edge/wound up all the time,crying every day/head cold | M | 43 | 3 weeks 100mg 1X day | 2/7/2012 | 1 | Bipolar and sleep | I'm a 56 year old male. Seroquel gave me Type 2 Diabetes. Also suffering from Hepatitis C my platelets dropped to a dangerous range. While on Srroquel my platelets remained low. I was getting transfusions of packed platelets every other week. Since coming off Seroquel I make my own platelets. My platelets have increased without a transfusion. Seroquel is a very dangerous drug. They charge megabucks for the drug. I'm going to try to sue Astra Zenica. | M | 56 | 4 years 300mg. SR | 1/16/2012 | 1 | M | 22 | 1 years | 1/16/2006 | 1 | insomnia adhd anxiety and bipolar | i take 400mg and these are the side effect listed belowwwwwwwwww muddled think terrible nightmares. made me see things couldnt fall asleep disorentation. wakeing up by screaming.when i would try to fall asleep i kept waking up, i would have to turn the tv on and fall asleep somewhere else THE MEDICATION DIDNT WORK !!!!!!!! i hate it................... and i hope all this goes away. not to mention how this caused me to be paraniod see delusions and halucinate. unusual thinking and RAPID mood swings waking up..... | made me hear things and see things. muddled thinking and hallucinate. AND PARANIOD how do u think this made me feel and rapid mood swings waking up ...... like SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!! and i hope there is a different medication to help me with these problems | M | 17 | 3 months | 1/27/2006 | 1 | Major depression psychotic episodes | Weight gain 40lbs, restless leg syndrome, lethargy, trouble focusing - eyes and brain. | I am currently trying to get off this medication as the side effects (particularly the weight gain) counteract any benefits the drug may have. Weight gained is in fat and not muscle - no matter what you do. I have always had very low body fat and a hard body - until seroquel and it depresses me no end. Would rather be on the edge than fat. I also worry that I have become dependant on the drug and am going to have major problems flicking it - I tried to go cold turkey and didn't sleep more than an hour for a week, so am back on and trying to taper off. | M | 41 | 1.5 years | 9/4/2005 | 1 | atypical trigemianl neuralgia | 15 hours after taking 25mg of this deadly poison I started having seizures. | Back in early 2007 a crazy neurologist prescribed the medication for my atypical trigeminal neuralgia, which I got from botched sinus surgery. When I would start to fall asleep I would get 'electric-shocks' deep inside my right sinus. The Neurontin was helping, but this whacko neurologist decided to give me seroquel for sleep. Now I have seizures. | M | 55 | 1 days 25mg 1X O | 1/23/2013 | 1 | depression | Akathesia, chronic constipation, suicidal ideation, OCD, anxiety towards the latter use felt like I wanted to crawl out of my skin | The first few months were fine and it was sedating but then I started to have horrible side effects and it nearly destroyed my life. Felt like jumping out of a window. My doctor slowly tapered me off the medication and got back my life and these symptoms went away | M | 44 | 8 months 300 mg 2X day | 4/24/2013 | 1 | Doctor's don't like me | You DIE after 5 years or use or SOMETHING. One need to discontinue these medications as soon as possible. USE OF THESE MEDICATIONS LEAD TO DEATH IF THEY ARE USED BEYOND 5 YEARS. | Withdrawal cause high inflammation and possible problems in blood parameters (blood transfusions). YOU DIE UNLESS YOU CAN TALK WITH THE PSYCHIATRISTS AND MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE NOT MENTALLY ILL AND DO NOT NEED THESE MEDICATIONS. | M | 33 | 5 years 400 1X day | 10/8/2013 | 1 | MISDIAGNOSED bipolar mania | Most side effects were adverse and felt at minimal dosage. I felt extreme drowsiness, an almost out-of-it, loopy, stoned feeling (without any of the positives). Occassional dizziness, substantial unwanted increase in appetite, as well as memory loss, and an obnoxious heavy feeling in my eyes and forehead. | I never took more than 25 mg of this medication. That is essentially a baby dose for seroquel. At one point, I tried 50 mg, and that level was absolutely intolerable. All of the aforementioned side effects were greatly increased to the point where I felt like I was walking in a fog. Even at the 25 mg, I never felt like myself, the supposed "manic symptoms," if anything, were WORSENED, by anxiety/agitation caused by the myriad unpleasant side effects. If one wants to feel absolutely disorganized, unfocused, quite frankly, stupid, then I would recommend this medication. Otherwise, for anxiety or ADHD (my true primary issues), this medication is just asking for trouble. I cannot imagine taking more than 50 mg of this drug (and I have an extremely high tolerance for most medications), but for some whose symptoms truly warrant seroquel, I can appreciate that. But for those of us with severe anxiety as opposed to a serious form of bipolar disorder, faced with an overly enth | M | 22 | 6 months | 6/23/2006 | 1 | for night time sleep aid | I experienced the crazyest side effects, I can not explain how crazy it made me feel, but I will do my best. I was perscribed 100mg of seroquel at bed time when I was a patient at a rehab center. When I first started to take it I experienced very vived dreams thats I could remember very clearly. I could only sleep for 5 hrs at a time and once awake would toss and turn like crazy for the remainder of the night. I did not reailze that it was side affects of the medication because I was coming off of drugs and thought it was a withdrawl symptom. When I was done with the program I was prescribed a perscription of 30 100mg seroquel. I took them aS directed and still felt the same symptoms as before but more intense. It wasent untill I was half way done with the bottle to realize that the crazy feelings I was having was seroqel side effects. The more intense affects where the feeling of being menteley insane. I felt like I was actually going crazy. I would curl up in a ball fetal possition a | crazy drug made me actually go insane | M | 20 | 30 days | 3/16/2006 | 1 | anxiety and anger management | Makes me very very irritable. I'am worse off than before I started taking this medication. I have ony taken it for 13 days ..but I have to stop. It is affecting my job and home life ..because I'm so damn cranky on it. I called my doctor about this.. he said to continue taking it..it may kick in about 3 weeks..the thing is I can't wait that long because I won't have a job or a family by then. I just stopped.. I only take 100mg at bedtime..it does help for sleep..but I never had a problem sleeping. It didn't work for me and I don't plan to take it anymore. | I was wondering if other people had these type of effects from taking seroquel. I'm talking about the overwhelming irritability. | M | 49 | 13 days | 1/23/2006 | 1 | Bipolar depression-manic episode | After taking 25mg., I went to walk my dog and had to stop moving from fatigue, muscle pain and what seemed to be blurred vision. As I increased the dosage to 150MG everything went worse: appettite increase, problems standing up, slurred speech & and phrases that meant nothing, zombie-like feelings, numbness, increase in urination, severe memory and concentration problems, lethargic. | After a pretty bad manic episode I was prescribed Seroquel as an addition to the medications mix I have been taken for my disorder during the past 3 years. Seroquel should not be taken unless you suffer drom severe insomnia and/or anxiety disorders. Forget it. | M | 42 | 9 days | 3/26/2006 | 1 | Sleep | Over eating like a hog urinating my bed every night not reccomended!!! | Was on 900 mg a night got all the way up to 456 pounds back to 350 in 9 months dont take it | M | 28 | 6 months | 12/27/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | First I was given 50mg for sleep. No sleep. Then I was given 100mg plus 25mg elavil for sleep plus 1mg of Xanax, and still no sleep. I am sitting here at 3am ready to go out of my mind. I have been taking this for a month and have gained 10 lbs. | I keep reading comments about how this knocks people out. I don't understand why I am so different. I could go sit in the hot tub and drink three or four glasses of wine and sleep, but the doctor says no tot drink the wine. I think the wine would be healthier than all of these chemicals. | M | 55 | 1 days | 1/6/2007 | 1 | Extreme anxiety, psychotic episode | My drives have been deadened, I have no inner life (there's a horrible feeling of absence and numbness from the top of my shoulders down to the bottom of my loins, as though my core was somehow gutted), my consciousness doesn't feel attached or anchored to my body, I can't experience any excitement or genuine emotions, I feel hollow and empty, I've been made impotent | Between the Seroquel and the Risperdal (which I was on for nine weeks before starting Seroquel) my life has pretty much been destroyed. The'side effects'(consequences, really)started a month after starting Risperdal, and have only gotten worse with time...I'm down to 50 mg of Seroquel a day (from 400 mg) and have noticed ABSOLUTELY NO IMPROVEMENT in the side effects I mentioned...like I said, things only seem to have gotten worse, and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight...I feel helpless, hopeless, and terribly desperate at this point... | M | 32 | 3.5 months | 4/22/2007 |