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 | SCHIZO/BIPOLAR | THIS MEDICINE WILL MAKE YOU FAT AND VERY TIRED DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINCE DOCTORS WILL NEVER WARN THIS TO YOU | TERRIBLE MEDICINCE FEELING VERY TIRED I THINK I GAINED AROUND 35 POUNDS | M | 7 | 5 years | 5/4/2007 | 1 | Depression racing/suicidal thoughts | Extreme hunger, spacing out, severe sweating problems, decreased interest in things i used to find fun, suicidal thoughts, low confidence level | My doctor had me take Seroquel without explaining to me the possible side effects. After taking Seroquel, I began to feel very alone, and did not want to participate with other people, keeping all my feelings inside, causing me to have increased suicidal thoughts. My sweating problem causes me to become self-conscience and I never want to go out in public because it was embarrasing. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND FINDING OUT ALL THE POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS BEFORE TAKING SEROQUEL. | M | 17 | 3 years | 12/1/2007 | 1 | Bipolar | I becam a cookie monster, gain 30 pounds, still struggling to loose the weight after switching to lamictal a year and change ago. I was a real zombie after the pill kicked in, Horrible!!!!!!!! | M | 42 | 2 years | 7/22/2007 | 1 | Bipolar I | Weight gain +90lbs in combination with Risperdal and Zyprexan. Can't wake up in the morning. I was a med school student going to be a doctor. This medicine ruined my life. | M | 20 | 2 years | 7/2/2007 | 1 | bipolar - mania | The first year on Seroquel I was a total zombie. When I visited family for a holiday dinner I was terrified. How can I possibly stay awake for 4 or 5 hours during the dinner? My energy level went to zero and I felt exhausted after less than an hour out of bed. I went from a muscular (benching 275) 195 pounds to a flabby 245 the first year and let my gym membership lapse. After 5 years the side effects started getting much worse. No erections and crappy orgasms led to a complete loss of interest in sex. I just couldn't stop eating, and would wake up starving in the middle of the night and devoured an entire box of cereal. Of course I was too doped up to go to a restaurant or store, and the cereal for the next morning was the only carb fix around. If chips, cookies or Ice cream were around I cant't imagine how much I would have eaten. 2 weeks after quitting seroquel my glucose was 98, and along with the other symptoms, it appears that I was getting diabetic. Blurred vision imm | This drug made my bipolar mania much worse. By engaging in demanding activities in an attempt to feel better and control weight, I was driven into mania but the Seroquel hid the mania. I ended up being hospitalized with a mixed episode after 4 months of mania in 2004. The Seroquel dosage was increased , and I gained 10 pounds in 2 weeks in the hospital. 2 months later, unable to lose the 10 pounds, I became extremely depressed and spent a month planning suicide. The same pattern repeated in 2005 (the cognitive decline side effects of Seroquel prevented me from seeing what happened in 2004) and culminated in a mixed episode where I had a tremendous urge to kill people. Another increase in Seroquel really zonked me out for a few months. The side effects began to worsen rapidly in late 2006 and by early 2007 a horrible event made the decision clear - one of three changes was to discontinue Seroquel immediately - I forget the other 2. Within a week I felt much better and was no lon | M | 47 | 5 years | 6/26/2007 | 1 | Anxiety Disorder/Insomnia | Experienced 5 "mega sleeps"-the worst was when I went to bed saturday night and awoke monday morning,and this from 100mg!!!Also taking Paxil at same time.Seroquel is a horrible medication to be avoided at all costs.Other side effects were blurred vision,night sweats,waking up every 2 hours.All this because doctor simply wouldnt go near anything with risk of dependency.How do these people get their licences?!!!! | Bitch of a psychiatrist would not listen to what was going on in my life and I ended up worse after seeing her due to Seroquel and Paxil.Ended up going back to my family doctor who replaced Paxil with Celexa(no longer an apathetic zombie),Diazepam for anxiety and Restoril to aid sleeping - feeling much better. | M | 36 | 2 months | 5/27/2007 | 1 | Mood Stablization | Laziness, Fatique, Sleepiness, Non-active, Increased Appetite, Loss of Awareness. | First of all, Seroquel DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. Second of all, it's giving me the side effects I mentioned. This medication has turned me into a vegetable. I wasn't as happy as I used to be. I usually refused to participate in many things. | M | 15 | 2 weeks | 7/9/2007 | 1 | my 13 year old son has been taking | nausea.headache | M | 13 | 8 months | 5/4/2005 | 1 | schizophrenia | FDA Approves AstraZeneca's Once-Daily SEROQUEL XR™ Extended-Release Tablets For The Treatment Of Schizophrenia | oh great a marketing scam cash cow big pharma | M | 29 | 10 years | 5/21/2007 | 1 | Bipolar II, depression, suicidal | Paralysed facial muscles during 2 hours the following morning, dry mouth,loss of balance, stoned, irritability that flirted with physical violence irruptions, jumping leg, blurred vision, great loss in concentration, speach impairement... | WOW! What a scare! I took only one pill, the smallest dose at 25mg, before beadtime. Had a terrific night of sleep and, weird but not nightmarish dreams. That was it. Nothing else was good after I got got up with difficulty. I particularly freaked out when I started noticing that I couldn't move my facial muscles anymore, couldn't smile, coudn't show reactions, emotions on my face, just a frozen dramatic facial like when facing wind at -40 celcius. I had about 20 interviews to do in my morning at work, but I felt I had to continue for the sake of all those persons that had taken time off from work for this (sorry cannot specify field, but it's not job related). I finally made it through to 11:00 AM at which time I went for the coffee I normally get around 9:30. It helped. My face muscles slowly returned to normal. But early in the afternoon, I started having all kinds of other problems, the worse being that I felt like jumping at the face of any collegue that would dare ask so | M | 55 | 1 days | 2/14/2007 | 1 | Bipolar II, depression, suicidal | Paralysed facial muscles during 2 hours the following morning, dry mouth,loss of balance, stoned, irritability that flirted with physical violence irruptions, jumping leg, blurred vision, great loss in concentration, speach impairement... | continued/...something to me or of me. It became so accute that I almost lost control physically, at which point I knew I could do something I would regret for a long time. I hid in my office and then thought of the Rivotril (clonazepan) prescription I keep in my desk for anxiety and extreme stress emergencies. I took a pill and finally got some peace after 20 minutes. Tried to call my doctor, but she wasn't in. I called the pharmacist, and she was astonished at the symptoms I described. She said she was worried and that I should cut the dose in half for one more try, and if the same occured again, that I should throw the shit out and see my doctor. So tonight, I will try half the dose, but I'm very nervous by now. I'm split between the need for a cure to my problems, the fact that inducing chemical in my body cannot be done whithout some side effects, that I should at least give it a good try before opting out, and the fact that THIS DRUG COULD BE DOING ME A LOT OF PERMAENT DA | M | 55 | 1 days | 2/14/2007 | 1 | psychotic episodes | I developed epilepsy. At 45 years of age, with no history of seizures in me or my extended family, after just a couple of weeks on this drug I began having grand mal seizures. I had a total of eight grand mal seizures before I made the connection between seroquel and my newly developed epilepsy. I woke up in the hospital with a catheter up my penis and realized that if I had gone into a seizure while waiting for the subway I could have fallen on the tracks and be quite dead. I was very lucky that didn't happen. I stopped taking seroquel and started epival (an anti-seizure medication) and have not had another seizure in a year and a half. | If you value your life DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. IT CAN KILL YOU! | M | 46 | 5 months | 5/17/2007 | 1 | Nervous breakdown/paranoia | I have experienced weightgain, tiredness, and muscle problems. Also I have noticed the memory loss, lack of thinking and inspiration/motivation. | I dont know why the f the doctor has prescribed this, I can't sleep without it now, If I go to sleep without taking it my mind races now, and I can't sleep. This drug should be prescribed less, as it forces individuals to continue to take it. The doctors are just feeding the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industry with money. I agree that people that suffer from insomnia and inability to sleep due to their respected afflictions or disabilities. But I recommend against it unless u can't sleep due to your mind racing or insomnia. This drug has f* over my life I can't have any fun… | M | 23 | 1 years | 8/2/2007 | 1 | Neurologist wanted to cure stutter | I have a severe stutter. The Neurologist kept on increasing the dosage until I entered a drooling vegetative state and could no longer speak at all. Typing became impossible as letter sequences became corrupted. Became suicidal. Slept 18 hours a day. | If you can help it, do not have a quack try this on you. Keep it for your Altzheimer days. | M | 47 | 90 days | 8/2/2007 | 1 | Misdiagnosed bipolar | NEAR DEATH | All these stupid fuking so called 'doctors' who prescribe this shit should give it to their spouses and try it themselves. That would certainly put a fast HALT to the bullshit that comes along with these 'human and chemical experiments.' I am beginning to believe the doctor's have stock in the pharmacy companies. I was misdiagnosed with bipolar when I had just plain depression from 2 very close deaths. Fuk the doctors and their bullshit. This almost killed me. 'Do you hear voices?' that out of control Physician assistant needs a good quick kick in the ass along with the doctors.Proper diagnosis for plain and clear case of death related depression and wrecked nerves are just not out there. Outlaw the doctors from owning stock in these companies and people would be treated right. FOR ALL THE 20-23 yr olds...GROW UP you like to feel stoned! | M | 54 | 2 days | 10/22/2007 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder/Paranoia | This is one of many addictive drugs that are in circulation today with which the effects are completely counterproductive to the problem that you would be attempting to solve by prescribing them. NEVER let anyone tell you that being bipolar is a disorder because it is a GIFT. Mediocre minds work on a scale of good and bad, great minds work on a scale of great and horrible. However difficult this may be for some of you to understand I promise that for every time you feel negative there will be an equal and opposing feeling of positivity if you would just be patient. The purpose of these drugs is not to help you, more so to trap you. In my opinion taking this medecine is just as, if not more damaging to a persons mentality than getting heroin off some street corner, it offers a short term escape route but in the long term it knocks you off track. | I assure you that through a careful recognition of the root of your problems, exercise, healthy diet, vitamin B12, and eliminating from your life people like your psychiatrist will provide for a much more suitable and tolerable approach to a solution. Seroquel much like heroin will only make you even more miserable in the long term and thats if its side effects dont kill you first. DO NOT USE THIS DRUG FOR BIPOLAR. | M | 19 | 2 days | 12/9/2007 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder/ acute psychosis | I experienced about 20 different side effects in the brief time I took this medication. The worst were probably abnormal facial muscle spasms, dizziness/vertigo, confusion, migraines, and feeling really spacey and out of it. | I wouldn't recommend this drug to anyone. It made me feel like crap all day and eventually knocked me out at the end of it. I didn't give it time to control my mania or psychotic symptoms because of the amount of harm that I felt it was causing to my body. | M | 19 | 4 days | 12/9/2007 | 1 | BIPOLAR MANIA | EXTREME WEIGHT GAIN of more than 100 pounds. | Unless you have an extreme medical reason that no OTHER DRUG cannot help, do not take SEROQUEL. With this much weight gain you could literally be killing yourself slowly. | M | 38 | 3 years | 2/19/2008 | 1 | Anxiety | Increased sleep, daytime drowsiness, difficulty driving. The most common side effect for me that I noticed was sedation. My doctor recommended me to take this along with prozac. I am on 100mg of Seroquel for anxiety. Its way to much. I don't enjoy life anymore, sleep way to much and am feeling hungry(eating more) during the day when I'm actually trying to lose weight. This is NOT a good medication if you are trying to LOSE weight. | I would not recommend this medication if you are trying to lose weight. There are others out there. I've been on nearly all SSRI's, SNRI's, and Benzos. Sweroquel is not the drug of choice if your looking for something to help with anxiety/depression. I feel more paranoid on this medication also. Dont start it if you dont have to!!! Educate yourself. | M | 27 | 1 weeks | 3/11/2008 | 1 | insomnia | I took it before bedtime and had extreme restlessness and couldn't lay still, was extremely hungry and had to get up to eat, and it took longer to get to sleep than usual. I eventually did get to sleep and woke up groggy. I reduced the dose and had less extreme side effects but it still made my insomnia worse | M | 40 | 12 days | 2/10/2008 |