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 |
| 5 | anxiety | It makes me very sleepy - but I take it at night and for the first time in my life, I sleep thru the night or awaken and can get back to sleep, so the 'side effect' is totally desired. (I take 50 mg.) | It greatly eases my anxiety and this former insomniac can no longer do without it to get thru the night. | F | 50 | 2 years | 10/5/2004 | 5 | depression, mania, schizoid moods | Weight gain. My dreams are so vivid, I feel as though I lead a | The weight gain is tolerable. Better I be chunky and sane rather than skinny and nuts. Never slept better in my life. It's amazing how a regular sleep pattern will greatly contribute to the quality of your life. | F | 31 | 1 days | 10/12/2004 | 5 | bipolar disorder | makes me very sleepy, so only taken at night. When taken on empty stomach, I may experience blackout, no memory of how I got to bed the next morning. I am told I do not act abnormal, I just can't remember anything. Have not had much problem with weight gain. Has helped with moods and biploar disorder. | F | 47 | 2 days | 10/27/2004 | 5 | insomnia | I've experienced no side effects. It makes me tired about 45 minutes after taking it. But I'm taking it as a sleep aid. Also, I haven't built a tolerance. I've been able to lower my doses without weakening the affectiveness of the medication. | Like many others, when my doctor first suggested taking seroquel, I was hesitant. I only new that it was prescribed to schitzophrenics and manics. Being that I am neither, I was afraid to take it. But I desperately wanted to get off of the benzodiazapines, which had all sorts of undesirable side affects. Point being that I am very satisfied with taking seroquel for my insomnia. | F | 23 | 2 years | 10/15/2004 | 5 | schizo-affective disorder | dry mouth. morning sleepiness. | I love this drug. I take 75mg of seroquel with risperdal, gabapentin and effexor. It has given me sleep and serenity. It has been years since I was able to go to bed and feel assured that I would fall asleep and stay asleep. I am calm during the day and social skills have improved. Less anxiety around people. Fewer hallucinations. | F | 47 | 90 days | 6/23/2005 | 5 | Bipolar II | The first couple of weeks I was extremely touchy. I snapped alot, felt very angry. Around the 3rd week I began to feel fabulous. I read all of the comments on sites such as this and began to panic with possibilty of weight gain. I still had not lost all the baby weight. I have actually lost 13 pounds. I quit eating all the time...didn't realize I was eating all the time until Seroquel. It was as if I would "wake" up eating again. There are people who have positive effects. Sorry to those who do not, but those like myself that are initially put on it and panic because of all of the bad results people have had. Others too need to see there are those that are not experiencing all bad things. | I am also on Wellbutrin. That may contribute to my high rate of sucess. I also eat very healthy. | F | 31 | 4 months | 4/19/2007 | 5 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | weight gain, dry mouth | Has worked great in eliminating my paranoid thoughts and delusions. However, I've gained 40 lbs. that I can't loose no matter how little I eat. I tapered off Seroquel once, but my paranoid delusions returned, and I ended up having to go back on it to control the delusions. I did loose weight while I was off of Seroquel but gained it back (plus more) when I started taking it again. I'm thinking about trying to come off of Seroquel again, but am worried about the paranoia returning. | F | 38 | 2 years | 12/6/2004 | 5 | psychosis | very sleepy at first, but this wares off find its best to take equal amounts morning and night i take 200 night and 200 morning | I am very pleased with this drug. no psychotic symptoms and it doesnt give that wierd zombie feeling like other anti psychotic ive tried. Very important to take equal amounts morn and night i tried taking more at niht and less in morning but made the drowsyness LOADS worse but this is completely gone now. | F | 24 | 3 months | 10/7/2006 | 5 | DID and psychosis | very sleepy at first. now i take it to sleep and it works great | i believe it keeps me relaxed enough to fall asleep, but not yet strong enough to keep me sleeping all night. it also really helps with the matrixing and "corner of my eye" shadows. i take 300 at night to relax and make the anxiety a chance to chill out for 8 hours. i also can take 1-100mg for back up if my other panic medication doesnt do the trick. keeps me calm | F | 31 | 2 years | 10/19/2008 | 5 | Bipolar--rapid cycling | None. | I take it with Trileptal and Effexor. I have been in | F | 42 | 2 years | 11/30/2004 | 5 | Major depressive disorder, insomnia | No side effects at all | Seroquel works wonders for insomnia, and seems to boost the power of my anti-depressant. This drug has made all the difference for me. | F | 26 | 2 years | 11/16/2004 | 5 | schizophrenia | I believe I may have had high blood sugar bordering on diabetic condition, however, the schizophrenia was devestating and this was the only drug that helped. | This drug really alleviates the worst symptoms of schizophrenia--nighttime hallucinations (horror images) all but gone. Insomnia gone. Nightmares and vivid dream recall gone. Daytime hallucinations reduced from horror images to | F | 31 | 5 months | 11/15/2004 | 5 | Bipolar | Slight hypotension at times. Sleepiness in the morning if I don't get my 8 hours sleep. (Nothing my coffee addiction doesn't fix.) | I gained like mad on other drugs but luckily this one "fits" my metabolism and chemical makeup fine. My eating habits have returned to normal and no more of the horrible cravings I had with other drugs. I definately feel the most stable I've felt in the 9 years I've been managing it. I am on the lowest possible dosage as well with control to up if needed but I've never felt the need to manage more than it is already. I was next in line for Lithium when I refused, found a new doctor, and found this. Keeping my senses open for any lapses but for now things are wonderfully stable. Anybody up for taking over the world? (*SMILE* Just kidding!) | F | 27 | 6 months | 6/15/2006 | 5 | Abnormal Space cadet | none | this drug put me back on planet earth from space and beyound | F | 32 | 3 days | 1/13/2007 | 5 | Anxiety/insomnia | none | Great med for panic attacks and insomnia. | F | 45 | 1 years | 1/8/2007 | 5 | Anxiety/insomnia | none | Great med for panic attacks and insomnia. | F | 45 | 1 years | 1/8/2007 | 5 | ptsd, anxiety, imsomnia-iraq vet | weight gain! the only bad thing... but now it has gotten depressing. | i started seroquel a few months after i got home from iraq because i could not sleep AT ALL. and the few winks i could find, were torturous. seroquel helped me immensely but since then i have tried other meds cuz i started gaining weight. (over 30lbs to date). i try to think that it is a small price to pay for rest, but i don't know. the latest med they want me to try is ambien, but i know it won't help and then i will have a very bad night! any input on the weight gain part would be greatly appreciated. i don't want to stop taking something that works, but i cannot get any fatter! | F | 30 | 2 years | 1/30/2007 | 5 | anxiety and insomnia | Right before I would fall asleep, I would have the munchies similar to my experience in the past with marijuana. One night, I ate a whole toblerone candy bar in bed before I went to sleep. One morning I woke up and had been sleeping all night in a box of chocalte chip cookies. I felt like it was really affecting my blood sugar and seemed to blur my vision. | I really love this drug. I was able to sleep through the night for the first time in years and years and I think it helped with my depression. I recently went off of it and I'm having a difficult time sleeping, I'll fall asleep okay and sleep well and then be stuck wide awake around 1:30 in the morning and cant sleep for 3 hours. My doctor wants me to use Ambien, but AMbien doesnt work for me at all. | F | 38 | 6 weeks | 1/8/2007 | 5 | Bipolar -Mixed | I was suddenly staying in bed 10 hours and when I woke up I ate everything in sight. But I have a calm inner space . Anxiety is gone and feel being gentle with the world | The seroqul's effect was quick | F | 40 | 3 months | 1/17/2007 | 5 | severe PMS, anxiety | No unpleasant side effects. Knocks me out at night. | Works wonders for me. Really helps with obsessive thoughs and I think it helped my depression too. | F | 27 | 3 years | 3/18/2006 |