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 | Bi-Polar 2; Sleep Disorders; Depres | Side effects are dry mouth an hour after taking it (alleviated by eating a caramel) and rapid heart rate if I drink too much coffee. Some mild free-floating irritation. Some impact on creativity. Small weight gain. | I started taking Seroquel because I was depressed, suicidal, and couldn't sleep without awful nightmares. I would get wildly manic, and then drink alcohol to bring myself down, which started a cycle of heavy drinking and withdrawal. Since I started taking it, my mood is generally sunny, I'm happy for the first time in my life, and I'm more focused if externally structured, although my focus on my days off is still nowhere. My sex drive has increased, my creativity is coming back, and I gained about ten pounds right away, but that's leveled off now. I sleep a solid 6 hours a night, where before it was a maximum of 2 hours. I remember my dreams now, and none of them are nightmares. I have no desire for alcohol, even when it's offered. This has been a miracle drug for me. | F | 58 | 11 months 75 MG 1X day | 1/3/2011 | 5 | Sleep Disorder | Loss of Appetite. Loss of sex drive. | I am overall happy with Seoquel. My sleep has improved. Before Seroquel I had nightime Myoclonus that would wake me up, sleep walking, night time eating, sleep paralysis and I did not dream. I have been on several different types of Atipical Antipsychotice and sleep medicine. I found this to be the best. I no longer have Myoclonus, Sleep walking, night eating or sleep paralysis. And now I actually dream...and love it...I never knew how awsome it was to wake up in the morning and remember in vivid detail, what I dreamt during the night... THANK GOD and Thank You Seoquel! | F | 31 | 3 months 100 MG 1X day | 11/21/2010 | 5 | major depression and OCD tendency | A little groggy in the mornings--I have to make sure I can get enough sleep | I started on antidepressants 27 years ago. I have taken every anti-depressant on the market with limited success. Seroquel was the first drug I EVER took where I noticed a significant improvement. I take Zoloft with it and for the last year or so Wellbutrin as well. But nothing ever helped me like Seroquel did. | F | 45 | 9 years 200 1X day | 1/7/2011 | 5 | Bipolar | None | Ive been taking it on and off but I like that it makes me high and sedated. | F | 18 | 4 years 400 1X day | 2/13/2011 | 5 | Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety | Unlike other "reviews" I've read, I actually lost weight on Seroquel. I take it combined with 400mg of Wellbutrin XL every day and I lost 6 lbs. The drug definitely has helped even out my depressive cycles, but it has made me extremely apathetic to things (i.e. money problems, relationship issues, family issues, work) and has also effected my short-term memory. I cannot remember names of places I've been (restaurants, etc) and occasionally have a hard time with speech (recalling words). | I think seroquel definitely helped save my life- literally, but now that I'm back on my feet I really want to get off of it! | F | 27 | 1 years 50mg 1X day | 5/9/2011 | 5 | Anxiety, depression | None | This medication has not given me any side effects that I have read and heard of. I have neen on Seroquel for about 2 weeks and change. This medication (seroquel 50mg) has helped a whole lot. I take it right after work and it does take a while before kicking in but I am able to function and go to sleep at night. I am glad that I dont have bad side effects I wake up the next day ready to work with out any complications. I have been trying to find some kind of help for years now. I have taken Zoloft and Xanax but nothing. Just recently my doctor gave me Ambien to sleep at night but my anxiety was still the same and my depression. I am currently on pristig and Seroquel and I love it. | F | 29 | 2 weeks 50mg 1X day | 4/27/2010 | 5 | depression/anxiety | Seroquel has been great for me. I take 50mg at night, it helps me sleep and stops daytime tremors. | F | 58 | 4 years 50mg 1X day | 4/29/2010 | 5 | for anxiety, depression | Increased breast size, heart palpitations, some times I get very angry,but it is short lived, problems with spelling | I feel as if I am normal for the first time in about 20 years, my crazy confused thoughts have slowed down and I am able to focus on one topic at a time, I do not have problems with memory loss as I used to. I have had more control of my eating and spending, I can control my impulses. I am keen to start new hobbies, to travel and to spend time with people, and make new friends, before this drug I avoided people and was unable to be in a relationship, I now feel as if I may be able to get back out there and start dating again. | F | 35 | 1 months 75MG 1X day | 5/27/2010 | 5 | Skitzo Effective Bipolar 1 | weight gain....I gained about a hundred pounds over the years but that was not all seroquels fault. Seroquel has helped me live a normal life. I was on 11 psychiatric medications at one point, trying to stop hallucinations, voices, mania and depression as well as mixed episodes and paranoia.... as soon as I started taking seroquel... I started evening out. Its been 7 years since I was in the mental hospital. I now own my own small business and have been doing very well. It did not cure me... but it sure came damn close... especially when it was added with trileptal. The combination was a miracle for me.....but the minute Im off of them all hell breaks loose. 1 down side.... seroquel messes with my blood sugar levels... makes me crave starch very badly, and also messes with my vision. I think it may also screw with my cognition sometimes If I dont get a full 8 hours sleep i can wake up confused. I suggest taking the XR because its much more easily tolerated (for me it was) and it will | Good medication. Helped me a great great deal. Not perfect but it sure turned my life around. | F | 29 | 7 years 150 1X day | 5/27/2010 | 5 | Bi Polar Depression | Only that it makes me tired | I was on put on seroquel because I was so depressed that I could not sleep at all..I started out at 25mg nightly and slowly increased to 100mg nightly..after about a year I went off of it because my symptoms were not as severe..Then a year and a half ago I fell into a really really dark place...I cried for 2 months, hardly ever stoping..and not sleeping at all...maybe an hour at a time..At that time I was diagnosed with bi-polar depression and started on 400mg nightly and honestly it saved my life..I of course got a good nights sleep the first night I took it and very quickly I started to feel more like myself..I stopped crying and started to have a somewhat normal life..My sister-in-law who suffers from depression also said to me "welcome back to the land of the living" the changes were apparent to everyone around me.. I don't think this medication is for everyone, I think it should be evaluated by anyone taking it weighing the good with the bad..Just because it works for some does not mean it will not be the worst medication others have ever taken.. | F | 47 | 3 years 400mg 1X day | 3/26/2010 | 5 | PTSD, Depression, Anxiety | Minor weight loss, some imbalance, odd vision effects, vivid dreams, very sleepy, occasional tics | This drug has made me feel like I am myself for the first time in years. I experienced minor weight loss, like 3 pounds, maybe I will gain weight I don't know, I don't really mind. It gives me the most vivid dreams which I enjoy, though they are strange. I usually remember them very clearly. It leaves me very sleepy, though. | F | 17 | 2 weeks 150 1X day | 3/28/2010 | 5 | I couldn't stay asleep all night. | I don't have any that I know of. | Seroquel doesn't make me sleep. It lets me sleep. It quiets my brain so I can sleep. I don't wake up during the night any more. Before using it, I hadn't had a good night's sleep for years. | F | 59 | 4 years 75mg 1X day | 2/9/2010 | 5 | Bipolar I | Sleepy, hangover, foggy feeling. | I was prescribed Seroquel years ago to help stabilize my mood, but I ended up taking it PRN for sleep when I didn't have to work the next day (hangover effect was wicked). A couple years ago I added it to my mood stabilizer during a particularly nasty manic episode & I LOVE it. It works wonders. I sleep like a baby every night. After the hangover side effect wore off, I know I'll get 7 hours of sleep every night (important for stability). I haven't had a bipolar episode in over a year & I think it has a great deal to do with seroquel(plus my tegretol & intermittant prozac...and staying med complaint for once in my life). Depending on where my mood is going, I take between 200-400mg nightly. I do have to stop using it for 1 & 1/2 months a year due to being on call for work b/c I will not wake up if I have taken it. I have a constant headache for that time & I can't sleep well. Otherwise, I love it. | F | 27 | 4 years | 2/3/2010 | 5 | Bipolar 2 - fibromyalgia | Weight gain, sleepiness | I was on this medication before, during another med induced mania. It was a life saver, but long term, I was not pleased with the rapid weight gain. This time, however, my doctor is having me take pepcid ac with it to control the weight gain which seems to work. I ended up in a med induced mania while trying cymbalta for fibromyalgia. I had the worst pain and wanted to try anything to get out. The cymbalta did not work and put me in a mania. Immediately, I went on seroquel to combat this, as we knew it worked. Within days, the pain was gone. I stopped taking it for a few days, the pain came back. Started taking it again, pain is gone. I am now experimenting with lower doses to try to get what works best for pain management with the lest side effects. I feel I stumbled into a life saver, and it's something I'd like to share for others who may be having issues controlling fibro pain that nothing is working for. Worth talking to your doc about giving it a try. | F | 33 | 1 months | 1/28/2010 | 5 | Schizoaffective/Schizophrenia | Increased Appetite, fixed by adding Topamax, so now I have no side effects. | This medicine helps me so much. I am also on Risperdal Consta Injections and taking this medicine helps keep me from noticing when the Injections wear off. I feel great all the time. The increased appetite was helped by the doctor adding Topamax to my medications (also helps with my mood). Seroquel helps me sleep at night and doesn't make me tired the next day. I haven't felt this good since I was 5 years old. | F | 22 | 2 months 700 MG 1X day | 7/26/2010 | 5 | Severe mental disturbances | I am a little more hungry, but I can control that sort of thing so I know it will not be an issue. | This saved my life. After my brother was brutally murdered in a home robbery I basically went nuts. I lost it completely, could not hang on, yelled and cried, cut myself, grinder my fists into concrete, bad shit. Seroquel stopped it. It stopped the visions of my dead brother, it stopped the auditory hallucinations of the phone call from my mom telling me that my brother had been shot dead. I am so grateful for this medicine, without it I would be institutionalized or dead. | F | 23 | 4 days 200 1X day | 8/5/2010 | 5 | bi polar | it is wonderful to experience deep sleep. | F | 46 | 300 1X day | 6/29/2010 | 5 | Bi-Polar II w/Pyschotic Tendencies | A little twitchy- But only noticeable to myself. No weight gain, no increased appetite, no high cholesterol, no TD, no headaches, no insomnia, no bad side-effects at all. | Seroquel has greatly improved my existence. I no longer have hallucinations, delusions, depression, insomnia, nightmares, or suicidal thoughts. Since Seroquel came into my life I have been free and easy to live life to it's fullest. I believe Seroquel, combined with my morning dose of Paxil 20mg has saved my life. As someone said before, Seroquel puts my demons to sleep. <3 | F | 20 | 2 years 25 MG 1X day | 6/16/2010 | 4 | Bipolar, OCD, BDD, Insomnia | Drowsiness, Increased Appetite | I think that this drug has helped me greatly in overcoming my BDD, and it totally levels out my moods, but I never really feel any intense emotions... It's not helping with the OCD part, if anything it's made it worse. But I no longer freak out in situations I can't control. I'm just more organized if anything. It helps with my lack of sleep, it's easy for me to get 8+ hours a night when before I started taking Seroquel I slept maybe three hours a night if that. It does take me awhile to actually get up and function in the morning when usually I'd be up and fully alert within a minute. No weight gain as I'm good at managing my weight, but I do feel hungry ALL THE TIME. But self control helps, lol. | F | 16 | 6 weeks 100mg 1X day | 6/29/2010 | 4 | Insomnia | wt gain 60 lbs, hi cholesterol | F | 59 | 3 years 400 mg 1X day | 6/10/2010 |