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 | Mood Stabilization | none! | This med TURNED MY LIFE AROUND! Thank goodness for Seroquel!!! =) | M | 25 | 1 years | 8/8/2003 | 5 | severe bipolar | sleepiness, tiredness, disorientation and difficulty driving at night. | I take 900 mg at bedtime and I have no cmplaints. It has helped with my insomnia and I am no longer having hallucinations. | M | 30 | 7 months | 2/6/2005 | 5 | bipolar,depression, can't sleep | Slight tremors occasionaly. Absolutely impossible to lose weight. Very pleased with the medication though. I have never been able to sleep more than 4-5 hours at a time. I now sleep 9 - 12 hours. | M | 54 | 1 years | 5/2/2005 | 5 | prenisone anxiety | drowsiness and vivid nightmares when on 25mg.when on one tab. twice a day. | very effective as it calmed the anger associated with taking a high dose of prednisone for multiple sclerosis.i would not take this any longer than 2 weeks because the nightmares are very annoying.this is just to be used for 30 days maximum in my situation.as the prednisone is tapered off,the need for seroquel decreases | M | 58 | 2 weeks | 5/7/2005 | 5 | bi-polar rapid mood swings | wieght loss, sometimes hard to wake up in the morning. | I am now taking 350mg at night and for the first time sice I was teenager I am sleeping 7-8 hrs a night. At higher lvls seroquel cleared my head and I could comprehend stuff much better than I could before. This drug actually has helped me lose wieght by stabilizing my mood swings, so I can focus and carry out an exercise program. The only time I have side-effects is when I drink, thats when I get the muscle spasms and zombie like feeling, but since seroquel stop me from going manic when I drink, I don't see any point in drinking at all. I guess I could say seroquel has helped me kick a very bad drinking problem. This is probably a result of its mood stablization properties, it keeps me from goin manic so I don't get the unbeiliable high I used too when I drank. | M | 30 | 2.5 years | 5/26/2005 | 5 | Sleep and Bi Polar | Dry mouth , and its hard to get out of bed sometimes. | I think seroquel is awesome for sleep! also i feel better about everything the depression has subsided quite well. I took my girlfriend home one night and took seroquel and it is quite scary so be careful. I was almost daydreaming while driving my car back to my house. Looking at the streets and places in town i thought i was back in my home town where i grew up. Almost delusional Seroquel is in a way. It takes about 2hrs to work good and your head starts to tingle and u just pass out really good stuff. My kidneys hurt in the morning because i dont pee and the med may or may not wake u so be prepared to pee like a racehorse. But all in all its awesome , oh and the weight gain is there very little it slows your metablism down a tad just work out a lil bit and your good to go! Great stuff | M | 25 | 6 months | 3/2/2007 | 5 | GOOD WORK SCHIZO MAN | All of the antipsychotics are OUTDATED if they are not in extended realease form. The only drugs your docotor is suppose to prescribe is Invega or Seroquel XR. The other drugs like Abilify, Zyprexa, Geodon and Risperdal are in there old forms and should not be prescribed. They are not effective. | One more step for freedom | M | 30 | 10 years | 5/21/2007 | 5 | Insomnia | I haven't noticed any side effects. | I take it for insomnia and it works great. | M | 42 | 2 years | 5/10/2007 | 5 | bi polar/anxiety/insomnia | hangover (not as bad as an alcohol one) muscle spasms in shoulder strong pulse sweating these aren't as bad as they sound and they come and go- the sleep I get is well worth it. The hangover starts to get less and less each day. I dont feel like a zombie because I've already felt like one from the booze and weed so this is replacing that and is much less zombiefying than walking around drunk + stoned was. | Say goodbye to severe insomnia and also to your morning job. This sht is a freakin heavy duty tranq but you won't hear me complaining about that. Its like a xanax but less of a high, though more sedating, therefore you dont really crave it to party with like you can crave benzos. The hangover is heavier than a benzo but is shorter lasting only 1-3 hours rather than 5-10. Therefore your not trying to hair the dog the bit you with it. I really like how I can maintain self control and only take the required dose for sleep rather than binging a whole months 'script in 3 days like I would with benzos. I ended a 15 year pot habit and 4 year vodka habit with this med therefore i rated it at 5 but would have rated it 10 if i could. | M | 32 | 14 days | 7/23/2007 | 5 | Insomnia(anxeity) | Other then being knocked out cold within 30 minutes of taking it the first week, I've had few (unwarranted) side effects. | Used to have intermitant bouts of insomnia, where I wouldn't sleep or only sleep for 3-4 hours a night for up to a week at a time. Works wonders for insomnia caused by anxeity, have always fallen asleep within a hour after taking 50-150mg. No more racing thoughts, upset stomach, etc.. At a lower dose I will ocasionally wakeup in the middle of the night. Never have had such regular good sleep. Even better is not having withdrawls if I don't feel the need to take it. Now if only I can get off the f***ing klonopin the doc previously started me on. | M | 17 | 1 months | 4/12/2007 | 5 | Bipolar/insomnia | Sleepiness is the only one really. Small weight gain, not much. | 12 months ago, my behaviour was erratic, I had high levels of anxiety and it was very hard to follow my conversations. Since taking Seroquel I have gradually improved to the stage where I am almost symptom free. My dose gradually increased from 25 - 600mg over 12 months. I have had a long history with substance abuse which I believe added to my mental illness. Seroquel has worked absolute wonders in restoring me to a level footing. | M | 28 | 12 months | 4/30/2007 | 5 | OCD | Sleepy, but I take it at bed time. Weight gain - I put on 30lb the first year, but have since taken off 25lb without any real dieting. | Along with Paxil, it has taken away all of symptoms of obsessive thinking and OCD. Can sit and concentrate with out intrusive thoughts. Sleep great every night. I was up to 300ml but am only on 50 now. I will not stop taking either med unless I have to. I finally have a normal life. It's been a great three years mentally. I'm getting divorced and not been depressed at all. | M | 39 | 3 years | 8/9/2007 | 5 | bipolar mania & depression | just extreme drowsiness for the first 3 weeks in the morning, but it wore off throughout the day. | this medicine is awesome. i'm reading all these peoples' comments on here about how seroquel made then sleep for 20 hours a day, blah blah blah, but i don't buy it. did any of you ever stop to think that you're taking TOO MUCH?! i started at 50mg and stayed there for a few nights, then i gave up because the stuff was making it impossible to wake up in the morning. i tried it again a few days later, immediately jumped to 100mg and noticed a HUGE difference. this medicine makes you much sleepier at lower doses. after lithium stopped working, this medicine has been instrumental in helping me regain my sanity and my life back. it's a wonderful blessing, but i just think that those of you who are taking this medicine with other medications probably won't need the 300-400mg the drug company recommends. email me if you have any questions | M | 20 | 6 months | 8/28/2007 | 5 | bi polar, insomniac | heavy hangover effect every morning that subsided after about a week. deep needed sleep. racing pulse during day- subsided. sweating- subsided. gained 5lbs in 1 week (6'3" 162lbs to 167lbs, but this was a plus because I've tried for years to gain weight) better appetite, emotionally i was able to think but my feelings were suppressed, which in my case was a bonus given my temper previous to seroquel use. | This med allowed me to sleep for 8-12 hours, comapared to the usual 3 or none a night. Also allowed me to stop smoking pot (which no longer does much to me) and drinking vodka in excess. So I did not experience a dumb effect (I was already dumb daily from self medication of high grade pot/vodka)I felt clarity after waking up in the morning (which could talke a couple hours from the seroquel sleep) probably which came from not smoking pot or drinking but it was worth it until my insurance wouldnt pay for it then I had to come off it which was depressing so now they put me on zyprexa which is no good for my insomnia but feels like a party drug tome me unlike seroquel where i only craved it at bedtime. | M | 32 | 2 days | 7/12/2007 | 5 | Bi-Polar Disorder | I am currently taking seroquel 1000mg, trazodone 50mg, zoloft 400mg, and xanax or ativan(?) when I need it for panic attacks. I followed my doc's advice and split the dosage between morning and bedtime. I COULD NOT take this approach because I was a walking zombie; and actually this regimen made me even more irritable, agitated, frustrated because all I wanted to do was sleep. The drugs began to severely limit my activities. I have always been an extremely physically active person. I then took it upon myself to try and take everything at once at bedtime, thinking things could not get any worse. I cannot begin to tell you how it changed my life. After a few days of doing this, my thought process COMPLETELY changed. I went directly to sleep,(no dreaming). I was GLAD to be alive, and I found myself not taking myself and others so seriously. I am experiencing a slight difficulty in waking up in the morning; however, I drink one Red Bull when I get up and then it only takes about 3 | I am 42 years old, and I have been diagnosed with BP since 1991, at age 27, I have been on life support twice in my adult life after attempting suicide. This disease cost me 3 marriages, countless relationships, financially broken twice, going from job to job, embarassing myself because I could not control my emotions, and more importantly how my negative words and actions affected other people's lives, an out of control sex life, allowing my personal hygiene to lapse for days, obsessing about revenge, and the list goes on and on. I am not completely cured, nor will I ever be. My new problem was that I thought all I had to do was take a few pills and I would be "normal". Since taking my meds on the schedule above, I can honestly say that I am responsible in controlling my situation: Thinking about saying things versus voicing whatever comes to my mind; putting others first before me, having my mind not racing so much that I can make intelligent decisions in my life, rather | M | 42 | 3 years | 7/14/2007 | 5 | bipolar/anxiety/insomnia | Look, the only one really is a slight fog the next day. I take 900mg at night. | 900mg is a big dose, so how I combat the sedation is by remaining fit. I swear by it! It's important for me to exercise, don't smoke, take omega 3, eat well etc. By doing this stuff, it minimises the unwanted side effects of this drug i.e. too much drowsiness, weight gain etc. At the same time i get the good effects like; lessen anxiety, slower thought processes, definite balanced mood etc. No drug is perfect, but I believe if you throw enough at something, the greater chance of overcoming it. | M | 29 | 12 months | 5/16/2007 | 5 | Bipolar | i speed excessively and want to eat all the time. | Seroquel isn't so bad, i sleep like a baby, and i don't think violent thoughts toward people i don't know. If you can master being hungry all the time, then this drug is amazing. Within the first two months of talking seroquel and zyprexa i put on 30 pounds. After struggling to get into my pants, i decided i'd just have to deal with being a little hungry all day long, its a small sacrifice for its benefits. | M | 21 | 3 months | 6/26/2007 | 5 | Bipolar 2 | Some sleepiness. mild constipation,dryness of mouth,spaciness. | I was started out with Seroquel at 50 mg. Basically I was sinking into the worst depression of my 35 years of dealing with it. I am 55 years old. Finally I went into the MD office and he felt that since my condition was so seriously declined that he felt that the fastest way to help me was to greatly increase the Seroquel. My psychiatrist and I have a 20 year relationship and so he gave me quiet of bit of latitude as to how much I increase the dose. Whether to increase by 75 mg or 200 mg. I chose 200 mg increase to 250 mg. Within the first day I was feeling better. By one week I felt like a new man. Obviously this is the best treatment for me. I now take a total of 300 mg with very little side effects . For the first time in years perhaps decades I feel normal! | M | 55 | 3 months | 10/17/2007 | 5 | anxiety | numbness in arms or legs during sleep, but my anxiety and racing thoughts, which I've had all of my life, totally dissipated. | when I increased dosage, I began to crave carbohydrates and gained 10 pounds in one month. I don't think the drug causes you to gain weight, it's the food you crave and amount you eat because of the drug. | M | 54 | 1 years | 11/1/2007 | 5 | Bi-Polar II; obsessive thoughts | Slight weight gain. Occasional drowsiness in afternoon. Nothing too serious. | After everything else failed, only Seroquel solved my problem. Zyprexa and Risperdal wore off after several weeks. I'm on 600mg temporarily, will soon go down to 300 or so. Without Seroquel, I'd be far worse off. | M | 35 | 15 months | 12/29/2007 |