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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | depression,insomnia, panic &anxiety | Constipation, dry mouth, twitching of legs at times. | This drug just about saved my life. I was in such a bad place and within 2 weeks I seemed to be much more positive and had my life back again. The positives vastly outweighed the negatives for me personally. | F | 56 | 2 months | 10/29/2008 | 4 | manic-depression | Weight gain and impossible to lose (all around the middle), increased OCD symptoms greatly. 150 mg. Needed to increase dosage 5 times in 8 months because my mood dropped. | It was the best thing to ever happen to my mood. I gained 30lbs, which I hate but I was underweight to begin. At first the benefits to my mood outweighed the side effects. Then the OCD became unbearable and am utterly frustrated with the weight. With the addition of zoloft it may have been okay. I will definately go back to it if I have issues with lamictal | F | 27 | 8 months | 10/30/2008 | 4 | bipolar, ocd, anxiety | sleepiness, dizziness | I take 25 mg in the morning, which is enough to take the edge off my anxiety without making me groggy. At night I take 50 mg to let me sleep. I naturally sleep too long when I'm in a depressive state, and of course it doesn't help with that. Overall, I'd say it's worth it. They put me on 300 mg first, which I couldn't tolerate at all. Once we lowered the dosage, my side affects went away. | F | 23 | 2.5 years | 11/8/2007 | 4 | bipolar type II | Very drowsy at first, could only take it max 1 hour before bedtime, hard to get up in the morning, minor weight gain. | This drug ended my sleeping problems that I was having: disturbed dreams, frequent waking, trouble falling asleep. Also it helped tremendously with my near constant hypomania. However, I began going to work over an hour later than I did before - I just couldn't get up. Started going to bed at 10 pm regularly just to be able to function in the AM. Just stopped taking Seroquel (100 to 150 mg per night) and can't sleep, crazy dreams and nightmares, wake up every two hours, withdrawl is not pleasant. | F | 33 | 3 years | 11/10/2007 | 4 | bipolar | WEIGHT GAIN! I get incredible munchies after I take this medication. My husband finds me in the kitchen at 11:00 pm eating all of his cookies. I've gained 15 lbs in a year. | I have slept really well. They prescribed me this in the hospital where I was being treated for major depression/bipolar. I haven't slept this well in years. I don't have to get up at a set time each morning so I don't know if it would affect me if I worked. I am also taking lamictal, geodon, and lorazapam. I tried all kinds of drugs before and this combination seems to work for me. I've have had "small" manias and a little depression but nothing as serious as when I went into the hospital. Because this combination seems to work for me I'm reluctant to try something else because of the weight gain. My psychiatrist and I have been trying to find the right combination for years since various drugs either stopped working or made me a zombie and increased the mania and depression. I'd never go back on depakote again. | F | 36 | 1 years | 11/21/2007 | 4 | Bipolar disorder | I have dry mouth quite often, and if I don't remember to eat before I take it I get kind of loopy. My major complaint is it increases my heart rate drastically. | It made me gain a LOT of weight! | F | 24 | 3 months | 11/3/2007 | 4 | Racing thoughts/Insomnia | WEIGHT GAIN!!! I gained twenty pounds in a year due to eating cookies from the munchies this med produces! Drowsiness through the next day. | I wish I had known about the weight gain side effect. I have been craving a LOT more sugar since I've been on seroquel. I only take 12.5mg a night, but the risk of diabetes from seroquel still worries me. my new doctor told me i shouldnt be on it because I dont have bipolar, and instead to try ambien. i remember trying it before and felt dizzy and cried, so i want to stick with seroquel. maybe only every other night or so, to see if the weight can be lost! | F | 27 | 1.5 years | 11/21/2007 | 4 | Bipolar I | Very groggy in the morning and find it hard to get up early. Also, if I am forced to wake up too early, I have "waking dreams" with Seroquel...kind of like hallucinations, but more like a dream (except I know I am awake and what I am seeing is not real). I don't dare drive before 10 am. | I take this drug 25mg in the morning and 50 mg at night along with 125mg Lamictal. I used to only be on the Lamictal and became suicidal. In the hospital they added Seroquel to my regimine, and two nights later I woke up laughing in my sleep; the improvement in my mood was incredible in both its degree and its rapidity. Mild weight gain has been an issue, but I now just avoid sugar and simple carbs and exercise more. | F | 40 | 1 years | 1/20/2008 | 4 | Anxiety & Depression | Sleepiness and dry mouth (but both really did stop after 2 weeks). Awesome sleep continued after the sleepiness stopped. | Antidepressants or benzos work by "compensating" (for depression or anxiety or mania). Seroquel works by "normalizing." So at a low dose it works for insomnia and at a high dose, it works for schizophrenia. For me, Seroquel really helped stop suicidal thinking. Since it's great for PTSD, it got me to finally acknowledge and deal with having been an abused child. I never realized how much supressed memories were messing me up every day. I have to credit Seroquel(100mg 2x/day) for giving me the strength to deal with this -- something that years of SSRIs couldn't do. After being on Seroquel for 6 months, I downgraded to benzos for a year and then to nothing. Hopefully I'll continue to stay well. The two biggest problems with Seroquel (my opinion) are: 1) It "turns off" your ability to feel hungry or full, which means that you overeat -- and gain 30 pounds in the process. If you know this -- and can measure portions instead of trusting your | F | 40 | 6 months | 1/20/2008 | 4 | bipolar, anxiety, insomnia | restless leg | This drug has helped tremendously with my panic attacks and depression. I am sleeping through the night consistently. 100 mg a day don't help me sleep as heavily as I'd like, but 200 mg increases the restless leg problem which lasts about an hour before falling asleep. I have not experienced any noticeable weight gain. I have not had as much help with my anxiety and depression as I have had with Seroquel. I couldn't imagine taking more than 200 mg a day, though.. | F | 32 | 6 months | 1/17/2008 | 4 | psychosis, insomnia | i've had the side effects since i first took them. i've been on 300mgs for six years and for me positive benefits far outweighed the negative ones. twitching, jerking slurred speech, totally unable to get out of bed, sugar cravings at night like you wouldn't believe ( i've woken in the night dribbling melted chocolate)electric shocks that can make me drop my coffee. annoying but bearable. | what i'm concerned about is the possibility that seroquel has harmed my daughter. i took the seroquel throughout my pregnancy and i take my full dose all at night, the leg twitching drives me nuts if i take it in the day.when my daughter was born (12 days early by elective cs)she would not feed properly, never more than a ml of milk at a time, she cried constantly developing into an excruciating screams at 3days old. she seemed to be in so much pain, croup and digestion medicines fom the doctor did nothing for her then at about a week old she started to feed properly and got better. could that be withdrawal? the other problem she has is that she doesn't sleep. she is now three and can still be up for 4 or 5 hours a night. she has only slept through the night a handful of times. i've tried all the sleep tactics that have been invented, nothing works. my doctor took pity when she was 2 1/2 and prescribed sedatives. a two week course turned into three months and still she didn't 'learn' t | F | 36 | 6 years | 1/12/2008 | 4 | bipolar 1 mania | Gained 30 pounds in seven months.....enough weight gain that I am going off this drug even though it works. Cravings at night, especially after taking 400 mg dose. 200 in morning. | very happy, but now unhappy about body image! Boyfriend has started hiding food from me. | F | 40 | 7 months | 12/19/2007 | 4 | bipolar/insomnia | WEIGHT GAIN!!!!! Bloated feeling, blurred vision. | Started taking this since I have horrible insomnia. I sleep for at least 12 or more hours! Its hard to get up in the morning and when I do im groggy. Weight gain is minimal but I cant stand looking like im 5 months pregnant due to the bloat and weight. Im scared to come off it due to the insomnia, but Im going to try something else. Im on 100 mgs a night. | F | 25 | 2 days | 3/21/2008 | 4 | bi-polar II | Minor weight gain so far (2-4 lbs or so); knocks me out at night (100mg.) and makes me wobbly for a little while in the a.m. (another 100mg.); major sweet tooth cravings; dizzy when standing up; little bit weak; heart flutters from time to time. | So far, the side-effects don't outweigh the benefits. My psych told me recently that I seemed the most normal and "well" he's ever seen me - after a 100 mg. increase. This drug at this dose has calmed my nerves and helped me focus. I'm also much less irritable and angry. I have tried a number of other mood-stabilizers in combination with Wellbutrin, and this is the only combination that has worked without major, horrible side-effects. My only issue is that I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. I have read others' testimonies and I am concerned that the side-effects I experience now (esp. the weight gain and ravenous cravings) are only going to get worse (my dose went up a lot recently). Sometimes I just want to quit everything I'm taking cold turkey b/c I hate putting serious chemicals in my body to find stability - but I know that's totally irresponsible. This whole treatment thing can really, really frustrate me sometimes. | F | 29 | 6 months | 3/18/2008 | 4 | Insomnia, Depression, Anxiety | A little drowsy in the morning | I LOVE THIS MED!! I never realized what quality sleep felt like until I tried Seroquel. I take 12.5mg before bed and I have never felt better. It also helps with my anxiety, depression and alcohol cravings. And, as an added bonus, I am actually loosing weight!! I have so much more energy so I started running daily with my dogs. They are happier now too:) | F | 27 | 1 months | 3/3/2008 | 4 | insomnia | Drugged feeling the next morning. Gained 15 pounds while on it. | Medicine works great, but gained 15 pounds in 4 months wasn't woth it in my opinion. | F | 33 | 4 months | 4/17/2008 | 4 | bipolar | I didnt notice any symptoms when I first started this medicication. After two months on it the weather became warmer and I began to pass out frequently and was told it was a side effect of the medication - it makes it difficult and sometimes impossible for the body to cool down once it gets warm. | I stopped this medication because my passing out was not a side effect that I could live with. | F | 22 | 2 months | 5/11/2008 | 4 | Bi-polar II | Restless legs and the first night I had a panic attack, but I think it was from reading too many bad side effect reviews. I psyched myself right into a fright-fest. | This forum has so many horror stories and this drug has been great for me. This has truly helped me balance out my emotions and my life. I do have some grogginess, but after about 3 weeks, it lessened. I sleep great now and before seroquel, I didn't sleep, which was leading me into a world of mania (it was still happy mania, but that's a slippery slope). This may not be for everybody, but for some of us, it is great. I am only on 100 mg, which is low. Also, there has recently been an article on anti-psychotics that people should look up: A Conversation With Nancy C. Andreasen Using Imaging to Look at Changes in the Brain By CLAUDIA DREIFUS New York Times September 16, 2008 | F | 39 | 7 weeks | 11/10/2008 | 4 | bipolar, insomonia | bottomless pit for stomach, craving of carbs and sweets, eating in sleep, waking up and finding food wrappers and food particles in mouth, 20 lb. wgt gain in 3 weeks of taking meds. sedation upon taking pm med. | I take 200 mg of at night and 50 mg in the morning. I do get restful sleep at night and am able to maintain alertness during the day. My dreams are vivid but sometimes so vivid that I wake up from them shouting, screaming, yelping or yelling. I don't feel groggy when I wake up in the morning and I am glad to be on the med cuz this is the first time in years that I have felt like I had some good, restful sleep. I do not like the weight gain. | F | 37 | 3 weeks | 11/23/2008 | 4 | insomnia | very hungry, mild trouble waking up. | i am in the army and currently in iraq. i had been having trouble sleeping until i was prescribed this med 100mg. i think it works great! just make sure to keep very physically active or you will gain some weight | F | 26 | 3 months | 11/21/2008 |