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 |
| 3 | Insomnia, anxiety and depression | Few pounds in weight gain at first but managed to fight them off with Atkins Diet. Sleepiness long after waking up. Dry skin and corns on my baby toe. Slight sexual side-effects. I take 2x25 mg before bedtime. | It's a great anxiety and insomnia killer. However, my depression stayed firmly in place. I'm hoping to lift this by adding 150 mg Wellbutrin SR which I now feel (day 11) is increasing the anxiety again. May be this is only a side effect of Wellbutrin which will pass?? Anyone who can shed some light on this: feel free to e-mail me! | F | 37 | 5 months | 10/1/2005 | 3 | anxiety, depression, sleeplessness | dry mouth, need to sleep 12 hours per day, possible contributor to weight gain | Drug does help me get to sleep, but I fear that if I were to stop the drug, I would not be able to get to sleep. I take 50 mg per night. Also: very expensive (more than 2 dollars a pill) for those who do not have prescription coverage; there does not seem to be a generic equivalent | F | 24 | 30 days | 5/24/2006 | 3 | bipolar psychosis | Hangover in the morning, very hard to get going. Constipation that just about never goes away. Nightmares, feelings of withdrawl when a dose is missed. Headaches, oh the Headaches! Symptoms of diabetes | Seroquel helps me with my state of mind, but I find myself often times chosing mental health over physical because although this drug works well on the mind, its side effects can be horrible on the body. | F | 20 | 3 years | 12/17/2005 | 3 | Bipolar | Massive weight gain- 40lbs in 5 months. Feel like a zombie within an hour of taking each dose. Makes me jittery once I'm done being sleepy. | It helped my mania but now I'm more depressed than ever before because I've gotten so fat. Very counterproductive. | F | 36 | 6 months | 4/8/2006 | 3 | depersonalization, major depression | Fatigue (major), feeling terrible emotionally and physically soon after taking dose, stuffy nose, drowsiness, sleeping long nights easily (14hrs+), major difficulty in getting up after 7-8hrs sleep (need WAY more), changes in sleep | Seroquel has helped reduce depersonalization (feeling of loss of identity for me) very much in my case. Currently I'm on 400mg a day but have taken 500mg earlier. I simply MUST take the whole dose in the evening because it makes me so tired AND I really feel like crap emotionally after taking it. Sometimes Ive missed a dose or taken only half because I was supposed to get up early. This is not a good idea as my symptoms have worsened. Now I think of taking my meds as top priority, it's more important to take them than making it to school on time. Ive never had insomnia in my life but now it seems that I need Seroquel to sleep. I believe Seroquel also makes my sleep much deeper. When I go to bed I often dont feel like Im falling asleep as much as falling UNCONSCIOUS. Many times in the past (while delirious from exhaustion) Ive been worried that I might not wake up in the morning, because it feels Im going somewhere very deep. Having said all this I must conclude: Seroquel has helped and | F | 23 | 3 years | 4/6/2006 | 3 | insomnia | I experienced some increased appetite at first, but I was heavily anorexic at the time. Since stabilising my eating, I no longer have this problem, especially if I eat something right before taking it. | Regarding insomnia, it's either totally uneffective at 25mg or I find myself not only sleeping at night but sleeping the whole day at 50+mg. I'll purposefully miss activities because I cannot keep from sleeping. Thus, I look at it as a helpful but not so helpful drug. At least I'm sleeping, but the excessive sleeping is keeping me from being productive. I can't even begin to hold down a job, go to school, etc! | F | 25 | 2 years | 1/9/2006 | 3 | Depression, DID, Bipolar | 200mg per night and 50mg 3 times a day: It took forever for me to get up in the morning, and an hour after taking the night time dosage, I'd start hallucinating such as monsters growing from the walls. Hard time with eating disorder problems while on medication. | Went from having thoughts of self-injury on a scale of 1-10 at a 10 to having a 1 or 2. Personalities from the DID don't take over anymore, but still pose somewhat of a problem. | F | 18 | 4 months | 8/26/2006 | 3 | I have Bi-polar ll | This medication is probably one of the best on the market. I now sleep,the anxiety is gone, and I don't have the racing thoughts. Before the drug,I could'nt sleep for weeks and wanted to jump off a bldg because of mania. Three complaints addiction,adiction and all the weight gain, it has put a major cramp in my lifestyle and employment. I now avoid my talent agent because of it, I have gained 30lbs in less than 6 months. I have tried to wean off the drug, but it seems that I was worse off than before starting it, my advice it you is not to get on this drug except for as a last resort, if you thought sleep was impossible before the drug, try to live without it, it seems to alter your body chemistry. I have tried to go back to some of my old drugs as an desperate attempt to live without the seroquel and its side affects, but have found that I am actually more sensitive to former drugs now than before taking seroquel, and I am convinced its because of the seroquel. | I know some of you have a weight gain complaint and some of you don't after taking the drug, but I'll will tell you this, I am a serious hiker,and am always active. I am not one with a big appetite, my caloric intake most days is probably lower than the average person, and I this drug has somehow managed to keep me gaining, slowly, I might add, only because I am so active, but even so I am still gaining. Tomorrow I have an appointment with my doctor, and I will request to be off the drug. I just started lamictal at a low dose of 25mg, can't wait to see results, hear it is a good well rounded drug for Bi-polar patients. HR | F | 36 | 1 days | 9/14/2005 | 3 | insomnia | weight gain. pounding heart at night, which is now permanent. Makes you want to sleep all the time. | I started taking this medication for insomnia. Which, it works great for. but, I would not recommend long term as getting off of it it a nightmare. This medication stopped putting me to sleep when I started taking lithium bicarbonate for anxiety. I stopped sleeping. I went to a sleep Dr. for some new medication and she told me to stopped it cold Turkey, which nearly killed me. She thought I would just go back to sleep in 24 hours which didn't happen. This medication destroyed my ability to be able to fall asleep on own. It putting me in a hyper state of arousal many weeks not sleeping at all sometimes, maybe only getting a few hours a sleep a night if that. Going off cold turkey also messed my brain up making me puck every time I get anxious. I just wanted everyone to know that this is a very dangerous medication. Do the research yourself, many people who get off this medication loose the ability to fall back sleep and have to go back on seroquel with a whole bunch of other drugs. | F | 33 | 3 years 200 1X day | 8/25/2013 | 3 | Sleep | Let me just warn anyone contemplating taking this medication: Seroquel makes you FAT and KEEPS you fat! I started this medication at a size 4 with a 24 inch waist, now, two years later I am a size 10/12 with a 32 inch waist. No matter what I do or how healthy I eat I simply can not drop the weight. I was put on Seroquel as the anti-epilectic medication I take (Lamotrigine) has a rare side effect that unfortunately has affected me. It makes it impossible for me to sleep, so my doctor gave me Seroquel and yes, it does make you sleep like a baby. But it is really not worth it when there are other medications out there. I am now seeing the Dr. to switch medications and discontinue Seroquel. I will wait for three months (after being off of it) and then come back and post my results. In other words, I will let you know how long it took to lose weight after discontinuing Seroquel. | F | 32 | 2 years | 12/8/2005 | 3 | schitzo-effective | HAIR LOSS - I have hair down past my waist that is thinning. I am developing baldness. Have bald spots. I was taking 2,000 mg and have cut down to 200 mg but I'm still experiencing hair loss. Restless legs and dizziness with high dozes. It does help with anxiety and sleeplessness. | Helps with enduring hallucinations, but does not end them. | F | 56 | 3 years | 1/16/2006 | 3 | Depression, insomnia | Sleepy and groggy to the point of not being able to function throughout the day. Appetite increased. Loss of memory. | I take 150mg of seroquel every night and it does help me sleep, i dont wake up every hour anymore. My anxiety has decreased as well. | F | 17 | 2 days | 5/2/2006 | 3 | Depression, insomnia | Sleepy and groggy to the point of not being able to function throughout the day. Appetite increased. Loss of memory. | I take 150mg of seroquel every night and it does help me sleep, i dont wake up every hour anymore. My anxiety has decreased as well. | F | 17 | 2 years | 5/2/2006 | 3 | Bi-Polar & Mood Stabalizer | Weight gain of 75 lbs in 3 years, Extreme fatigue during work, Hard to get up in the morning, Feel like I have a hangover, Can't sleep without it now | If I am having a panic attack or my anxiety is overwhelming, I like the fact that I can "pop a Seroquel" and I'll be calmed down. But there are so many negative side effects of taking this drug that I think I was doing much better without it. I went from weighing 140 lbs to now weighing 215 lbs. I feel I am somewhat "addicted" to it and fear I will have trouble getting off of it. | F | 30 | 3 years | 9/4/2005 | 3 | Bipolar, Anxiety, PTS | F | 29 | 6 months 400 mg | 6/16/2012 | 3 | Anxiety & insomnia. Cope tragedy | I took one at night. Slept 36 hrs. Woke up sick. Then a day later started with half. Slept a day. Couldn't go to work. Then cut the half in half. Days I don't take it I CAN'T sleep. So I try every other day . It's made me a different person . I don't feel love or connection, I don't care about my husband. Or my future. It's really reset my brain. Bow I crave alcohol more & illegal drugs. My life is screwed. I don't care to try another doctor they've all been unhelpful judgemental shrinks. | F | 29 | 2 months 25 | 6/14/2012 | 3 | Bipolar Disorder I | Crave sweets, 5 pounds weight gain, extreme fatigue, constant runny nose, drugged up feeling, laughing spells | My Doctor started me on this drug to help with my insomnia and also with my paranoid thoughts and perceptions. It has definitely helped both of these things, however, it makes me very tired and unmotivated sometimes. This feeling was even worse on the XR version. I feel drugged up (i.e. happy and peaceful) on this. I think its a little too "drugged up." It does help me be able to work through my anxiety which I was not able to before or maybe its just that my anxiety is lessened. I am very unhappy with the side effects though, and also don't like its lack of transparency. I am also taking Lithium (which works well for me) so I am not sure if it heightens any seroquel effects. | F | 33 | 1 months 75 mg 2X day | 3/21/2012 | 3 | Sleep/anxiety | Made me feel a presence of an "Entity", felt as tho boyfriend had someone in room, yet no one was there. Made me paranoid and turned on lights. The other rooms in the house felt as a maze, very deep, and at times un reachable. Seems to be helping me sleep tho. | F | 49 | 10 days 50mg 1X day | 2/4/2012 | 3 | insomnia/bipolar | When i first started taking this drug, i was about 15, and i am now 18. I passed out withing ten minutes of taking seroquel, and i had a hard time waking up in the morning for school. i hated being on medication, especially because there was nothing really visible wrong with me, but my parents forced me to take it. i also felt numb a lot of the time, and there were several nights in which i didnt take my medication and experienced terrible symptoms: fatigue, dizziness, nausea, frequent vomitting, massive headaches, and i constantly slept the next day. it was like a terrible hangover, and i couldnt eat anything. i never had trouble with weight gain, though. granted, it worked for my moods, but i chose to start weening myself off of seroquel about a month a month ago. i went down 25 mg every week, and was okay. i sleep decently still, but i stopped taking it 2 days ago, and i keep getting dizzy and have headrushes. | F | 18 | 3 years 100 mg 1X day | 4/18/2012 | 3 | Bi-Polar | Weight gain Vacant expression Lack of concentration-reaction Make mistakes at work Lack of Libido Overtired Lethargic Lazy | I wish I was me again before my episode 3.5 years ago and was hospitalised and put on Seroquel and Depokate also scared to come off in case I make more mistakes at work and get the sack! what would I do then! | F | 49 | 3.5 years 100mg 1X day | 6/19/2013 |