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 |
| 1 | bipolar | vivid dreams | scary, almost full blown violant manic dreams that kept affecting my thoughts the next day..horrible medication, will never try it again for depression. | F | 43 | 4 days | 3/2/2009 | 1 | bipolar | its the first day i take it....and the LAST one!!!!!! i am totally zombie....i dont feel in the reality.... so,weird! i took only 50 mg...i should take another one tonight,but NOOOOOO! finish for me...its scary! i take 600mg of lithium,2mg of xanax,7.5 mg of immovane.... my doctor is trying to find the good treatment for me...its been 2 years now!!!!!! | F | 31 | 1 days | 3/14/2009 | 1 | Bipolar1 | Went from 110 to 168 lbs, on 500mg- Exercised daily, and ate 1 Lean Cuisine & one low-fat yogurt/day. | I got off Seroquel about 1 mo. ago, taking Geodon now, no changes in my activities, have lost almost 8 lbs! | F | 39 | 5 years | 3/20/2009 | 1 | Bi Polar Disorder | I am currently taking 400mg at night and have been for 4 years. I have lost a lot of my hair.gained about 40lbs around the stomach and suffer from daytime exhaustion even after sleeping for 15 hours. I also suffer from blocked nose at night and wake in panic when I can't breath. I have no libido at all.Since reading many of the comments on the site and seeing how similar they are to mine I have decided to wean myself off of this drug. I have not had a manic episode in 4 years but attribute this more to the lithium than the seroquel | This is a serious drug and Doctors should give more information of the side effects before dispensing. | F | 4 years | 3/18/2009 | 1 | insomnia anxiety | Became color-less & out of it most of the day. Unable to wake up at normal hours. Binge eating at night. Gained 16 lbs in 4 months. | Coma like sleep. It never occurred to me that this drug caused eight gain. It's a good drug if you only sleep or eat when you are not sleeping! | F | 41 | 4 months | 7/14/2008 | 1 | sleep problems due to cronic pain | Extreme sleepiness during the day, felling tired always, hunger comes from felling tired, therefore, you want food to give you more energy. Just felt generally awful. | A very nasty drug. I would not recommend it to anyone. | F | 6 months | 2/28/2009 | 1 | depression and bipolar | EXTREME weight gain especially in the stomach. High trigylcerides/cholesterol. I loved initially how it got me to sleep and quieted my mind like no other drug out there. However, I did find myself sleepy throughout the day and was difficult to wake unless I got 10 hrs. of sleep. Yes...ten hours. Avoid this like the plague. | Do not take unless it is a last resort...like institutionalization. You WILL get fat and your lab results will show how unhealthy you have become. You will crave carbs even in the middle of the night. I gained 30+ lbs. on this drug. | F | 43 | 5 years | 1/30/2009 | 1 | Insomnia | Extremely tired, but NOT at night after I took the med... it was during the day (which obviously makes sense since I didn't get any sleep), but this medicine would make me groggy and tired, yet I still couldn't fall asleep. Horrible. | It just plain and simple did not work for me. | F | 20 | 2 weeks | 1/31/2009 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder | RLS, dry eye, dry mouth, severe weight gain, severe grogginess, rapid decline in vision | This medication makes me eat everything in the house! I have gained 80 lbs on it over the years. If I go into a manic and stop taking it, I always lose 20 lbs within 2 weeks. It is supposed to help me sleep, but as the months go by, the sleep is cancelled out by the horrid RLS. I have mentioned all of these effects to my Psyc. and family MD, but neither of them thought it was a big deal and insisted I stay on it. I hate it now. If anyone has a refil for it soon, I suggest to get the manufacturers sheet that comes with the stock med. bottle (NOT the pharmacy print out) and read the effects...it is terrifying. The only reason I still take it is on the off chance of sleeping and when I do not take it, I get very dizzy and get migraines. I have an MD appt. in Feb. I am going to MAKE them take me off of it. BTW, if you are taking this, it is recommended that you get checked every 6 mths for cataracts, triglycerides, and diabetes! With the way this stuff makes you eat, no wonder people get d | F | 26 | 7 years | 1/5/2009 | 1 | Bipolar disorder | Horrible. I have tried lamictal and abilify. I am 61 years old, had OCD since age 12. Have been taking Prozac with complete success for 25 years. Started crying or feeling eurphoric. All of these meds have made me feel like I am no longer me and I hate it. Seroquel does make me sleep great but I'd rather cry all the time and feel like me than this other person. I feel like I am becoming unconscious. I'm off of these now, too, effective tonight. I believe this is my third bipolar episode. Had one 10 years ago. I started taking 2 Prozac instead of only one and it happened. This time my psychiatrist told me to take 2 again for the depression and constant crying, I told him I couldn't and he told me to do it anyway. Big mistake. Prozac is my "get out of jail free" card, and I won't do without it but the seroquel is horrible for me. I only took 25mg last night. I was perscribed 100mg, then he decreased it to 75. I decreased it to 50, then 25, and now zero. | Makes me feel unlike myself. | F | 61 | 15 days | 1/1/2009 | 1 | Insomnia-PTSD | First month was fine. No severe side effects, however did not really help my sleep or constant awakening. By month 3, this drug combined with Lexapro put me in drug induced diabetes and I had gained 40 lbs! | For some this works great. Mentally wise, I have no complaints. But be wary if you have weight problems (easily gain weight, overweight or are on other drugs that slow your metabolism). It is only one month I have been OFF seroquel and even though I have been following a medically prescribed diet to the letter my blood sugar is still very high. Have your labwork done monthly! The weight gain and diabetes was not worth it to me. | F | 44 | 4 months | 12/20/2008 | 1 | anxiety | Sleeping excessively, drowsiness, memory wierdness, disorientation | I was taking it for anxiety and sure it made me not anxious, because I was asleep. I can't sleep all day. And even after I woke up I'd still be drowsy for the day | F | 21 | 6 months | 11/11/2008 | 1 | Severe Depression and Anxiety | MAJOR WEIGHT GAIN. I wasn't overweight when I started taking Seroquel, and never had been, but it put 100 POUNDS on me within 12-18 months! I'm not kidding. | The 100 pound weight gain from Seroquel has been devastating to me. I want to hide in my house so that people won't see me. It has caused me to have GERD (gastro-esophogeal reflux disease) where I've had to have two operations where they've put a camera and a scope down my throat. Acid reflux was causing erosions in my esophagus (all because of the weight gain due to the Seroquel). And then I developed severe sleep apnea, once again due to the horrific weight gain due to the Seroquel. I had two polysomnographies and I would stop breathing 1,000 times a night. I now have to breathe with a CPAP machine forcing air down my airway at night so that I don't stop breathing or have a heart attack. I can barely move now-- getting up and down from bed or a chair and even walking a few steps is very difficult. I can't clip my own toenails or shave my legs or put on my shoes because of the terrible weight gain due to the Seroquel. I live in fear of developing heart disease and diabetes. | F | 41 | 2 years | 1/31/2008 | 1 | bi polar/ insomnia problems | The very first night I took this it immediately knocked me out. The next morning I literally could not lift my head off of my pillow and I was drooling. I could not get out of the bed to go to the bathroom until noon and then everything was slow. I spent 2 days in the bed behind one of these dangerous little pills. | I think this medicine could be very dangerous and when I told mey doctor how this medicine had me " paralyzed" she said she had never heard of anyone having this experience before. | F | 28 | 1 days | 2/11/2008 | 1 | Panic Disorder/Anxiety/Bipolar | Excessive sweating, suicidal ideations, crying spells, stoned feeling, anxiety | I stopped taking this drug two nights ago and I still cannot stop sweating. It's awful. I sweat when I am sitting, doing nothing, wearing nearly nothing. I can't stop. This drug, along with pretty all the rest of the prescribed medications for these disorders, are nothing but terrifying. Seroquel in itself has 1665 side effects recognized by the FDA. It is also addictive, which is something I was never informed of. This drug did nothing but horrify me, so it absolutely did not help with my panic. It made me suicidal, so it absolutely did not help with depression. I suggest finding another option if you have any kind of nervous disorder. We are patients, not lab rats. | F | 24 | 2 weeks | 2/12/2008 | 1 | Bipolar | Depression | I felt like I was on a horse tranquilzer. The first day I took it, I was totally out. I stopped it after that day. | F | 22 | 1 days | 2/23/2008 | 1 | Bi-polar II | DON'T TAKE!!! Anger, agitation, 2-3 hour crying spells like I've never had before. You will turn into someone else. Not cool. | Seroquel made me psychotic (ironically), and that's on the lowest dose! Please hear me out as I have a MA in Psych. and I am like you, off the bell-curve with supposed "Bipolar II". I've given this drug 3 chances the last 6 mo., & have not been able to take it. After drowsiness wears off, agitated in bed, angry, have 2-3 hour crying spells, and this last time at 3:30 a.m., had to get out of bed and hit my pillow against the wall because of anger and agitation. This is not like me!! My Bi-polar symptoms are quite different than this. I have never done this before and it happens when I take seroquel. People, please be careful! Be yourselves without taking drugs. Just because we don't conform to the norm in society doesn't mean we are not healthy or that we need fixed. There are no medical tests to prove "mental disorder". Be your creative unique selves w/out thinking you need to be a 9-5 M-F person. I'm done with pcyhiatric meds. Interesting how anti-depressant | F | 33 | 1 weeks | 2/5/2008 | 1 | bipolar 11 | within half hour of taking the smallest dosage 25mg I was completely knocked out as if I had taken a tranquilizer meant for a very large animal!! I even cut that dosage by half and the same happend so I stopped taking it after a few days. If you want to sleep most of the time and then walk around like a zombie? then fine, but i actualy want to have a life. | F | 39 | 4 days | 3/20/2008 | 1 | Depression | Slurred speech, drunk feeling, made me feel like I was spinning, made me scared, therefore more anxious so did not help with sleep. This drug terrified me!! | I took 25 mg of this last night, which I believe is the lowest dose you can take. I have never felt so weird in my life. Now it is almost 12 hours later, and I am finally feeling normal. Scary drug--please find another option. | F | 37 | 1 days | 1/4/2008 | 1 | inappropriate bipolar diagnosis | severe constipation, jittery feeling, very dry eyes and mouth/throat | I was prescribed 600 mg per day just because of one manic session - which is way too much esp. considering my weight, 100 lbs. I have never had a problem with constipation, but it was so severe it took a lot to get back on track. Be careful about taking this medication especially if you already are susceptible to sinus or eye problems (my eyes still seem effected). Also, it is bad for anyone with restless leg syndrome or other preexisting conditions. It did help me sleep but that is all, otherwise it made me feel jittery and unstable. | F | 52 | 45 days | 1/4/2008 |