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 | severe manic depression, insomnia | state of being paralyzed, muscle spasms, involuntary movements, lost in my own little world | I would so NOT recomment this to anyone. It felt like I was paralyzed and had no control over any motor skills. I couldn't think straight. Still even now my arm will jerk, or my leg, or my shoulder. Everything and anything. People have to ask me what is wrong with me. Seroqual. For the manufacturer..... thank you. I lost my husband, he was 33 years old and he died in my arms 5 months ago. So I say thank you for adding to my problems and severe grief. | F | 34 | 1 months | 3/25/2006 | 1 | Severe clinical depression | Strong sedative effects resulting in difficulties rising in the morning and daily somnolence (sleepiness), and an inability to concentrate or focus on the job at hand - Dizziness, and postural hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure) - Increased agitation, and some paranoia - Rapid weight gain (from 70kg to 94kg!), particularly around the midriff, which increases the risk of Type II diabetes (I am currently undergoing tests with my GP to check this) - Dry mouth with increased thirst and fluid intake (also a sign of diabetes) – Markedly increased suicidal tendencies, where previously there were few and they were minor. | I hate this drug as it has far too many side-effects for me. My partner told me months ago to get off it, and he was right. I am now much more clear-headed and can concentrate at work again (I am a university scientist and need to be able to concentrate). I look back at 2005 as though I am looking into a fog. Not good! | F | 43 | 15 months | 2/7/2006 | 1 | Serious Depression | Mood swings resulting in increased depression | This drug is the worst thing I have ever seen. Please, do not allow you or a loved one to take this drug. My mother took it as perscribed and without warning had a depressive mood swing resulting in suicide | F | 53 | 3 months | 9/8/2006 | 1 | Bi polar / insomnia | Weight gain, extreme tiredness, heart racing and palpitations, withdraw symptoms do horrible that my doctor thought it was more safe to take the drug then to stop it, no sex drive, back pain, no drive in life, overall felt very unhealthy. Sleeping issues. | F | 28 | 10 years 300 mg | 5/14/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Horrible nightmares. I wake up feeling like I am coming out of a terrifying situation every morning but have no real memories of what the situation is. It's just the worst experience I've ever been through. Except for not sleeping for nights at a time. Also I have no memory and am drugged feeling all day. After I take it at night it makes me higher than a kite. I am sure some people would pay for such a high. I can't stress how horrific I feel waking up after this drug. Also I sweat and the smell is awful. And my muscles are so tight in my neck all the way down my back that I can't move my head.b | Before this drug I was complaining that I never ever dreamed. I would love to never dream again after this experience. I was on about a year ago and went off of it because of the horrible dreams and terrors upon waking. They never went away after quitting for at least a year. So I decided to try it again for sleep. Biggest mistake. 25 mgs were pretty hard to get off of. I don't know how I'll get off of 50 mgs. It seems certain that the drug has already affected my brain chemistry and the effects are permanent. That is disturbing to me. Seroquel has totally changed my life for the worse. I don't mean to seem dramatic but sometimes I'd rather die than go to sleep knowing the way I'm going to feel when I wake up in the morning. I'm so doped at all times that it's even hard for me to write this. I keep losing my thoughts. I have a business to run and this state of mind is not ok. I know that everybody is different but I can't imagine what it must be like to be taking a high dose of the stuff. Also, my body has built a tolerance to it fast. I started on 25 mg a month ago and am already up to 50 mg. I wish that when I went off the 25 mg a year ago I would have never touched the stuff again. It was pretty hard coming off 25 mg. another concern I have is that doctors are pushing this drug like crazy. I know a lot of people who have taken it or are taking it for various, mostly off label reasons. In my opinion seroquel is a nightmare. Literally. | F | 43 | 4 weeks 50mg 1X day | 8/15/2012 | 1 | Depression, Bipolar | Tired, very stuffy nose shortly after taking, possible weight gain. | Was prescribed to help stabilize my mood and lift me out of depression. Did not help. Started at 50 or 100 then increased to 200. Made it uncomfortable to sleep as it made my nose so stuffy I couldn't breathe out of it. Felt tired on it. Started eating more and eating unhealthy foods and gained 10 lbs while on this drug. | F | 22 | 1 months 200 1X day | 6/20/2012 | 1 | Anxiety | Memory loss, shortness of breath, unbeatable fatigue, twitches | I sat and watched my roommate get beaten up by her significant other and could not get off of the floor. I couldn't move because I thought my heart was going to explode from just getting out of bed and walking 10 ft to the living room. If you want zero control of your body and a helpless feeling in the middle of the night, take this medication. I also hit a parked car while driving and trying to make it to class, because the serequel made me so groggy. I wake up, do what I HAVE to do, and then fall asleep by 5pm. Found out how outrageous my dosage was from a nurse friend, an immediately stopped taking the mess with much consequence in side effects. It has been six years since I have taken serequel and I am just now feeling normal. | F | 29 | 1 years 250 1X day | 2/22/2012 | 1 | Sleep problems | Weight gain, vision problems!! | Seroquel has been extensively linked to the same severe visual side effects as the older typical antipsychotics (such as Thorazine.) It is not safer than those older drugs were. All you have to do is go to www.pubmed.gov and look up "quetiapine AND visual side effects" to find out some of the terrifying facts. This is a VERY dangerous drug and there are safer ones!!! | F | 42 | 3 years 25-200 mg. 1X day | 3/29/2012 | 1 | Bipolar and insomnia | QT Prolongation. | How could a drug company in good conscience produce a drug that could cause such a fatal side effect? | F | 54 | 9 years 300 mg 1X day | 11/16/2012 | 1 | Depression, opiate withdrawal | Racing heart, pressure on chest, headache, nausea, EXTREME constipation. | F | 31 | 2 weeks 300mg | 4/27/2013 | 1 | suppossed bipolar manic | caused QT prolongation, severe arrythmia, had to have heart defibrullated. Doctors don't care prescribed to me again in emergency room, of course I didn't fill it. Caused me to have weight gain problems, had to take more blood pressure meds because of it, memory problems permanently from it. | I was told by another pissed off psychiatric abuse survivor, it's the elephant tranquilzer. I've had nothing but side effects from 4 different kinds of bipolar, I refuse all psychiatric meds, they can fly men to the moon, do heart surgery by robots, but, they can't make drugs without horrible side effects. I am now a member of mindfreedom.org. I told the psychiatric to practice medicine on himself, and when he almost dies, see how he feels about taking more psychiatric drugs. I am not popular in the mental health field, and I don't care! | F | 60 | 3 months 200 1X day | 9/6/2012 | 1 | depression major | im getting high sugar my mom has diabetes type 2 | F | 13 years 50mg at ni 1X day | 8/30/2012 | 1 | Anxiety, depression, insomia | First dose made me a zombie - a literal zombie the day after. I could not make sense of words to read, I couldn't do basic math, I felt like I wasn't even living in my body. Then the WORSE side effect started - severe leg cramps. My leg muscles were so tight and I was in so much pain I spent most of the night after I took the second dose crying in pain and ended up having a panic attack. | Called the doctor in the AM, he told me to stop immediately and phoned in a muscle relaxant for me. Worst drug reaction I've ever had, even worse than an antibiotic that made my face swell. I now list this among my allergies. This drug may be good for some people but I really think this is prescribed far too freely considering the side effect profile and really should only be restricted to people who have ACTUAL mania and psychosis. | F | 32 | 2 days 50mg 1X day | 9/12/2012 | 1 | Bipolar | See Additional Comments regarding NY TIME ARTICLE posted JULY 28, 2011 | July 28, 2011, 5:50 PM AstraZeneca Settles Most Seroquel Suits By DUFF WILSON The British drug maker AstraZeneca has settled in principle nearly all of the American product liability lawsuits over Seroquel, its blockbuster antipsychotic drug, the company said in a quarterly earnings report on Thursday. All but 250 of the 28,700 cases have been settled, most with written agreements, AstraZeneca said in the securities filing. It had previously reported settling most of those cases, but the new filing showed how far the company has whittled away at the remaining product liability litigation. Last quarter, it had reported 2,600 outstanding cases. Most of the plaintiffs argued that they had been misled about the risks of diabetes and weight gain caused by Seroquel, the company’s second-best-selling product with $5.3 billion in worldwide sales last year, behind the cholesterol drug Crestor. In the filing on Thursday, AstraZeneca said it added $55 million last quarter to the previously reported $592 million set-aside, for a total of $647 million to settle the litigation. “Is it a good move?” said Les Funtleyder, health care analyst for Miller Tabak. “Yes, anytime you can settle these suits, it’s good.” The set-aside includes the $68.5 million that the drug maker agreed to pay in March to 37 states, settling charges that it had illegally marketed Seroquel. AstraZeneca also had to pay $520 million last year to settle federal inv | F | 43 | 60 days 150 1X day | 9/5/2011 | 1 | Insomnia | Extreme drowsiness (spent 12 hrs in bed), serious case of the munchies, had blackouts before falling asleep, talked in my sleep everynight, felt like a zombie the next day, extreme lightheadedness & dizziness (everytime I stood up). | I fainted in public twice (in the afternoon) after taking seroquel. I was rushed to the emergency room bc I had extremely low blood pressure from this drug. I'm not a fainter normally, so I know it was the seroquil. I wouldn't recommend this drug bc it is dangerous. After you take it, you don't know what you're doing or saying, you need to go to sleep & stay in your bed or you might pass out while standing up. Dont take seroquil!!!! If you do PLEASE BE CAREFUL!!!!!!!!!! | F | 29 | 2 months 100-300mg 1X day | 9/19/2011 | 1 | Doctor forced me to try it. | I'm a 72 year old grandmother with a history of major depression since age 19. I was basically manipulated into taking this drug at the Kaiser Permanente clinic. I had a very severe cognitive breakdown that was absolutely terrifying. I could not think of the simple first names of three people in my neighborhood. I felt as if I could not organize the words as they flowed out of my mouth. This was absolutely the worst reaction to any medication that I had ever taken. My "prescribing" psychiatrist has been on me to try different drugs for years. My original diagnosis was clinical depression, and I was taking Pamelor. One day, he changed my diagnosis from "mood disorder" to "Bipolar 1 Disorder" and basically railroaded me into the hospital. It was breathtaking. Two other psychiatrists tried to commit me, but the court officer dismissed the case. This case will go down in my history as I try to amend, redact or even SEAL the whole experience because of mistak | This drug will be added to my allergies. As a matter of fact, I have decided that most of my life is working quite well, and I do not plan to try any other drugs until I figure out how I can make behavior therapy work better for me. | F | 72 | 1 days 90 mg 1X day | 7/17/2011 | 1 | Bipolar 1 | Had a horrible paranoid/suicidal reaction to this med within just a few days. Will never take it again. | F | 29 | 1 weeks 25 mg 1X day | 11/9/2011 | 1 | depression | Seroquel has made my life miserable. I had the worst leg pain that kept me from sleeping altho I walked around like a zombie trying to stretch or walk around while experiencing this leg pain. I no longer take this medication. Haven't had the leg pains at all... | F | 40 | 400 MG 2X day | 11/3/2011 | 1 | Sleep only | Severe memory impairment. When I visit the neurologist he may well diagnose me with early onset Alzheimer's. Certainly I am as forgetful as patients with Alzheimer's. | Avoid this medication at all costs. Trazedone would be a better choice for a sleep aid. It's an antidepressant with sedating potential. Another problem with Seroquel is that is potentiates any other medications you may be taking. This means that Seroquel literally strengthens these meds. Health Canada has an alert for physicians/psychiatrists prescribing the med: "Don't give it to elderly patients." I read repeatedly that Seroquel messes with one's working memory. | F | 51 | 50 mg 1X day | 11/18/2011 | 1 | Bipolar | Horrible dry mouth with gagging and hackiing coughs - in the day time and waking up like this at night. | I am also very concerned about hair loss. With the under addressed "dry mouth" gaging/coughing day and night disruptions and disturbancess the "cure" is worse than the illness. | F | 61 | 24 months 200MG 1X day | 11/16/2011 |