SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)

Average Rating: 2.9 (1505 Ratings)

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SEROQUEL  (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE):  This medication is used to treat certain mental/mood conditions (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, sudden episodes of mania or depression associated with bipolar disorder). Quetiapine is known as an anti-psychotic drug (atypical type). It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain. This medication can decrease hallucinations and improve your concentration. It helps you to think more clearly and positively about yourself, feel less nervous, and take a more active part in everyday life. It may also improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level. Quetiapine can help prevent severe mood swings or decrease how often mood swings occur.   FDA Approval Date: 2005-10-04 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.)
5=HIGH (this medicine cured me or helped me a great deal.)

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RATING  REASONSIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUELCOMMENTSSEXAGEDURATION/
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 3  insomnia, anxiety/panic Really bad restless legs for an hour or so after taking drug. Also, I ate everything in sight! I was a complete mess going through a divorce. I couldn't get out of "the bad place" (like lying on my bed crying for 2 hours or wanting to all the air out of his tires). I'm on 37.5mg Effexor, 1-2mg clonazapam/daily, 10-20mg ambien, 0-1.5mg xanax/daily, 0-50mg trazadone/daily for long term anxiety problems, and the seroquel really helped get me "over the hump" emotionally. Only took it for a little over a week, but its like a heavy duty valium. F 30 10 days
3/5/2007
 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
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 3  Depression It made me calm and not depressed anymore. The cons i had was bad dreams.I had two dreams in one week about close family members dying. I stop taking them.I didnt like waking up with those horrible dreams. F 31 10 days
50
11/19/2014
 2  Depression & Anxiety. laziness, lack in motivation and ambition, No sex drive, very sleepy, tired all day, rage, intense anxiety, passive, experienced bipolar type symptoms. About one hour after taking it (at night) I got very sleepy, but within 2 hours later the sleepiness wore off. Helped me sleep through the night, but if I didn't get a full 8-10 hours of sleep I could not function during the day. Even when I did sleep my 10 hours at night, I was groggy and out of it during the day, then get hyper at night. Had no motivation to do anything, When I woke up in the morning I was starving for Junk Food, but that wore off and I lost my desire for food. Lost a couple pounds not even trying, (& I'm already pretty small). Sometimes made me so passive, I would hardly react to anything. The WORST part was the intense amount of RAGE this medicine gave me, I got angry and aggressive, and pissed off very easily, it was very scary to experience. No sex drive what so ever! F 24 10 days
9/6/2008
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 1  Anxiety, Depression, Bi-Polar Get off this medicine!!! I took it for 10 days and it made me feel completely lethargic, lightheaded, dizzy, short-term memory loss, and completely tired. I felt like a complete zombie. I could not concentrate, could not walk straight, I could not even function as a normal human being. I had constant pain in my arms and fingers. Violent mood swings where I was happy one second and crying the next. I have absolutely no sex drive. Tunnel vision. And although it might not be related, I got a urinary tract infection right after starting the med, even though very few men get UTI's. This is the worst drug I have ever taken in my life and I do not know how it was ever approved by the FDA. M 22 10 days
5/6/2009
 1  Bopolar disoder Loss of vision; hallucination; loss of taste. Couldn't function and slept all the time. Loss memory and loss counts of days. Worst drug ever. Don't ever take. Don't ever let doctor prescride. F 10 days
300 mg
9/29/2014
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 1  depression Slept but turned into a zombie. Couldn't stop pacing. Dark, disturbing, violent thoughts. Nurse-practitioner seemed to be in love with this drug. I asked for an antidepressant but she refused to give me one and insisted that I take Seroquel. When she saw that it wasn't working she insisted that I increase the dose. Had my husband give me more and more until reached maximum dose. Ruined my life totally for 4-5 years, even though I took it for only 10 days. F 74 10 days
30 mg. 1X day
7/5/2021
 4  depression, unusual thoughts, extreme sleepiness, skin rash F 23 11 days
5/29/2007
 3  Psychosis Stuffy nose, sinus-like. Emotional block. Mental block. Stiffness. Sleep forever. Slows down thought processes. Very dumbening. Erases inspiration. Indiscriminate effects, it blocks both psychotic and normal thoughts alike. It has a chemical holocaust effect, and totally obliterates the mind. F 27 11 days
6/30/2007
 3  Psychosis Stuffy nose, sinus-like. Emotional block. Mental block. Stiffness. Sleep forever. Slows down thought processes. Very dumbening. Erases inspiration. Indiscriminate effects, it blocks both psychotic and normal thoughts alike. It has a chemical holocaust effect, and totally obliterates the mind. F 27 11 days
6/30/2007
 3  Psychosis Stuffy nose, sinus-like. Emotional block. Mental block. Stiffness. Sleep forever. Slows down thought processes. Very dumbening. Erases inspiration. Indiscriminate effects, it blocks both psychotic and normal thoughts alike. It has a chemical holocaust effect, and totally obliterates the mind. F 27 11 days
6/30/2007
 3  Psychosis Stuffy nose, sinus-like. Emotional block. Mental block. Stiffness. Sleep forever. Slows down thought processes. Very dumbening. Erases inspiration. Indiscriminate effects, it blocks both psychotic and normal thoughts alike. It has a chemical holocaust effect, and totally obliterates the mind. F 27 11 days
6/30/2007
 3  Difficulty Calming Down Thoughts Frequent Urination; Drowsiness Following Day After Dose Prescribed this medicine because I was having problems making my mind shut down to sleep. It worked in the fact that it did shut my mind down, and I could rest, but I was tired the next day, and I was constantly in the bathroom to urinate. If not for that one side effect, I would still be taking the med. F 30 12 days
7/18/2007
 1  insomnia I took it before bedtime and had extreme restlessness and couldn't lay still, was extremely hungry and had to get up to eat, and it took longer to get to sleep than usual. I eventually did get to sleep and woke up groggy. I reduced the dose and had less extreme side effects but it still made my insomnia worse M 40 12 days
2/10/2008
 1  To help with sleep but I regret it Constantly feel in a fog and now it's impossible to sleep without it. I have tried to stop it and gabapentin but withdrawals are horrendous. Taking both for 12 yrs. M 61 12 days
400 mg
4/7/2018
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 1  anxiety and anger management Makes me very very irritable. I'am worse off than before I started taking this medication. I have ony taken it for 13 days ..but I have to stop. It is affecting my job and home life ..because I'm so damn cranky on it. I called my doctor about this.. he said to continue taking it..it may kick in about 3 weeks..the thing is I can't wait that long because I won't have a job or a family by then. I just stopped.. I only take 100mg at bedtime..it does help for sleep..but I never had a problem sleeping. It didn't work for me and I don't plan to take it anymore. I was wondering if other people had these type of effects from taking seroquel. I'm talking about the overwhelming irritability. M 49 13 days
1/23/2006
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 5  Bad reaction to Paxil This medicine saved my life! I was diagnosed with major depression and panic disorder back in 1999 at age 16 and was placed on Paxil by my psychiatrist. I experienced SEVERE mood swings (euphoria and rage), hallucinations, night terrors, and blackout periods. The final straw was suicidal thoughts. My mom called the doctor and he immediately took me off the Paxil "cold turkey" and put me on Seroquel for 2 weeks while the Paxil got out of my system. It calmed my mood swings and made me tolerable to be around again. I also stopped experiencing suicidal thoughts. I am not bipolar, but this saved me when I experienced a chemical reaction very similar to bipolar disorder. F 16 14 days
60mg 1X day
8/17/2012
 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  Paranoid Ideation Drowsiness, muscle twitching, anxiety when it wore off This is the shit! It ROCKS for sleep - I can sleep eight hours a night no problem. M 58 14 days
10/12/2006
 5  Paranoid Ideation Drowsiness, muscle twitching, anxiety when it wore off, constipation. This is the shit! It ROCKS for sleep - I can sleep eight hours a night no problem. Makes the boogyman go away, too. I take 100 mg at night before bed and I sleep like a log for 8 - 9 hours. Sometime I'm a little zombied-out when I wake up, but that's what coffee's for. M 58 14 days
10/12/2006

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