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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RATING  REASONSIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUELCOMMENTSSEXAGEDURATION/
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 2  insomna sex drive gone../ weight gain unreal F 48
75 1X day
3/7/2012
 1  depression This is a continuation of previous rating (2/19/2011); couldn't remember password. Abdominal bloating not as bad for now. Can eat more foods. Also I believe it was my duodenum that was affected. Gastroscopy revealed nothing, though my gastroenterologist said it likely was the drug which hurt me, "rewired" me, as he put it. Am going for a CAT scan (of gut) soon. Also, severe insomnia every night is, I'm certain, Seroquel-related, as I've never experienced it so badly & it began when the weight loss & (severe) depression started. Going for a sleep study, as well. Also, since last writing, found that I can no longer tolerate the only two antidepressants out of maybe 20 I've tried over the years. Now, Prozac & Cymbalta make my mood or gut much, much worse. Can't find a new one now, to alleviate the sadness. My doctor is talking about ECT, but I don't know. There is a real chance that I will simply get sick of being sick all the time & will do something despera I believe someone should have to pay for this, as it's completely turned things inside-out. My life has been derailed. The side-effects from every other psychotropic I've tried WENT AWAY when I ceased using. Not so with Seroquel, so how the hell was I to know? I don't believe I will ever be well again. M 47
50 mg 1X day
10/16/2011
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 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
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 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
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 1   They just told Bai Ling on Celebrity Rehab that Seroquel is non-addicting! Perhaps some of you might like to email Dr. Drew and tell him otherwise! I'm fed up with the medical community hiding and lying about drug side effects! M 31
1X day
7/11/2011
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 1  Stupidity Starting antipsychotics like seroquel is a death sentence, withdrawal after too long use is often not an option (too much brain damage, it is even worse than benzos [except that initial cognitive side-effects are not that worse]). My life was totally ruined by seroquel. Seroquel is a new "benzo", 10 years from now it is told how it ruined/killed/destroyed so many lifes. seroquelwithdrawal.blogspot.com M 30
1X day
7/6/2011
 1  PTSD/Anxiety Gained 60 pounds, continue to have issues with PTSD, vivid dreams, flashbacks, anxiety, short attention span. General decline in an already poor health. I am trying to ween myself off of it as I lost my job/insurance and it is to expensive to buy. The side effects are increased anxiety, insomnia, feelings of impending doom. F 48
100 2X day
9/8/2010
 1   M 39
1X day
11/27/2010
 1  Anxiety Bad side effects M 60
200 1X day
1/30/2011
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 1  depression Bad, likely permanent damage to abdomen/colon/digestion. Can no longer eat a large variety of foods. Weight loss, extremely low mood, suicidal ideation Began at 25mg as an addition to Cymbalta. No effect on mood; upped to 50mg. Great for mood, but immediate, severe bloating/hardening of abdomen esp ascending colon. Dropped to 25mg with immediate cessation of abdominal symptoms. A few weeks later, asked my doctor if I could return to 50mg, as I really appreciated the cognitive boost of 50mg. I knew the bloating would return but felt I might be able to control it perhaps by managing diet; otherwise go off the drug completely. Bloating came back immediately at 50mg, was unable to control it, so tapered down to 0mg as per doctor's instructions. However, this time the bloating, rock-hard feeling in my colon did not go away and has been with me for 8 months. Symptoms vary in severity depending on what I eat. There is huge swath of foods I can no longer consume. This, plus the shoulder-shrugging, "there's no one who will help you with this" has led to bad depression and serious consideration of comitting suicide. I will be seeing a gastroenterologist soon, but I'd essentially been ignored until I got very angry with my doctor. M 47
50mg 1X day
2/19/2011
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 1  bipolar disorder + extreme insomnia Complete psychological and physical deterioration: ataxia, tremors, seizures, depression + suicidal thoughts, severe memory loss, deficits in logical thinking, aphasia, myoclonus, and hallucinations after taking my dose if I did not fall asleep within a half hour.Due to my already terrible insomnia getting aggravated by other bipolar medications, my doctor "had no problems" with me taking as much as 1200 mgs of this medication nightly (he supplemented my maximum allowed pharmacy dosage with free samples), and made no indication to me that such a dose could be dangerous. . I cannot remember the length of time I was on Seroquel, but during this period I suffered immensely. I shook so terribly that I could not sign my name on receipts or eat with eating utensils, had such difficulty thinking that I failed out of school, and somewhere around the time I realized I was having total black out periods, I began falling a lot while walking, and was hospitalized for a week for suicidality. Despite the fact that I had begun to show severe neurological decline in the entrance physical (could not subtract 7 from 100 or stand on one leg w/o falling) and my overseeing hospital physician acknowledged that I was probably being overmedicated already, dosages of some of my other meds were increased and a new one was even added. Shortly after leaving said hospital, I was hospitalized for seizure activity. Here, it was noted in my chart (I don't remember anything other than getting to the hospital) that I completely lost the ability to speak and could only grunt for a period of time. After the seizures were under control, I then also had fits of myoclonic jerks and could barely speak. It took me almost a full year to taper off of this medication (while the others took only a few months at most) and regain control of my life. Although I was also on various other medications, this was the only one I took at a high dose. For three years I was prescribed more and more of these "relatively safe" drugs, and I was almost completely nonfunctional for two of th F 22
900-1200mg 1X day
1/30/2011
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 1  Schizophrenia Seroquel (Generic: quetiapine fumarate) used by millions of Americans to Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder has been linked to linked to, high blood sugar and Diabetes, Hyperglycemia, Ketoacidosis, Pancreatitis, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS), Tardive Dyskinesia (TD), Diabetic Comas and death. M 29
6/30/2006
 1  for night time sleep aid I HOPE YOU GOT OFF THOSE ILLEGAL DRUGS AND I HOPE YOUR STILL OFF THEM, THERE NO GOOD... BEEN THERE DONE THAT GOT THE VIDEO F
1/17/2007
 1  depressio sleep disorder With this drug I can not function the next day, I have a foggy mind and feel I just can not move around. F 62
5/25/2006
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6/3/2006
 1  anxiety and sleeping disorder I haven't had side effects because I have pill phobia but I know I need to take my meds but after reading this site it just scared me even more. I know I need help can anybody suggest to me what to do I suffer from paranoia and am afraid to tell the psychiatrist that I have an issue taking pills while on meds years back I attempted to kill myself three times what Can I do? F 37
4/11/2007
 1  Schizophrenia Loss of Motor Coordination. Strange facial twitches (the symptoms are very much like Tardive dyskinesia) A lot of cognitive problems with concentration and problem-solving. All off these problems were brought upon by a overdose of the drug. I absorbed about 3000 mg with alcohol one night and have not been right since. Constant pain and suffering that is only elieved by a pathetic sence these symtoms will go away. Lost my job and cannot leave the house. Cannot enjoy anything I used to do. My family doesn't treat me the same and are constantly irrtating me with humiliating imitations. This is Hell. M 26
6/27/2005
 1  anxious,sleeplessness muscle aches, disoriention, forgetfulness, unable to wake up in am. HUGE WEIGHT GAIN!!!! severe headaches upon withdrawl.... side effects on it and getting off it outweight the pros...loved to be able to sleep with it....cant take the side effects of the weight gain and uncontrolable eating on it....has adversly effected my life negatively...very dissatified...to say the least.. F 34
12/22/2004
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12/25/2004
 1  anxiety WEIGHT GAIN!!! 130 to 175 in less than 3 months!!!!! HORRIBLE WEIGHT GAIN!!!!!!!!! M 35
7/14/2008

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