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 | major depression | tired,confused,emotional numbness, dizzy, ringing in ears,hangover feeling in morning, dry mouth,weight gain,etc. etc. | garbage. I am tapering myself off. | M | 48 | 3 months | 1/12/2004 | 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 | Bipolar mania | Brain death--could not think my way out of a paper bag. Zombie-like constant sleepiness. Hideous nightmares. Rage/anger and depression. Enormous appetite, weight gain. Acne. Withdrawal problems. | This med is toxic waste! It was supposed to even out my mania, but what it did was steamroll my brain. I couldn't understand anything I read or any verbal instructions people gave me, constantly made mistakes at work, couldn't remember anything. I also had horrid bad dreams that repeated over and over again all night, something I never had before this med. It got to the point I didn't even want to go to bed because I knew it would just be an all-night horror show. I walked around all day in a stupor--I'm not sure I was ever in fact awake the whole time I was on the medication. The only way I can say it helped my mania is because I was too tripped out to care that I was manic. Then the rage set in. I would lose control and go berserk about everything--when my purse fell over the seat of my car, I threw it across the car 12 times and broke a bunch of CD's before I even realized how insane I'd become. Then I started to get depressed on top of that. It made me eat constantly, and I put on | F | 44 | 3 months | 4/1/2007 | 1 | insomnia adhd anxiety and bipolar | i take 400mg and these are the side effect listed belowwwwwwwwww muddled think terrible nightmares. made me see things couldnt fall asleep disorentation. wakeing up by screaming.when i would try to fall asleep i kept waking up, i would have to turn the tv on and fall asleep somewhere else THE MEDICATION DIDNT WORK !!!!!!!! i hate it................... and i hope all this goes away. not to mention how this caused me to be paraniod see delusions and halucinate. unusual thinking and RAPID mood swings waking up..... | made me hear things and see things. muddled thinking and hallucinate. AND PARANIOD how do u think this made me feel and rapid mood swings waking up ...... like SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!! and i hope there is a different medication to help me with these problems | M | 17 | 3 months | 1/27/2006 | 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 | Mania depression and anxiety | Memory loss, massive weight gain, exhausted from the moment I wake up, rapid heart beat. Pressure pain on chest ,permanent pain inside left arm joint. Sluggish thyroid. SWELLING AND PAIN and Bloating in STOMACH. | M | 56 | 3 months 300 | 9/10/2012 | 1 | insomnia | see entry for June 28, 2011. | i first wrote about seroquel on this site on June 28,2011. since then i would add to those comments the fact that it shredded my memory. it was as if my memory was a series of overlapping gauzy sheets with subtle paintings on them, and seroquel just ripped huge pieces at random out of one sheet after another. i could never even remember what day of the week it was. it took several months of being off seroquel to begin to get my "self" back. this is a soul-stealing drug. | M | 65 | 3 months 25-75mg 1X day | 11/2/2012 | 1 | bipolar | weight gain 90 lbs, sleepy, puts you asleep at night. | does not work, massive sleepy and hunger weight gain. | M | 31 | 3 months 200mg 1X day | 7/9/2011 | 1 | insomnia | rls, addictive,memory loss,anxiety | I started taking seroquel 75mg and within 2months am up to 125mg. I am terrified that soon this is not going to be enough. My psychiatrist insists its not addictive so why has this happened to me. I want off but she says no and wont even advise me on tappering. She has even said I must come and see her monthly and her fees cost a fortune as does the seroquel. I have taken sleep meds for 12years and all became addictive. | F | 50 | 3 months 125 1X day | 9/29/2011 | 1 | bipolar | Very little quality sleep, weight gain, tiredness and diabetes. Now I'm trying to get off it but can't sleep at all. | It's hell. Don't take it. | F | 3 months 300 | 3/30/2016 | 1 | Bipolar | Fast & uncontrollable weight gain, endless hunger | I took Seroquel 10 years ago when I was a lab rat for Astra Zeneca. I was young & naive and thought they knew what they were doing. I was 105 lbs when I started taking this and was up to 120lbs in just 3 months. My hunger would not cease. Round the clock I was so hungry. It was terrible. I'm not sure if it worked for my bipolar as I only took it for 3 months, but it wasn't worth it. The withdrawal symptoms were hell. Not as hellish as Effexor withdrawal but really bad. I was sick for 2 weeks after Astra Zeneca took me completely off this horrible drug. | F | 38 | 3 months 300 | 12/30/2015 | 1 | Mild depression. *MILD* | Only awake for 3 hours out of every day. Severe paranoia. Anxiety. Increased suicidal thoughts and behavior. Vivid nightmares. The deepest pit I've ever found myself in. This should NOT be used to treat mild depression. | I was 17 at the time, mildly depressed, and needed good counseling. I was instead pumped full of chemicals that wreaked havoc on my whole being. I did not go back to that psychiatrist. | F | 17 | 3 months 60mg | 6/18/2015 | 1 | Anxiety Disorder | Racing Heart, even worse panic attacks. Sugar problems. Weight gain. Dizziness. Spacy feeling. Always tired | I wouldn't recommend anyone to take this medicine. I'm always so tired from this pill and it causes you to be so hungry. Made my panic attacks worse. | F | 20 | 3 months | 6/18/2015 | 1 | Depression, bipolar | Tremors, loss of voluntary muscle control, night sweats, anxiety, extreme terror, inability to control thoughts. | I strongly suggest avoiding this medication! I am still having frightening flashbacks to times when I was on the drug (which was more than a year ago). | M | 26 | 3 months | 9/1/2009 | 1 | Depression | Neurological problems. Pain areas of FMS became severe. Lost feeling in hands and feet. A1C way in. | I'd never take another atypical antipsychotic again. | M | 57 | 3 months 30mg | 6/7/2018 | 1 | Extreme anxiety, psychotic episode | My drives have been deadened, I have no inner life (there's a horrible feeling of absence and numbness from the top of my shoulders down to the bottom of my loins, as though my core was somehow gutted), my consciousness doesn't feel attached or anchored to my body, I can't experience any excitement or genuine emotions, I feel hollow and empty, I've been made impotent | Between the Seroquel and the Risperdal (which I was on for nine weeks before starting Seroquel) my life has pretty much been destroyed. The'side effects'(consequences, really)started a month after starting Risperdal, and have only gotten worse with time...I'm down to 50 mg of Seroquel a day (from 400 mg) and have noticed ABSOLUTELY NO IMPROVEMENT in the side effects I mentioned...like I said, things only seem to have gotten worse, and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight...I feel helpless, hopeless, and terribly desperate at this point... | M | 32 | 3.5 months | 4/22/2007 | 5 | Rapid Cyc Bipolar/Sleep Deprivation | Weight Gain, 15 lbs in 3 weeks. Other than the weight gain, this medicine is great. It will knock you out in no time, especially when you first start taking it, so be prepared to hit the bed, don't think about driving. It made me sleep and stopped the rapid thoughts, suicidal thoughts and I actually felt "normal", whatever that is! | The doctors were more concerned with my sleep deprivation, so I take 800 mg Seroquel, 30 mg Temazapam, 10 mg Xanax, 50 mg of Topomax. The topomax is used for migraines and bipolar, I have read that it works great for rapid cyclers so my doctor let me go back on it, and the best part, when I started taking it after I qained the 15 lbs from the Seroquel, I lost most all of the weight and am still losing. Plus I can actually sleep all night long (6-8) hours, with the receipe above. | F | 36 | 4 months | 11/12/2006 | 5 | sleep | Nausea more hungry | F | 49 | 4 months 150mg | 12/1/2011 | 5 | Bipolar | Tiredness, Increased appetite, memory loss, excessive sweating when exercising. | I HATED Seroquel at the beginning. I have a very sensitive body when it comes to sedative like drugs. Zyprexa, Saphris (THE WORST FOR ME!), Geodon, all knocked me out and I was MISERABLE on them. I almost rather be not medicated than to be on those drugs. (And that's saying something!) The Seroquel really did help though, I was just really tired all the time. I spoke to my psychiatrist and he changed me from XR (Extended release, it releases the medications all day long) to standard Seroquel. Life has finally become more and more normal. I'm able to clean my house! Maintain a schedule! Hold a job! I do struggle with sleepiness sometimes, and when I exercise, it aggrevates that symptom, but it's worth it. Also, I swear my memory has gone down the drain. I used to be so smart and able to recall anything, and now I feel I'm not able to remember as much. NOthing I can really do though because you've got to pick your poison. Crazy in a really bad way, or crazy in a kinda bad way. lol Right now I am on 100 mg Lamictal, 300 mg Lithium, 100 mg Seroquel. NOTICE: Every prescription is different for every person! Some have loved some that I couldn't stand! It's really a trial and error thing. Some man's trash is another man's treasure! | F | 22 | 4 months 100 mg 1X day | 1/7/2012 | 5 | Bipolar II | The first couple of weeks I was extremely touchy. I snapped alot, felt very angry. Around the 3rd week I began to feel fabulous. I read all of the comments on sites such as this and began to panic with possibilty of weight gain. I still had not lost all the baby weight. I have actually lost 13 pounds. I quit eating all the time...didn't realize I was eating all the time until Seroquel. It was as if I would "wake" up eating again. There are people who have positive effects. Sorry to those who do not, but those like myself that are initially put on it and panic because of all of the bad results people have had. Others too need to see there are those that are not experiencing all bad things. | I am also on Wellbutrin. That may contribute to my high rate of sucess. I also eat very healthy. | F | 31 | 4 months | 4/19/2007 |