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 |
| 5 | ptsd, anxiety, imsomnia-iraq vet | weight gain! the only bad thing... but now it has gotten depressing. | i started seroquel a few months after i got home from iraq because i could not sleep AT ALL. and the few winks i could find, were torturous. seroquel helped me immensely but since then i have tried other meds cuz i started gaining weight. (over 30lbs to date). i try to think that it is a small price to pay for rest, but i don't know. the latest med they want me to try is ambien, but i know it won't help and then i will have a very bad night! any input on the weight gain part would be greatly appreciated. i don't want to stop taking something that works, but i cannot get any fatter! | F | 30 | 2 years | 1/30/2007 | 5 | DID and psychosis | very sleepy at first. now i take it to sleep and it works great | i believe it keeps me relaxed enough to fall asleep, but not yet strong enough to keep me sleeping all night. it also really helps with the matrixing and "corner of my eye" shadows. i take 300 at night to relax and make the anxiety a chance to chill out for 8 hours. i also can take 1-100mg for back up if my other panic medication doesnt do the trick. keeps me calm | F | 31 | 2 years | 10/19/2008 | 5 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | weight gain, dry mouth | Has worked great in eliminating my paranoid thoughts and delusions. However, I've gained 40 lbs. that I can't loose no matter how little I eat. I tapered off Seroquel once, but my paranoid delusions returned, and I ended up having to go back on it to control the delusions. I did loose weight while I was off of Seroquel but gained it back (plus more) when I started taking it again. I'm thinking about trying to come off of Seroquel again, but am worried about the paranoia returning. | F | 38 | 2 years | 12/6/2004 | 5 | insomnia mainly, also for anxiety | Somnolence is virtually the only serious side effect I had. But since I use it as a sleeping aid, its not really a side effect for me. It works great on anxiety during the day too - take it at bedtime. I feel rested in the morning. | No shakes, no spacey feelings, no major libido problems with it at 150mg/day. This is good given its an antipsychotic. Other ones I tried had way more side effects. | M | 25 | 2 years | 5/25/2004 | 5 | anxiety | It makes me very sleepy - but I take it at night and for the first time in my life, I sleep thru the night or awaken and can get back to sleep, so the 'side effect' is totally desired. (I take 50 mg.) | It greatly eases my anxiety and this former insomniac can no longer do without it to get thru the night. | F | 50 | 2 years | 10/5/2004 | 5 | Major depressive disorder, insomnia | No side effects at all | Seroquel works wonders for insomnia, and seems to boost the power of my anti-depressant. This drug has made all the difference for me. | F | 26 | 2 years | 11/16/2004 | 5 | Bipolar--rapid cycling | None. | I take it with Trileptal and Effexor. I have been in | F | 42 | 2 years | 11/30/2004 | 5 | insomnia | I've experienced no side effects. It makes me tired about 45 minutes after taking it. But I'm taking it as a sleep aid. Also, I haven't built a tolerance. I've been able to lower my doses without weakening the affectiveness of the medication. | Like many others, when my doctor first suggested taking seroquel, I was hesitant. I only new that it was prescribed to schitzophrenics and manics. Being that I am neither, I was afraid to take it. But I desperately wanted to get off of the benzodiazapines, which had all sorts of undesirable side affects. Point being that I am very satisfied with taking seroquel for my insomnia. | F | 23 | 2 years | 10/15/2004 | 5 | Insomnia | None at all. | This is a miracle drug! I had been taking Ambien (the Devil's drug) but switched to Seroquel and take 200mg at night. There are no side effects and I have finally been sleeping like a baby for over two years :) | M | 50 | 2 years | 1/14/2010 | 5 | Bipolar | I am on XR and 25 mg 3x a day of regular seroquel. Since October, I have had excruciating, non stop pain in both hands and feet. Has anyone had pain with this med.? | This was the only medication my doctor has increased/decreased in the past year. Doctors can't figure out my pain. Please let me know if you have had pain on this medication. | F | 43 | 2 years 150 | 5/15/2015 | 5 | bipolar II | No side effects that were bothersome except maybe a little lethargic the next day. This could be handled with one cup of coffee in the morning. This medication has been a blessing from the good Lord. Almost all symptoms gone at 300mg. At first I refused to take this medication because of many posts that I read on here and other places on the web. Then my symptoms got so bad and I knew I had to do something. None of the things that people wrote about on here happened to me. None of them! I am just going to put my trust in the Lord and I hope that other people who are in the same boat that I am in, people who are in need of help, but live in fear of the side effects of the medications, will go ahead and get help. | F | 42 | 2 years | 10/16/2009 | 5 | Bipolar, severe depression | Zombie effect, but needed my brain to slow down. Helped me stop shaking. But...weight gain is out of control. I've always been slim and athletic, now I'm plump. Ugh...makes me sick. I'm slowly going down on my dosage and trying to get some life back. I really hope my racing thoughts and my trembling don't come back. | F | 56 | 2 years 600 mg | 3/6/2017 | 4 | Bi-polar disorder | Slight weight gain, taken in conjunction with lithium. Intense grogginess and some unknown feelings of dread upon awakening. This passes as I arise and move about. I usually sleep at least 12 hours a night. Have been trying to awaken earlier, between 9&10AM by taking the drug at 7PM. Have some excessive muscle movements, and difficulty swallowing at night, which my doctor tells me could be a pre-cursor to Tardive Dyskenesia. I fear that, but am not ready to experiment with any of the newer classes of drugs for this disorder. I have Hyper-lipidemia have decided to take Niaspan (RX Niacin)in liew of statins. Not presently diagnosed with Diabetes, thankfully. | I am a 62 year old female who has suffered with the symptoms of Bipolar Disorder for 40 years. I have a very strong family history of this disorder. The initial manifestation was about 4 months after the birth of my first child. It was in 1970 and was treated as Post Partum Depression. After moving about the country for the first 8 years of the onset of this disorder, I was formally diagnosed as having Bipolar Disorder. I was originally treated with major tranqualizors and was started on lithium in combo with antipsychotics and deseryl. In 2005 I moved to another state and my new doctor and I experimented with most of the usual antipsychotic drugs, all with disheartening side effects. About two years ago I was put on Seroquel and have taken as much as 600 mg in combo with smaller doses of lithium. I have recently decreased the dose of Seroquel to 450 mg and 300 mg of lithium. This combination seems to be working well for me and I am grateful for living in a time when these meds are so helpful. Hopefully, one day there will be a cure. | F | 62 | 2 years | 10/23/2009 | 4 | bi-polap 1 | I'm prescribed to take this med at night. This med has helped me GREATLY when it comes to sleeping. I don't mind the vivid dreams, I'm just glad I can sleep with almost no wake-ups in the night. One thing I did notice was that if I take my full dose at once, I get a feeling similar to restless leg, or more accurately, for me, restless shoulder, which doesn't happen if I take 1/2 dose, then the other 1/2 in an hour or so. The major problem I've had is WEIGHT GAIN...35lbs in 2 years. It seems that after I take my dose, I get strong feelings of hunger, so I end up eating late, which is likely part of the reason weight gain is a problem for some. It's a major case of "munchies". Why this med seems to cause "the munchies" I don't know, I just know that it's real. Unfortunately this sometimes leads me to fall asleep before I can get my teeth brushed. Which isn't doing my teeth any favors. | F | 39 | 2 years | 5/24/2009 | 4 | bipolar | Teleportation | It works once you get used to it | M | 29 | 2 years 600 1X day | 6/30/2015 | 4 | insomnia | The main one is that I get joint pain or like an ache in my left elbow and knee, starting one hour after I take it at night, and lasting for an hour. Can't sleep till it goes away. It comes on, spikes to an intense level, then goes away for 10-15 seconds. Anybody have any ideas how to deal with this? | M | 60 | 2 years 300mg 1X day | 12/4/2015 | 4 | Bipolar and depression | Joint pain, dry mouth, difficulty waking up. | Seroquel works fine and I never had any problems with it except for the joint pain that won't go away. But strangely they don't list joint pain as a side effect at all. Wondering if anyone else has been taking it for more than 6 months and has experienced joint pain as well. | F | 30 | 2 years 200 | 12/2/2015 | 4 | Sleep, Depression | Zombie, Very compliant attitude, increased sex drive but no initiative to execute on this benefit. Some disorientation. Zone out at times. Some minor memory problems. About one hour after taking can have difficulty finding words or thinking complex thoughts. | 50mg dose but have taken up to 300mg as needed. Only medicine I have ever taken that can give me some peace help me relax. | M | 58 | 2 years | 12/20/2009 | 4 | anxiety,ocd | sleepiness, and VERY VERY addictive. | if u miss a dose sometimes it could leave u with a pounding headache, trouble sleeping, naucious and jsut feeling terrible | F | 23 | 2 years | 9/21/2004 | 4 | schizo affective depressive disorde | weight gain (nearly 40lbs), increased appetite, hung-over effect at first, sleepiness, vivid dreams, jerking body, swelling and numbness in my hands and feet, now I am experiencing mental confusion, lack of clarity, difficult concentrating, loss of memory | I liked it at first b/c it solved my emotional rollacoaster and I would suggest it for extreme cases but mine is mild and I want to get off of it because of the mental confusion and weight gain but will have a hard time because you have to gradually go off of it. | M | 24 | 2 years | 8/18/2004 |