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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | started out for sleep | weight gain, galbladder problems, joint problems | I started taking it right after it was released in March of 2003. Was having trouble sleeping, somehow I ended up taking 600mg at night. I have been weaning off for over 2 months now. I was hoping after I got down to 50mg that I could stop completely. But now I am taking 12.50mg. It's like the Beast has ahold of me, and just doesn't want to let go. I hope that in 2 weeks I can be free of it. I don't recommend anyone getting started on this drug. I am Bipolar1 with a very rapid cycling. So far, so good with this. I am really suffering with insomnia. | F | 53 | 6.5 years | 8/21/2009 | 1 | Bipolar-psychosis | Highly addictive do not take antipsychotic unless absolutely necessary for schizophrenia. Weight gain, sedated, lack of empathy, feeling of nothingness, not being able to express sympathy, agitation, no sex drive, tired all the time. Sad. | As you taper off do it very very slowly, months at a time. I should have only been on this drug a couple of months and now it's 6.5 years, highly addictive, I'm on 6.5 mg now but can't cut tablet anymore as it's tiny. So scared of insomnia and how it will affect me at work. Coming down makes you very agitated, impatient and itchy hands. Horrible. Never take this drug ever! | F | 53 | 6.5 years 200 1X day | 12/4/2016 | 5 | bipolar depression | Seroquel has given me a sense of well being that no other med has done. I take 300 mg at night. I'm willing to put up with the side effects such as sleeping 12 hrs each night, some muscle cramping, and digest. issues. I have to be careful of my diet but some of that has come with age. I'm 72 and have dealt with bi-polar disease since 1990's when rapid cycling became worse and I was finally diagnosed in 1994. I am trying to come off Pristiq because even with med. insurance, I was paying almost $400/month for this med. Down to 1 pill/day and still cost $165/month.Highway robbery by another name! Am having stomach issues withdrawing from Pristiq but I will continue Seroquel. I am fortunate that due to my age I can schedule my life around Seroquel side effects. I'm certain this would be difficult to do as a young person with job and/or family to raise. After I'm finished with Pristiq, I want to try a lower dose of Seroquel - down to 200 mg/night but I'm in no hurry. Coming off Pristiq I ha | F | 72 | 7 years 300 mg 3X day | 2/23/2017 | 5 | BPD/DDNOS | Drowsiness. Extreme drowsiness. Some weight gain. | Seroquel helps me a great deal. My moods have stabilized, I have far fewer hallucinations, I sleep well every night. I do know that I need to go straight to bed after taking it. If I eat ANYTHING after it kicks in, I cannot stop eating until I fall asleep. But that's easy to avoid... | F | 38 | 7 years | 7/28/2009 | 5 | Skitzo Effective Bipolar 1 | weight gain....I gained about a hundred pounds over the years but that was not all seroquels fault. Seroquel has helped me live a normal life. I was on 11 psychiatric medications at one point, trying to stop hallucinations, voices, mania and depression as well as mixed episodes and paranoia.... as soon as I started taking seroquel... I started evening out. Its been 7 years since I was in the mental hospital. I now own my own small business and have been doing very well. It did not cure me... but it sure came damn close... especially when it was added with trileptal. The combination was a miracle for me.....but the minute Im off of them all hell breaks loose. 1 down side.... seroquel messes with my blood sugar levels... makes me crave starch very badly, and also messes with my vision. I think it may also screw with my cognition sometimes If I dont get a full 8 hours sleep i can wake up confused. I suggest taking the XR because its much more easily tolerated (for me it was) and it will | Good medication. Helped me a great great deal. Not perfect but it sure turned my life around. | F | 29 | 7 years 150 1X day | 5/27/2010 | 5 | Insomnia | No side effects. | The doctor prescribed this medication for me to help me sleep after other methods and drugs failed. I don't have a problem falling asleep but I have a problem staying asleep because I have a very active mind. I started out with 25 MG taken at bedtime but the doctor had to increase the dose every few weeks as my body got used to the medication. My maintenance dose finally came out to 300 MG and I have been taking this for 7 years now. I do feel groggy in the morning especially when I don't get my 8 hours of sleep but it's a small price to pay for restful sleep. I did find that taking the medication on a full stomach lessens the sedating effect of the drug. I am a bit worried about getting tardive dyskinesia in the future though the chances are slim as this is an atypical antipsychotic. Nevertheless, the risk is worth it. | M | 47 | 7 years 300 MG 1X day | 8/18/2012 | 5 | insomnia/racing mind | 20 minutes after I take it and am half asleep I get up to eat cereal because I feel like I'm "starving". Slowly feel like memory is an issue (given I have been on it for 7 going on 8 yrs) | Honestly, I love Seroquel. I was given 100mg, BUT I cut them into 25mg. Sleep great! ... but I do need to get in like 9 hrs. I have have quit taking them for a month before because I ran out and it was tough but this time I am quitting because it truly does leave long term effects to your memory, and in no way want to have Alzheimer's or Parkinsons or dimensia. I am getting injections of super B complex, eating and juicing organic, I take my Klonopin as needed for anxiety and am going to talk to my doctor about going on a low dose anti-depressant. Best of luck to everyone! and feel free to contact me, I have been on every medication under the sun!!! | F | 27 | 7 years 25mg 1X day | 2/3/2012 | 5 | extreme anxiety/insomnia | I had one case of syncopi in the beginning, also gained 10 pounds. My cholesterol jumped some, but overall, this medication has been a Godsend and has helped me remain centered, focused, able to sleep at night, reduced panic attacks, and has definitely improved my quality of life. | When lipitor was added to treat my cholesterol, I developed terrible joint and muscle pains. I've been off the lipitor for 6 months now but my doctor wants me to try Zocor because my cholesterol has jumped up again. :( | F | 56 | 7 years | 6/12/2008 | 4 | Borderline Personality Disorder | Helps me greatly with mood stability as well as the insomnia. Negatives.. drug hang over the next day, odd and very vivid dreams. Otherwise, I have had a good experience with this medication. I should mention that I was at higher dose of 400mg at one point. Dose didn't seem to matter when the vivid dreams occurred but I'll take the weird vivid dreams over lack of sleep any day. | F | 36 | 7 years 100 1X day | 1/3/2011 | 4 | extreme chronic long-term insomnia | won't allow ADHD meds to work, makes me extremely hungry after taking it, causes or worsens depression, Regularly having full body feelings of extreme discomfort w/sick feelings after taking dose, impossible to wake up before noon the following day, cannot fall asleep & stay asleep without taking it, excellerated pounding heart & its rate, sleep eating at times, fast weight gain, withdrawals horrific accompanied with long period of suffering, etc...... | My diagnosis' are PTSD, depression, general anxiety disorder, chronic extreme insomnia, & AD/HD. When I was a preteen, I had the HUGE misfortune of being misdiagnosed as being bipolar. I lived with this stigma up until a couple months ago, when I realized I was not bipolar ever, but had AD/HD since I was a child. Several times while growing up, I was made by my family & psych's to spend time in many psych wards. Nightmare! I was first prescribed Seroquel in 2002 for "bipolar possible psychotic" symptoms. I took it at night & all it did was help me get a good sleep every night. So, that is why I continued taking it nightly up until 2004. I stopped because I had to relocate, and the county's mental illness dept. I was going to for my mental illness' dropped me. Then in 2006, when my daughter was born, I immediately started receiving psych treatment again at the above place, because I suffered extensive postpartum depression. I was put on different cocktails of meds all the time, because none of them helped me what-so-ever. Out of all those many pills, the Seroquel was the only one I chose to keep taking. I divorced that last psych. last year, but I was prescribed 800mg Seroquel to take every night by bedtime, to treat my insomnia for almost 7 yrs. now. It is a blessing for me by helping relax my brain, allowing me to both fall asleep & stay asleep every night. I have been reading all over the web that only very small dosages help insomnia-I believe ar | F | 38 | 7 years 800 MG 1X day | 7/21/2014 | 3 | schizophrenia | lingering grogginess, memory lapses, word retrieval slowness, depression, apathy. | it's a great stabilizer over time, but I believe the tradeoff of blunting mental and emotional range, can make it tempting to go off it for a while, just to see if it would make life more interesting. | M | 44 | 7 years 50 1X day | 11/15/2014 | 3 | depression | I experienced going to sleep straight away and little weight gain. It was the best medication in terms of not as much side effects but would like to get off it and its hard to get off it because if you dont take it you can get to sleep but you end up waking up about one in the mornin and can not get back to sleep the next day if u havent taken it you end up feeling fatigued like yourve studied heaps for exams its the same feeling. Plus you cant take seroquel if you are planning to start a family. Seroquel makes u look drug up to it help at start but now want to be off it who knows what its doing to your body being on itlong tern | F | 31 | 7 years 100 | 3/22/2014 | 3 | Bi-Polar w/severe anxiety and panic | Fatigue, extreme sleepiness,weight gain , heart problems , heart attack, hypothyroid.An inability to stabilize my moods or make clear decisions after taking a dose. | I believe though this is one of the only meds that I have tried and I have tried many that stops the racing thoughts it is extremely hazardous to your health and the side effect are not all clearly listed.It has helped me with 1 thing but caused me so many other problems it doesn't equal out. | F | 39 | 7 years 550mg 1X day | 2/24/2010 | 3 | Bipolar, OCD | Loss of Libido, Munchies, Weight Gain, Agitation, Anxiety, Depression, Learning Disorder. | I was put on this when I was 14, I constantly had to rearrange my class schedules in high school because this medication made me feel sedated the entire day, I was eventually put in home school because I had absolutely no credits by the end of my first year. Seroquel for me did have a huge therapeutic tendency when I took it at the right time but the day after was a completely different story. I would constantly be agitated and fatigued and had a lot of difficulties functioning in the real world. But once I got used to juggling my social life with the side effects things somehow worked out especially when I was taking an anti-convulsant with the seroquel. About a year ago I was taken off of this drug because I had gone from 120 pounds to 160 and was severely anxious and depressed, I then got a balance disorder shortly afterwards and was put back on it and eventually taken off of it again when I noticed that It was making me really moody and depressed. | M | 21 | 7 years 25 MG 1X day | 6/9/2010 | 3 | bipolar I | On higher dose, rapid weight gain (from crazy sweet cravings) and major hair loss. Dry mouth and some confusion. | I had been on this medicine at 25 mg dose in the a.m., 100 mg at night, for about 6 years, no problems besides some foggy-headedness. My pdoc took me off of lithobid and trileptal, and put me on lamictal. After about 10 months she increased my lamictal, added lexapro, and upped the seroquel to 200 mg at night. I started having these side effects, and she thought it was the lamictal. Told me to go off and she'd see me in a month! I don't think so! I didn't stop the lamictal, but ran into a snafu with insurance over seroquel. It's the best thing that could have happened. Within a week the cravings stopped and I could see a difference in my scalp! Not getting up in the night for drinks anymore, either. I just figured all this out today. Yay! | F | 21 | 7 years | 2/21/2009 | 3 | depression/anxiety/sleep disorder.. | as of the last few years I've experienced rapid changes in my heart at night. I've been to the emergency room as of late and it's getting worse. This is the only medicine that I"m currently on. I cannot come off of it and I fear that after 7 1/2 years, it's causing damage. However this is the only medication that keeps me sleeping, most of the time. I have lost my ability of having a natural sleep rhythm. The only way for me to sleep is with drugs. | If someone could tell me if they're having problems too, PLEASE email me. I need help. This only happens at night when I take it. I cannot go lower than 300 mgs. I was on 600 at one point, but now I range btwn 300 and 450. I am going to a cardiologist but I need help. | F | 24 | 7 years | 3/17/2008 | 2 | Anxiety Attacks, Obsessive Thinking | Increased panic attacks to the point of 911 calls because I felt as if I was dying, Increased OCD, Total Change in my "normal" personality, no motivation what-so-ever, Lack of Energy, Lack of excitement, times with lack of all emotion, burts of anger, confusion, constant battles with my mind and mental stability, decreased vision, No short term memory, weird head sensations, dizziness, feeling of detatchment from body, could go on forever | Long time seroquel user. In the beginning for me the side effects were minimal and typical. Always tired and sleepy, which was good and bad because it was slowing the activity in my mind. But also bad because it wasnt really living life. Over the years I have concluded within myself that the best way is education over medication, Learn about it, Try to control it and if you cant alone use natural remedys. Live with and love yourself. You are who you are. Some of the toughest battles are worth the fight in the end you can be surprised. Im slowly going off of this drug at my own pace. The Hardest road is often the best road traveled. Seroquel is barbaric like almost any drug of its kind. of course there is more hype over it because it has been around longer so more people are able to comment and sue the company because it has got around more over the years then the newer drugs. Just say no to ALL drugs... Educate yourself. | M | 27 | 7 years | 8/28/2009 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder | RLS, dry eye, dry mouth, severe weight gain, severe grogginess, rapid decline in vision | This medication makes me eat everything in the house! I have gained 80 lbs on it over the years. If I go into a manic and stop taking it, I always lose 20 lbs within 2 weeks. It is supposed to help me sleep, but as the months go by, the sleep is cancelled out by the horrid RLS. I have mentioned all of these effects to my Psyc. and family MD, but neither of them thought it was a big deal and insisted I stay on it. I hate it now. If anyone has a refil for it soon, I suggest to get the manufacturers sheet that comes with the stock med. bottle (NOT the pharmacy print out) and read the effects...it is terrifying. The only reason I still take it is on the off chance of sleeping and when I do not take it, I get very dizzy and get migraines. I have an MD appt. in Feb. I am going to MAKE them take me off of it. BTW, if you are taking this, it is recommended that you get checked every 6 mths for cataracts, triglycerides, and diabetes! With the way this stuff makes you eat, no wonder people get d | F | 26 | 7 years | 1/5/2009 | 1 | coming off other meds | very dopie in am take it at night | fear being able to stop taking it | F | 49 | 7 years | 6/21/2008 | 1 | Bi Polar | Gained well over 100 lbs on Seroquel, as it made me extremely hungry. Also, it made my mouth so dry that it caused my teeth to rot and I had to get dentures. I used to have beautiful teeth too! If I couldnt get my prescription filled in time, I went into withdrawal symptoms like cold sweats, shakes, irratibility,feeling like I was crawling out of my skin. Then when I started back on it, I was so loopy that I couldn't even stand up. Made me feel like I was intoxicated!!I won't recommend this med to anyone. Had I known this beforehand, I would have asked for something else. Glad Im off of it now, and am starting to lose the weight. I also hear that it has caused others to get diabetes, and pancreatitus, and the maker of this medicine is in a lawsuit on that, as these harmful side effects were hidden before it went on the market. I cant even sue over the weight gain and teeth, as attorneys are only taking cases of drug induced diabetes and pancreatitus! | F | 43 | 7 years 900 mg 1X day | 3/31/2010 |