SEROQUEL Reviews (QUETIAPINE FUMARATE)Average Rating: 2.9 (1512 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SEROQUEL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SEROQUEL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | bipolar | One hour after taking seroquel my nose completely plugs up. it's so bad i need to use a 12 hour nasal decongestant so as i can sleep without breathing through my mouth all night. Other then that, i love this medication. | M | 57 | 3 years 300 1X day | 9/12/2011 | 4 | bipolar | Paranoia after taking it, extreme hunger, and sleeping 12 + hours. | It works well to take at night and not need a sleeping pill. Usually right before the pill kicks in and makes me tired, I have extreme hunger pains. I will eat anything and none of it is good for me. Then I go right to sleep. If after I eat I stay up or fight the sleep I get so paranoid. I see things that aren't there and hear things every second. It can be terrifying. I have a love/hate relationship with this drug :( | F | 34 | 2 months 300mg 1X day | 9/8/2011 | 1 | Bipolar | See Additional Comments regarding NY TIME ARTICLE posted JULY 28, 2011 | July 28, 2011, 5:50 PM AstraZeneca Settles Most Seroquel Suits By DUFF WILSON The British drug maker AstraZeneca has settled in principle nearly all of the American product liability lawsuits over Seroquel, its blockbuster antipsychotic drug, the company said in a quarterly earnings report on Thursday. All but 250 of the 28,700 cases have been settled, most with written agreements, AstraZeneca said in the securities filing. It had previously reported settling most of those cases, but the new filing showed how far the company has whittled away at the remaining product liability litigation. Last quarter, it had reported 2,600 outstanding cases. Most of the plaintiffs argued that they had been misled about the risks of diabetes and weight gain caused by Seroquel, the company’s second-best-selling product with $5.3 billion in worldwide sales last year, behind the cholesterol drug Crestor. In the filing on Thursday, AstraZeneca said it added $55 million last quarter to the previously reported $592 million set-aside, for a total of $647 million to settle the litigation. “Is it a good move?” said Les Funtleyder, health care analyst for Miller Tabak. “Yes, anytime you can settle these suits, it’s good.” The set-aside includes the $68.5 million that the drug maker agreed to pay in March to 37 states, settling charges that it had illegally marketed Seroquel. AstraZeneca also had to pay $520 million last year to settle federal inv | F | 43 | 60 days 150 1X day | 9/5/2011 | 3 | Chronic Pain, Sleep, Depression | Zombie, Spaced Out at times. Reduced sex drive. Memory problems. | Calming. Limits initiative and drive. Time travels fast. Find I can't remember names, places, things I should know. Concerned about long term brain damage? | M | 60 | 2 years 100 2X day | 9/3/2011 | 5 | Bipolar I | constipation, weight gain, lost some IQ points | Seroquel has esentially cured me. I still have days I am midly manic but I dont make horible decision or barely sleep anymore. I feel like I got my life back. I take it in combination with 900mg of Lithium. It took a month of trial and error to get the best dose. The extended release does not work if you have problems with severe insomnia. If you make less than 40K a year and you dont have health coverage that pays for Seroquel AstraZenica has program that will give you Seroquel for free. This is a huge deal since I paid $900 a month at Walmart for 600 mg a day. | F | 31 | 2 months 600 1X day | 8/26/2011 | 5 | stops racing thoughts | None | This medicine stops my racing thoughts at night so I can sleep. To me this drug is a life and sanity saver. | F | 42 | 6 years 200 MG 1X day | 8/25/2011 | 2 | Psychosis, paranoia, MDD, DID | Extreme drowsiness..I fell asleep in class. My neck kept twitching. Muscle stiffness and spasms..I couldn't straighten my arms. Vision problems - could see flashing all of the time. Made me EXTREMELY depressed and suicidal. Made me eat like crazy and confused. I've never felt so awful. | It did, however, take away my paranoia and visions.. and had a deep, long sleep...BUT wasn't worth the side effects for me, it might be good for some people..but definitely wasn't right for me | F | 17 | 2 days 25MG 2X day | 8/18/2011 | 1 | BIPOLAR | WEIGHT GAIN 60 LBS, HUNGER CRAVINGS, MAKES YOU SLEEPY, KNOCKS YOU OUT AT BEDTIME, THE DOSING IS COMPLICATED, CAN GIVE YOU SEIZURES, FEELING OF TIREDNESS AND HUNGER IN THE MORNING TILL AFTERNOON. CAN GIVE YOU DIABETES. | WEIGHT GAIN FOOD CRAVINGS AND BINGING JUST LIKE ZYPREXA. I CALL THIS STUFF A BOTTLE OF FAT AND TIREDNESS. The pdoc will never test you for high glucose and diabetes. They just don't care. | M | 29 | 2 months 200MG 1X day | 8/18/2011 | 4 | Anxiety, Depression | Headache, Nighmares | I love taking this drug as it will take away all my worries and put me to sleep no matter what. Initial dose was 125 mg but I self weaninf my self and want to try the minimum dose that will put me to sleep. I have started goin to gym. I want to spend more time in gym and reduce this dose prgressively. Today I am going to try 50 mg and see if I could still sleep. | F | 41 | 45 days 75 mg 1X day | 8/16/2011 | 3 | Depression with psychotic features | Night sweats, hot flashes, sweating | F | 32 | 5 years 200mg 1X day | 8/13/2011 | 3 | Bi Polar 1 | drowsiness, cognitive fog | I think it helps but I DON'T LIKE IT | M | 62 | 9 months 75mg 1X day | 8/9/2011 | 3 | sleep disorder | most concerned with the day after grogginess | F | 26 | 5 years 100 mg 1X day | 8/2/2011 | 5 | paranoia, schizoaffective disorder | Paranoia is still there, but don't get as anxious over it. Best sleeps I've ever had. Weird dreams, though, vivid. Slowly reducing my Stelazine w/o any effects so far. Irritable as heck in the morning. | I usually take 100 mg. before bed, then if I get anxious during the day I take 25 or 50 mg. Able to stop drinking & other habits quite easily. The morning grogginess wears off after a couple of weeks. | F | 55 | 2 months 150 mg. 1X day | 7/21/2011 | 3 | Bipolar I | Runny nose. Extreme sedation and feeling of being "jet lagged" most of the time. Overnight flight after evening dose resulted in extreme nausea in cruise (smooth flight), but cleared up on descent, even though severe turbulence ! | I hate this drug, but it does work for me. I only take during periods of mania that Lithium fails to control. I also take up to an additional 150mg per day (25mg increments) if needed. It's keeping me out of hospital at the moment. | M | 41 | 6 weeks 200 1X day | 7/21/2011 | 4 | anxiety/insomnia/psychosis | sleepiness, drug hangover, "the munchies", feeling of being tranquilized, dry mouth for a few weeks, nose bleeds | works great in high dosages to help me sleep at night (150 MG - 300 MG) also is great to calm me down in the day is small dosages (25 MG - 50 MG) lessens the hallucinations | F | 20 | 6 months 250 MG 1X day | 7/20/2011 | 1 | Doctor forced me to try it. | I'm a 72 year old grandmother with a history of major depression since age 19. I was basically manipulated into taking this drug at the Kaiser Permanente clinic. I had a very severe cognitive breakdown that was absolutely terrifying. I could not think of the simple first names of three people in my neighborhood. I felt as if I could not organize the words as they flowed out of my mouth. This was absolutely the worst reaction to any medication that I had ever taken. My "prescribing" psychiatrist has been on me to try different drugs for years. My original diagnosis was clinical depression, and I was taking Pamelor. One day, he changed my diagnosis from "mood disorder" to "Bipolar 1 Disorder" and basically railroaded me into the hospital. It was breathtaking. Two other psychiatrists tried to commit me, but the court officer dismissed the case. This case will go down in my history as I try to amend, redact or even SEAL the whole experience because of mistak | This drug will be added to my allergies. As a matter of fact, I have decided that most of my life is working quite well, and I do not plan to try any other drugs until I figure out how I can make behavior therapy work better for me. | F | 72 | 1 days 90 mg 1X day | 7/17/2011 | 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 | 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 | 4 | Psychotic experience | weight gain of aprox 10 kg within one year, however lost some of the weight gained again while taking lower doses due to diet change and excercise. tiredness in the mornings- i used a combination of seroquel and seroquel xr (prolong) to taper off over a half-year period and found the seroquel without retard-effect to make me much more tired. low-level depression, slower thoughts, slightly lethargic. | I took Seroquel after a manic psychotic experience induced by psychosocial stress and cannabis abuse, and my 'positive' symptoms disappeared within a few days. this could have also been helped by having family and a supportive environment around me at the time, but i do credit the drug for at least part of the recovery after 2 months of hallucinations and mania. i made sure to change things in my lifestyle such as quitting smoking, finding a more stable environment, eating well, exercising (as much as possible while tired from the drug) to make myself stable in the long term. In my opinion the pros outweighed the cons- even though i hated how depressed and tired i sometimes felt while first on seroquel, i still think i needed the intervention and it was probably a life saver. i see it as first aid rather than a long term solution because of its side-effects though. | F | 30 | 1 years 300-25 1X day | 7/6/2011 | 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 |